100 years ago
May 14, 1920
• The Camp Pike library soon will receive several new books, according to Miss Ruman McManus, department librarian for the Southeastern Department. Miss McManus has been in Camp Pike since last Tuesday on a survey of conditions at the camp library. She said that when the American Library Association turned over its books and libraries to the government last year, about 40,000 books were allotted to the Southeastern Department and they were to be distributed among the posts in the department. She said that about 1,500 had already been sent to Camp Pike, but more would be sent in the near future.
50 years ago
May 14, 1970
• The United States Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals at St. Louis rejected Wednesday the geographic attendance zones used by the Little Rock School District. It said the zones "as drawn tend to perpetuate rather than eliminate segregation." The Court, in a 5-2 decision, sent the Little Rock school desegregation case back to federal District Court at Little Rock with instructions to have the School Board prepare a new desegregation plan and implement it no later than the beginning of the 1970-71 school year.
25 years ago
May 14, 1995
• Motherhood made Anna Moore a high school dropout, but Saturday she put her dreams back on track. Moore, 17, of Jacksonville received her Arkansas High School Diploma -- as the GED is now called here -- along with 139 other graduates at a ceremony at Shorter College on Saturday. Moore works as a supermarket cashier but hopes to study pediatric nursing at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas, or the University of Central Arkansas in Conway. "I didn't know I could pass my tests, but I passed them all the first time I took them," said Moore. "And I feel good."
10 years ago
May 14, 2010
• Sometimes, Scott Reed can't sleep at night. The homebuilder gets caught up thinking about the hundreds of abandoned houses in Little Rock's older neighborhoods that he wants to rehabilitate into energy efficient homes that even recent college graduates can afford. "I drive around this neighborhood and all I see is opportunity," the 33-year-old said while standing outside a vacant house at 3311 Bishop St. on Thursday. Reed is using a $1.8 million loan from the Arkansas Development Finance Authority to restore the boarded-up house and 12 other vacant houses into rental properties over the next two years. The tax-free loan -- federal stimulus dollars he applied for through a competitive process -- also will help the Little Rock newcomer build 17 rental houses on tax-delinquent lots purchased from the state land commission.
Metro on 05/14/2020