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100 YEARS AGO April 7, 1920
A warrant was issued at Pine Bluff yesterday afternoon on information filed by E. W. Brockman, prosecuting attorney, for the arrest of ex-Maj. Philip J. Kieffer, a former adjutant of Camp Pike, on a charge of perjury. It is charged that Mr. Kieffer perjured himself when he said he was a resident of Pine Bluff in order to secure a divorce from his wife, Mrs. Beatrice Brett Kieffer. On the same day in which Kieffer was granted a decree of divorce in the Jefferson Chancery Court, Saturday, March 27, he was married at Benton to Miss Ruth Albright, leading woman of the Favorite Players Musical Comedy Company of Kempner theater.
50 YEARS AGO April 7, 1970
Miss Thelma Gush, 59, of 111 North Jackson Street filed suit Monday in federal District Court in an effort to prevent the Immigration and Naturalization Service from deporting her. Miss Gush, a citizen of England, said she entered the United States March 27, 1969, on a valid passport and temporary visa and had applied later for a “permanent resident visa.” She said the Immigration and Naturalization Service turned down her application January 21 and ordered her to leave the United States within 30 days. Miss Gush also alleged that the officer in charge of the Memphis office made a “false entry” in her passport which restricts her travel. She claimed that this was “an offense against the Crown.” Miss Gush acted as her own attorney.
25 YEARS AGO April 7, 1995
CONWAY — A romp in a pasture helped lead to the capture of a freedom-minded feline. Thomas and Barbara Taylor of Faulkner County had just sold Sweetie Pie, a 13-month-old cougar, to Mark Grayson, who lives near Sheridan. The Taylors loaded Sweetie Pie into the back of Grayson’s camper-covered pickup truck Saturday. As Grayson was driving home, he looked in the back of his camper. The cougar was gone. The next day, authorities received a tip that a cougar was chasing horses north of Lake Conway. Sweetie Pie was used to romping in a pasture with the Taylors’ horses, according to the Taylors.
10 YEARS AGO April 7, 2010
Data presented to legislators Tuesday reveal that school districts with high poverty levels get extra state and federal dollars but also have the lowest standardized test scores. Legislators said that doesn’t mean the state is spending too much on low performing districts. “We need to look at execution at the [district] level,” said Sen. Joyce Elliott, D-Little Rock. “I don’t think funding is the issue so much anymore.” Paul Atkins, an analyst at the Bureau of Legislative Research, told legislators he reached no policy conclusions in his data. He said his goal was to provide legislators data to help them make decisions for funding schools as the 2011 legislative session approaches.