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100 YEARS AGO Feb. 26, 1917 Six persons were pinned beneath an overturned automobile at Fourteenth and High streets at 6 o’clock last night and escaped with only minor bruises. The auto, owned and driven by J.H. Hollis, 1510 Schiller avenue, turned turtle when he made a sharp turn to avoid a collision with a street car, after the emergency brakes failed to work. Other members of the party were Miss Barbara Hollis, Miss Ethel Arnold of Hope, Miss Dale Smith, 2411 State street, and her two small brothers, Malcolm and Jack Smith. 50 YEARS AGO Feb. 26, 1967 CONWAY — It’s not Governor Rockefeller he doesn’t like, state Senator Guy H. (Mutt) Jones of Conway said here Saturday, it’s the governor’s aides. “I have no controversy with Rockefeller,” Jones said at a meeting of Faulkner County residents interested in government activities. “Personally, I regard him highly, but what I don’t like about the new administration is the aides around him.” 25 YEARS AGO Feb. 26, 1992 Little Rock police eager to catch a drug suspect searched the wrong home, then did not discover their error until they had ransacked the place, the occupant alleged Monday in federal court. The lawsuit was filed by Morisetta North, who contends her 2108 Peyton St. home was illegally searched Feb. 27, 1991, by two Little Rock officers. Defendants in the suit are officers Jerry Hart and Scott Westbrook and Police Chief Louis Caudell. Lt. Charles Holladay, a police department spokesman, said Tuesday that he does not believe the wrong house was searched. 10 YEARS AGO Feb. 26, 2007 A little more than half of the projected $843 million the state is expected to collect above what it will spend before June 30 is in the bank. In this case, many banks. The $477.5 million shows up on the ledger, but the figure retains no distinction in state Treasurer Martha Shoffner’s office, the official bank of Arkansas government. Rather, the money is part of a larger pool of cash the state invests, with interest earnings contributing to the state’s bottom line, treasury officials said. The projected surplus is roughly what the state will have available after it has spent all of the money the Legislature appropriated during its 2005 regular session. The Legislature meets every two years to appropriate money lawmakers say government will need to operate.