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Posted on Sunday, July 6, 2008
URL: http://www.nwanews.com/adg/News/230542/
100 YEARS AGO
July 6, 1908 PINE BLUFF — While reading a paper in a front room of his home three miles south of this city on the Warren road, Albert McVay, a prominent cotton dealer of the county, was shot by an assassin, whose identity is unknown. Was the shooting tonight the starting of a feud between two prominent families ? This question has been discussed freely here tonight and many have expressed the opinion that the shooting may have been done by some friend of Ben Hardy, who was shot and killed by John McVay, a brother of Albert McVay. 50 YEARS AGO
July 6, 1958 MORRILTON — Gov. Faubus charged that Negro leaders had refused to accept the Thomas Plan for settling the Little Rock school integration crisis “because they are making too much money out of it.” The governor added, “Every Negro attorney in Arkansas is on the payroll of the NAACP and Daisy Bates is too. That’s why they don’t want to settle this thing.” The Thomas Plan, advanced several months ago by Little Rock insurance executive Herbert L. Thomas Sr., called for appointment of an interracial commission to help school districts progress voluntarily toward desegregation. It was rejected by the state Board of Education and Gov. Faubus never committed himself on it. Today at Newport he said Thomas had offered a plan “to permit both races to live together in harmony.” 25 YEARS AGO
July 6, 1983 Gov. Bill Clinton said that he would ask Attorney General Steve Clark to go to court to try to stop Oklahoma from charging the same taxes to Arkansas-based heavy trucks that Arkansas charges all heavy trucks. Clark said he would decide whether to do that after he determines just what Oklahoma is doing and whether it is actually retaliation, which he said is clearly unconstitutional. 10 YEARS AGO
July 6, 1998 About 40 members of the Pilgrim Rest Missionary Baptist Church faithfully came to church Sunday morning, only to find the brick building gutted, sooty and cloaked in the lingering stench of smoke, victim of illegally launched fireworks.