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100 YEARS AGO March 1, 1917

Impeachment proceedings will be instituted by the City Council Monday night against James Gerlach, judge of the Argenta Municipal Court. Four charges, including alleged violations of city and state laws, will be preferred, it is said. One of the charges, it is said, will be that Judge Gerlach was drunk on the bench while in the discharge of his official duties, and also drunk on the streets Monday afternoon. After announcing yesterday morning that he would resign Saturday and seek re- election, Judge Gerlach yesterday afternoon said that he had decided not to resign, and would fight “to the bitter end any attempt to remove me.”

50 YEARS AGO March 1, 1967

The state Supreme Court ruled Monday that George Alexander ( Dinty) Brown of Scott was not bound by a Pulaski Chancery Court injunction issued August 2, 1966, to stop Brown from pumping water from Old River Lake to irrigate his 100- acre cotton field. The Court, in reversing Chancellor Kay L. Matthews, ruled unanimously that the trial court erred in requiring Brown instead of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit to post a bond at the time the injunction was issued.

25 YEARS AGO March 1, 1992

Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton’s presidential campaign enters the make- or- break phase Tuesday, as a string of primary elections begins that could determine the Democratic nominee. Seven states have primaries or caucuses Tuesday. Clinton has staked his presidential hopes on a victory in Georgia, which looks likely, but a better measure of his campaign may hinge on how the governor fares in other states Tuesday.

10 YEARS AGO March 1, 2007

State environmental regulators issued a package of permits Wednesday allowing the city of El Dorado and three companies to ferry treated wastewater to the Ouachita River, a move project opponents promised to appeal. An underground pipeline would carry up to 20 million gallons of treated wastewater a day from the city, El Dorado Chemical Co., Lion Oil Co.’ s El Dorado refinery and Chemtura ( formerly the Great Lakes Chemical Corp.) roughly 24 miles to the Ouachita River. Critics including the Game and Fish Commission, the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality and the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service have expressed concerns about what the pipeline effluent will do to wildlife in the area.