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100 YEARS AGO June 2, 1915
The Arkansas river is falling at practically all points above Little Rock. The crest has been reached here and it is thought that the water will rise little higher at Pine Bluff and other points below. The river broke through the main levee at the state farm near Cummins yesterday morning, but a loop finished Monday night held back the water. It is believed no further damage will be done at the Pulaski county farm.
50 YEARS AGO June 2, 1965
An earth- moving scraper struck paleontological paydirt Tuesday in a clay pit about five miles north of Hazen where it uncovered, at a depth of 15 feet, the skull bones and tusks of a mastodon, prehistoric ancestor of the modern elephant. The find threatened to become a bone of contention between the University of Arkansas, with whom the state Highway Department has a contract to explore finds of arche-ologic or other historic interest, and Little Rock University.
25 YEARS AGO June 2, 1990
CROSSETT — Former Crossett Police Chief John Hoyt Kelley is still dead, as far as the law is concerned. Kelley, 50, who disappeared in 1978, is alive, according to the Social Security Administration. But that’s not sufficient to set aside an August 1987 ruling declaring him dead. “I thought that when you declared somebody dead, you were supposed to have some proof for it,” said Kelley’s eldest son, John. The younger Kelley was living with his mother when Kelley’s second wife had her husband legally declared dead.
10 YEARS AGO June 2, 2005
An Evening Shade man didn’t have to say a word five years ago after a Jacksonville police officer questioned him regarding a routine traffic violation, a Pulaski County jury determined Wednesday. For Michael Clark, the verdict upholds what he considered his constitutional right not to reveal his name, address or driver’s license to the officer, who was investigating whether Clark illegally parked his Harley at a WalMart on May 11, 2000. “This was all about freedom,” Clark said Wednesday after a jury found him guilty of parking in a handicapped space but acquitted him of an obstruction charge for not answering the officer’s questions. “I thought enough about it that I was willing to go to jail for it,” Clark said.