YESTERYEARS FOR THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2008
76 Years Ago
November 6, 1932
H.D. Reaves, commercial agent of the Missouri Pacific, today announced that the Missouri Pacific railroad will run a special train Saturday to Little Rock for the Tiger-Zebra football game.
The train will leave Saturday afternoon at 12:15 o’clock and will leave Little Rock in the evening at 6:30 o’clock on the return trip. Stops will be made at both Main Street station and union depot. The round trip fare will be 50 cents.
Harry Peterson, Pine Bluff football player who lost part of one leg as a result of a motor accident last Wednesday is reported to be resting well at Davis Hospital.
50 Years Ago
November 6, 1958
RUSSELLVILLE — Perry Hope of Pine Bluff has been selected as a member of the Arkansas Tech “Esquires,” the college dance orchestra. Hope, who plays the trombone, is a senior music major at Tech. This is his fourth year with the orchestra.
(Looking Back, November 6, 1941)
As a result of continuous heavy rainfall in this area, the Pine Bluff/Little Rock highway is completely covered with water four inches deep north of Woodson.
LEXINGTON, Ky. — Roger Langford, a schoolbus driver, said the noisy playfulness of his passengers got to be too much. He stopped his vehicle on the spot and resigned.
A relief driver delivered the children to school.
25 Years Ago
November 6, 1983
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Alex Haley, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “Roots,” was in a hospital in stable condition yesterday with pneumonia, according to a hospital spokesman. Haley, 62, was admitted Friday afternoon.
He maintains residences near Knoxville and in Los Angeles.
The Last Man Club of Pine Bluff, whose members all served in the armed services during World War I, will hold its annual meeting Friday on the anniversary of the signing of the Armistice in 1918.
The group first met in the Hotel Pines in 1938 and formed a club with a closed membership of 347 veterans. The only form of resignation is death, according to a club spokesman. When there is only one member left, he will dine alone, drink from the special bottle of cognac that has been preserved by the club, and remember his old comrades-at-arms.
Twenty-five members are still living and about 20 of these men are expected to attend the meeting.