100 YEARS AGO March 30, 1914
More than 100 officers and about 80 non-commissioned officers of the Arkansas National Guard will begin study in camp at Fort Logan H. Roots this morning. The school will be in the charge of Captain A.B. Sloan. The encampment will be the first held for school purposes in Arkansas. The course will be an elementary one, it was said yesterday, but will embrace many important military features.
50 YEARS AGO March 30, 1964
Winthrop Rockefeller’s announcement that he is resigning from the Arkansas Industrial Development Commission brought the first contribution to a campaign fund for him if he announces for governor. It also brought rumors that the “Democrats - if Rockefeller runs - will throw a subterfuge Republican into the GOP primary and use the Democratic machine to try to knock him off before he gets to a general election.” Generally, Republicans seem to have anticipated that Rockefeller would resign from the AIDC. And generally, Republicans, whether they support him or not are taking it as a signal he will make a race for public office, probably for governor.
25 YEARS AGO March 30, 1989
The Arkansas Courtof Appeals on Wednesday upheld the right of a police officer to question the sobriety of a man who stopped his car at a traffic light and stayed parked in the road for 15 minutes. Granville Broadway of Little Rock claimed the police had no probable cause to approach his car. He said evidence gathered from field sobriety tests and a later breath analysis test that showed his blood alcohol level at 0.10 percent should have been excluded from his trial. “The officer had not only a right, but a duty to be where he was at the time he discovered appellant’s drunken condition,” the court concluded.
10 YEARS AGO March 30, 2004 SPRINGDALE - The Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating perks that Tyson Foods Inc. gave its senior executives, including Chief Executive Officer John Tyson and his father, former Chairman Don Tyson, the company said Monday. The two executives were paid millions in 2003, according to public filings. They also owned smaller companies that collected millions in rent payments from publicly-owned Tyson Foods. These payments have raised eyebrows at the SEC, which has gotten tough on corporate misconduct after a wave of corporate scandals at companies like Enron Corp. and WorldCom Inc.
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