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100 YEARS AGO

April 2, 1920

■ W.R. Grimm and C.H. Dorman who, according to the police, confessed Wednesday afternoon to robbing several Little Rock hotels and obtaining loot worth several thousand dollars, were held to the Grand Jury by Municipal Judge Hale yesterday morning. Their bond was fixed at $1,000. Neither had furnished it last night.

50 YEARS AGO

April 2, 1970

■ Kenneth Pat Wilson, president of the First Jacksonville Bank, has endorsed the idea of federally subsidized low-cost housing in Jacksonville, and though he denies it, other sources say that’s a change of position for him. Wilson spoke to the Jacksonville Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors last week, and said the city’s housing shortage was critical. He urged Board members to consider the possibility of low-cost housing.

25 YEARS AGO

April 2, 1995

■ HEBER SPRINGS — Several members of the Arkansas congressional delegation spoke Saturday in favor of continued federal support for three fish hatcheries in the state that may be shut down because of budget cuts. “I am troubled by these proposals and believe they are ill-conceived and shortsighted,” Sen. Dale Bumpers, D-Ark., said at a public hearing in Heber Springs where about 200 people met to support the hatcheries. Bumpers was joined in his opposition to possible cuts by Sen. David Pryor and Rep. Blanche Lincoln, both Democrats, who along with a group of local and state officials directed their remarks to Mollie Beattie, director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

10 YEARS AGO

April 2, 2010

■ Big news on the entertainment front. Robert Plant is including Little Rock on his 12-city North American tour, kicking off in July. And his July 15 show won’t be in a big arena but in the more intimate Robinson Center Music Hall. This is huge stuff. Plant is best known as the frontman for the British rock band Led Zeppelin. Zeppelin, formed in 1968, ruled the 1970s much as the Beatles reigned over the 1960s. The band, which broke up in 1980 upon the death of drummer John Bonham, is considered a pioneer of heavy metal and hard rock. But at the root of Led Zeppelin’s music was the American Delta blues, which Plant fell in love with as a young boy hearing Robert Johnson, Howlin’ Wolf, Blind Willie Johnson, and Willie Dixon, and seeing Sonny Boy Williamson perform in England.