100 years ago
June 24, 1919
CAMDEN -- For 90 days the residents of Camden have maintained a boycott against the Southwestern Bell Telephone Company, which conducts the only telephone exchange here. The situation is at a deadlock. Neither side will surrender. The company expects to weather the storm, while a majority of the people say that they will never use the phones again unless the company grants the demands made upon it. The boycott was declared at a mass meeting as a means of securing the reinstatement of nine striking operators.
50 years ago
June 24, 1969
EUREKA SPRINGS -- Carroll County Judge Arthur Carter has applied for a federal grant to build a road from U.S. Highway 62 to the site of the Passion Play and the Christ of the Ozarks statue. Estimated cost of the road is $227,500, of which 20 percent would be paid by the county. The proposed road would follow the present one, which begins on Highway 62, continues past the Passion Play amphitheater, the Christ Only Art Gallery and the statue and then joins state Highway 23 north at the city limits of Eureka Springs. Officials here are predicting that at least 2,000,000 persons will be visiting the three tourist attractions annually by 1970. About 30,000 attended the short opening season of the Passion Play late last year. The present road is not wide enough for two cars to pass in certain places and does not retain the blacktop the county applies each year.
25 years ago
June 24, 1994
WASHINGTON -- Some angry House Republicans called Thursday for Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders' resignation after her remarks about Christian groups. A letter to President Clinton signed by 78 GOP members said Elders should step down because her comments "clearly serve to divide Americans rather than unite us." Elders attacked the "un-Christian religious right" Wednesday for opposing sex education programs and AIDS awareness programs. She made the comments in New York before the Lesbian and Gay Health Conference. Elders, a former Arkansas Health Department director and Little Rock physician, said religious groups are hurting children by opposing the education efforts. "We've got to be strong to take on those people who are selling our children out in the name of religion," Elders said. Her remarks irritated her vocal critics on Capitol Hill, who have been upset about her views on distribution of condoms in schools and her suggestions about studying legalizing drugs.
10 years ago
June 24, 2009
• Little Rock will receive a $1.9 million federal stimulus fund grant to build a four-lane extension of East Ninth Street to improve access to central Arkansas' largest manufacturer, U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke announced Tuesday. The long-sought money is the final piece to move the project forward, area civic leaders said. The city already had obtained $2 million in state economic aid and has another $800,000 available through the accelerated repayment of a loan to the airport. ... The four-lane road, in the short term, will ease the way for the hundreds of employees, contractors and suppliers who go in and out of the Dassault Falcon Jet complex daily.
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