Other days
100 YEARS AGO
May 16, 1917
Twenty Little Rock women began making surgeon’s wipes or sponges for the Little Rock Chapter of the American Red Cross at the headquarters and workroom, 217 Louisiana street, yesterday morning under the direction of Mrs. Eldridge Wright, daughterin- law of Gen. Luke E. Wright of Memphis, Tenn. Other classes will begin work as soon as Mrs. E. G. Thompson, chairman of the Committee on Hospital Supplies, can arrange the schedule.
50 YEARS AGO
May 16, 1967
Carl Stobaugh of Morrilton testified Monday that until he was fired in February as Conway County welfare director he hadn’t been told that his working as deputy sheriff for his uncle, Sheriff Marlin Hawkins, was in conflict with Merit System Council rules. Stobaugh testified at his appeal hearing in the state Game and Fish Commission Building. Stobaugh, 30, who has been county welfare director since 1958, said that not even A. J. ( Red) Moss, the former commissioner who discharged him, had raised the point initially.
25 YEARS AGO
May 16, 1992
Pulaski County judge candidate O. G. Kuykendall was one of two men arrested Friday in the alleged embezzlement of more than $ 104,000 from the county Public Facilities Board between 1987 and 1992. Kuykendall, 67, of Gravel Ridge, the 13- year board chairman, and board secretary- treasurer Dr. W. Gene Howard, age unavailable and of Little Rock, were charged with one count each of theft of property.
10 YEARS AGO
May 16, 2007
Members of the Little Rock Municipal Airport Commission on Tuesday had sharp words but declined to hold up a deal allowing a former state agency director to become the sole disadvantaged- businessenterprise partner in the concession contract at the state’s largest airport. The commission has no formal authority to block the deal, but the opinions of the seven commission members had been sought out by HMSHost, the Bethesda, Md., company that holds the concession contract at Little Rock National Airport, Adams Field. Only one commission member objected to the deal. Carl Johnson said he preferred to split the stake evenly between two disadvantaged business enterprises as originally proposed by HMSHost, which decided to go with only one.