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100 YEARS AGO Aug. 9, 1918
CAMDEN — The City Council at its last meeting appointed a committee to place concrete traffic posts at street intersections, with electric lights. Following a conference between H.C. Couch, president of the Arkansas Light and Power Company, ex-Mayor George R. Gordon, R.D. Newton and other citizens, over a proposed ordinance granting an increase in water and light rates, the council voted down the measure. It is said that the ordinance will be introduced again at an early date. Mr. Couch offered to turn the water and light plant over to the city during the war, to be operated at the city’s expense, provided the company was paid eight percent per annum on its investment. The council did not consider this offer.
50 YEARS AGO
Aug. 9, 1968
PINE BLUFF — Judge Gordon E. Young Thursday ordered the Gould School Board to eliminate any vestiges of a dual school system for its 274 white pupils and 548 Negro pupils in time for the opening of the fall term of school scheduled for September 2. The judge said that if the board failed to produce a plan of its own for a unified school system that it must assign pupils to the existing schools so that each class will have a similar ratio of white and Negro students.
25 YEARS AGO
Aug. 9, 1993
m President Clinton’s choices for United States attorney in Arkansas both have solid legal and Democratic Party credentials, though neither has extensive experience trying criminal cases. Paul K. Holmes III, 41, of Fort Smith, is the nominee for the Western District of Arkansas. Paula Jean Casey, 42, of Little Rock, was nominated for the Eastern District. Their nominations were announced Friday by the White House.
10 YEARS AGO
Aug. 9, 2008
HELENA-WEST HELENA — A neighborhood here is on police lockdown, all over a $6, or maybe $8, debt. The feud started earlier this week, when a man recently released from jail refused to pay the money back to a neighbor, residents and authorities said. A group of men jumped the ex-inmate and fired guns into the air and into homes, mostly after dark, residents and authorities said, prompting some people to sleep on the floors for fear of being struck by stray bullets. The man and his buddies retaliated — with guns, as well — turning the high crime neighborhood into what residents said sounded for a few nights like a combat zone. As a consequence, Mayor James Valley on Thursday called for a lockdown of the roughly 10-block neighborhood northwest of City Hall, in what was formerly West Helena.