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100 YEARS AGO
Aug. 12, 1918 PINE BLUFF — J. S. Wiley, for the past 14 years connected with The Pine Bluff Commercial and editor of the paper since the death of Maj. Charles Gordon Newman, six years ago, resigned his position yesterday and will leave Monday for San Antonio, Tex., where he will enter the army Y.M.C.A. training camp, where he hopes to qualify for service either in this country or in Europe. He is the second newspaper man of the city to enter army Y.M.C.A. work. A.G. Whidden, formerly editor of the Graphic, having attended the last training camp at San Antonio, is now at New Orleans engaged in publicity work for the army Y.M.C.A. Mr. Wiley served in the Spanish-American war as a private in the Second Arkansas Regiment, and has been anxious to enter some kind of war service since the United States entered the war.
50 YEARS AGO
Aug. 12, 1968
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People will try to register 10,000 more Arkansas Negroes to vote in the November general election, it was announced Sunday. W. C. Patton of Birmingham, the national associate director of the NAACP’s voter education program, said at a press conference that several hundred volunteers would work in Arkansas as part of the NAACP’s nationwide drive to have 10 million Negroes registered by November.
25 YEARS AGO
Aug. 12, 1993
The decomposed body of a woman found last weekend in a Lonoke County quarry was identified Wednesday as Jacquelyn Casey, a North Little Rock woman missing since last November. Casey, 28, was identified from dental records and scars after a state medical examiner’s autopsy, Lonoke County Sheriff J. O. Isaac said Wednesday. Swimmers found the body floating in a stone quarry on Arkansas 5 near U.S. 67 167 about 4 p.m. Sunday, he said.
10 YEARS AGO
Aug. 12, 2008
A state police investigator drew attention Monday from his supervisors and the governor’s office after he appeared before a legislative committee, held his badge in the air and put the director of the Children Family Services Division on notice that he is conducting a criminal investigation into the deaths of four foster children. A state police spokesman said Special Agent Rick Newton’s superiors did not know beforehand of Newton’s plan to address the House Committee on Aging, Children and Youth, Legislative and Military Affairs. Committee Chairman Linda Chesterfield, D-Little Rock, said she called the meeting because she was disturbed to read in the newspaper recently that the Children and Family Services Division had had four foster children die in May and June.