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100 YEARS AGO July 30, 1919
JONESBORO – The resignation of V. C. Kays, president of the Agricultural School at Jonesboro, was demanded in resolutions adopted at a mass meeting of about 700 persons here tonight. The resolutions also set forth that the people of Jonesboro and Craighead county were opposed to any further road legislation at the hands of the legislators now assembled in special session… President Kays was not present and late tonight a copy of the resolutions had not reached him. The resignation of J. A. Blackford from the Board of Trustees of the school also was asked. Men at the meeting said that the grievance against Mr. Kays was due to the road legislation passed at the last session. Mr. Kays is road commissioner on some of the work authorized. Complaint is made that the roads authorized do not meet the approval of the property owners of Jonesboro and those in the county whose property is affected.
50 YEARS AGO July 30, 1969
■ Two persons were arrested about 9 p.m. Tuesday when the police broke up a crowd at Sixth and Harrington Streets, where petitions demanding all-Negro police patrols in the East End were being circulated. The police said a homemade firebomb was thrown under a patrol car just after the arrests were made… Sgt. L. L. Shemwell said the firebomb– a softdrink bottle filled with kerosene and stoppered with toilet tissue– was thrown from the crowd at his car as he was moving slowly north on Harrington after the arrests were made. He said the firebomb rolled under the patrol car and burned in the street for a few minutes. The person who threw it could not be found, he said.
25 YEARS AGO July 30, 1994
■ About 200 employees of American Transportation Corp. returned to work Friday as officials tried to determine the cause of a fire that heavily damaged the school bus plant. Employees in several paint, finishing, maintenance and utility areas began working Friday, AmTran President Bill Bankston said. He anticipated another 50 to 75 employees in the chassis assembly area would be called back Monday… A fire that began in the wood shop damaged about 25 percent of the 700,000 square-foot plant Wednesday night and left some 1,200 employees wondering about their jobs.
10 YEARS AGO July 30, 2009
JANE, Mo. – Arkansas Tobacco Control agents have periodically checked retail stores across the Missouri state line from Bella Vista since March 1, when Arkansas raised its cigarette tax by $5.60 per carton, but so far they’ve seen no smuggling of cigarettes. “I’ve not seen anything that looked anywhere close to a misdemeanor or felony,” Bill Holohan told Glenn Redding on Tuesday as the two Arkansas enforcement agents talked… “I haven’t seen much tobacco come out at all.” “I don’t think we’ve got much bootlegging going on,” Redding replied, referring to the transportation of untaxed cigarettes… Missouri has the second-lowest cigarette tax in the country, at $1.70 per carton. In Arkansas, the total state tax is $11.50 per carton, theoretically making a 10-pack carton of cigarettes about $10 cheaper in Missouri.