100 YEARS AGO June 29, 1913 BATESVILLE - The first enforcement on the White river division of the law of drinking intoxicating liquor on a train was the arrest and fining of Tom Murray of Joplin, Mo., yesterday morning in Batesville. The young man was accused of continually worrying a party of attorneys by offering them a “drink from his bottle.” The attorneys complained to the conductor, who held Murray and turned him over to Sheriff Fike.
50 YEARS AGO June 29, 1963 The leader of the pro-manager forces in Jacksonville today blamed the defeat of the proposed change in governmental systems yesterday on a “psychological fear of change.” Harry K. Dougherty, chairman of the Better Government Committee of Jacksonville, said the fear “had a definite part in defeating” the city manager plan. “The people of Jacksonville have definitely shown their choice between the two,” Dougherty said. The final count in yesterday’s special election showed 320 votes were cast against it. The total of 1,100 votes was a record for a special election in Jacksonville.
25 YEARS AGO June 29, 1988
Nearly two-thirds of the Little Rock eighth-graders who took version two of the state’s Minimum Performance Test in June failed and will attend summer school beginning today to prepare for a third test in August. A total of 256 Little Rock eighth-graders took the test and 92 passed, which is 36 percent. Another 164 failed the test, which is 64 percent. Eighth-graders statewide are required to pass the five-part test in mathematics, reading, language arts, science and social studies, with a minimum score of 4,204.
10 YEARS AGO June 29, 2003
Army contractors began feeding thousands of pounds of chemical solvents into the weapon incinerator at the Pine Bluff Arsenal on Saturday - the first real trial of the $650 million plant. Military officials said it would take a few days before engineers could assess the incinerator’s performance, as tests were to continue over the weekend. The tests were designed to gauge whether the incinerator can safely destroy chemical-weapon agents when the Army begins burning the arsenal’s World War II-era stockpile sometime next year. More than 12 percent of the nation’s chemical weapons are stored in Pine Bluff. The chemical weapons are scheduled to be destroyed by 2010.
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