100 years ago
June 30, 1914
• Without advance notice and with scarcely a word of apology, the white majority in the Pulaski County Republican Central Committee, at a meeting held yesterday morning at the Chamber of Commerce, deprived of representation the Republican negroes of the county. Negroes no longer will be given representation in the party organization of the county nor will they be allowed even a voice in the selection of the party's candidates. All they may do in the future is blindly to vote the ticket or seek suffrage expression with some other party. The negroes were told that the action which thrust them outside the counsels of the party that has profited so long by their votes was for their good, and they were "not read out of the party."
50 years ago
June 30, 1964
• The founder of Keep Arkansas Christian, an anti-gambling organization, said today that it will take "quite a fight" to stop the approval of a proposed constitutional amendment to legalize casino gambling in Garland County. James T. Karam of Little Rock, who founded the KAC a few weeks ago, said that an all-out campaign is under way against legalized gambling in Arkansas and that a victory by his organization will take "dedicated efforts from Christians all over the state."
25 years ago
June 30, 1989
• Mayor Richard Schoeninger of Eureka Springs, whose picture in the nude graces Arkansas Times magazine this month, testified before a legislative committee Thursday dressed in a Victorian tuxedo. "I've had it for some time," Schoeninger said of his formal black jacket, pinstriped pants and gray waistcoat. "Eureka Springs is a Victorian town and this is a Victorian tuxedo. If you get attention wearing it, it promotes the town," he said. Schoeninger appears in the Arkansas Times in the buff at a favorite Eureka Springs swimming hole. A boulder strategically covers his midsection in the photo. One member of the Eureka Springs City Council complained about the image Schoeninger was projecting.
10 years ago
June 30, 2004
• Phase Two of the city's just opened skateboard park is about to roll forward. The City Council approved another $100,000 for the skate bowl in Riverview Park along River Road west of Pike Avenue toward the eventual 24,000-square-foot design. The first phase, a $100,000 segment of about 4,400 square feet, opened this month.
Metro on 06/30/2014