100 years ago
July 5, 1915
• Although the Red River passed the 27-foot stage at Garland City yesterday and is expected to reach 30 feet within the next few days, there is little danger of the gas line again breaking, according to officials of the Arkansas Natural Gas Company. "Everything looks pretty," W. F. Bronsell, assistant superintendent of the company, told B. J. Gifford, superintendent of the Little Rock Gas and Fuel Company, the local distributors, over long-distance telephone yesterday.
50 years ago
July 5, 1965
• A union official declared Sunday that a refusal by Congress to pass a bill extending the minimum wage to workers in the hospital, hotel, motel, laundry and restaurant industries would trigger adamant demonstrations by his union. "If the battleground has to be Little Rock, then let it be Little Rock." said Earl F. Yeargan, international representative of the Hospital, Hotel, Motel and Restaurant Workers, union, at a Fourth of July rally at the Labor Temple.
25 years ago
July 5, 1990
• About 30,000 people crowded into Riverfront Park to see the Independence Day fireworks display on the Arkansas River Wednesday night. Others perched on rooftops and tried to make their own displays. "Hide your fireworks -- the cops are coming," someone shouted from a rooftop overlooking the park to fellow fireworks-users on another rooftop. The personal use of fireworks is illegal in Little Rock and North Little Rock.
10 years ago
July 5, 2005
• It's easy to see why the playground at Boyle Park is not a popular choice for parents. Surrounded by an orange plastic construction fence, the metal and plastic playground was marked with chipped paint and rusted parts. Jagged, broken edges of the equipment stuck out from the playground, one of three in the park. It is one of several dangerous playgrounds that should be removed or repaired, according to a study by a group of University of Arkansas at Fayetteville graduate students. The study recommends more than $1 million worth of improvements to Little Rock's 48 city-owned playgrounds.
Metro on 07/05/2015