100 years ago
Oct. 22, 1916
HOT SPRINGS -- Late tonight the police were notified that Riley Ralston, a young farmer, living across the Ouachita river, opposite River View park, where Basil T. Smith, a taxicab driver, was robbed and murdered Thursday night, had been found unconscious near the Smith Ferry bridge. His wagon and two horses had been stolen. Ralston was in Hot Springs tonight, and was on his way home when the attack was made on him by unknown parties.
50 years ago
Oct. 22, 1966
• Jim Johnson said Friday that the state's dairy farmers were not responsible for the differences in the retail price of milk in various parts of the state, but that he would like to find out who was. Addressing the Board of Directors of the Central Arkansas Milk Producers Association, Johnson said he knew that the prices which dairies pay farmers for their milk was set by the federal government through milk marketing orders. Johnson said any differences in retail milk prices at Fort Smith and Memphis, as compared to Little Rock, was "completely beyond the control of the dairy farmers."
25 years ago
Oct. 22, 1991
CLINTON -- The normally routine job of replacing a roof has sparked a heated controversy over historic preservation, the power of the county judge and spending money in Van Buren County. Last Friday, three county residents obtained an injunction preventing County Judge Dale Lynch from proceeding with a courthouse roof replacement project. Lynch said the repairs are desperately needed. The residents fear the project will result in the Van Buren County Courthouse being removed from the National Register of Historic Sites.
10 years ago
Oct. 22, 2006
• After rejecting a motion last month to postpone a Lonoke County criminal-conspiracy case because it would interfere with deer season, special Circuit Judge John Cole is delaying a four-person trial until February after an attorney asked for more time to wade through the prosecutor's voluminous case file and prepare a defense. Former Lonoke Police Chief Jay Campbell; his wife, Kelly Harrison Campbell; and two bail bondsmen, Larry Norwood and Bobby Junior Cox, had been set for trial beginning Nov. 8. They are accused of operating a "continuing criminal organization" involving illegal drugs, illicit sex and abuse of a state inmate-labor program.
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