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100 YEARS AGO Nov. 21, 1918

HELENA – After electing Dr. E. C. Morris president of the negro Baptist state convention for the twenty-eighth consecutive time, the delegates in annual session here today voted unanimously to send Dr. Morris to the peace conference, whenever held, to look after the interests of the negro race. The wildest enthusiasm and cheering followed the president’s annual address.

50 YEARS AGO Nov. 21, 1968

■ Governor Rockefeller said Wednesday that state troopers would be pulled off the highways if necessary to shut down illegal mixed-drink sales over the state. Mr. Rockefeller made the remark at a noon news conference in which he declared his full support for the raids being conducted by the state Alcoholic Beverage Control Department. Joe Gaspard, the ABC director, had said during the morning that the raids would continue and would reach the elegant private clubs and country clubs. There were indications already that the private club operations were starting to shut down. The Garland County Sheriff’s office and the Hot Springs Police Department notified clubs from the Black Orchid to the country club at Hot Springs to stop selling mixed drinks Wednesday morning.

25 YEARS AGO Nov. 21, 1993

■ Gov. Jim Guy Tucker appears to maintain at least a nominal business relationship with James B. McDougal, whose defunct savings and loan is the subject of a federal inquiry that has brought the personal finances of Tucker and President Clinton under increased scrutiny. Tucker owns 35 acres of undeveloped land with McDougal and another associate, Steve Smith, in Madison County about 10 miles west of Huntsville, according to county records at Huntsville.

10 YEARS AGO Nov. 21, 2008

■ In the end, Little Rock police detectives never learned what was in Timothy Dale Johnson’s head when he took a revolver into the Arkansas Democratic Party headquarters in August and shot Bill Gwatney dead. The 986 pages in their investigative file made public Thursday — and 310 more pages from an Arkansas State Police investigation — did show what was in Johnson’s house, in his blood, in his truck, in his Internet search history and even in his will. But none of the pages contained a reason for why Johnson decided to kill Gwatney, then the state Democratic Party Chairman. “That’s the one thing we never could figure out,” Little Rock Police Department spokesman Lt. Terry Hastings said. “We just never could dig deep enough to find an answer to why he did it.”