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100 YEARS AGO

March 28, 1917

■ The Brushy Island arson cases, growing out of a series of incendiary fires during the race war on Brushy Island, north of Argenta, for several months in 1915, is being heard in the First Division Circuit Court. There are seven defendants who are charged with the burning of a negro church and schoolhouse, and the homes of two negroes. They are John Lee, Henry Lee, Louis Lee, Pete Lee, Will Lanstrop, Tom Poe and Dick Forbes, all white men and lifelong residents of the Brushy Island neighborhood.

50 YEARS AGO

March 28, 1967

■ Governor Rockefeller urged the legislature’s Joint Budget Committee again Monday to withstand efforts by the cities and the school forces to improve their positions in the revenue stabilization bill. The Budget Committee then rejected an amendment drawn by the Arkansas Education Association that would guarantee that all Public School Fund programs, including two $500 raises for the teachers, would get their money the next two years.

25 YEARS AGO

March 28, 1992

■ The federal Environmental Protection Agency has asked three Jacksonville citizen groups competing for $150,000 in federal grants to find a way to join together. If the groups can’t work out their differences, the EPA is considering sending a mediator to the city to try to bring the groups together, Roger Meacham, a spokesman for the EPA’s Region VI office in Dallas, said Friday. “After all of the hassle and problems we’ve had with these TAG grants, we want it to be a success story this time,” he said. “We believe that can be best accomplished by consolidating the groups.”

10 YEARS AGO

March 28, 2007

■ Pulaski County released a revised revenue projection Tuesday that puts it at odds with a state law requiring counties to budget no more than 90 percent of anticipated revenue. County Comptroller Mike Hutchens lowered the county’s revenue projections Tuesday from $58.5 million to $53.6 million after complaints from Quorum Court members that the original projections were inflated. The new figure puts budgeted expenses within $220,000 of anticipated revenue, or about 99 percent of projections. However, Pulaski County Judge Buddy Villines said the county is living within its means and that he expects revenue to exceed the revised projection.