100 years ago
May 13, 1914
STUTTGART -- The City Council has passed an ordinance making the penalty for convicted "blind tiger" liquor dealers a minimum of $50 and a maximum of $200 fine or a jail sentence of thirty days, or both. The new administration has announced determination to do away with this class of citizens, and in the past week Mayor J. E. Ray has sentenced five men convicted on this charge to pay fines of $100 and costs, and in one case gave a defendant 30 days in addition to the fine.
50 years ago
May 13, 1964
A resolution to bar Negroes from holding any office in the Little Rock PTA Council is in abeyance until a future meeting. The resolution was offered Tuesday after Mrs. Frank Gordon was installed as the new council president along with other newly elected officers. The resolution contended that "controversial proposals or suggestions made by members of the 1964-65 executive committee have caused much dissension, unsatisfaction and ill will between the council and many of its member units." It also said that a Negro PTA Council "is actively functioning in Little Rock" and that the "Little Rock White Council of Parent Teacher Associations will not elect, appoint or accept any office, committee chairman or cochairman who is not a member of the Caucasian (white) race."
25 years ago
May 13, 1989
BENTON -- A Benton teenager took a friend for a Thursday evening drive -- 72 miles away -- to Bearden in Ouachita County. Jason Gibson, 13, and Jeff Watts, 8, left Benton in a 1970 Ford pickup truck about 6:30 p.m. Thursday, according to police. Jason had driven the truck once before -- in a pasture while the family was on a fishing trip. The boys -- and the truck -- were found unscathed by a Bearden woman who telephoned their parents Friday afternoon, police said. By 5 p.m. Friday, the parents were headed to Bearden to bring the boys home.
10 years ago
May 13, 2004
• Arkansas school districts will be responsible for getting results of students' body mass index tests to parents because the nonprofit organization overseeing the initiative can't pay for the postage. The Arkansas Center for Health Improvement has coordinated the state's effort to calculate the body mass index of 450,000 Arkansas students. The Little Rock-based nonprofit can't afford $166,500 in postage to send the reports through first-class mail, said Joy Rockenbach, director of the center's BMI initiative.
Metro on 05/13/2014