100 years ago
July 8, 1915
OSCEOLA -- Title to nearly a half million acres of sunk lands in eastern Arkansas is involved in the taking of testimony which began here today before Fred L. Satterfield, special United States commissioner. Testimony in the same cases was taken for the government at Memphis some time ago. After the taking of testimony the cases will be tried on their merits.
50 years ago
July 8, 1965
• A 19-year-old Negro girl came to the aid of a white Little Rock policeman as he was struggling with a Negro youth suspected of car theft on an East End street about noon Wednesday while at least 30 other men and women stood by and did nothing. With her aid the patrolman, Earl Hutchins, was able to handcuff Elbert Lee Foster, 17, of 519 Walnut Street, North Little Rock, before police cars arrived. Mrs. Carolyn Kimble, 19, of 3202 West Sixteenth Street was commended by Police Chief R. E. Brians for aiding the policeman and City Manager Ancil M. Douthit said he would send her a letter of gratitude on behalf of the city. "I just wanted to stop him [Foster] before he got into more trouble," she said.
25 years ago
July 8, 1990
JACKSONVILLE -- Chip Efferson has gone from owning a machine shop to a hazardous waste disposal company whose first job will be to clean up one of the most toxic waste sites in the nation. MRK Incineration Inc. of Zachary, La., a company Efferson formed in 1988, won a $10.7 million contract from the state Department of Pollution Control and Ecology in April 1989 to burn 29,300 barrels of acutely hazardous wastes at the old Vertac Chemical plant site in Jacksonville.
10 years ago
July 8, 2005
• A no-smoking ordinance approved June 6 by a sharply divided Pine Bluff City Council is in effect in the southeast Arkansas city, after opponents of the ban failed to turn in enough signatures collected in a petition drive aimed at forcing a November 2006 referendum on the issue. Petition organizers needed to gather 2,803 signatures -- representing 15 percent of the total votes cast in the November 2004 mayoral election. But the names on petitions submitted Wednesday to Pine Bluff City Clerk Loretta Whitfield fell short of that number, according to a written release from Whitfield's office.
Metro on 07/08/2015