100 years ago
July 9, 1914
IMBODEN -- W.A. Hathcoat of this place picked up a pearl from Spring river June 25 while fishing for which he has just been offered and refused $800. This pearl weighs 33 grains, and so far as the naked eye was able to detect, is perfect. He sent this valuable gem to a reliable pearl buyer in Memphis and is just in receipt of an offer of $800. Since that time he has found another pearl which weighs 17 grains.
50 years ago
July 9, 1964
• Gov. Faubus charged today that the federal government is injecting forcible integration into one of its youth programs. Twelve Arkansas persons who have applied for jobs as counselors in one of the programs have been assigned to an eight-weeks study course at Fisk University, a Negro institution in Nashville, Tenn. The program is aimed at rehabilitating rejectees from the military service. Applications and examinations were handled through the Arkansas Employment Security office, but the selection of the candidates and assignments was made in Washington.
25 years ago
July 9, 1989
PIGGOTT -- A commemorative postage stamp featuring Ernest Hemingway will be issued July 17, but the people of Piggott haven't planned anything to celebrate the famed author who once lived there. Hemingway, considered one of the best American authors, wrote such novels as "The Sun Also Rises" (1926) and "For Whom the Bell Tolls" (1940). In the winter of 1928, he wrote most of another of his best works, "A Farewell to Arms," in Piggott. In 1933, the city played host to the premiere of the movie based on the novel. Piggot, in Clay County, has about 3,700 residents. Mayor George Cook and Aldermen Ronnie Dixon and Jim Poole said Friday they hadn't been informed that a Hemingway stamp would be issued.
10 years ago
July 9, 2004
• Nolan Richardson did not prove that he was fired as head basketball coach for the Arkansas Razorbacks because he is black and spoke out unabashedly about race, a federal judge decided Thursday. But U.S. District Judge Bill Wilson Jr. tempered his findings in favor of the University of Arkansas and three of its top officials by noting that Richardson's beliefs of being discriminated against were "clearly not unreasonable." In a 47-page written opinion dismissing Richardson's high-profile discrimination case, the judge took the opportunity to chastise the university.
Metro on 07/09/2014