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100 YEARS AGO Jan. 24, 1918
The order of Dr. Garfield, national fuel administrator, that there should be two lightless nights a week has been supplanted by the order of the Pulaski County Fuel Administration that there shall be seven lightless nights a week. Mr. Garfield designated Sunday and Thursday nights for federal darkness. It is said the local administrators have not been so explicit in their order — any seven will suit them.
50 YEARS AGO Jan. 24, 1968
BATESVILLE — An Independence County Circuit Court jury Tuesday convicted Mrs. Ruth Estes, 28, of conspiring to take her two children out of the state after custody had been awarded to their grandparents. The all-male jury, which deliberated for about an hour, recommended to Circuit Judge Andrew Ponder that she be sentenced to six months. Mrs. Estes posted $4,000 appeal bond. Mrs. Estes and her former husband, Don Masner of Batesville, were divorced in November in 1959 and custody of the children, Terri Lynn, 9, and Toni Gayle, 8, was given to Masner’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bernice Masner, also of Batesville.
25 YEARS AGO Jan. 24, 1993
The presence of about a dozen abortion protesters failed Saturday to deter a coalition of abortion-rights activists from marking the 20th anniversary of Roe vs. Wade, the U.S. Supreme Court decision that legalized the procedure. But the protesters did cause a 20-minute delay when organizers from the Arkansas Coalition for Choice asked state Capitol security officers to make them leave the Capitol rotunda. Before the start of the group’s program, Dr. Virginia Vollmer of Little Rock challenged two male protesters to explain what they had done to eliminate the need for abortions.
10 YEARS AGO Jan. 24, 2008
A day after police arrested a man in the killing of 6-year old Kamya Weathersby, the girl’s mother said she suspects the gunmen were targeting her boyfriend. The boyfriend, Antoine Jones, had been friends with Kevin Banks, who is charged with capital murder in the death of Kamya. But both Kamya’s mother, Lashandria Washington, and Jones said in interviews Wednesday that they don’t know what prompted the shooting. “It shocked me,” Antoine Jones said. “I don’t understand why” the shooting happened.