Other days
100 YEARS AGO March 3, 1918
Playing at being a soldier proved a fatal game for Edgar Coats, aged 14, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Coats, of Casa, Ark., who was shot through the left knee Friday when a 16-gauge shotgun, in the hands of his brother, Willie, aged 8, was accidentally discharged. The boy was hurried to a Little Rock hospital Friday night and died at 8:30 yesterday morning.
50 YEARS AGO March 3, 1968
HOT SPRINGS — The Garland County Democratic Committee Saturday issued an 8-point policy statement largely critical of Governor Rockefeller’s administration and said it would set up an “active” County campaign headquarters. The Committee said the Rockefeller administration is “totally inadequate to administer the affairs of state, unworthy of belief, practices selective law enforcement deliberately and to the detriment of the state of Arkansas, misrepresents and ‘puffs up’ the Arkansas prison system for publicity purposes only.”
25 YEARS AGO March 3, 1993
The state should suspend collection of a new soft-drink tax because petitions have been filed to put the tax to a popular vote, the soft-drink industry said in court documents filed Tuesday. The legal maneuvering came one day after about 750 people, many of them employees of Arkansas bottling companies, staged a demonstration at the state Capitol protesting the tax. The tax, which amounts to 2 cents per 12-ounce can, took effect Monday. A hearing on a request for a temporary injunction is scheduled Friday by Pulaski County Chancellor Robin Mays.
10 YEARS AGO March 3, 2008
Four people were injured, including one who was shot by a police officer, during a gunfight early Sunday at a hookah club in North Little Rock’s Levy neighborhood. At least 40 to 50 people were at the After Night Hookah Cafe at 37th Street and Camp Robinson Road when the shooting began just after midnight, said Sgt. Terry Kuykendall, a spokesman for the North Little Rock Police Department. A hookah is a water pipe used to smoke herbs or flavored tobacco. A police officer who heard the shots and went to the club encountered a man with a gun in the parking lot and shot him, leaving him critically injured, Kuykendall said.