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100 YEARS AGO Oct. 1, 1918
Pat Palies, alias Patsy Nicholson, was held to the federal Grand Jury on the charge of uttering seditious statements by W. S. Allen, United States commissioner, yesterday. Since he was not able to make bond for $1,000 he is held at the county jail. Palies, who was employed at the picric acid plant, expressed too openly his opinions on the Liberty loan on the road between Little Rock and Pieron Sunday morning. “It is foolish for people to subscribe. The big mucks in Washington will get the money,” he is alleged to have said. Palies said he came to Little Rock from Tulsa, Okla. He was said by the sergeant who arrested him to be a member of the I. W. W. He is an Italian.
50 YEARS AGO Oct. 1, 1968
Arkansas’s 29th annual Arkansas Livestock Exhibition opens today with the big parade at 1:30 p.m. The show will include two big-name singing stars, Pat Boone and Frank Sinatra Jr.; the famous Baja Marimba Band; a championship rodeo; judging of every kind of livestock from rabbits to Brangus cattle; a mile-long midway with everything from the world’s largest portable roller coaster to “Little Irvy. The Frozen Whale”; pretty girls, cotton candy, noise and lights.
25 YEARS AGO Oct. 1, 1993
A North Little Rock lawyer acknowledged Thursday that he told a state police trooper he planned to ask for a postponement of Sen. Allen Gordon’s trial on a driving while intoxicated charge. North Little Rock Traffic Judge Stephen Morley dismissed charges against the Morrilton (Conway County) legislator after two police officers scheduled to testify against Gordon failed to appear in court. Dale West, a lawyer under contract with North Little Rock to prosecute traffic cases, said he thought the case would be postponed when he spoke with Arkansas State Trooper Keith Eremea last week.
10 YEARS AGO Oct. 1, 2008
Little Rock crime statistics for the first eight months of 2008 show a dramatic drop in violence, down by more than 25 percent compared with the same period a year earlier. Through Aug. 31, all four main categories tracked in the annual FBI Uniform Crime Report– homicide, rape, robbery and aggravated assault — are down by a combined 27.27 percent, from 2,237 cases in 2007 to 1,627 so far this year. And while Little Rock police and anti-crime activists attribute the decreases to new community outreach and education programs and efforts to reduce crime in certain areas, academic experts say it’s more complicated than that. David Kennedy, director of the Center for Crime Prevention & Control at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, called the change “quite dramatic.”