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100 YEARS AGO April 22, 1919
■ Adolph Hart pleaded guilty to being a retail liquor dealer without having paid the special tax in United States District Court yesterday and was sentenced to serve a year and a day in the federal penitentiary at Atlanta and fined $100. … J. S. Barkman, internal revenue officer, told of leading a raid on Hart’s store and home on Christmas Eve when 135 pints of whiskey were found in the store, 320 West Sixth Street, and 153 pints at the residence, 1501 College Street.
50 YEARS AGO April 22, 1969
RUSSELLVILLE — Two 17-year-old youths have been arrested in connection with the theft of a car and possession of narcotics, police said Monday. Officers said the youths were stopped for a routine check Saturday and a small quantity of narcotics was discovered on the front seat of their car. Further investigation revealed that the car had been stolen at knife point from a man near Hammond, Ind. Officers also discovered a large quantity of narcotics in the trunk of the vehicle.
25 YEARS AGO April 22, 1994
■ Large black bass from Lake Winona contain an unacceptable level of mercury, the state Department of Health said Thursday in issuing a fish consumption notice for the lake, one of Little Rock’s water supplies. No mercury has been detected in the lake’s water and the city’s drinking water is safe, both the Health Department and the Little Rock Municipal Water Works stressed in news releases. “We assure customers that our quality of drinking water is not in question,” said Don Morrow, Little Rock Water Works manager. The city’s Water Works provides drinking water, from Lake Winona and Lake Maumelle, to about 350,000 people in the Greater Little Rock area. Lake Winona is west of Little Rock in northwestern Saline County. The fish consumption notice covers only black bass longer than 16 inches, and not other fish or the lake water. The warning is intended for anyone who may eat more than two eight-ounce meals monthly of black bass longer than 16 inches from Lake Winona.
10 YEARS AGO April 22, 2009
■ Little Rock city directors threatened Tuesday to sue the operators of the BFI Landfill next week unless they stop accepting and using shale drilling waste to cover trash at the southwest Little Rock site. The city has received numerous complaints about odor and environmental concerns at the landfill. Landfill operators have been working to mitigate a diesel odor suspected of coming from the drilling waste since last week when the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality notified them of several violations. The waste is a byproduct from drilling natural gas wells and is a mixture of ground rock and drilling fluid that has most of a diesel additive extracted. Landfills can use it in place of regular soil as a method to cover trash. Using alternative cover material such as the shale drilling waste takes up less space in a landfill than using uncontaminated dirt. ADEQ last week found that the BFI Landfill, owned by Allied Waste, had applied the drill waste to an exterior southern slope when it should have been applied only to interior working areas. … The operators also have sent in a misting machine that will spray bubblegum, pine and citrus-smelling chemicals that are supposed to help neutralize the odors.