THIS DATE IN ARKANSAS HISTORY 12-Mar 1886 United States Marshall Fletcher and deputies fire 50 shots at striking railroad members of the Knights of Labor near Little Rock and severely wound one Sullivan with a shot to his leg. 12-Mar 1986 Bob Lane, LR public works director, expressed surprise that Local 994 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees opposed his plan to eliminate 15 Sanitation Division positions. 12-Mar 2004 Steve Warnock, art teacher at DeValls Bluff High School, writes Superintendent Charles Archer that the school is permeated with a rural, contemptuous, redneck attitude. Fired three days later. 12-Mar 1949 Slot machines, dice tables, and other gaming equipment seized by State Police in a raid on the Blackfish Lake club in St. Francis County. 12-Mar 1952 Governor Sid McMath grants request for special commission to investigate legal steps to stop distribution of U.S.A. Confidential for controversial remarks about Arkansas. 12-Mar 1999 Former state representative Robert Fairchild (D-Fayetteville) sentenced to two years in federal prison for trying to sell 35 Canadian military helicopters to Iraq. 12-Mar 1991 Brownie Ledbetter of Arkansas Fairness Council told Joint Budget Committee that states incredibly low $196 a month for a single mother with two children make it difficult for welfare recipients to stay in job training . 12-Mar 1989 John Brummett says Worst Legislator is State Representative Ron Fuller (R-Little Rock), who waged a short-lived attack on the lifestyles of the homeless through his proposal to seize grocery carts and jail the operators. 12-Mar 1996 Merideth Boswell, a Bryant native and Calabash Pottery veteran who designed the sets for Apollo 13, nominated for an Academy Award in the art direction category. 12-Mar 1997 Robert Hardin Smith of North Little Rock pleaded guilty to two counts of theft of property (documents) from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and the Arkansas History Commission. 12-Mar 2005 Nationally syndicated radio host and author Jim Hightower gave the keynote address at annual Sierra Club of Arkansas Conservation Awards Banquet.
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