100 YEARS AGO July 23, 1913
That the water being supplied Little Rock consumers by the Arkansaw Water Company still is unfit for use without being boiled was demonstrated yesterday when an analysis by Dr. O. K. Judd, city health officer, showed the presence of 75 percent gas. The samples examined were taken from mains on Broadway and a main running by the Rock Island depot. These two mains, however, explained Dr. Judd, are “blind,” and are being flushed, so that normal conditions are expected to prevail there within a brief period.
50 YEARS AGO July 23, 1963 BENTON - A youth who was charged with hazardous driving was sentenced to walk home from court by Municipal Judge Joe Purcell here yesterday. Dwayne Shell, 19, of Benton, son of Street Commissioner Tom Shell, was told by Purcell to walk home from court, a distance of about 5 miles. Purcell said, “you are going to have to learn to start walking. Don’t move that car and don’t ride with anyone.” Purcell revoked Shell’s driver’s license for an indefinite period of time.
25 YEARS AGO July 23, 1988
Pulaski County was forbidden Friday from addingbunks to existing jail cells to help the sheriff’s office cope with chronic inmate overcrowding. U.S. District Judge George Howard Jr. rejected the grounds Sheriff Carroll Gravett cited April 28 in asking for an order allowing “double bunking” at the jail. Gravett blamed overcrowding at the jail on the state prison system’s inability to accept inmates sentenced to incarceration there and on fluctuating civil and criminal commitments from county courts. The judge ruled, however, that both those problems existed in April 1985 when he issued the consent decree under which the facility is being operated.
10 YEARS AGO July 23, 2003
Little Rock voters responded with an emphatic no Tuesday to a proposed half-percent sales tax increase that would have channeled millions toward mending the city’s crumbling streets. “They said no in a big way,” said former City Director Larry Lichty, chief advocate of the tax increase. “The loser is the city of Little Rock. It was a valid, worthy and meritorious proposal.” The measure was expected to generate up to $100 million over five years for infrastructure repair and upgrades. A citizens committee would have advised the city on how to spend the money.
Northwest Arkansas, Pages 8 on 07/23/2013