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100 YEARS AGO Nov. 28, 1918
Thousands of ducks are feeding in the rice fields and swamps near DeWitt, hunters report, and the government game warden, E.V. Visart, has gone to DeWitt to experiment with various devices for scaring the ducks out of the fields on account of the heavy damage they do to the crops…R.E. Overman, Charles H. Lee, H.K. Ford and George Overman, hunting 12 miles out of DeWitt, and James F. Walker and John Elkins, hunting near Gillette, brought back 80 ducks, with the report that the air is simply black with them…The ducks usually feed in the swamps in the day time and in the rice fields at night.
50 YEARS AGO Nov. 28, 1968
PARAGOULD — An elderly sister and brother were robbed of $85 Wednesday and handcuffed to their bed for about three hours before they were freed, police said Wednesday night. Officers said two men about 25 to 30 years old, held Charles Emerhine, 87, and his sister, Anna, 91, at gunpoint and handcuffed them together to a steel bed at their home about 12 miles west of here. They were not injured…Later Wednesday night, two men answering the same description robbed a service station at Jonesboro of about $160. However, officers discovered the money in a sack at a fence behind the station where the men apparently had dropped it while fleeing.
25 YEARS AGO Nov. 28, 1993
Chaos reigned Saturday afternoon in a Little Rock fast food restaurant when two gunmen opened fire in an apparent gang disturbance that injured two men, police said. The manager of the Burger King at 3300 S. University Ave., opposite the University of Arkansas at Little Rock campus, jumped through the drivethrough window as the first shot rang out inside the restaurant about 3:30 p.m. Customers and employees dived to the floor, and several youths, who had just attended the funeral of a slain friend, sought cover as two gunmen sprayed the interior of the restaurant with gunfire, witnesses said. Injured were Derrick Harris, 16, and Tony Mitchell, 17. Both were taken to University Hospital.
10 YEARS AGO Nov. 28, 2008
Barack Obama’s presidential victory upset James and Linda Vandiver. So, on election night, the couple — owners of the historic Faubus Motel in downtown Huntsville — walked outside, lowered Old Glory and raised the Confederate flag in its place. It’s remained there ever since, flying high in silent protest of election to the nation’s highest office a politician the pair says is a “Marxist.” The newly adorned flagpole…has not gone unnoticed…It’s the biggest debate to hit the Ozark Mountain town of about 2,000 since a Huntsville High teacher killed a raccoon with a nail gun and skinned it during class last November, said the Madison County Record’s editor, Kyle Mooty.