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100 YEARS AGO March 24, 1917
HOT SPRINGS — The biggest racing card in the South for the present season is the claim of the Oaklawn management for the program here tomorrow. Among the entries will be some of the most talked of horses in the country, who will run in special events arranged for Oaklawn’s biggest day. The chief race of the day, and the one in which most interest centers, is a special handicap in which Old Rosebud, the pride of the Applegate barn, and the comeback of the present meet, will compete with Panzareta, the Newman mare that held the track record for six furlongs until this week, when Brumley clipped a fifth of a second from the mark.
50 YEARS AGO March 24, 1967
Attorney General Joe Purcell filed suits Thursday in Pulaski Circuit Court to revoke the charters of four more private clubs at Hot Springs. Purcell said illegal gambling had been observed in the clubs by the State Police. The petitions were against Citizen’s Social Club, The Ohio Club, Rex’s Steak House Club and the Business and Professional Men’s Club, also known as the Black Orchid.
25 YEARS AGO March 24, 1992
The Little Rock School District was ordered Monday to pay more than $ 280,000 — about half the previously ordered amount — in legal fees and costs to a group of former desegregation attorneys headed by Philip Kaplan. The order by a three- judge panel of the 8th U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed U. S. District Judge Susan Webber Wright’s Feb. 6, 1991, finding that the Kaplan group was entitled to more than what it originally received for work between 1982 and 1987 in the Pulaski County school desegregation lawsuit.
10 YEARS AGO March 24, 2007
A last- ditch attempt to find common ground on competing animal- cruelty legislation has failed. Two bills are pending in the Legislature to establish the state’s first felony animal- cruelty statute, one favored by animal- rescue groups and the other favored by farm and ranch organizations. It’s widely believed that Senate Bill 777, favored by Humane Society organizations, will have trouble getting out of the farmer- friendly House Committee on Agriculture, Forestry and Economic Development. Sen. Sue Madison, D- Fayetteville, sponsor of SB777, said she had some hope that she and other sponsors could reach a compromise with the Arkansas Farm Bureau, which opposes her bill. “It’s not looking good,” Madison said Friday.