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100 YEARS AGO May 3, 1917

■ Unless the government takes a hand in regulating the price of coal, it will be about 300 per cent higher next winter than it was last year, according to John F. Evans of the Consumers’ Coal Company. The advance in the price of coal already is far greater in proportion than the advance in foodstuffs, Mr. Evans said. Big lump coal that was purchased for $1.45 a ton last May is selling to dealers now at $3.25 and the prospects are that the advance will continue.

50 YEARS AGO May 3, 1967

■ George M. Reynolds, whose home is at Petit Jean Mountain, has been appointed to the Board of Advisers of the National Trust, the second Arkansan in recent months to be named to the Board. The first was Mrs. George Rose Smith of Little Rock, wife of an associate justice of the state Supreme Court. Mrs. Smith also is a member of the Arkansas Territorial Restoration Commission and has been active in the preservation of historic structures.

25 YEARS AGO May 3, 1992

■ U.S. Marshal Don Melton said he was surprised by a jury’s acquittal of four white police officers in the beating of Rodney King, but detests the resulting violence and anarchy. “The order of law must prevail,” Melton said Friday during an interview in which he confirmed that “some of our Special Operation Group members in Little Rock and support deputies” were sent to Los Angeles in response to the two days of rioting that followed the verdict. Melton’s comments about the acquittal echoed Republican administration views.

10 YEARS AGO May 3, 2007

■ A second man has been arrested in North Little Rock’s sixth homicide of the year. Late Wednesday morning, North Little Rock police detectives arrested Isiah Dobbins III, 24, of 2208 Moss St. at his home. Earlier, detectives had received a warrant for Dobbins’ arrest on charges of first-degree murder. On April 28 at about 10:30 p.m., police were called to 23rd and Moss streets by someone saying he had been robbed. There, they found Stacy Spaul, 34, of Little Rock lying in the street. Spaul was unconscious and was pronounced dead after being taken to the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences hospital, police said.