100 years ago
Aug. 14, 1922
HUNTSVILLE -- The Hughes Orchard Company has just instituted a mail order department through which it ships direct to the consumer green and dried apples by parcel post. This ensures the rural districts of the central-south being supplied with fruits with almost as much dispatch as their city cousins. The Hughes people originated the method of sending fruits by parcel post several years ago.
50 years ago
Aug. 14, 1972
WASHINGTON -- The National Aeronautics and Space Administration reported Sunday the successful launch of a satellite designed to collect data on spacecraft hazards from minute particles that fly through space. ... The satellite is to circle the Earth every 98 minutes on a path inclined 37.7 degrees to the equator. It will operate 76 detectors to record and report the impact and flow of small meteoroids. One of the principal objects of the experiment is to determine whether greater resistance to penetration by meteoroids can be provided by two thin sheets of metal a half inch apart than by a single sheet of greater thickness.
25 years ago
Aug. 14, 1997
VARNER -- As part of a settlement reached with the federal Department of Justice in April, the state has agreed to hire 400 women in the next three years and promote 42 women employees. This is the remedy reached for hiring and promotion discrimination within the department from 1983-92. ... Under terms of the agreement, a $7.2 million fund will be established to pay back wages to women identified as victims of department discrimination. The agreement will also provide retroactive seniority and benefits to employees previously discriminated against. In the past, women officers were limited to working as tower guards or switchboard operators, which usually prevented their advancement. ... On June 29, the Correction Department ran newspaper advertisements seeking women who believe the department may have discriminated against them in hiring and promotions. Wendy Michaelis, an assistant state attorney general, said Wednesday that 951 claims have been received so far.
10 years ago
Aug. 14, 2012
• Supporters of legalizing the medical use of marijuana submitted nearly three times the number of needed signatures Monday in their last chance to get their proposal on the Nov. 6 election ballot. ... The secretary of state will next verify whether enough of the 74,406 signatures belong to Arkansas voters to raise the group's signature total to at least 62,507 registered Arkansas voters' signatures, the number necessary to get an initiated act on the ballot this year. The group, Arkansans for Compassionate Care, needed to turn in only 26,012 signatures Monday. ... Under the state constitution, it takes the signatures of 62,507 registered Arkansas voters to get an initiated act on the ballot. ... The proposed Arkansas Medical Marijuana Act would legalize medical marijuana for treatment of certain medical problems, though it remains illegal to use, produce or distribute the drug for any reason under federal law. ... Gov. Mike Beebe and Attorney General Dustin McDaniel have said that if the measure is on the November ballot, they will not vote for it.