100 years ago
June 2, 1914
PRESCOTT -- Today, the rate for an announced raise of 50 cents per month in telephone rates, marked instead a discontinuance of the service in a majority of homes and business houses. The action of the residents follows the recent formation of a Citizens' League to handle the situation. Many signatures were procured to an agreement that the patrons would not use the phones if the raise became effective.
50 years ago
June 2, 1964
• The chairman of the State Penitentiary Commission said today a request by gubernatorial candidate Joe Hubbard of Russellville for information about corporal punishment at the state prison may be considered Wednesday. Hubbard asked Prison Supt. Dan D. Stephens last Friday for an interview about a whip used at the penitentiary to punish prisoners. Stephens said Saturday he had not received Hubbard's telegram, but suggested he and the candidate could discuss the matter later this month at Russellville. Hubbard issued a statement Sunday in which he said he was not accusing anyone in the penal system of illegal or improper practices. He said he had "simply asked additional information" about whippings at the penitentiary. Stephens said punishment with the whip is kept to the minimum. It is used instead of solitary confinement when prisoners break major penitentiary regulations.
25 years ago
June 2, 1989
• Visitors to the Governor's Conference Room at the state Capitol on Thursday would have found Gov. Bill Clinton dressed in a toga. During his monthly ceremony for photographs and proclamations, Clinton had the toga wrapped around him by Latin language students from Deer High School (Newton County). The students explained to the governor that the toga was a symbol of status in ancient Rome. Clinton was honoring the students for finishing among the top 8 percent nationally in a high school Latin contest.
10 years ago
June 2, 2004
• Faced with a rising number of female inmates and an inadequate reserve of beds for them, the Arkansas Board of Corrections decided Tuesday to revive a plan for a women's prison that was put on hold because of budget cuts in 2001. The price tag for the 200-bed women's housing unit on the grounds of the state's Wrightsville Unit is $2.9 million. The project will be financed through $3 million in salary savings that the state will have at the end of the current fiscal year, June 30.
Metro on 06/02/2014