100 years ago
Oct. 21, 1920
HOT SPRINGS -- A letter received here today is believed to identify Ruby Lee Smith, aged 17, companion of the Oklahoma bandits who shot and fatally wounded Deputy Sheriff Roy Brown here October 10. The letter was from Mrs. Cassie Smith, 133 Parr avenue, Paris, Tex. It was addressed to Sheriff Brad Smith and requested information concerning the Smith girl who, with another girl, has been held here since the battle with the bandits. The Oklahoma gunmen fled and escaped, leaving behind the two girls who had been traveling with them. Mrs. Smith wrote that she had read of the detention of the two girls and feared that one of them may be her daughter.
50 years ago
Oct. 21, 1970
• The three Little Rock TV stations Tuesday submitted a time of 9 p.m. Friday for the proposed television debate among the three gubernatorial candidates. However, only Governor Rockefeller found that time acceptable. Rockefeller issued a statement saying that he would rearrange his schedule to appear on the debate at 9 p.m. Friday, but Democratic nominee Dale Bumpers said he couldn't make it. A spokesman at the American Independent Party headquarters said nominee Walter Carruth hadn't determined if Friday would be an acceptable date.
25 years ago
Oct. 21, 1995
• Lt. Gov. Mike Huckabee zeroed out his 1994 campaign account last month, according to reports filed with Secretary of State Sharon Priest's office. Huckabee's fund-raising efforts have been criticized by the head of the government watchdog group Common Cause of Arkansas. The Republican from Texarkana said he has done nothing wrong and that Common Cause's complaints were prompted by political opponents. Little Rock lawyer Scott Trotter, the Common Cause director, criticized Huckabee for continuing to raise and spend money listed under a 1994 re-election campaign account.
10 years ago
Oct. 21, 2010
• The yellow graffiti on the corner of the abandoned Wooley Electric Supply Co. wouldn't come off despite the industrial cleaner and minutes of scrubbing by a group of Little Rock police officers. Other patches of spraypainted numbers, symbols and signatures on the old storefront at 1023 W. Seventh St. came off with a little blue solvent and some elbow grease, but the yellow patch persisted. Starting early Wednesday, members of the department's Community Oriented Policing, or COP, Program took on graffiti marring abandoned downtown homes and business fronts.