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100 YEARS AGO

March 31, 1917

OZARK — Mesdames T. Moore, R. H. Burrow and W. L. Haskew applied to Sheriff McIlroy to pay their poll tax yesterday. The sheriff replied to them, “If you will go to the county clerk and be assessed, as prescribed by law, I will then issue you a poll tax receipt and receive your $ 1.” The would- be voters then visited County Clerk Bollinger to be assessed, but the clerk said: “You will have to pay $ 1 each, a penalty, as a delinquent, as the law prescribes.” The women declined to be assessed, because they could not afford so high a cost of voting.

50 YEARS AGO

March 31, 1967

The House and Senate both stood their ground Thursday on the State Police appropriation bill ( HB 417) for the next biennium and final disposition of the matter was left until today. One house or the other will have to back down before adjournment sine die at noon today or the State Police won’t have any money to operate on beginning July 1.

25 YEARS AGO

March 31, 1992

Juvenile arrests for burglary in Jacksonville dropped by 64 percent in January compared with the same month a year ago, and authorities are giving the credit to a new curfew. “It’s very significant,” Jacksonville Police Chief Don Tate said Monday of the effects of the new law. “We feel like this law is having a dramatic effect on getting juveniles out of harm’s way. And it’s requiring some parents to be responsible that were lax in the past.” Since the law went into effect Dec. 8, 85 juveniles have been detained by city police for violating the curfew, Tate said. Only six juveniles have been repeat offenders.

10 YEARS AGO

March 31, 2007

CABOT — A circuit judge denied a motion for a mistrial Friday in the Lonoke corruption case after a convicted felon testified outside the jury’s presence that one of the three defendants asked him to kill both a prosecution witness and Lonoke County Prosecuting Attorney Lona McCastlain. The man said the co- defendant, Bobby Junior Cox, also asked him to set fire to McCastlain’s home and the Lonoke County courthouse. The statements came before the 17th day of open- court testimony resumed in the trial of Cox; former Lonoke Police Chief Jay Campbell; and his wife, Kelly Campbell.