100 years ago
April 23, 1919
CONWAY -- Three dipping vats were dynamited and an attempt made to blow up the fourth Sunday night. The vats wrecked were at Enola, the Henry Bros.' vat, about two miles west of Mount Vernon, and the Hogue vat, halfway between Mount Vernon and Naylor. At the Heffington vat, in the same section, an attempt was made to destroy it, but men guarding it fired upon the would-be wreckers before they could touch the charge with the lighted match. Dr. W. A. McDonald, federal supervisor of this district, and Deputy Sheriff J. L. Summers visited the scene today, but obtained no clues. Two other vats were destroyed on Saturday a week ago. The Nebo and the White Oak Ford vats were wrecked with dynamite. The section of the county in which the vats were destroyed were near the White county line, where nine vats were destroyed last week.
50 years ago
April 23, 1969
JONESBORO -- Danny Pierce of Hornersville, Mo., was elected president of the student body at Arkansas State University here Tuesday. He defeated Bill Ledbetter of West Memphis. Sam Thorpe of Little Rock defeated Tim Norton of Marked Tree for first vice president. Sharon Pierce Dent of Leachville was elected second vice president over Jo Ella Todd of Dell. The total vote was 1,507, the lowest in several years at the school. Students used voting machines.
25 years ago
April 23, 1994
PINE BLUFF -- Officials at the Department of Correction's Varner Unit hospitalized two inmates Thursday night and Friday for wounds suffered in separate stabbings. Spokesman Alan Ables said an inmate stabbed Roger Lindsey, 24, several times with a 3-inch nail during a barracks fight about 8:50 p.m. Thursday. Lindsey, serving a 25-year murder sentence from Pulaski County, suffered a collapsed lung from the attack, Ables said. Doctors at Varner treated Lindsey before transporting him to Delta Memorial Hospital at Dumas. Guards later took him to the department's Diagnostic Unit hospital at Pine Bluff, where doctors said he remained in stable condition Friday. The second attack occurred about 2:20 a.m. Friday and involved three inmates. Ables said the attackers apparently used weapons fashioned from a bed spring and a screwdriver.
10 years ago
April 23, 2009
• A former senior vice president of Twin City Bank was sentenced Wednesday to 4 1/2 years in federal prison for admittedly stealing more than $1.4 million from the bank between October 2000 and June 2008. Brent D. Geels, 42, of Maumelle was ordered to repay $1,409,225.94 to the bank and its insurance company, which reimbursed the bank for the thefts. Although that figure is the amount that went into Geels' own pockets, he admitted that a series of knowingly deceptive actions he took resulted in losses to the bank of $2,114,562.38. The higher figure includes funds that Geels moved between the accounts of customers, none of whom was accused of wrongdoing, and amounts he recorded either as interest paid by the bank, or as fees and expenses paid to the bank, to improve the appearance of his job performance. ...Geels waived an appearance before a federal grand jury, pleading guilty to one count each of bank fraud and money laundering. Moody sentenced him to 57 months in prison on each count, to be served concurrently.
Metro on 04/23/2019