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100 YEARS AGO Oct. 10, 1917
Two actions of great importance to the state of Arkansas were before the United States Supreme Court today. One was the arguing of the suit of the state of Arkansas vs. the state of Tennessee to determine the boundary line between the two states. The action resulted from a shifting of the course of the Mississippi river several years ago. Also, the Supreme Court gave the state of Tennessee permission to bring suit against the state of Arkansas and the Board of Directors of the St. Francis Levee District of Arkansas for damages alleged to have been sustained by Tennessee in a Mississippi river flood of several years ago.
50 YEARS AGO Oct. 10, 1967
State Police Director Lynn A. Davis remarked that gambling in Arkansas had reached “the end of an era.” His assessment may very well prove correct, within the single week Mr. Davis had presided over the destruction of more than 200 slots machines seized at Hot Springs. The gambling enforcement drive has now netted some 500 slot machines worth between a half million and a million dollars depending on the standard of appraisal.
25 YEARS AGO Oct. 10, 1992
CONWAY—Robert Serven is a University of Central Arkansas math professor, a husband and father. What he wants to be is a woman. Serven, 44, announced to a junior-level math class that he planned to seek a sex-change operation.
10 YEARS AGO Oct. 10, 2007
Three hundred thousand dollars pledged by a Little Rock businessman and his family will help pay for Lt. Gov. Bill Halter’s campaign to get Arkansas to create state lotteries to finance scholarships.The commitment announced Tuesday was by John S. Bailey and his kin. Halter’s camp is drafting a proposed constitutional amendment that would change the lottery prohibition in Article 19, Section 14 of the Arkansas Constitution to allow one or more state lotteries in Arkansas to pay for college scholarships. Voters eventually could decide whether to adopt it or reject it. Bailey is chief executive officer and manager of Bailey Properties LLC, which owns and manages about 4,000 apartments and three commercial buildings in Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas. He has also agreed to be treasurer of Hope for Arkansas, the committee set up by Halter to lead the campaign for the proposal. The pledge comes from Bailey; his wife, Patti; and Bailey’s parents, Ted and Sharon Bailey of Little Rock. It is “an extraordinarily generous commitment,” Halter said.