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100 YEARS AGO

April 12, 1918

■ RUSSELLVILLE — Bob Dare, Arthur Simpson and Jes Dee, on trial charged with the murder of Mike Hamzy, an Assyrian peddler, were acquitted today. The prosecuting attorney suggested to the judge that the state withdraw the case. The judge accordingly took the case from the jury by directing a verdict of acquittal. There were no witnesses to the killing so that the evidence was wholly circumstantial and the state admitted it was insufficient. Hamzy was shot in the mountains, about 35 miles north of Russellville, February 23, 1917, and the body was robbed of $300.

50 YEARS AGO April 12, 1968

■ A survey by the State Administration Department of 13,189 state jobs in mid-March showed that only 489 of them were held by Negroes, it was reported Thursday. The report by the Personnel Division of the Department was prepared for the Governor’s Council on Human Resources. Negro leaders have complained of discrimination in public job placements. The survey is the first accurate report bearing out the contention. According to the reports, 168 Negroes had been hired in the first year and a quarter of Governor Rockefeller’s administration.

25 YEARS AGO

April 12, 1993

■ After two recent scares, the nuclear energy industry and its regulators are double-checking their security plans in an effort to prevent terrorist attempts at the nation’s nuclear facilities. In recent weeks, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has examined security plans and operations of utility companies that own nuclear power plants. The security plans for Entergy Corp.’s Arkansas Nuclear One plant near Russellville, Grand Gulf plant in Port Gibson, Miss., and Waterford Three Steam-Electric Station in Taft, La., were checked and cleared by NRC officials.

10 YEARS AGO April 12, 2008

■ Jurors convicted a 46-yearold man Friday of videotaping his stepdaughter, then a junior at a Little Rock high school, in the bathroom. Michael Anthony Brown received the maximum prison time for the crime of video voyeurism: a six-year prison sentence that makes him eligible for parole after serving one year. Brown, who was on parole for cocaine possession, denied making the four recordings, together lasting 15 minutes and played for the jury of eight women and four men.