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100 YEARS AGO March 26, 1918
HOT SPRINGS — Attention of the Arkansas State Council of Defense was called tonight to fake war reports, it is charged have been given wide circulation in this city, and which, it is alleged, have been coming over a private wire controlled by a firm of wellknown stock brokers. Prosecuting Attorney Berry H. Randolph tonight requested Hamp Williams, federal food administrator for the state, who is a member of the Council of Defense, to have the latter organization make an investigation of the wire. “In times like these, no information is better than misinformation,” said Mr. Randolph. “The sending and receipt of reports of this nature can be done with but one object in view, and that is to stimulate gambling in futures.”
50 YEARS AGO March 26, 1968
CAMDEN — Police Chief Vernon Cole said Monday that FBI ballistics tests would be made on the bullets taken from the body of Chipmun L. Chunn, 64, a Camden grocer, who was slain late Saturday night. Cole said that the murder might be connected with the shooting early Saturday of Bryan William Hewitt, 58, a North Little Rock service station attendant. The elderly Chinese merchant was shot three times with a .38 caliber weapon, the same caliber weapon used in the shooting of Hewitt in a $31.73 robbery. Chunn’s skull also had been crushed by blows from soft drink bottles and the bed in his living quarters at the store had been set on fire.
25 YEARS AGO March 26, 1993
Law enforcement officers stormed a house in west Little Rock early Thursday morning and arrested a man who allegedly kidnapped two Tulsa bank executives in a botched 1991 robbery attempt. Charles Bruce Nabors, 38, was arrested on federal racketeering and other charges at 4 a.m. A Little Rock police SWAT team and state and federal officers entered Nabors’ home at 22 Woodlore Circle with guns drawn and ordered him to lie on the floor. “He really is one of Arkansas’ more notorious characters,” said Michael Johnson, senior litigation council for the U.S. attorney’s office in Little Rock.
10 YEARS AGO March 26, 2008
Berryville’s longtime mayor said Monday that a small amount of marijuana police found in his pickup during a traffic stop over the weekend wasn’t his. Tim McKinney, 55, faces misdemeanor charges of driving while intoxicated, possession of a controlled substance and speeding. Arraignment is May 7. “I don’t use drugs,” said McKinney, who’s been mayor since 1990. “That marijuana was left there by another person. I’m hoping she’s going to step up and come forward and do the right thing.”