100 YEARS AGO April 23, 1914
Marvin Davis, 12 years old, was arrested at Fourth and Arch streets at 2:30 o’clock yesterday afternoon by Sergeant McDaniel and Patrolmen Eby and Thibault, charged with disturbing the peace. It is said that Davis, with several other boys, has committed several petty depredations in the neighborhood where the arrest was made and that numerous complaints have been made to the police. It is the intention of the police to break up this “kid gang,” and an effort is being made to obtain the names of several of the other alleged youthful depredators.
50 YEARS AGO April 23, 1964
MORRILTON - Green Bay Packing Inc., of Green Bay, Wis., rebuffed in its plans to locate a paper mill in the North Little Rock area a year ago, will build a plant costing between $10 million and $20 million near Morrilton, the Arkansas Democrat learned today. Options have been secured on all but 57 acres needed for the plant site about 2 miles southeast of the Arkansas River bridge at Morrilton. Officials of the Conway County Industrial Development Corporation at Morrilton would neither confirm nor deny that the plant had been committed to this area.
25 YEARS AGO April 23, 1989
JACKSONVILLE - Tests show one of two dioxin-contaminated trucks parked for years in a Gravel Ridge neighborhood is tainted with 3,400 times the level of dioxin considered safe by the Environmental Protection Agency. Also, a third former Vertac Chemical Corp. vehicle that might be contaminated with high levels of dioxin has been abandoned in a field near Quitman, an attorney representing plaintiffs in a lawsuit against Vertac said Saturday. The EPA began a $500,000 cleanup last week after high levels of dioxin were discovered on two trucks at a Gravel Ridge residence and a crane at a Jacksonville auto repair shop.
10 YEARS AGO April 23, 2004
The lawyers for the Lake View School District are seeking more fees, and the amount they’re seeking is leading some to question their motives. Earlier this month each was awarded about $600,000 for their earlier work in the state’s school-funding case. But Don Trimble of Little Rock and Dion Wilson of Helena say they’re due another six-figure payment for work since the state Supreme Court re-entered the case. Trimble wants $300 an hour and Wilson wants $400 an hour, according to filings with the state Supreme Court late Thursday.
Arkansas, Pages 12 on 04/23/2014