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100 YEARS AGO March 7, 1917
PINE BLUFF — The annual meeting of Group Seven of the Arkansas Bankers Association was held here today, with a large attendance of members and visitors from other districts and states. Two business sessions were held, one this morning and one this afternoon, with a luncheon at noon and a theater party tonight. W. L. Hemingway, president of the Mercantile Trust Company of Little Rock, discussed the proposed bank guaranty law, and explained why many bankers were opposed to such a plan. R. F. McNally, vice president of the Mississippi Valley Trust Company of St. Louis, gave a talk on “Banking Cooperation in Small Towns.”
50 YEARS AGO March 7, 1967
The senator and two state representatives from Garland County informed their colleagues Monday night, calmly but deliberately, that Governor Rockefeller had told them he would not veto the Garland County legal gambling bill. Senator Q Byrum Hurst of Hot Springs spoke first in the Senate, even before Mr. Rockefeller was on the air with the statement he had taped Monday morning. Hurst was relying on reports given him by reporters that Mr. Rockefeller would announce his intention to veto SB 391.
25 YEARS AGO March 7, 1992
A gunman wearing a Halloween mask resembling an old man’s face robbed the First Commercial Bank branch at 10120 N. Rodney Parham Road about 12: 30 p. m. Friday. The bank robbery was Little Rock’s sixth this year. Arrests have been made in two of those robberies. “He went behind the counter, drew his pistol and told an employee to lie on the floor,” Lt. Charles Holladay, Little Rock police spokesman, said.
10 YEARS AGO March 7, 2007
CABOT — Testimony Tuesday in a Lonoke corruption trial centered on an inappropriate relationship between Kelly Campbell and a state prison inmate, as well as allegations of state inmates performing services for private citizens, including former Police Chief Jay Campbell, former Mayor Thomas Privett and an assistant U. S. attorney. The testimony came in the third day of witness statements in the trial of both Campbells and Bobby Junior Cox, a bail bondsman. The three are accused of being part of a criminal organization seeking drugs, sex and money.