100 years ago
July 5, 1916
TEXARKANA -- "I am now out hunting chill tonic for the governor," was the written message left in a cell in the county jail by W. D. May after he had been liberated today on a pardon issued by Gov. George W. Hays upon a petition setting forth that Mays had committed a theft after taking an overdose of chill tonic. Mays was convicted last week of a charge of grand larceny and sentenced to one year in the penitentiary.
50 years ago
July 5, 1966
• The University of Arkansas is buying a home, costing in the neighborhood of $50,000, for its vice president for health sciences, the chief administrator of the Medical Center at Little Rock. The home, which is nearing completion, is at 17 Athena Court in Leawood Manor, which is west of Mississippi Avenue. This is a precedent because the University does not furnish homes for its four vice presidents at Fayetteville.
25 years ago
July 5, 1991
• "Something must be done" about dioxin poisoning at the old Vertac Chemical Inc. plant at Jacksonville, a federal judge ruled last week in an order permitting a 360-hour test burn of potentially hazardous wastes stored there. But, U.S. District Judge Stephen M. Reasoner found, environmental groups opposed to the test burn "do not appear to have any clear plan for what that 'something might be.'"
10 years ago
July 5, 2006
• Terry Beck captures photographs of children at bat, running bases or waiting patiently in the outfield. The Sherwood resident doesn't see anything wrong with taking photographs of children and selling them on his Central Arkansas Photography Web site. But Sherwood park officials have for a year now declined to let Beck take photos in the city's parks because they say they are uncomfortable with him displaying children's photographs online. "Ten years from now, we may all be doing business like that. But right now, people are uncomfortable with doing this, putting photos on the Internet," Sherwood Park Director Sonny Janssen said.
Metro on 07/05/2016