YESTERYEARS FOR WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2008
65 Years Ago
October 15, 1943
(Looking Back - October 15, 1916)
Mrs. Henry Marx went to Little Rock today to join her daughter, Miss Fannie Marx, with whom she will return this afternoon.
Professor W.B. Massey, superintendent of the public schools of Monticello, spent Friday in Pine Bluff visiting the schools and inspecting the school system here.
Fire chief A.C. Breiner announced that Floyd Waymack and George Bass have been added to the fire department.
Winters Julian is slowly improving from a critical illness resulting from appendicitis.
Charles E. Hughes is in Lincoln, Nebraska, making his presidential campaign speeches.
50 Years Ago
October 15, 1958
LONDON — Britain’s commercial poster advertising organizations announced yesterday they are banning an anti-smoking poster issued by a government medical committee. They claimed the sign exaggerated the dangers of smoking. The poster shows only a cigarette — and the smoke curling from it forming the word, “cancer.”
Charles H. Crum, 34, has been named manager of the Davidson Furniture Company of Pine Bluff Inc. store at Third and Pine.
(Advertisement)
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Plantation Embers Restaurant — the South’s finest steaks, seafood, lobster and salad bowl supreme — Highway 65-North at the Pine Bluff Motel.
Open from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily.
Carl and Jeanette Purnell, owners.
25 Years Ago
October 15, 1983
Formation of a nonprofit organization to restore a Cotton Belt Railroad locomotive at Oakland Park was announced yesterday.
Old Engine 819 was built at the Cotton Belt shops in 1943 and used until about 1955. Cotton Belt officials deeded it to the city in 1955.
(Sports Headlines)
Cards Deal White Hall First Defeat; Zebra Defense Blanks Warriors; Benton Blanks Watson Chapel; Dumas Romps to Easy Win Over Owls; Clutch Defensive Plays Left Altheimer to Win over Pulaski Oak Grove; and, Late Theft Keys Patriot Win over Jefferson Prep.