Other days
Because today is a Leap Year day, Other Days features news from past Leap Year days.
100 YEARS AGO
Feb. 29, 1916
Efforts of signers of a petition from Hoxie, asking that the Iron Mountain and Frisco railroads be required to build and maintain a union depot at Hoxie, to have the petition withdrawn, will be unavailing, T. E. Wood, chairman of the Arkansas Railroad Commission, announced yesterday. The petition was received more than a week ago. Yesterday the signers sent a petition asking that the first petition, set for hearing tomorrow, be withdrawn. The second petition said that because of heavy expense resulting from floods and for other reasons, it would be unjust to ask the railroads to build a new depot at this time.
48 YEARS AGO
Feb. 29, 1968
Plans to expand both wings of North Little Rock’s Memorial Hospital will be considered today by members of the hospital commission. The expansion would add 32 beds to the hospital for general care patients at a cost of $ 550,000. The hospital averaged a record 70 percent occupancy in 1967. It is presently operating at near- full capacity.
24 YEARS AGO
Feb. 29, 1992
Arnold Schwarzenegger came to Little Rock to promote physical fitness but his visit left some Arkansans fit to be tied. What upset them were the body builder-turned- movie- star’s remarks — and coverage of them on the Cable News Network — about the physical condition of children in the state. Schwarzenegger, speaking to the Arkansas House of Representatives on Thursday, said, “In your state, the children are almost in worse shape than anywhere else in the country.”
8 YEARS AGO
Feb. 29, 2008
Police said Thursday that they know who shot a University of Arkansas at Little Rock student in the center of campus Wednesday. UALR Police Chief Brad King said the victim, James Earl Matthews, identified the suspect Wednesday as he lay bleeding from bullet wounds in his stomach and buttock. King said police are seeking a warrant for the man’s arrest after receiving additional information on the suspect — who has a criminal history — from the Little Rock Police Department. They did not identify the suspect. The attack was not a random act of violence, King said. The gunman, and an unidentified accomplice, targeted Matthews specifically.