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100 YEARS AGO March 31, 1921
Announcing his veto yesterday of the only joint resolution proposing a constitutional amendment passed by the legislature, the Hartje resolution for the taxation of personal property in improvement districts, Governor McRae declared that the most needed amendment would be one to prohibit the legislature from passing local or special acts. Such an amendment now is in process of preparation, the governor said, and initiative petitions will be sent out over the state as soon as practicable.
50 YEARS AGO March 31, 1971
John Norman Warnock of Camden, attorney for the Watson Chapel School District, was fined $500 Tuesday for disobeying a federal court order in encouraging “public defiance and inciting the patrons of the district” to continue resistance to the court’s desegregation orders, issued last month. Federal Judge Oren Harris of El Dorado ordered the fine after a nine-hour hearing at Little Rock. Judge Harris also ruled that if Warnock didn’t certify by Friday that he would discontinue public statements in defiance of the court concerning Watson Chapel schools, he would be fined $350 a day “until such time as you do so.”
25 YEARS AGO March 31, 1996
Philander Smith College Professor Rapheal Lewis told Arkansas Democratic Black Caucus members Saturday that Democrats and Republicans differed on many issues despite the popular perception that the two parties’ philosophies had converged. Lewis, a political science professor, said that welfare was still needed as a step up for many people, that government had a role to play in ensuring health care for everyone and that affirmative action is needed “as long as people discriminate.” “Affirmative action is not disgraceful,” Lewis said during the caucus’ third annual political symposium Saturday at the M.L. Harris Auditorium at Philander Smith.
10 YEARS AGO March 31, 2011
GREENBRIER — After a relatively quiet few days, a northern Faulkner County fault system has resumed shaking with at least eight earthquakes Wednesday. The largest of the earthquakes were two 2.5-magnitude temblors that rumbled at 2:50 a.m. and 3:28 a.m. Wednesday. Both were centered four miles northeast of Greenbrier. No one reported feeling the small quakes, said Scott Ausbrooks, geohazards supervisor for the Arkansas Geological Survey. The string of quakes followed a brief period of relative calm on the fault. Geologists recorded one quake Friday, one Saturday and none Sunday.