100 years ago
June 30, 1920
• That the Constantine well near El Dorado, which now is yielding natural gas, eventually will bring in oil in paying quantities is the belief of the Constantine Oil and Refining Company officials, Judge N. C. Marsh of El Dorado, a legal representative said here yesterday. Judge Marsh said the time required to control the well cannot be estimated at this time.
50 years ago
June 30, 1970
• The Arkansas Supreme Court ruled Monday that Conway County Sheriff Marlin Hawkins could be made to an account for cash bonds that passed through his hands back to 1954, but it excluded many of the records that a group of taxpayers planned to use as evidence against him. Circuit Judge Bobby Steel of Nashville, who tried the case in 1968 as a special chancellor, held that Hawkins had failed to account for $7,893.26 that he received as cash bonds from traffic law violators in the year 1963 through 1966, and would have to pay the sum into the county's treasury.
25 years ago
June 30, 1995
• Stargazers in Central Arkansas have two brief opportunities this weekend to see the shuttle Atlantis and the Russian space station Mir fly linked together. The two craft, with six astronauts and four cosmonauts aboard, joined Thursday night in the first linkup between U.S. and Russian spacecraft since the Apollo-Soyuz mission in 1975. The spacecraft, which will fly connected for five days, will be visible to the naked eye tonight and Saturday night. John Williams, UALR planetarium director, said the sky show will be visible briefly tonight at 10:37 p.m. in the western sky.
10 years ago
June 30, 2010
PINE BLUFF -- Pine Bluff officials will introduce the city's first female police chief at a news conference today, 3½ months after Mayor Carl Redus terminated former Chief John Howell for insubordination. Brenda Davis-Jones, who most recently served as police chief and environmental safety director at Fort Valley State University in Georgia, will be introduced at 3 p.m. in the Sadler Room at the Pine Bluff Convention Center. "You've always heard me say I'm looking for good leadership, and I got the best leader I could find," Redus said Tuesday. "It was a very difficult decision, but our search committee kept going back to her. We all recognized the fact that she is a quintessential law enforcement official dedicated to her profession."