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100 years ago

Jan. 15, 1919

• By a unanimous vote on each measure the Senate adopted the resolution of Senator Cazort, requesting, the United States Senate to adopt the resolution providing for woman's suffrage; Senator Boue's resolution ratifying the federal amendment for nation-wide prohibition, and the House resolution by Representative Doyle on the same subject. There were no negative votes cast by the Senate on any proposition.

50 years ago

Jan. 15, 1969

• Representative Nap B. Murphy of Hamburg, the author of the state law requiring that blood used for transfusions be labeled by race, introduced House Bill 16 Tuesday to repeal the law. Senate Bill 7, calling for the repeal of the blood-labeling law was introduced Monday by Senators Ben Allen, Oscar Alagood and Max Howell, all of Little Rock. The law, Act 482 of 1959, was adopted at a time when a good many segregationist bills were becoming law, although Murphy said Tuesday that he sponsored the bill primarily to protect Negroes receiving blood transfusions. At that time, he said, there was some support for the theory that a small percentage of Negroes suffered from a disease which would be fatal if they received any blood from whites.

25 years ago

Jan. 15, 1994

• Local gangs have canceled their planned participation in Monday's Martin Luther King Jr. parade after an outcry from community leaders and politicians. Nothing will stop gang members who want to attend the parade, a spokesman for the sponsoring NAACP said Friday. But any who do attend will not find spaces waiting for their group in the procession. Felicia Cook, 30, who previously led the effort to allow gang members to march, said Friday she had urged gang members to "be sensitive to issues" and not participate.

10 years ago

Jan. 15, 2009

• Time and again, Larry Staley of Sherwood fired bullets at people on his property, authorities say, until a dead body with a gunshot wound led to charges of manslaughter and felon in possession of a firearm. But before that trial begins in Pulaski County Circuit Court next week, Staley had to negotiate his release Wednesday from the city jail in Sherwood, after a judge on Tuesday ordered the 67-year-old to serve 60 days. The charge: possession of too many ducks. Staley's property shares a pond with several other surrounding properties. Staley and another property owner bought baby ducks last year for fun, Breaux said. The ducks mated. Then came more baby ducks. Then came wild ducks to share the land and the water with the domesticated ducks. What were "some" became 40, sometimes as many as 60. A Sherwood district court judge ordered that Staley keep no more than six ducks on his land, records show.

Metro on 01/15/2019

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