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— 100 YEARS AGO Feb. 22, 1911, Running on a platform favoring open gambling, W.W. Waters, former mayor, received a majority of votes cast at today’s Democratic primaries and was nominated for mayor, defeating a field of three other candidates. Mayor M.H. Jodd, candidate for a third term nomination; John A. Riggs, reform candidate, and Attorney James L. Graham ran in the order named.

50 YEARS AGO Feb. 22, 1961

Widespread operations of what police call a well organized but youthful gang of professional safe robbers came to an abrupt finish yesterday as detectives nabbed the last member of the nine-man mob as he sat in a car drinking coffee at a North Little Rock drive-in cafe. Authorities said that at least 23 burglaries, including two bank and two post office robberies, and involving an estimated $30,000, had been solved with the arrests of the nine men.

25 YEARS AGO Feb. 22, 1986

An experimental work program for the recipients of Aid to Families with Dependent Children has been so successful in getting people off welfare it will be implemented statewide, Gov. Bill Clinton announced Friday. Known simply as the Work Program, the plan requires AFDC recipients who have no children under 3 years old to seek employment. It began as an experiment in October 1982 and now serves 22 counties.

10 YEARS AGO Feb. 22, 2001

Col. Tom Mars, who said Monday that his resignation as Arkansas State Police director would be effective June 1, didn’t wait that long. His resignation was accepted Wednesday by Gov. Mike Huckabee. In a letter to Huckabee, Mars cited his “increasingly strained relationship” with state Rep. Bobby Glover, D-Carlisle, lead sponsor of the legislative package for the state police. Mars wrote that his presence would cause a distraction to Huckabee’s administration.

Arkansas, Pages 10 on 02/22/2011

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