100 years ago
July 27, 1914
CONWAY -- Residents of Faulkner county this summer have acquired the automobile craze, having purchased more than 50 cars, swelling the total in the county to about 100. More than 20 different makes of automobiles are represented in the county.
50 years ago
July 27, 1964
• What work can 38 cents do for a political campaign? When Winthrop Rockefeller found out that teenager Doug Szenhen, 317 Woodlawn, Hot Springs, had walked into the Rockefeller for Governor campaign headquarters in Hot Springs and contributed the 38 cents, Rockefeller began checking. "Young Szenhen's contribution is touching and exciting," Rockefeller said. "After some checking, I found out his 38 cents would keep the lights burning in our Hot Springs headquarters for 11 hours and 45 minutes. I think young Szenhen's contribution is a dramatic illustration of the reaction that I am getting around the state and shows that people who are limited in their resources and their time can make a meaningful contribution to a political campaign."
25 years ago
July 27, 1989
• The federal Environmental Protection Agency will "annul" the award of $150,000 in Superfund grants to the Jacksonville People With Pride Clean-Up Coalition, federal officials confirmed Wednesday. Environmentalists who had opposed the award of the grants to the coalition were ecstatic about the reversal. The coalition is ineligible to receive the three $50,000 grants because Hercules Inc. "was represented" and played "a substantial role in sustaining" both Jacksonville People With Pride and the coalition, the EPA said. JPWP formed the coalition to apply for the grants. Hercules, a "potentially responsible party" for contamination at all three of the Superfund sites covered by the grants, was a member of JPWP, Allyn M. Davis, director of the EPA's Hazardous Waste Management Division in Region VI said in a letter to state Rep. Mike Wilson of Jacksonville, president of the coalition.
10 years ago
July 27, 2004
• The Sherwood City Council on Monday spurned a proposed sports bar and dance club derided by the mayor and other residents as a "honky-tonk." The unanimous vote by the council created a city ordinance that would prohibit businesses selling liquor on their premises from operating within 1,200 feet of a day care, school or church. The ordinance was worded to exempt nearby restaurants, hotels and several nearby liquor stores.
Metro on 07/27/2014