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100 YEARS AGO
Oct. 9, 1919
LONOKE — The Grand Jury has returned indictments against 11 wellknown rice planters of Lonoke county, charging them with flooding of public roads. It is said that their irrigation plants, necessary in growing rice, were so constructed that the overflow made the roads almost impassable. As no arrests have been made the names of the planters indicted were not given out. Steve Strong was convicted of grand larceny and sentenced to two years in the penitentiary. The offense was committed about two years ago. Strong escaped at the time and went to Desha county, where he was convicted of grand larceny and committed there and sentenced to one year. When he was released after serving his term he was rearrested and brought here.
50 YEARS AGO
Oct. 9, 1969
BLYTHEVILLE — The Mississippi County sheriff’s office said Wednesday that it had taken a man into custody for questioning in the Monday robbery of the Keiser Branch of the Bank of Wilson. Sheriff’s Deputy Milton Pope said the man, a resident of the Keiser area, was arrested Tuesday night by Deputy Henry Carr after turning himself in to the deputy at Reverie, Tenn., on a large island in the Mississippi River southeast of Wilson. FBI agents were at Keiser Wednesday afternoon investigating the robbery, in which about $3,000 was taken. A lone gunman held up the branch bank Monday morning. There were three persons in the bank at the time.
25 YEARS AGO
Oct. 9, 1994
WASHINGTON — As Congress approached its adjournment, the Senate late Friday confirmed President Clinton’s nominations for 14 federal judgeships. The administration accelerated the pace of its judicial nominations in recent months in a drive to fill a large number of vacancies on federal benches. More than 80 judges have been confirmed since Clinton took office. That compares with 58 at the end of 1990, the midpoint of George Bush’s tenure, and 42 at the end of 1982, midway through Ronald Reagan’s first term. Nonetheless, dozens of federal judicial vacancies remain until a new Congress convenes in January.
10 YEARS AGO
Oct. 9, 2009
■ A $1.4 million grant to the Arkansas Children’s Hospital Foundation will help the hospital expand its neonatal intensive-care unit and establish an endowment fund, the hospital announced Thursday. The Las Vegas-based Donald W. Reynolds Foundation gave the hospital foundation the money in honor of Barbara H. Hanna, a Fort Smith resident who has served on both the foundations’ boards. The Reynolds foundation previously donated $8.3 million to renovate the pediatric intensive-care unit, where the most critically ill children are treated. That was completed in 2003, said Kila Owens, a spokesman for the hospital’s foundation.