YESTERYEARS FOR WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2008
65 Years Ago
December 3, 1943
H.H. Grauman’s second-year woodwork class has completed over twenty walking sticks for the Junior Red Cross. These walking sticks will go to wounded soldiers in hospitals. Fifty or sixty broom sticks were furnished by Sixth Avenue elementary school students for the purpose of making the walking sticks.
The machine shop class is completing its iron hammer heads and is now learning thread cutting.
48 Years Ago
December 3, 1960
Grace Episcopal Church at 41st and Hazel will be dedicated tomorrow afternoon by Arkansas Bishop Robert R. Brown.
During the service, which will begin at 4 o’clock, a class of children and adults will be presented by Rev. Ralph H. Leach Jr., Grace vicar, for confirmation by the bishop.
The new church building, just completed, cost $41,000.
STAR CITY — “Girls for Christ” was the topic for the Junior Girls Auxiliary meeting at First Baptist Church last week, according to counselors Mrs. J.T. Frizzell and Mrs. Russell McFalls.
Participating in the program were: Becky Clary, Margaret Riley, Leslie Cogbill, Vicki Polk, Julie Schroeder and Deborah Brockman.
25 Years Ago
December 3, 1983
A fire at the newly constructed fire station at Miramar Drive and Bay Street caused about $4,000 damage yesterday afternoon, Ray Jacks, fire chief, said last night.
The fire was caused by sparks released when workers were soldering pipe joints under the kitchen sink.
Jacks said the new station would probably be open before January, as scheduled.