100 YEARS AGO April 21, 1914
C.E. Perkins, alias Richard Harmon, who says he is a mining promoter from Prescott, Ariz., but who was unable to pay his fine, was yesterday morning fined $25 and costs and sentenced to serve 30 days on the county farm for annoying a young woman on the street. Perkins was rested Sunday night by Patrolmen Smith and Puryear at Capitol avenue and Main street. The young woman complained to the officers after Perkins had followed her for several blocks. In Police Court the young woman said Perkins winked at her every time she stopped at a show window and that she had tried to ignore him. She made a complaint to the patrolmen and when one of them accosted Perkins he started to leave hastily, but was overtaken and placed under arrest.
50 YEARS AGO April 21, 1964
Gov. Faubus, asked at a press conference for a comment on scheduled civil rights demonstrations to block the opening of the World’s Fair in New York Wednesday, said that Sen. Russell of Georgia expressed his sentiments. Faubus added, “In the South it is a proper demonstration; in the North it is an outrage.” 25 YEARS AGO April 21, 1989
Arkansas’ 1988 per capita income of $12,172 placed it 47th among the 50 states, according to figures released Thursday in Washington by the federal Commerce Department. The only states with lower per capita incomes were Utah, 48th at $12,013; West Virginia, 49th at $11,658; and Mississippi, 50th at $10,992. Arkansas’ per capita income was $4,272 below the national figure of $16,444. The national figure was an increase of 6.1 percent from 1987, while Arkansas’ per capita income rose only 5.5 percent from the previous year.
10 YEARS AGO April 21, 2004
Herbert Broadway and Doris Wright aren’t the first black candidates to face each in a Republican primary in Arkansas, a Pine Bluff minister said Monday. The Rev. Jesse Turner said he and Ulysses McPherson opposed each other in the 1990 Republican primary for a Senate district that included parts of Jefferson, Desha and Lincoln counties. “It was a little difficult,” Turner recalled. “African-Americans just couldn’t pull themselves to say they’re supporting a Republican.” Turner e-mailed the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette after reading an article in Monday’s edition about the GOP primary between Wright and Broadway in Senate District 33 in Little Rock.
Arkansas, Pages 8 on 04/21/2014