100 years ago
June 9, 1914
HARRISON -- The first case under the new stock ordinance came before Mayor Frow Saturday, when Ira Bailey was arraigned on a charge of intimidating a city officer. It was charged that Charles Fuson, one of the pound officers, found a horse belonging to Bailey running at large and started to seize it. The officer charged that Bailey resisted him and threatened to throw a rock at him if he took the animal. Fuson swore out a warrant against Bailey and he was arrested. Mayor Frow fined him $1 and costs.
50 years ago
June 9, 1964
PINE BLUFF -- Chancellor Lawrence Dawson, citing precedent set in the controversial Cude case, held today that children of members of an Arkansas County religious group must be vaccinated and sent to school. Dawson ruled in a suit filed by four adult members of the General Assembly and Church of the First Born of near DeWitt. They sued directors of the DeWitt School District No. 1 in an effort to invalidate a compulsory smallpox vaccination regulation. The suit stated that members of the sect believe that healing is accomplished by faith and prayer and that medicines should not be used on the body.
25 years ago
June 9, 1989
• Community activist Robert "Say" McIntosh used his wife's picture on a flier and represented it as a former aide to Rep. Tommy Robinson because the real aide looked too white, he said. In the flier, which was dated last Saturday, McIntosh alleged that former Robinson staffer Shelly Robinson had been fired when she asked for a pay raise. Robinson, D-Ark., has denied the accusation. Mrs. Robinson, who is not related to the congressman, has red hair, and McIntosh said, "I don't deal with women who look white. That's why I used a picture of my beautiful wife."
10 years ago
June 9, 2004
• Without addressing the merits of a lawsuit seeking to stop state-mandated school consolidations and annexations, a federal judge has declined to issue a temporary restraining order in the case. In an order signed Monday but not released until Tuesday, U.S. District Judge George Howard Jr. cited a technicality and vague, unsupported assertions in saying he cannot temporarily halt consolidation efforts. A temporary order would have merely stopped efforts until all parties in the case were served and a trial could be held to fully address the issues in the lawsuit.
Metro on 06/09/2014