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100 years ago

July 7, 1914

• Charles Grace, who tried to break into police headquarters Sunday, was fined $5 in Police Court yesterday morning because of his determination to see a friend, who was occupying a cell at the time, against the wishes of the turnkey. Grace, it is said, attempted to scale the walls on the outside of headquarters and gain entrance through small window in the basement of the city bastille. A charge of trespassing was docketed against him.

50 years ago

July 7, 1964

• Continued dry weather and drying winds are building up the forest fire hazard in Arkansas but the State Forestry Commission is going to be better prepared because a special fire-weather meteorologist has been assigned by the U.S. Weather Bureau to the Fort Smith office. State Forester Fred Lang said that Richard M. Ogden, the fire-weather meteorologist, was conferring with forestry men today. "These fire-weather men are used extensively on the West Coast but this is the first one assigned to Arkansas, and he's going to be a big help," Lang said. "He makes a completely independent forecast keyed to weather conditions that affect the forest."

25 years ago

July 7, 1989

• Secretary of State Bill McCuen, saying he feared radical violence, will ask a judge today to block plans to burn an American flag Sunday on the state Capitol grounds. However, Attorney General Steve Clark, the state's top legal officer, called McCuen's request for a restraining order a "frivolous action and an abuse of the legal system and of judicial economy." He refused to represent McCuen, forcing the secretary of state to file briefs through his staff attorneys. McCuen may hire a private attorney for today's hearing. Clark, a 14-year veteran of the armed forces, was the first state official to condemn [Robert "Say"] McIntosh's flag burning but to defend his constitutional right to do it.

10 years ago

July 7, 2004

• On the first day of its campuswide smoking ban, a banner on a building at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Medical Center proclaimed: "We're smoke free!" Across the street, a half dozen people, one wearing blue hospital scrubs, were lighting up. As UAMS Medical Center became the state's first hospital to completely ban smoking from its property, the reactions of employees and visitors who weren't ready to give up the habit ranged from anger to grumbled resignation.

Metro on 07/07/2014

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