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100 YEARS AGO April 8, 1918
PLAINVIEW — Will Smith, aged 55, was fatally injured yesterday when he was thrown from his wagon. His skull was crushed. He died early this morning. His team was frightened while standing at the seedhouse and started on a mad gallop down the incline. The wagon turned over. Smith fell out, his head striking on a sharp rock.
50 YEARS AGO April 8, 1968
About 100 Negroes, led by a group of ministers and sign-carrying youths, marched Sunday afternoon to City Hall and left a floral wreath in memory of the slain Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The group then marched on the sidewalk to the First Baptist Church at Ninth and Locust Streets for a memorial service that featured a tribute to the civil rights leader by Dr. Ernest T. Dixon Jr., president of Little Rock’s Philander Smith College. The march and memorial were organized by the North Little Rock Pastors Fellowship, which is headed by Dr. H. Solomon Hill, president of Shorter College.
25 YEARS AGO April 8, 1993
A legislative committee defeated an attempt Wednesday to amend the state Department of Health appropriation to prohibit its money from being used by an agency that makes referrals for or provides abortions. House Bill 2011 was returned by the House to the Joint Budget Committee for concurrence in a compromise House amendment adopted Tuesday. That amendment, which the budget committee approved, would require public school students wishing to receive condoms at the department’s school-based health clinics to have “specific” written permission from their parents.
10 YEARS AGO April 8, 2008
A former Arkansas Game and Fish Commission agent testified Monday that the North Little Rock man who he says shot him last year put the pistol within inches of his face while they struggled. Phillip William Kelly is charged with attempted capital murder, accused of shooting Daniel Matthew Flowers in the chest in November. Flowers, who was a Game and Fish officer at the time, was saved by his bullet-resistant vest. Flowers described the shooting publicly for the first time Monday during an evidence-suppression hearing before Pulaski County Circuit Judge Marion Humphrey.