100 YEARS AGO Jan. 15, 1914
Attorney General W. L. Moose rendered an opinion yesterday to the effect that it is unlawful for a graduate of a detective correspondence school to carry a weapon. “No one is authorized to carry a weapon in the state,” says the attorney general, except an officer whose duty requires him to make arrests or unless the person is on his own premises or on a journey.
50 YEARS AGO Jan. 15, 1964
Atty. Gen. Bruce Bennett told the American Communist Party today it is prohibited by state law from gaining a spot on an election ballot in Arkansas. Bennett sent this information to Arnold Johnson, public relations director for the Communist Party U.S.A., New York City, who had asked Bennett to tell him what would be necessary to place Communist candidates on the ballot in Arkansas. The attorney general told Johnson that Act 33 of the 1935 Legislature “prohibits you or any member of the Communist party or any other subversive party, from appearing on the ballot in any matter whatsoever in this state.” Bennett said that this legislation was based on the Communist dedication “to the violent overthrow of these United States, of which Arkansas is an integral part.”
25 YEARS AGO Jan. 15, 1989
Three state lawmakers will introduce a bill Monday that would exclude Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee from the people honored by the state holiday celebrated the third Monday in January. “We want to make it just Martin Luther King Day. We think it’s an affront to many people of Arkansas that King’s day is shared with Lee,” Rep. Jim Lendall of Little Rock said. The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., the black civil rights leader who was assassinated in 1968, would have been 60 years old today. Lee was born Jan. 18, 1807, and died in 1870.
10 YEARS AGO Jan. 15, 2004
Trying to forge an unlikely partnership, a Washington, D.C.-based group appealed to Arkansas conservatives Wednesday to reject federalism and oppose any constitutional amendment that would ban gay marriages. The Human Rights Campaign is running print and radio advertisements in Little Rock and 11 other cities nationwide highlighting conservative opposition to a proposed amendment that would deny marriage rights to same-sex couples. “It’s a challenge here in the state because we are in the Bible Belt,” said Eric Reece, executive director of the Arkansas Equality Network.
Arkansas, Pages 14 on 01/15/2014