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100 YEARS AGO Feb. 17, 1919
■ Arrested at 4 o’clock yesterday afternoon on a charge of burglary, Tom League and June Arendt, two local boys, who, the police say, are old offenders, were sentenced to indefinite terms in the Reform School before 8 o’clock last night… Neighbors say the two youths entered the home of D.E. Rogers, 2402 West Fifteenth street, through a window… The neighbors called police headquarters and Detectives Whitlock and Salyers hurried out to the scene. They arrived just in time to nab the two boys as they were leaving the house by the front door. They had a suit of clothes belonging to Mr. Rogers. The two boys were taken before County Judge Miles in Juvenile Court. The judge recognized them as old offenders and wasted no time in sentencing them to reform school.
50 YEARS AGO
Feb. 17, 1969 BATESVILLE — Vandals broke into the West Elementary School here during the weekend and did about $1,500 damage, police and school officials said Sunday. School officials said that damage was so extensive that classes at the school will be suspended today. Police said several flags were torn up, teachers’ desks upset, soft drinks spilled in the rooms and papers scattered about the building. Officers said signs written on blackboards said “Down with the draft,” “Get out of Vietnam,” “Sirhan Sirhan, kill Nixon.”
25 YEARS AGO
Feb. 17, 1994 PINE BLUFF — Testimony continued Wednesday
in federal court in a racial discrimination lawsuit filed by a former University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff campus policeman against the University of Arkansas System. Former UAPB officer Kenneth Ray, who is white, filed the suit in 1993 in U.S. District Judge G. Thomas Eisele’s court. He claimed that the mostly black school harassed and disciplined him, gave him poor job evaluations and ultimately fired him Jan. 29, 1993, for filing a racial discrimination complaint. Ray, who began working for UAPB in 1989 as the campus’ only white officer, filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in April 1991 after the school suspended him following altercations with students. 10 YEARS AGO
Feb. 17, 2009
■ Little Rock city workers who made an extra effort to wear red to work on Feb. 6 to raise awareness about heart disease among women are getting something back in return: an extra four hours of vacation time. Little Rock City Manager Bruce Moore said Monday that he decided to grant the extra time off to thank employees who bought special red lapel pinas or wore red for the American Heart Association’s National Wear Red Day. In e-mails sent citywide this month, Moore encouraged employees to wear red to work or to buy red pins for $5 — with the proceeds going to the association’s program to raise awareness about women and heart disease. Moore said he got the idea for paid time off only after showing up to work that Friday and seeing a lot of red. Even street crews were wearing pins, he said.