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100 YEARS AGO Aug. 24, 1917

PINE BLUFF — The Jefferson county Grand Jury in its final report today complimented the management of the state convict farm at Tucker, but severely criticized the county convict farm, and declared the stockade “unfit even for dogs.” Circuit Judge W. B. Sorrells said all he could do was to refer the report to County Judge L. E. Check, who has jurisdiction over the county farm. He said he would urge the county judge to take steps to improve conditions.

50 YEARS AGO

Aug. 24, 1967 Clyde Griffin, 18, a convict from Tucker Prison Farm, escaped from the State Hospital in Little Rock about 7:30 a.m. Wednesday. Hospital spokesmen said Griffin had been there since Monday and that he was being given tests Wednesday when he jumped up and ran out of the building. Griffin was dressed in blue-green overalls and his left arm was handcuffed to a restraining belt. His right hand had been freed during the testing just before he escaped. City and state police units and sheriff’s officers carried on a search throughout the day in an area surrounding the State Hospital.

25 YEARS AGO

Aug. 24, 1992 VAN BUREN — Dr. Steven K. Wilson believes men should not have to live with impotence, most often caused by physical problems, and has established himself as an authority on penile implants. He performed the first such implant surgery in 1974, and in September 1991 he became the first physician to perform the surgery successfully in the former Eastern bloc. This summer and fall, he will train doctors in Mexico, Egypt, Israel and Italy. “The penile implant is the most natural correction of impotency that we have,” Wilson said recently. Wilson, a urologist, operates the Southwest Impotency Center, with offices in both Van Buren and Fort Smith. 10 YEARS AGO

Aug. 24, 2007

The parents of a Jacksonville toddler face murder charges in connection with the boy’s Aug. 16 death. Sharilyn Lopez, 27, pleaded innocent Thursday to charges of second-degree murder and acting as an accomplice in the death of 2-year-old Jaden Cotton. She was being held at the Pulaski County jail Thursday afternoon in lieu of a $200,000 bond, a jailer said. She is scheduled to appear in court Sept. 6. Jacksonville police arrested Lopez at her Little Rock Air Force Base home Wednesday, according to an arrest report. She works in transportation in the Air Force.