Other days

100 YEARS AGO Aug. 3, 1918

PIGGOTT – Due to lack of rain in this section for the past several weeks, Clay county crops, without exception, are being injured by the drouth. Cotton has escaped with less injury than any other crop, but the cotton crop has been practically at a standstill for the past three or four weeks. Many promising war gardens have been hard hit by the dry, hot weather, and the usual plentiful supply of vegetables to be had at this time of the year is very noticeably absent.

50 YEARS AGO Aug. 3, 1968

MEMPHIS – Mayor Henry Loeb said Friday that Memphis city hospitals will stop treatment of indigent Arkansas patients — except in emergency cases — in 90 days. A letter to that effect, expressing “sincere regrets,” was mailed by Loeb Friday to Governor Rockefeller of Arkansas. Loeb said Arkansas officials had refused to help the city pay the cost of treating indigents at the city hospitals. Hospital officials said treatment of Arkansas patients who can’t pay was costing Memphis taxpayers about $200,000 a year.

25 YEARS AGO Aug. 3, 1993

Four county election commissions have not formally certified results of the July 27 special election for lieutenant governor, leaving a legal cloud hovering over today’s swearing-in ceremony for the winner, Mike Huckabee of Texarkana. In a meeting with Huckabee, Secretary of State Bill McCuen expressed concern about other postelection laws that are difficult to follow outside the parameters of a general election. The special election was the first statewide one since 1937. “I’m satisfied we’ll go forward with the ceremonial end of it,” Huckabee said of the scheduled swearing in.

10 YEARS AGO Aug. 3, 2008

The operators of Acambaro Mexican Restaurants are expected to change their innocent pleas this week on charges stemming from a December raid of the company’s restaurants across Northwest Arkansas. The raid was the first carried out by the Northwest Arkansas Regional Immigration Criminal Apprehension Task Force, a partnership between area law enforcement agencies and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Supporters of the task force’s creation said the raid is an example of how using local law officials to enforce federal immigration law is a rousing success. Those who objected to the task force, created in September under section 287(g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, said the raid proves all of their fears true.