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100 YEARS AGO March 8, 1921

■ Culminating the wildest session ever staged in the legislature, in which leading members of both houses took part, after the passage of resolutions condemning Judge John W. Wade of the First Division Pulaski Circuit Court for alleged charges reflecting on members of the legislature and young women employees in his instructions to the Grand Jury, a bill yesterday afternoon was introduced in the House looking toward the abolishment of Judge Wade’s division of the court.

50 YEARS AGO March 8, 1971

■ One of the arguments against Governor Bumpers’ proposed 5 cents a pack increase in the state excise tax on cigarettes — which has passed the Senate, but not the House —is that a higher tax would encourage the bootlegging of cigarettes. If the increase is passed, the Arkansas tax will be 17.75 cents a pack, compared with these taxes in surrounding states: 15.5 in Texas, 11 in Louisiana, 9 in Mississippi and Missouri, and 13 in Oklahoma and Tennessee. The problem of bootlegging is going to exist to some extent so long as there are disparities in state tax rates, but it is doubtful that Arkansas will ever have problems comparable to those of a number of northeastern states, whose tax rates are much higher than the cigarette taxes of the tobacco-growing states to the south of them.

25 YEARS AGO March 8, 1996

■ First there was the car pool. Now there’s the parking pool. Reporters from the news departments of three Little Rock television stations are scurrying to outscoop each other at the federal courthouse, but they’ve curbed their competition long enough to save on parking. They joined forces to reserve metered parking spaces for their satellite vans in front of the courthouse on Capitol Avenue. “All three of them combined to pay for the $20-a-day barricade permit instead of them paying $20 each,” said Mike Schrader, traffic operations engineer with the city.

10 YEARS AGO March 8, 2011

BAUXITE — The town of Bauxite is facing an additional $8,200 in back taxes owed to the Internal Revenue Service, Mayor Johnny McMahan said Monday during a Town Hall meeting. The town was hit with a more than $13,600 civil fine by the IRS last month because of missing tax forms from 2007. As a result, Bauxite Recorder/ Treasurer Gary Duncan spent several days with a state auditor reviewing tax documents from the past four years and found the city owes the additional payroll taxes from 2008.