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100 YEARS AGO

March 12, 1915

FORT SMITH — The grand jury is expected to take recess this afternoon after deciding upon a date for the purpose of investigating the alleged trust of Fort Smith and Little Rock wholesale grocers, in accordance with the charge of Judge Paul Little to the jurors when they convened a week ago Monday. It is understood that Prosecutor I.S. Simmons intends naming a special prosecutor to undertake this investigation.

50 YEARS AGO

March 12, 1965

State troopers fought a group of white and Negro students and forced them out of the state Capitol Thursday after the students had tried to eat in the segregated cafeteria in the Capitol basement. William W. Hansen Jr., a white field secretary for the Student Non-violent Co-ordinating Committee (SNCC), was injured slightly when troopers shoved him to the steps in the basement and wrestled him out of the building. His companions said a trooper hit him on the head with a riot stick during the scuffing.

25 YEARS AGO

March 12, 1990

MAUMELLE — Complaints about the unsightly appearance of junk cars and the work of “shade tree” mechanics in residential neighborhoods has prompted the Maumelle Board of Directors to consider several restrictions. A proposed amendment to the city’s nuisance ordinance would prohibit major repair work of automobiles on public or private property unless vehicles are parked indoors, such as in a garage. Also, cars that haven’t been in running condition for more than 30 days couldn’t be parked on public or private property.

10 YEARS AGO

March 12, 2005

Christi Bertram’s decision to skip the SAT college entrance exam this year was an easy one. Like most of her peers at Rogers High School, Bertram, a junior, decided to take the ACT Assessment after discovering that colleges to which she plans to apply favor results from that exam. “It’s more accepted from what I’ve heard,” said Bertram, 16, as she ate lunch with a table full of friends at the Rogers High School cafeteria this week. “In school, you hear more from the counselors, more announcements about [the ACT].” That’s the general opinion in Arkansas’ high schools, where most college-bound students opt to take the ACT, officials say.