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100 YEARS AGO Feb. 7, 1918
TEXARKANA — A private reached here yesterday from one of the army camps en route on a short furlough to visit relatives at a neighboring town. Soon after his arrival he got “tanked up” and while in this condition concluded that he would “promote” himself. Accordingly he procured the stripes and leggins of a lieutenant, in which he togged himself, and he was about to continue his journey when the police took charge of him. After a little grilling he confessed his deception, but said it was “just to have a little fun out of the home folks.”
50 YEARS AGO Feb. 7, 1968
Maj. William Struebing, head of the State Police Criminal Investigation Division, said Tuesday that his investigation of the Rockefeller assassination report was continuing and might be “for a long time to come.” Last week, Governor Rockefeller announced that the case had been closed because the State Police had told him that Zakar Garoogian, that source of the report, “was irresponsible.” Since then Police Chief Melvin James of San Angelo, Texas, where Garoogian is in jail in several theft charges, has said that Garoogian checked out true in lie detector tests.
25 YEARS AGO Feb. 7, 1993
A bill that would allow Arkansans to obtain permits to carry concealed weapons was introduced recently by a state senator. Senate Bill 206, sponsored by Sen. Bill Walters of Greenwood (Sebastian County), would allow the Arkansas State Police to issue licenses to qualified people to carry concealed pistols or revolvers. “The intent is that most of the states — about 40 other states — have gun permits. We don’t have any kind of law in Arkansas that allows an individual, under any circumstances, to carry a firearm or a pistol or a weapon,” Walters said recently.
10 YEARS AGO Feb. 7, 2008
A twice-convicted Little Rock sex offender was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday for raping a 9-year-old girl, infecting her with a painful sexually transmitted disease that can cause sterility if untreated. Pulaski County jurors deliberated about 2 1/2 hours before returning the guilty verdict against 31-year-old Billy Joe Kelley Jr. The life sentence on the rape charge was mandatory because of Kelley’s previous convictions for sex offenses: a 2004 conviction for second-degree sexual assault and a 1996 conviction for first-degree sexual abuse.