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100 YEARS AGO Sept. 16, 1917

ZINE — The seven-yearold son of C. F. Morris, local miller and sawmill owner, fell into the big saw used for cutting timber Thursday and his body was cut in two. No one saw the accident and it is not known how he fell. It is believed that the slab caught near the machine and knocked him on the saw.

50 YEARS AGO Sept. 16, 1967

■ A black market sale nationwide of Arkansas driver and motor vehicle licenses by a handful of state Revenue Department employees in Hot Springs, Van Buren and Walnut Ridge has been uncovered, state Revenue Commissioner B. Bryan Larey said Friday. Larey said as many as 10,000 driver licenses may have been fraudulently issued in recent years. He could not estimate the number of vehicle license plates that were issued fraudulently. The commissioner said that upwards of eight Revenue Department employees, all of them hired prior to Governor Rockefeller’s assuming office had been fired or allowed to resign.

25 YEARS AGO Sept. 16, 1992

■ HELENA — Jury selection began Tuesday in the second capital murder of trial of Calvin Marshall, whose case attracted national attention in July when one of the alleged victim’s mothers showed up at a presidential campaign rally. Marshall, 24, of Helena is charged in the deaths Oct. 1, 1991, of Susan Conwell, 26, and Robert Scheid, 43, both of Victorian Village, Ohio. Conwell was raped twice and stabbed 23 times. Scheid was stabbed 19 times. Marshall’s first trial in June ended in a hung jury after three hours of deliberation.

10 YEARS AGO Sept. 16, 2007

■ Gov. Mike Beebe has denied clemency to a man dubbed “the blue-light rapist” because he was convicted of sexually assaulting women after using a police-style light to pull over female drivers in east Arkansas. Robert Todd Burmingham, 41, is serving a sentence of life plus 80 years for convictions on two counts of rape and one count each of kidnapping and aggravated robbery. He applied for clemency a year ago and cannot apply again for a reduction in his sentence until September 2010, according to Rhonda Sharp, a spokesman for the state Board of Parole.