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100 YEARS AGO

March 30, 1921

BATESVILLE — A man named Collins, aged about 40, was brought to Batesville and placed in the county jail late this afternoon charged with robbing and torturing Andrew McConnelly, aged 61, and his sister, aged 81. The robbery occurred about 7 o’clock Friday night at the home of the aged victims near Ash Flat, about 25 miles north of here in Stone county. Three masked men entered the home of the McConnellys and demanded their money.

50 years ago

March 30, 1971

■ Before leaving office in January, Governor Rockefeller sent a memorandum to the state Pardons and Parole Board asking that it review clemency requests for 24 prison inmates, including James Dean Walker, Board Director J. B. Garrett said Monday. Rockefeller had announced December 8 that he would not grant executive clemency for Walker, who is serving a life sentence for the 1963 slaying of a North Little Rock policeman. His later memorandum said that he had had insufficient information on the 24 persons and suggested that the Board under the new administration review the requests, Garrett said.

25 YEARS AGO

March 30, 1996

■ Two proposals to bring casino gambling to the state are an “affront to good government,” according to an analysis from the government watchdog group Common Cause of Arkansas. One proposed constitutional amendment, sponsored by Oaklawn Park at Hot Springs, would establish a state lottery, legalize charitable bingo and allow Hot Springs voters to approve up to three casinos. Mike Wilson of Wilson, an east Arkansas planter, has proposed a competing plan that would allow up to eight casinos in the state, establish a state lottery and legalize charitable bingo.

10 YEARS AGO

March 30, 2011

■ Eight months after its failed finances forced Interfaith Hospitality Network to shut down, the Little Rock charity is planning to revive its program that houses homeless families at area churches. Now going by the name Family Promise of Pulaski County, the organization says that come May 1, it will once again partner with churches to provide families with temporary housing. “Fundraising is an ongoing activity, and we know that, but we’re at a place right now where we can afford to hire staff and we can see a light at the end of the tunnel,” said Shari Coote, chairman of the board overseeing Family Promise.