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100 YEARS AGO
Aug. 31, 1915
With the issuing today of approximately $ 40,000 in state warrants to pay the August salaries of state employes, the state’s general revenue fund will again be on the downgrade and the outstanding warrants will begin to accumulate. The county collectors of St. Francis and Independence county owe the fund approximately $ 26,000, and other collectors still have partial settlements to make, but these will fail to greatly reduce the outstanding warrants.
50 YEARS AGO
Aug. 31, 1965
Two underground telephone cables were cut by a machine working on a new road about 10 a. m. Monday and left about 2,000 telephones out of service in Little Rock. The cables were cut on Western Hills Drive, a little south of the Western Hills Country Club. The telephones put out of use are in the Locust exchange, in the Rosedale, Mabelvale and Geyer Springs areas. The Southwestern Bell Telephone Company at Little Rock said it hoped to have the cables repaired by 6 a. m. today. The accident left a wide area of town without telephone communication Monday night.
25 YEARS AGO
Aug. 31, 1990
JACKSONVILLE — Dr. Joycelyn Elders, director of the state Department of Health, said Thursday she has set up a meeting with the head of a federal agency to determine whether a health study will be done in Jacksonville. Also Thursday, a scheduled incineration of 2, 4- D waste at the old Vertac Chemical Inc. site in Jacksonville was delayed until at least today, said a spokesman for Vertac Site Contractors, which was awarded the $ 10.7 million state contract to destroy the drummed wastes.
10 YEARS AGO
Aug. 31, 2005
Emergency shelters, hotels and hospitals are bracing for potential longterm stays by thousands of people seeking refuge in Arkansas from areas devastated by Hurricane Katrina. Dozens of shelters operated around the state Tuesday, and officials say it’s uncertain how long Arkansas will have to harbor those made homeless by the hurricane that mauled the Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama coast. Shelters opened as far north as Springdale, where Red Cross officials reported 38 people sought refuge. “We’ve got to take it one step at a time right now,” said Kelly Robinson, a spokesman for the state Department of Emergency Management. “Right now, [ the shelters] are just going to remain open as they are until they can get some help in their home states.”