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100 YEARS AGO May 4, 1920
EL DORADO — Max Miles, a local young man, was found lying across the bed dead by members of the family when they returned from church about 10 o’clock last night. The coroner’s jury did not specify the cause of his death The young man has not appeared despondent, it is said, although he was reported to have been in ill health following an attack of influenza contracted in France while in service.
50 YEARS AGO May 4, 1970
PINE BLUFF — Attorneys for the Salt Bayou District Commission said in a meeting here Sunday that if the state Game and Fish Commission does not pay its 1968 assessment for drainage improvements legal action will be taken.
25 YEARS AGO May 4, 1995
FAYETTEVILLE — Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Publisher Walter E. Hussman Jr. testified Wednesday that he will not battle entrenched competitors in Northwest Arkansas if the sale of the Northwest Arkansas Times withstands antitrust challenges. Hussman also said there are no similarities between the Little Rock newspaper war that ended in 1991 and the emerging battleground in Northwest Arkansas. Although Hussman conceded that he spent millions of dollars in the Arkansas Democrat’s victory over the Arkansas Gazette during the papers’ 17-year battle, he testified that he wouldn’t consider another newspaper war in Northwest Arkansas if the Times sale stands. Hussman’s testimony came in the third day of the antitrust trial of the sale of the Times to NAT, L.C., an Arkansas-based corporation controlled by members of the Stephens family of Little Rock. The sale is being challenged by Community Publishers Inc., the Bentonville publisher of the Benton County Daily Record, and the U.S. Department of Justice, both of which claim ownership of the Times by a Stephens corporate entity would create a newspaper and advertising monopoly in Northwest Arkansas.
10 YEARS AGO May 4, 2010
■ Gov. Mike Beebe on Monday declared 10 counties disaster areas on Monday as federal and state emergency management crews prepared to survey the damage caused by tornadoes that tore through the northern and central part the state Friday evening. At least eight tornadoes hit the state Friday evening, damaging more than 150 homes and several other buildings, including a fire station in Saline County’s East End community and a senior center in the Van Buren County community of Scotland. One person, Jan Lee of Scotland, died after being flung into a field. Other possible tornadoes were reported Saturday night in Woodruff and Prairie counties. The disaster declaration issued by Beebe on Monday covers Conway, Crittenden, Jackson, Lonoke, Mississippi, Poinsett, Pulaski, Saline, Stone and Van Buren counties, all of which were affected by tornadoes or flooding during the weekend storms.