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100 YEARS AGO July 29, 1918
PINE BLUFF — Dominica Tureliso, an Italian farmer, aged 22, was instantly killed by a southbound Missouri Pacific passenger train near the Doris compress, a short distance east of this city, shortly before noon today. The man tried to drive his automobile across the track ahead of the train, but the car stopped on the track and the train crashed into it, demolishing the auto. The man’s head and right arm were cut off. His head was ground to pieces under the train. The dead man was a member of an Italian colony of farmers who live east of Pine Bluff.
50 YEARS AGO July 29, 1968
Rev. Daniel M. Bowman, a Negro candidate for the state legislature from District 22 (Pulaski and Perry Counties), said Sunday that Negro voters should ignore endorsements made by “yesteryear thinking” Negroes. “When Negroes as a whole are striving so hard to better their way of life all over America, it is downright disgusting and almost unbelievable that some of these Negroes, who have propped themselves up as Negro leaders and spokesmen for the Negro race, are coming out in the name of some organization endorsing for themselves individually some candidate, who, if elected to the positions that they are running for, would set the progress and advancements of Negroes back 50 years,” said Mr. Bowman.
25 YEARS AGO July 29, 1993
State officials won’t commit to widening Interstate 30 from Little Rock to Benton until a study is commissioned on the project’s impact on school desegregation. The state Highway and Transportation Department has decided to seek federal approval of safety improvements on I-30. Roger Almond, Highway Department chief engineer for planning, told the Metroplan board of directors Wednesday. That work would cost about $50 million. But widening the highway from four lanes to six will not be included in the project until an impact study is conducted. Widening the highway, which in any case is not expected to begin for another five years, would increase the total cost to about $100 million.
10 YEARS AGO July 29, 2008
Temperatures are expected to exceed 100 degrees in much of the state through this week, and agencies prepared Monday by gathering fans, offering health tips and opening cooling shelters. “The weather has overwhelmed us,” said Rev. Hezekiah Stewart, who has distributed more than 200 electric fans to elderly people since late last week through his Watershed organization in east Little Rock. “It’s going to get hotter. It will be chaotic if other churches don’t help.”