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100 YEARS AGO Nov. 8, 1917

BATESVILLE — Bailey Kirby, the young husband who, it is charged, shot his mother-in-law and her crippled son at Guion Monday night, after which he piled bed clothing on their bodies and touched a match to the mass, in an effort to hide his double crime by burning the house and their bodies, was arrested at Anderson late last night by Sheriff W. T. Clem and his posse. It is reported that Mrs. Hill, the woman he shot, is still alive, but her condition is critical. The woman, shot through the neck and body, sufficiently recovered to be able to put out the blazing bed clothing and pull her son’s dead body out of the house.

50 YEARS AGO Nov. 8, 1967

PINE BLUFF — A final reading of an ordinance calling for fluoridation of the city’s water supply is scheduled for December 4, and Mayor Austin Franks predicts it will be adopted unanimously. If the measure is adopted, the General Waterworks Corporation will begin fluoridating city water January 1. Pine Bluff has never had a fluoridated water supply.

25 YEARS AGO Nov. 8, 1992

■ Chanting “health insurance costs make us sick,” about 300 teachers rallied Saturday in Little Rock to protest what leaders said is inadequate health coverage for school employees statewide. The 15-minute rally outside the Robinson Center downtown came during a break in the Arkansas Education Association’s Representative Assembly inside the center. An ambulance, sirens blaring, began the rally by delivering buttons that read “Cure for health insurance costs,” which were distributed by teachers in surgical caps and masks.

10 YEARS AGO Nov. 8, 2007

■ For 10 years, the Clinton Presidential Center has fueled downtown Little Rock’s riverfront revival, a panel speaking at the center’s graduate school said Wednesday. The $165 million complex that includes the former president’s library and museum has drawn visitors from across the globe and has helped transform Arkansas’ capital city — even before it opened in 2004. The center kickstarted revitalization efforts already under way when Clinton decided a decade ago to put his library on the southern banks of the Arkansas River, city leaders, Clinton school Dean Skip Rutherford and developer Jimmy Moses said during a discussion at the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service.