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100 YEARS AGO Oct. 17, 1918
As a result of the findings of a court-martial, the following decisions have been announced: Private Paul Peck, Quartermaster Corps, apprehended at Grady, Ark., has been found guilty of absence without leave and sentenced to hard labor for six months and to forfeit two-thirds of his pay for a like period; Private Clyde H. Youngblood, 162d Depot Brigade, apprehended at Tulsa, Okla., has been found guilty of desertion and losing equipment to the value of $42.50 and sentenced to serve 10 years at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., and to be dishonorably discharged from the service at the end of his sentence.
50 YEARS AGO Oct. 17, 1968
Legal reserve life insurance companies wrote more than $1.2 billion of life insurance in Arkansas in 1967, according to the annual report of the state Insurance Department. The report showed that the 437 legal reserve companies based in other states wrote $1,035,459,000 in Arkansas while the 32 domestic companies wrote $243,806,000 of business. … The figures do not include the fraternal societies, which wrote another $7,397,000 of insurance in 1967, and several other minor classifications of companies.
25 YEARS AGO Oct. 17, 1993
Michael William Catlett bought the gun used to kill his ex-girlfriend three days before the fatal shooting — lying on the federal form intended to prevent mental patients from obtaining firearms. Catlett also allegedly harassed a Dallas woman in May 1992 before committing an auto burglary that led to his treatment at the Arkansas State Hospital, according to police reports. Catlett, 27, is charged with first-degree murder in the Oct. 1 slaying of Stephanie Michelle Jungkind, 23, of Little Rock, a case that has focused attention on the state’s mental health system and crimes against women. He is being held without bond in the Little Rock jail.
10 YEARS AGO Oct. 17, 2008
More than 1,500 people who filed voter registration forms in Pulaski County this year may have trouble casting their vote, Pulaski County Clerk Pat O’Brien said this week as he prepared for the start of early voting on Monday. Those voters — representing 7 percent of the 22,473 total new registrations filed in 2008 — have been temporarily placed in a suspended status because although they submitted their applications before the Oct. 6 deadline, some of the paperwork has been filled out incorrectly, O’Brien said. “They’re not going to get to vote if they don’t complete the process,” he said. Applications can be suspended for a variety of reasons, including failure to sign the application, the listing of a post office box instead of a physical address as a residence, or failure to answer all the questions asked on the form.