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100 YEARS AGO May 30, 1917

TEXARKANA — News of a bloody fight in the west part of Bowie County, Tex., Sunday night, reached here today. It is said that a preacher cut two men with a knife so badly that one of them may die of his wounds. It is said that the preacher, the Rev. Mr. Meredith of the Holiness church, rebuked a young woman in the congregation for alleged misbehavior and that after the service her father, James Cunningham, and a friend named Walker, protested to the preacher.

50 YEARS AGO May 30, 1967

PINE BLUFF — The bodies of a brother and his two sisters who apparently drowned Saturday while swimming in the Arkansas River about 15 miles north of here were recovered Monday. Authorities identified them as Ervin Ray Smith, 20, Donna Sue Smith, 15, and Ruth Ann Smith, 14, all of Jefferson, (Jefferson County) Lock and Dam No. 5.

25 YEARS AGO May 30, 1992

■ Teen-age dabblers in satanism and the occult cause more problems for police than full fledged Satan worshippers, an expert on the subject said Friday. Yet the problems may not be as widespread as some people believe, said Ron Holmes, a criminal justice professor at the University of Louisville in Kentucky. “There’s some kind if national paranoia going on,” said Holmes, who serves as a national consultant in serial murder cases. “I don’t think we have that big of a problem.” Holmes addressed about 50 law enforcement officials, social service workers and students at a daylong Criminal Justice Institute Seminar at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.

10 YEARS AGO

May 30, 2007

■ Little Rock’s Animal Services Advisory Board will meet today to decide whether residents should be allowed to keep pygmy goats as pets and to discuss a possible ban on pit bulls. The public will be able to participate in the decision on the pygmy goats, but the pit-bull discussion is an informal one for board members only. The public is invited to listen to that discussion, but public comments will not be heard, said Tracy Roark, Little Rock Animal Services manager. Roark said Tuesday that he was compiling information for the nine-member board to consider in the pit-bull discussion. The information will include area ordinances, breed- and nonbreed-specific opinions from animal groups and bite reports, he said.