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100 YEARS AGO March 7, 1914

BATESVILLE - J.W. Gray was before Justice Holmes this morning on a charge of slander. It is said that he made remarks about Mrs. Amanda Moore of this city. Upon hearing the evidence it was found that the suit was the result of a mistake, for neither Mr. Gray nor Mrs. Moore knew each other. He was discharged.

50 YEARS AGO March 7, 1964

The Little Rock Planning Commission has been asked by the Historic District Commission to join in asking the city manager board to create the Quapaw Quarter Historic District east of the downtown area. The planners would have to approve any exterior changes in structures located in the area, according to provisions of a proposed ordinance. A consultant for the Historic District Commission, James Hatcher, said that unless something is done soon, historic buildings could not be preserved. His summation of the situation was that the area is in danger of being lost.

25 YEARS AGO March 7, 1989

Nicki Fries, 23, of 701 Green Mountain Drive told police she jumped on the hood of the car of a man who was fleeing the scene as he stole her purse Friday night. Fries said she got out of her car at her home about 10:30 p.m. and was checking her mailbox when she heard a vehicle drive up beside her car. When Fries returned to her car, she told police, she saw a man who apparently had taken her purse from her car get into another vehicle. She said as the man was driving off, his engine died and she jumped on the hood of his car. Fries said she reportedly demanded that the man return her purse, but he refused. When the man restarted the vehicle and hit a speed bump in the parking lot, she fell off the car, Fries told the police. Police said Fries was treated at Baptist Medical Center for minor injuries and released.

10 YEARS AGO March 7, 2004

An attorney for a group of northeast Arkansas cotton farmers argued in court Saturday that the state’s decision to impose a pesticide program and charge the farmers for it deprived them of an understood right to vote on the program. Calling the State Plant Board’s May 2003 decision to force the farmers into the Arkansas Boll Weevil Eradication Program “arbitrary and capricious,” attorney Allan Gates said the farmers and the people who ran the program understood that approval of two-thirds of the affected farmers was required.