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100 YEARS AGO Nov. 29, 1915
PINE BLUFF — Fire starting at 3:30 o’clock this afternoon, destroyed 14,000 bales of cotton stored in and around the Pine Bluff Compress Company’s warehouse just east of the city. J.P. Daley, manager of the compress, estimated the cotton was worth an average of $80 a bale, an aggregate of $1,120,000. All the cotton was insured. The fire is thought to have been started by a spark from the engine of a Cotton Belt passenger train. 50 YEARS AGO Nov. 29, 1965 The State Supreme Court made it plain today that when a worker suffers a heart attack on a job he is entitled to Workmen’s Compensation, if he can prove he did heavy work prior to the attack, regardless of the medical record, apparently. The court, in a case written by Justice Jim Johnson, reversed and remanded a finding for the Plainview Lumber Co. in Yell County against one of its workers, Mack O. Spencer.
25 YEARS AGO Nov. 29, 1990 JACKSONVILLE — The Jacksonville City Council is using the 1991 budget like a
weapon. For the first time in the years that the city’s had money to give raises, those raises won’t be given across the board. “If an employee is not doing a good job, then they’re not going to get a raise,” said Alderman Emma Knight. “It has come to a time and point that we don’t roll over anymore. The citizens deserve better.” 10 YEARS AGO Nov. 29, 2005
Human remains found last month in a wooded lot in west Little Rock belong to a Texas trucking executive who was reported missing more than two years ago while on a business trip to Arkansas. Authorities said the remains belong to Alfred Martinez Jr., a 33-year-old Irving, Texas, owner of a dumptruck company who was last seen in May 2003 outside a Pulaski County strip club. Surveyors found the remains Oct. 28 in the 2700 block of Shackleford Road. The state Crime Laboratory determined that the remains included a skull with bullet holes, and authorities later made a positive identification through dental records. “No suspects or motive has been developed for the homicide at this time,” Little Rock police Sgt. Terry Hastings said in a news release.