100 years ago
Aug. 12, 1920
• HOT SPRINGS -- The largest ward in the city, the Sixth, will not report its vote until tomorrow noon. The judges and clerks, overcome by the extra heavy vote and the long, tedious count, after receiving proper authority, locked up the ballot box, and went to their homes to get much-needed sleep. They announced they would get back on the job tomorrow morning about 8 o'clock and would have the vote counted by noon.
50 years ago
Aug. 12, 1970
• LAKE OF THE OZARKS -- Gov. Winthrop Rockefeller of Arkansas said today that he thought President Nixon's veto of two major appropriations bills was "courageous" and that he was glad the President did it. Nixon vetoed the $4.4 billion education appropriation bill and the $18 billion independent offices bill. "With this being an election year, the President was very courageous to take this stand," Rockefeller said. He mentioned that about 16 Republican governors were running for re-election and that the Presidents' rejection of more money for projects like Urban Renewal would undoubtedly work against Republicans. "It will hurt me," the governor said. "But I am glad he did it. He was upholding the tradition of the Republican party in standing for fiscal responsibility."
25 years ago
Aug. 12, 1995
• EL DORADO -- Twenty-eight Union County lawyers have asked for a new workers' compensation law and a change in the judges who administer it. In a petition sent to Gov. Jim Guy Tucker, the director of the state Workers' Compensation Commission and others, the lawyers ask for "immediate study and development" of a workers' compensation system "that is fair to all." They also asked for "immediate rotation" of the administrative law judge "in our area." The petition started with Denver L. Thornton, an El Dorado lawyer who specializes in representing injured workers in compensation cases.
10 years ago
Aug. 12, 2010
• Democratic secretary of state candidate Pat O'Brien of Jacksonville announced Wednesday a seven-point plan on how the office will use state-owned vehicles if he is elected. Republican secretary of state candidate Mark Martin of Prairie Grove said it is hypocritical for O'Brien to talk about state vehicles while receiving taxpayer money for using his own car as Pulaski County clerk. Martin did not criticize the plan, which he had not seen, and said citizens should question how the state is spending money.