YESTERYEARS FOR THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2008

108 Years Ago

October 30, 1900

George Dewey, the monkey who was shot Thursday while playing in the court house yard, dying Friday, was buried this morning. A grave was dug in the rear of the county exposition building. Mr. Lou Owen, Dewey’s owner, purchased a handsome metallic casket to bury him in and he was laid in the grave and the mound of dirt erected over him. Two very pretty floral designs were placed on the grave. The burial was attended by quite a number of George’s admirers and all seemed grieved at his loss.

Now, let the band play, “To Hades with Bad Monkeys.”

40 Years Ago

October 30, 1968

WASHINGTON — On the rolling lawn of Robert F. Kennedy’s Hickory Hill estate, Senator Edward M. Kennedy yesterday announced plans for an ambitious living memorial to his dead brother. Its aim is to enlist the energies and talents of Americans of every description — bored suburbanites, young followers of George C. Wallace, angry blacks in the ghettoes, alienated college students — in a great effort to enrich the quality of American life and to end, in Robert Kennedy’s formulation, the divisions in the United States between rich and poor, young and old, black and white.

Several hypothetical projects have been discussed, including taking 100 potential leaders from among the young in the ghettoes of the country and put them to work with Charles Evers, the Mississippi Negro leader, on problems of common concern. Another would be to enlist bored or alienated college students in a broad effort to improve life in the slums.

20 Years Ago

October 30, 1988

Ginger Roberts Meredith of Joplin, Mo., daughter of Helen Ferranti and stepdaughter of Bob Ferranti, both of Pine Bluff, a graduate of Pine Bluff High School, has been awarded first place prize money of $500 in the “In Joplin” magazine’s non-fiction writing contest.

Her winning essay, “Uncommon Heroes,” depicts some of the World War II experiences of her parents.