100 YEARS AGO March 5, 1914
Justice Frank Martin faced an unusually knotty problem yesterday when two Little Rock boys, aged 10 and 11 years, were before him on charges of being highwaymen. The two boys are charged with having held up and relieved a third boy of a barlow knife. It developed in the course of the hearing that the boy who got the knife is now serving a term at the reform school. The two boys on trial yesterday were released to report as to their conduct on April 4, when Justice Martin will pass on the case.
50 YEARS AGO March 5, 1964
Gov. Faubus said today he sees nothing wrong with college students engaging in political activity on or off the campus as individuals or members of campus political organizations. Faubus made the comments when asked about a controversy between Warren Lieblong of Pine Bluff, a Republican, and M.H. Russell, president of Henderson State Teachers College, over a poll taken in Clark County regarding the possible candidacy for governor of Republican National Committeeman Winthrop Rockefeller. Among the workers taking the poll were members of Young Republican Clubs at several institutions, including HSTC. Lieblong has charged that Russell intimated he would revoke the YR Club charter on the Henderson campus.
25 YEARS AGO March 5, 1989
Two Arkansas doctors received nearly a quarter million dollars each from taxpayer-funded Medicaid during fiscal 1988, state Department of Human Services records show. Ten other doctors in the state received more than $100,000 each from Medicaid in 1988, according to figures the DHS made available under the Arkansas Freedom of Information Act. Doctors contacted who received the most Medicaid funds said the large payments were a result of their willingness to treat poor patients who rely on Medicaid.
10 YEARS AGO March 5, 2004
The Arkansas General Assembly voted Thursday to recess its current special legislative session until June 9, rather than adjourn. Gov. Mike Huckabee said this likely violates the Arkansas Constitution and ruins the credibility of lawmakers’ claims that they reformed the state school system. The move gives the Legislature, not the governor, control over when lawmakers will take up additional school reforms if the state Supreme Court demands more action. The session was called so the state could comply with the court’s 2002 order to fix an unconstitutional school-funding system.
Arkansas, Pages 15 on 03/05/2014