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100 YEARS AGO Nov. 25, 1918

■ Arkansas will take part today in a drive which will be made throughout the United States for a final rounding up of slackers. Plans have been made in advance and it is hoped, officials say, that the day’s work will be the final cleanup. General Lloyd England last night said that no such raids are planned as occurred here last summer, when federal, state, county and military officials, working in conjunction, went through all theaters, poolrooms, etc., and filled the city hall with men who had forgotten to carry their classification cards with them. The rounding up, General England said, will be done almost entirely through the County Council of Defense, and each council will exercise its own discretion in methods employed. Each council has been furnished with lists of men in its jurisdiction that appear in the adjunct general’s office as delinquents.

50 YEARS AGO

Nov. 25, 1968

■ About half of 100 delegates to a constitutional convention got together Sunday afternoon at the Sam Peck Hotel to talk about some of the procedural problems of holding a convention. Clearly, the first concern is going to be committee appointments. The topic took up about half the two-hour meeting. The state Constitutional Convention Advisory Commission met during the morning and suggested 11 committees, each concerned with certain areas of constitutional law.

25 YEARS AGO Nov. 25, 1993

■ A Pulaski County Circuit Court jury deliberated 1 hour and 45 minutes Wednesday before recommending that Robert Lewis Rockett III be sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole. Rockett, 19, of Sweet Home, could have faced death by lethal injection after the jury found him guilty Tuesday of capital murder and aggravated robbery. The conviction stems from the March 10 robbery and shooting death of Stacie Summers, 21, a clerk at the Stax convenience store at 309 Graham Road in Jacksonville.

10 YEARS AGO

Nov. 25, 2008 TEXARKANA — Testifying at a hearing on the custody status of four girls taken from his religious compound in Fouke, evangelist Tony Alamo admitted to sharing a house with multiple women, but he contended he was only married to one at a time. Alamo, the 74-year-old head of a multistate ministry with headquarters in Fouke, spent about an hour on the stand at the Juvenile Courts Center in Texarkana during a hearing Monday to decide whether the four girls should stay in foster care, be placed with relatives or be returned to their parents at the compound. Attorneys asked him about allegations that he has taken multiple wives and that the church administers beatings, but they did not question him about sexual abuse, presumably because they knew that Alamo would have invoked his Fifth Amendment right to refuse to answer the questions.