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100 YEARS AGO June 3, 1918
Governor Brough of Arkansas last night addressed audiences of about 1,000 soldiers at Y.M.C.A. Building No. 38 on subjects pertaining to the war, making two speeches from the building’s open air platform. A large audience of infantrymen heard the first speech, after which four barracks of newly arrived men, still in quarantine, were brought over from their area adjoining the Y.M.C.A. The quarantined men were practically all Tennesseans. Although Governor Brough has spoken several times at Camp Pike, all former speeches were made in the auditorium, and last night’s were his first speeches in any of the Y buildings.
50 YEARS AGO June 3, 1968
WEST MEMPHIS — The body of Thomas Edgar Phillips, 46, of West Memphis was found off U.S. Highway 70 2.6 miles west of here. Officers said Phillips apparently was the victim of a hit-and-run driver. The body was found about 16 feet from the highway.
25 YEARS AGO
June 3, 1993 Owners of Little Rock homes, apartments and businesses stained with gang graffiti no longer have a choice on whether it stays or goes. It’s now a criminal offense to keep the graffiti on the building for more than 30 days after receiving a notice from the city. The city Board of Directors unanimously approved the law Tuesday. If a landowner cannot afford to remove the graffiti or is physically unable to do so, the city will remove it. If the owner can afford to remove the graffiti, but refuses to do so, the owner can be fined for failing to abate a nuisance, plus be ordered to pay the cost of the graffiti removal.
10 YEARS AGO June 3, 2008
A 21-year-old Little Rock man accused in two killings and facing a firearms charge in a third slaying was judged fit to stand trial on Monday, paving the way for proceedings in August and October. Defense attorney Bill James said he wouldn’t challenge findings by state doctors that James Darnell Cribbs is competent to stand trial on separate capital murder and manslaughter charges. According to the psychiatric report in the court files, Cribbs, a college student who had been majoring in criminal justice, told state doctors that he is innocent of all charges saying, “I feel the police have it out for me.” Cribbs is being held in lieu of bail pending trial.