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100 YEARS AGO June 10, 1917

While working over a scaling pit at the sawmill of Brown & Hackney, in Factoria addition, William Lenox, aged 17, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Lenox, 1804 Maple St., Argenta, became overbalanced and fell 18 feet into the pit, breaking his neck and crushing his chest, at 4 o’clock yesterday afternoon. He died instantly. Young Lenox had been working at the mill about two months. He was a log sealer. He graduated several years ago from the Argenta grammar school and is also a graduate of Draughon’s Business College of Little Rock.

50 YEARS AGO June 10, 1967

HOT SPRINGS — Fred M. Vinson, chief assistant United States attorney general, Friday called on Arkansas to upgrade its correctional institutions and its judicial system. Vinson, speaking at the final session of the Arkansas Bar Association’s annual meeting, said neither Arkansas nor the nation could afford any longer to send a person to jail “and just forget about him.” “This picture is all too often of the juvenile delinquent, who becomes a misdemeanant, who later becomes a felon and who later becomes a repeat felon,” Vinson said.

25 YEARS AGO June 10, 1992

A University of Arkansas at Little Rock student was electrocuted early Tuesday near the baseball field at Reservoir Park, 8501 Cantrell Road. The victim was identified as Adam Morris, 20, of 6 Palmetto Court in Little Rock. Police said the accident happened about 12:30 a.m., apparently after 17 young men had played an informal game of baseball. Witnesses told police that Morris was walking up a slope near the field when he stumbled. He grabbed a cable attached to a utility pole and was electrocuted.

10 YEARS AGO June 10, 2007

HOT SPRINGS — A dozen people on a roller-coaster were stuck upside-down 150 feet in the air for a halfhour Saturday after the Magic Springs & Crystal Falls amusement park in Hot Springs lost power. The X-Coaster’s two cars were at the peak of a giant loop, billed as the world’s highest inverted ride, when the park’s power failed at 4:55 p.m. One rider threw up after coming down and complained of neck pain and a headache. He was the only one requiring a trip to the hospital, a park spokesman said.