100 years ago
July 26, 1914
POCAHONTAS -- Pocahontas is technically without municipal laws, according to a decision of the Circuit Court today in nolle prossing a suit appealed from the administration of former Mayor J. O. Sallee. The court decided in effect that all laws adopted during Mayor Sallee's term of office are void because they were not legally recorded and published as is required by law.
50 years ago
July 26, 1964
HELENA -- A Negro civil rights worker said a group of 13 Negroes was served at a Helena lunch counter Saturday but refused service at a cafe. Joe Wright of Cincinnati, Ohio, a field secretary for the student Non-violent Coordinating Committee, said the Negroes were served at the counter at Henry's Drug Store, but were refused service at Nick's Cafe. There were no incidents. Wright said a suit would be filed against Nick's under the new civil rights law.
25 years ago
July 26, 1989
• What is Sen. Nick Wilson of Pocahontas up to this time? Wilson, during a hallway interview Tuesday, said he has something in mind, but didn't say what. "If I did, it would end up in your damn paper and I would be in trouble again," Wilson said as he left through the front door of the Capitol. Wilson's actions are usually one of the main stories of any legislative session, but the senator has been especially publicized of late for his role in controversies relating to the state Workers' Compensation Commission, bail bonds and land transactions in the office of Land Commissioner Charlie Daniels.
10 years ago
July 26, 2004
• The first of several Arkansas law enforcement agencies that had hopes of obtaining a police car for $1 has finally received two vehicles but through more conventional means. Caddo Valley officials originally signed up in late 2002 to secure a corporate-sponsored car for $1 through the public relations firm Government Acquisitions LLC of Charlotte, N.C. Sponsors were to supply the cars and place their logos on the vehicles, essentially making them "rolling billboards." Participating agencies were to lease the vehicles for $1 and agree to return them to Government Acquisitions after three years so they could be sold. Robin Hensley, the Caddo Valley police clerk, said at the time: "They just kept adding stuff. The last we heard, they had an addendum that they wanted us to put corporate logos on our old cars."
Metro on 07/26/2014