100 years ago
June 10, 1914
HELENA -- The old bell which has sounded the public fire alarms in the city hall for years past has been removed and will probably be placed on the Jefferson school campus to serve as a signal bell. This, however, has not yet been settled. The removal of the bell was deemed advisable by Chief Moorman, because the tower was in a bad state of repair.
50 years ago
June 10, 1964
• The police department is considering the purchase of a chemical testing device to aid them in prosecution of individuals charged with driving while intoxicated, Ray Vick, police chief, said today. The device, called an intoximeter, found approval by both police and municipal court officials when it was demonstrated earlier this week. Present methods used by police to determine intoxication are a series of coordination tests that include finger to nose movements, how well a subject can walk a straight line, and their general appearance, Vick said.
25 years ago
June 10, 1989
• Woodruff County Sheriff Leon Creasy strode into a legislative committee room Friday morning and said he would get out of the drug enforcement business if state auditors required signed receipts from his undercover snitches. "When you work drugs, you work with crooks," Creasey told members of the Joint Legislative Audit Committee. "Drug informants don't take American Express, they don't take checks and they don't sign receipts." Creasey said he warned members of the Woodruff County Quorum Court three years ago that he would be unable to document how he spent the drug investigation money. Before receiving the county money, Creasey said he had been spending his personal funds to pay informants and finance drug buys.
10 years ago
June 10, 2004
• Nolan Richardson no longer wants his job back. But he does want close to $9 million from the University of Arkansas to compensate him for being fired as head basketball coach more than two years ago. That information was revealed Wednesday when attorneys on both sides of a lawsuit over that firing delivered 232 pages of arguments to a federal judge in Little Rock in hopes of steering his ruling in their direction. The filings followed 18 days of testimony by 44 witnesses in a month-long nonjury trial that ended last week except for closing arguments scheduled for next Wednesday.
Metro on 06/10/2014