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100 years ago

Aug. 19, 1917

FORT SMITH -- A gun pointer in the United States navy, now on duty on an armed merchantman, writing his mother here, describes thrilling adventures with German submarines in the war zone on a voyage over about the middle of July. On the ninth day out from America a submarine suddenly came up close beside the merchantman, too close for use of its deck gun or torpedo tubes. The gun crew also was unable to attack, but a member of the gun crew picked up a bomb and dropped it on the submarine, causing an explosion which sank the enemy.

50 years ago

Aug. 19, 1967

• The state of Arkansas owes a total of about $5,500 in income tax refunds to 401 persons and it would like very much to pay them. The Revenue Department has the vouchers ready and will send them to the refund-deserving taxpayers -- if the proper address can be determined. Ben D. Rowland Jr., director of the Income Tax Division, said most of the vouchers had been returned because of incorrect mailing addresses -- many of them given by professional return preparers who assumed the taxpayer lived in the same town as those who prepared the returns.

25 years ago

Aug. 19, 1992

FAYETTEVILLE -- Just after being sentenced to 170 years in prison for raping and photographing young boys, a Fayetteville man ran into traffic Tuesday in an apparent suicide attempt while leaving the courthouse. Witnesses said James A. Richardson, 40, was tackled on U.S. 71 in downtown Fayetteville by a reserve sheriff's deputy after Richardson ran in front of a vehicle that the off duty deputy was driving. Sheriff Kenneth McKee said Richardson also bit himself on the wrist, causing a large bruise, but no medical attention was needed. "He dashed out in front of me and I think I slid about 20 feet in my truck trying to avoid hitting him," the reserve officer, Kenneth Fitch, 23, of Prairie Grove (Washington County) said Tuesday. Fitch said Richardson was yelling for someone to shoot and kill him.

10 years ago

Aug. 19, 2007

• When giving away groceries to low-income people in Carroll County, volunteers at Berryville's Loaves and Fishes Food Bank try to let their clients know they might also be eligible for food stamps. But many of the families picking up potatoes, powdered milk and other staples aren't necessarily eager to sign up, said Sara Hodgson, the charity's executive director. "One complaint I've heard consistently is they get such a small amount, $10 or $15 a month," Hodgson said. "It's like, 'Why bother?'" Carroll County had the lowest participation in Arkansas in the federal food stamp program in 2004, according to a study released last week by the nonprofit National Priorities Project.

Metro on 08/19/2017

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