100 years ago
June 23, 1915
• Betting on baseball games, which has flourished in Little Rock since the opening of the season, was given a death blow early yesterday afternoon when the Little Rock police made seven arrests. Those arrested were: David Bachrach, cigar store, 202 Main street; Henry Putsche, 722 Louisiana street; Dick Brundidge, pool hall, 505 Main street; D. A. Fleming, cigar store, 505 Main street; and M. W. Holmes. They are charged with running gambling devices.
50 years ago
June 23, 1965
DES ARC -- The Des Arc desegregation plan, submitted to comply with the 1964 Civil Rights Act, has been disapproved by the United States Office of Education, according to James Ford, school superintendent at Des Arc. The plan called for the desegregation of all school buses and of grades 1-4 this fall; grades 5-8 in 1966, and grades 9-12 in 1967. The plan was on a "freedom-of-choice" basis.
25 years ago
June 23, 1990
• A federal judge Friday ordered James D. Callaway of Bryant held without bail until his trial next month on a charge of providing a sawed-off shotgun for use in an armed robbery. Callaway, 37, who has been linked in federal court testimony with the deaths of two Bryant teenagers in 1987, was arrested June 16 by Saline County authorities while he was free on a personal recognizance bond on the federal charge.
10 years ago
June 23, 2005
• Little Rock police and Central Arkansas Transit Authority officials angrily deny a national advocacy group's accusation this week that homeless people are being kicked out of the River Cities Travel Center in downtown Little Rock even when they have bus tickets. In letters to Police Chief Stuart Thomas and CATA Executive Director Keith Jones, the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty said city officials "have been ejecting persons who appear to be homeless from the bus station, even when those persons have valid bus tickets." "Several homeless persons with valid bus tickets have been threatened with enforcement actions against them for loitering," Tulin Ozdeger, civil rights staff attorney for the Washington nonprofit organization, wrote in the letter dated June 17.
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