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100 YEARS AGO

June 5, 1915

LEWISVILLE — The new town of Mackinaw, Lafayette county, came into existence today, when the promoters, the Cotton Belt Land and Development Company sold and delivered 2,800 lots to a colony of settlers from Indiana. A special train from Indianapolis, bearing 110 speculators who are interested in the new town, spent the day there.

50 YEARS AGO

June 5, 1965

The Little Rock Housing Authority has bought the old brick building at the northwest corner of Second and Cumberland Streets formerly occupied by the Armour and Co. packing house for $ 80,000. The building will be demolished, starting probably in late July, according to Cliff Giles, the Authority’s Urban Renewal officer. The Authority also has bought seven pieces of property in the University Park Urban Renewal Project for $ 55,125.

25 YEARS AGO

June 5, 1990

Arkansas must refund to truckers up to $ 12 million in unconstitutional weight- distance taxes, the U. S. Supreme Court ruled Monday, ordering a refund much lower than the $ 159 million truckers were seeking. The high court limited the state’s refund liability and said Arkansas only had to repay taxes collected since June 1987, when the constitutionality of the act first was challenged. Truckers had asked the court to order a full refund of money and interest collected since the truck tax was imposed in 1983.

10 YEARS AGO

June 5, 2005

Major roads in the Little Rock region are in poorer shape than roads in many urban areas of similar size, costing motorists hundreds of dollars a year in upkeep and fuel, a national report has found. In terms of pavement quality, Arkansas’ largest metropolitan area has the ninth worst roads in a ranking of 57 metropolitan areas with populations between 250,000 and 500,000, according to the report, “Rough Roads Ahead” from TRIP, a national transportation research group in Washington, D. C. The rankings are based on data from the Federal Highway Administration’s 2003 survey of state transportation officials on the condition of major state and locally maintained roads. Thirty- six percent of roads in the Little Rock area were in poor condition, compared with a national average of 26 percent for urban areas of similar size, the report said.