100 YEARS AGO Aug. 18, 1908 HAVANA — Eaton Pierson was shot in the side with a shotgun yesterday by Hale Frost, a former friend and boon companion. After being wounded, Pierson attacked Frost with a whisky bottle, beating his head and face almost to a pulp and rendering him helpless. He then walked half a mile to the home of Leo Fulcher, where his wounds were treated by physicians. Frost and Pierson had previously been good friends and no cause has been assigned for the shooting.
50 YEARS AGO Aug. 18, 1958 Enrollment at Little Rock University is expected to reach 1, 340 this fall, including the day and evening divisions, as the University adds its senior year. Enrollment increased from 1, 060 to 1, 231 in September 1957 when LRU changed from a junior college to a four-year school. Summer enrollment increased from 258 in 1957 to 625 this summer.
25 YEARS AGO Aug. 18, 1983 In a news conference disrupted by Robert “Say” Mc-Intosh, Gov. Bill Clinton announced the choice of James W. Daniel, president of the Citizens Bank of Marshall, as his third and final appointment to the state Public Service Commission. Daniel, a lawyer who was Mr. Clinton’s campaign co-ordinator in Searcy County last year, has no experience in utility regulation. The governor said he’d appointed three nonexperienced commissioners deliberately because he didn’t want the PSC to become a “technocracy.” He said he wanted the Commission to be composed of intelligent people with sensitivity to public needs who would be given the technical support they’ll need by the Commission’s staff.
10 YEARS AGO Aug. 18, 1998 WASHINGTON — President Clinton ended months of denial Monday, acknowledging he made a grave error in misleading the American people about his relationship with Monica Lewinsky. “I did have a relationship with Ms. Lewinsky that was not appropriate. In fact, it was wrong,” Clinton declared in a nationally televised address. “It constituted a critical lapse in judgment and a personal failure on my part, for which I am solely and completely responsible.”
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