100 years ago
Sept. 15, 1914
• Of 370 votes cast in the Sixth ward yesterday, the polling place for which was in Justice of the Peace Meisner's office, 105 Spring street, 369 of the votes were by white men and the three hundred and seventieth vote was that of a negro. A peculiar feature of this was the fact that the negro's vote was the last vote cast before the polls closed. He being unable to read, asked for assistance in making out his ticket and George R. Brown, secretary of the Board of Trade, one of the judges, helped him to prepare his ballot. The negro, B. J. Malone, voted for every Republican candidate on the ticket, scratching every other party's candidates.
50 years ago
Sept. 15, 1964
• The Capital Citizens Council has turned its guns on Gov. Faubus because the governor announced his support of President Johnson. Amis Guthridge, president of the council, said in a prepared release, "Now comes the governor of Arkansas, Orval Faubus, with an incredible endorsement of Lyndon Johnson and Hubert Humphrey." He added, "The people wonder why." Since the 1957 integration crisis at Little Rock, the Capital Citizens Council had supported Faubus. The council's membership is comprised of segregationists. Now the council asked, "How could Gov. Faubus turn on (Barry) Goldwater?" who Guthridge said "is the man for whom the Southern people have prayed."
25 years ago
Sept. 15, 1989
JACKSONVILLE -- The federal Environmental Protection Agency has annulled $150,000 in Superfund grants to the Jacksonville People With Pride Clean-Up Coalition, the agency announced Thursday. "EPA has determined that Jacksonville People With Pride Clean-Up Coalition is not eligible to receive a Technical Assistance Grant," Allyn M. Davis, director of the Hazardous Waste Management Division in EPA's Region VI wrote in a letter Thursday to Rep. Mike Wilson of Jacksonville.
10 years ago
Sept. 15, 2004
• Arkansas is among 36 states scoring an F when it comes to providing an affordable college education for low- and middle-income students, a national report card released today has found. In Measuring Up 2004: The National Report Card on Higher Education, the independent, nonpartisan National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education grades the nation and the 50 states individually on areas such as college preparation, enrollment and graduation.
Metro on 09/15/2014