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100 YEARS AGO July 22, 1918
Virginia Thomas, white woman, was arrested at Forest Park late Saturday night by Patrolman Smith on a charge of vagrancy. Beth Stoker and Ruth Smith were arrested at a West Second street hotel on the same charge. All three were held in default of bond. Margaret Jones and a soldier were arrested at a West Markham street hotel Saturday night on a charge of immorality. Helen Cobb and a soldier were also arrested. May Clay and a civilian were arrested at Eighth and Main, in a rooming house, last night by Sergeant Whitlock and Motorcycle Patrolman Prewitt. All of the women are white. The Clay woman furnished bond and was released. The others were locked up.
50 YEARS AGO
July 22, 1968
A vacation trip to the coast of Florida 10 years ago is now leading Dr. David M. Yocum, 46, an El Dorado surgeon, and his son David, 18, to an underwater expedition off the Mexican Coast in search of Spanish gold and silver. The Yocums left a week ago to spend two weeks with 8 Americans and 10 Mexican explorers on the Alacran Reef, the silent enemy of Spanish treasure vessels that sailed the Gulf of Mexico during the times of Cortes’ Conquest in the 1500’s. The gold and silver the explorers hope to find would become the property of the Mexican government, the doctor said.
25 YEARS AGO
July 22, 1993 WASHINGTON — U.S. Surgeon General nominee Joycelyn Elders supported a decision to withhold knowledge that defective condoms were distributed under an Arkansas Department of Health program. The condoms tested defective, and the federal government considered a court order to seize them. Elders has been a vocal supporter of condom distribution, including in the schools. Government documents obtained by the Associated Press show the state was distributing more than one million condoms a year.
10 YEARS AGO
July 22, 2008
A federal agency has ordered Arkansas to stop testing it’s 49,000 probationers and parolees for drugs, saying the state’s Department of Community Correction lacks the proper certification. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid services say the tests require certification under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988. The Department of Community Correction, which regularly tests probationers and parolees for drug use, doesn’t have a certificate.