100 years ago
June 29, 1917
POCAHONTAS -- Last night Sheriff Jackson took into custody Sam Walker, a Bohemian religious fanatic, on a charge of selling liquor. The officer had a tip that Walker was coming down Black river in a boat alone. He met him a few miles up the river and bought a quart of whiskey from him, then arrested him. He had a hearing this forenoon before Justice J. A. Douglas, and was held to the Grand Jury. In default of $1,000 bail he is in jail.
50 years ago
June 29, 1967
• Little Rock mail carriers who use trucks or three-wheeled mailsters distributed notices to patrons on their routes Tuesday and Wednesday asking them to take precautionary measures to prevent children from being hurt by postal vehicles. The notice recommended that children not be sent to get mail from the carrier, since it encourages them to congregate around a vehicle that is stopped for only a few seconds. It also said that children should not stand near rural-type boxes when the carrier approaches, and that children should not climb on postal vehicles.
25 years ago
June 29, 1992
• For Esther Grupenhagen and Mardell Haskins, both of California, the third time may be the charm. The two pilots are competing for their third win in the Air Race Classic, a cross-country air race for women first flown in 1929 and known for years as the Powder Puff Derby. The race, which stopped Sunday in Mena, is for fixed wing, single- or multi-engine airplanes with 145- to 570-horsepower engines. It is flown under visual flight rules in daylight only.
10 years ago
June 29, 2007
• A Pulaski County jury was too lenient on a North Little Rock man who gunned down his girlfriend's father and a friend in their bedrooms last year, the trial judge said Thursday after proceedings concluded. However, Circuit Judge Willard Proctor Jr. imposed the recommended 25-year sentence, saying he wanted to follow the "conscience of the community." Jurors concluded three days of trial Thursday by rejecting capital-murder charges against 28-year-old Anthony Terrell Johnson in favor of two first-degree murder convictions. The nine women and three men also recommended a 25-year sentence for Johnson on each charge, to be served concurrently. He could have gotten life.
Metro on 06/29/2017