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100 YEARS AGO Sept. 9, 1918 JONESBORO – The local Chinese laundry resembled a battlefield this morning. Four Chinamen who have operated the laundry here for some time, fought a bloody fight, and as a result three are in a dangerous condition and are not expected to live. About 6 o’clock, W.A. Chung, attacked the other three with an axe, cutting them seriously. They returned to the fight and succeeded in wounding their assailant. W.A. Chung says that the other men had been trying to rob him. One is in jail badly wounded, the other three in the hospital and are expected to die. The room where the fight took place looked like a slaughter pen when the fight was over. 50 YEARS AGO Sept. 9, 1968 BATESVILLE – Eighty-one rifles and shotguns, 24 pistols and an undetermined amount of ammunition were taken by burglars Saturday night from the Airport Sports Mart, which is located near the Municipal Airport about three miles south of here, Johnny Hall, the store owner, reported to the Independence County sheriff’s office Sunday. Hall estimated the loss at more than $12,000, authorities said. He said that all the ammunition taken was .22-caliber. About 50 guns were left in the store.
25 YEARS AGO Sept. 9, 1993 The Pulaski County clerk is seeking legal advice on whether to cancel Little Rock School Board candidate Ari S. Merretazon’s voting rights because he is on parole for armed robbery. If he loses his voting privileges, Merretazon could become ineligible to run for or serve on the school board. The board election is Sept. 21. He is one of three people running for the Zone 1 seat, which encompasses much of east Little Rock. Carolyn Staley has asked both U.S. Attorney Paula Casey and Pulaski county Attorney Larry Vaught for advice on Merretazon’s case. She confirmed that Merretazon is a registered voter in Pulaski County and has held that status since at least 1991. The issue is somewhat complicated because the conviction was a result of a violation of a federal statue and did not occur in Arkansas.
10 YEARS AGO Sept. 9, 2008 The Arkansas Board of Education on Monday denied appeals from the Booneville and Cedar Ridge school districts over their probationary status despite pleas of extenuating circumstances from each. Booneville Junior High’s accreditation status was placed on probation because an uncertified teacher was employed by the district to teach ninth-grade Spanish. The district reported the violation to the state officials, John Parrish, the district’s new superintendent, told the board. Cedar Ridge High School’s accreditation status was put on probation because the school didn’t teach a required physics course for the bulk of the past school year after the only two students who enrolled in the course dropped it. The physics class is one of 38 courses that every high school is required to teach annually.