100 years ago
July 30, 1914
SULPHUR SPRINGS -- City Marshal J. W. Kirkbride has decided that the bathers of the fair sex must wear more clothes when going to and from their homes and the lake. The decision came when a bevy of young Shreveport belles from the Mountain View hotel persisted in walking about in public and deporting themselves in the parks in bathing suits minus both stockings and skirts and exceedingly abbreviated at both extremes. In spite of the marshal's remonstrances the young women continued on their way. Feeling the case was rather fit for the matron's office the marshal confined himself to warning them to come out with more clothes in the future. Evidently the warning had its effect as since then the party have been wearing raincoats thrown over their bathing attire when parading in public places.
50 years ago
July 30, 1964
• A young Negro woman inquired today about the membership of the Capitol Club, the basement cafeteria in the State Capitol which has been organized as a private club in an effort to avoid integration. The woman, who would not give her name, said she had no connection with any movement to integrate the cafeteria but that she came to buy a license at noon and was hungry. She was refused service by the cafeteria manager, Mrs. Edris Tyer.
25 years ago
July 30, 1989
• In Arkansas, the words "juvenile justice" have at times seemed mutually exclusive. Since the Legislature created a juvenile court in 1911 under the jurisdiction of county judges, Arkansas' 75 counties have meted out a patchwork quilt of uneven justice to young people. Part-time referees who weren't lawyers often acted not only as judge, but as prosecutor and defense counsel when considering cases involving wayward youth. Beginning Tuesday -- 2½ years after the Arkansas Supreme Court struck down the county juvenile court system -- young offenders for the first time will be accorded in a court of law the same legal rights as their parents.
10 years ago
July 30, 2004
• Orbea, the "bicycle of Spain," is about to become the bicycle of North Little Rock as well. Orbea USA, a Little Rock company, expects to finalize in mid-August its purchase of an abandoned warehouse in North Little Rock to start the only assembly plant in North America for the professional racing bicycles now only built in northern Spain, a company spokesman said.
Metro on 07/30/2014