YESTERYEARS FOR THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2008
65 Years Ago
October 9, 1943
(Looking Back, Oct. 9, 1916)
Donald Drake, 6-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. G.M. Drake, 701 W. Fourth Avenue, was painfully cut on the neck by a piece of glass when he fell into a window of his parents’ home Sunday.
The little boy was standing on a box by the window and playing with some comrades when he lost his footing and toppled over on the window. The wound bled freely until a physician arrived. The youngster is doing well today.
NEW YORK — The condition of Al Jolson, stage and screen star, who has been seriously ill of pneumonia the past several days, was reported “just fair” by his nurses today. Jolson returned here recently from entertainment of American troops in North Africa and Sicily.
50 Years Ago
October 9, 1958
The Watson Chapel School Board announced plans today to erect a new 12-room elementary school building at an estimated cost of $165,000.
The building is to be constructed near 31st Avenue between West Orlando and Stephens streets on an eight-acre site recently purchased by the board.
CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy — Pope Pius XII will return in death tomorrow to his native Rome to lie in state at the Vatican and be buried in St. Peter’s basilica.
Pope Pius died early today at the age of 82, having served 19 years as the supreme leader of the Roman Catholic Church.
25 Years Ago
October 9, 1983
LITTLE ROCK — “Window Series III,” a watercolor by Joe Kagle, director of the Southeast Arkansas Arts & Science Center at Pine Bluff, will be exhibited at the 26th annual Delta Art Exhibition, which opens Friday at the Arkansas Arts Center at Little Rock.
National Bank of Commerce (NBC) has completed installation and testing of four new “Commerce 24” automated teller machines, including a drive-up machine and three lobby machines.