100 YEARS AGO June 22, 1908 WOMBLE — G. O. Gilbert of New York City arrived here last night and is staying at the Hotel Caddo, the guest of the Womble Board of Trade. Mr. Gilbert is a member of the company that is contemplating building a road from Mena to Hot Springs by the way of this town.
50 YEARS AGO June 22, 1958 Federal Judge Harry J. Lemley of Hope granted the Little Rock School Board yesterday permission to suspend for two and one-half years the Board’s federal court-approved plan for gradual integration. He conceded that the Negro students in question had a constitutional right not to be excluded from public schools on account of race, but said the School Board had shown convincingly that the time for the enjoyment of that right had not come. He said this was a matter of good judgment and “does not, in our estimation, constitute a yielding to unlawful force or violence.”
25 YEARS AGO June 22, 1983 HOT SPRINGS — State labor union leaders, traditionally fervent opponents of higher sales taxes, were urged by Gov. Bill Clinton to “search your hearts and go home and look at your children” before taking a stand on a possible tax increase to support education.
10 YEARS AGO June 22, 1998 CABOT — Bud Holland had just returned home from a camping trip with his wife and two grandsons and was planning a Father’s Day with the boys and his two sons. But first he had to get the mail. Stuffed in the mailbox full of letters was a package, wrapped in brown tape covered in Kmart logos. “I saw the wires sticking out of it and got to feeling it,” he said. “And I thought this isn’t right.” A few hours later, U. S. Army bomb technicians from the Pine Bluff Arsenal destroyed Holland’s parcel, suspected to be the second package bomb found in central Arkansas in as many weeks.
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