100 years ago
Jan. 19, 1919
McCRORY -- The attendance at the McCrory High School has grown to such an extent that the Board of Directors has found it necessary to employ additional help. Mrs. Roy C. Witt, wife of the principal, has been placed in charge of the third grade. This brings the total number of teachers now employed in the McCrory High School to eight.
50 years ago
Jan. 19, 1969
BLYTHEVILLE -- Former California Governor Edmund G. (Pat) Brown, conducting a presidential investigation of the war on poverty, said Saturday that he was shocked by the poor living conditions found in Mississippi County. Visibly disturbed, the former governor said at one point during the hearing, "I saw seven children plus their parents in a two-room house." Then he added, "Isn't this the richest cotton county in the United States?"... He tempered his remarks by saying: "I know we're going to find this same sort of thing in California." (Blytheville interests said the county probably was one of the richest cotton growing counties in the country, but not the richest. That one, they thought, is in California.)
25 years ago
Jan. 19, 1994
• Lt. Charles Holladay of the Little Rock Police Department said Sunday that the department is not involved with a gun buyback event scheduled for Saturday at War Memorial Park in Little Rock. However, Holladay said that after the event, the department will accept the guns from the sponsors, check the serial numbers and return any stolen guns to their owners. ... A Little Rock bail bondsman is paying $50, "no questions asked," for every working gun turned in from noon to 3 p.m. Saturday at his business -- or at least until his $10,000 runs out. Bobby Cox of Bobby Cox Bail Bonds at 3300 W. Roosevelt Road, has no trouble pointing to the inspiration for the program -- the highly publicized Dec. 28 shootout in which 3-year-old Robin Leath was shot in the head. ... "Something about the whole thing just hit home," he said.
10 years ago
Jan. 19, 2009
• Despite a pair of high-profile slayings in Little Rock that grabbed national headlines, overall homicides in Pulaski County plunged by 25 percent in 2008, with Little Rock and North Little Rock seeing the biggest decreases. There were 62 homicides in the county for 2008, compared with 83 in 2007, and police agencies in the county, while thankful for the decline, don't know how to explain it. "We're not doing anything drastically differently this year than last year," said North Little Rock police spokesman Sgt. Terry Kuykendall, whose city saw a decline from 20 homicides in 2007 to nine last year. In Jacksonville, homicides rose from five in 2007 to eight last year, but police officials in that city don't know how to attribute the rise. "It's hard to say what you can chalk it up to," said Jacksonville police spokesman Capt. Charles Jenkins. "Homicide is one of those things that you can't prevent because you don't know what another person's motives are until they act."
Metro on 01/19/2019