100 years ago
July 22, 1916
FORT SMITH -- News was received from St. Louis today that the United States Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the decision of Judge Frank A. Youmans of the United States District Court of this city, and remanded the case of the Bache-Denman coal mine syndicate against the United Mine Workers of America, local, district and international officers and about 100 individuals.
50 years ago
July 22, 1966
HOT SPRINGS -- From her hospital bed here, Marjorie Lee Stobaugh, 19, Miss Morrilton, said Thursday that the knee injury she suffered Wednesday night during her talent act at the Miss Arkansas Pageant probably would keep her out of further pageant competition and might put an end to any dancing career. Miss Stobaugh, who won the first talent preliminary contest despite her accident, said "chances don't look very good" for her getting back into pageant competition.
25 years ago
July 22, 1991
• Hundreds of spectators lined the balconies Sunday at Park Plaza Mall in Little Rock to watch Tibetan Buddhist monks sweep up a sand painting they had labored over for two weeks. "I felt moved," said Bechung, a 32-year-old monk, after the "ceremony of impermanence" in which the sand painting, or mandala, was destroyed. "Sometimes we feel sad to destroy something so beautiful." The four monks, dressed in traditional red and yellow robes and large yellow headdresses, chanted and prayed for about 20 minutes before sweeping the colored sand into a pile and scooping it by hand into a ceramic urn.
10 years ago
July 22, 2006
• The end of most workplace smoking wafted slowly across Arkansas early Friday with many bar and restaurant patrons savoring a final drag. As the clock struck midnight Thursday, many bars and restaurants in Little Rock paid little attention to the new law, which bans smoking in most workplaces, as it took effect. Smokers continued puffing away in the wee hours of Friday. And nonsmokers didn't seem to mind terribly. A new state hot line -- set up to take reports of smoking violators -- was mostly silent with just one complaint on Friday. Still, Gov. Mike Huckabee celebrated the law, which he pushed through the Legislature, as an effort that will "change not only the face of Arkansas but change the space of Arkansas to one that is smoke-free."
Metro on 07/22/2016