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100 YEARS AGO Aug. 7, 1918

EUREKA SPRINGS– F.L. Allen, former deputy prosecuting attorney, was placed on trial, charged with first degree murder, in Circuit Court here today. Most of the day was spent in securing a jury. The ex-prosecutor is charged with having shot and killed J.E. Budd on the night of November 5 last. Budd was killed in his home here. His 17-year-old wife at first said that her husband had committed suicide. Later questioned by Constable Wyatt McKnab, she is alleged to have confessed that Allen killed her husband. According to her alleged confession, she and Allen were in a bedroom of her home when her husband came there unexpectedly. The confession said that Allen shot Budd as he entered the darkened bedroom.

50 YEARS AGO Aug. 7, 1968

MIAMI BEACH– Governor Rockefeller of Arkansas wants his brother, Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller of New York, to speak for himself today to a caucus of the Arkansas delegation in behalf of his campaign for the GOP presidential nomination. But the caucus is scheduled just six hours before the third session of the Republican national convention is to be called to order — the session that will make the first roll call of the states to choose the presidential nominee. So, Nelson Rockefeller, already loaded down with a heavy last-minute schedule, may send a substitute. That could be another brother — David Rockefeller, who is president of the Chase Manhattan Bank of New York.

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25 YEARS AGO Aug. 7, 1993

With a stroke of a pen, Dr. Henry P. Williams signed his name into local history Friday. Williams became the first black superintendent hired to run the Little Rock School District — the state’s largest — and its ninth chief administrator since 1982. “I am well aware of the Little Rock School District’s problems,” Williams, 51, said. “I know it has had a history. But it is my belief that it has a future as well.”

10 YEARS AGO Aug. 7, 2008

CONWAY– A parade of Lu Hardin supporters praised the embattled University of Central Arkansas president Wednesday just before the UCA trustees went into a closed session to discuss reaction to weeks of controversy over a secret presidential bonus and a memo Hardin wrote. Board of trustees President Randy Sims of Conway later said the panel took no action. Sims said the board would “continue to take input” and have another special meeting in September. Hardin’s contract expires in late September, but it will be automatically extended unless the board acts beforehand.