100 years ago
June 25, 1919
"Jonnie didn't look like any Venus in his blue bathing suit and aviator's cap and goggles as he dived into the river this afternoon; still I think he made a pretty good figure," said Lieut. V. U. Ayres concerning Lieut. C. E. Johnson of Eberts Field. With Lieutenant Ayres as pilot, Lieutenant Johnson did an entirely new stunt aviation about 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon. He made a dive of about 90 feet from an airplane just after Lieutenant Ayres, with his motor stalled as much as possible, had risen in the air after going under the free bridge.
50 years ago
June 25, 1969
• The Little Rock School Board filed a notice Tuesday in federal District Court that it would appeal to the United States Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals at St. Louis from three portions of Judge Gordon E. Young's decision in the Little Rock school desegregation case. They are: 1. The judge's order directing the School Board to engage in gerrymandering to place at least 80 Negroes in the Hall High School attendance zone. 2. The judge's modification of the Board's attendance zone plan to require the implementation of the so-called "Beta Complex" for the fall term of 1970. This is a consolidation of five elementary schools -- Franklin, Garland, Oakhurst, Stephens and Lee -- in the central part of the city to racially balance their enrollments. 3. The judge's requirement that the Board provide an opportunity for any student to transfer from a school where his race is in the majority to a school where his race is in the minority, provided space is available. Judge Young handed down his opinion May 8 approving the School Board's attendance zone plan for the elementary, junior high and high schools with the exception of the three changes ordered by the judge.
25 years ago
June 25, 1994
WASHINGTON -- With Congress stalled on crime legislation, Rep. Jay Dickey, R-Ark., is preparing his own plan that would allow public flogging and televised executions. Dickey, a freshman House member from Pine Bluff, plans to propose an eclectic crime bill that ranges from stiffer criminal penalties to heightened public visibility of criminal punishment.
10 years ago
June 25, 2009
• The Mount Holly Cemetery may seem like an unlikely tourist destination but thousands tramp around its headstones every year, seeking out the graves of an Indian chief's wife and the boy martyr of the Confederacy. The 166-year-old cemetery also draws those looking for the final resting places of early politicians and residents whose names are now attached to Arkansas counties. The graveyard, at 1200 Broadway in the Historic Quapaw Quarter, could end up more crowded this summer. The historic district is mentioned in the city's new brochure of Top 12 spots tourists must see on a trip to Little Rock. The Top 12 are grouped by location rather than ranked. Also making the list: The Clinton Presidential Center, the River Market District, Heifer International, downtown museums, MacArthur Park, the Mosaic Templars Cultural Center, the Central High School National Historic Site and visitor center, the state Capitol, War Memorial Park, the Arkansas River Trail and Pinnacle Mountain.
Metro on 06/25/2019