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100 years ago

Jan. 21, 1917

ARKADELPHIA -- A. N. Stroud, a truck farmer near Washington, realized an average of $74 an acre from five acres of cantaloupes last season and an average of $158 an acre from two and one-half acres of turnips. This year he will plant 20 acres of cantaloupes, five acres of radishes and 10 acres of melons with two and a half acres of turnips. M. L. Osborne, with a 20-acre farm, also demonstrated the possibilities in truck raising.

50 years ago

Jan. 21, 1967

PINE BLUFF -- Prosecutor Joe Holmes said Friday that he had asked for and received the identities of convicts who made the statements in the State Police report on the Tucker Prison Farm situation. The convicts were identified only by number in the report, which alleges abuses and wrongdoings at Tucker, about 17 miles north of here. "The report mentions a lot of numbers in there and I can't subpoena a lot of numbers when this matter comes to trial," Holmes said.

25 years ago

Jan. 21, 1992

• Little Rock School District officials are interested in acquiring the Ninth Street Park and some nearby land as a site for a new Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School, Jim Ivey, a district administrator, said Monday. The site is a possible alternative to the controversial West Side School site at 14th and Marshall streets. Ivey, manager of support services, said the district is in the preliminary stages of talking to the city about obtaining the park, which is at Ninth and Pulaski streets, and some additional land across Ninth Street, also owned by the city.

10 years ago

Jan. 21, 2007

• The Little Rock teenager accused of fatally shooting a bank teller during a December robbery returned to Little Rock in police custody Saturday evening. As a near-freezing rain fell, Little Rock police detectives and officers led Grover Evans Jr., 18, out of the downtown police station and into a squad car waiting to transport him to the Pulaski County jail, where he was being held without bond. Evans is charged with aggravated robbery, theft of property and capital murder, according to his arrest report. Evans entered the Metropolitan National Bank branch at 10300 Rodney Parham Road on Dec. 23, shot teller James Garison in the back, took an undisclosed amount of cash and said "Merry Christmas" before fleeing, police said. Garison died later at a Little Rock hospital, eight days before he would have turned 26.

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