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— 100 YEARS AGO July 26, 1910

Little Rock hotel men do not take kindly to the transfer of the Cotton Belt railway’s passenger terminal from this city to Argenta. The opinion is general among them that smaller hostelries will lose more by the change than would the larger ones, yet that it will mean some loss to all of them was agreed. That the change is an injustice to the Little Rock hotels and will prove of great injury to them was vehemently expressed by J.R. Frazier of the Merchants’ hotel, who said he expected to inaugurate a protest against it.

50 YEARS AGO July 26, 1960

Arkansas Republicans will stay with the South if an expected fight develops here over civil rights, the chairman of the state GOP delegation vowed today. Wallace Townsend of Little Rock said this after hearing Vice President Richard Nixon make a plea to the delegation for party unity. Nixon told a joint meeting of the Arkansas, Tennessee and Kentucky delegations that a party platform has to be one “which can be presented to the entire United States.”

25 YEARS AGO July 26, 1985

Republican Party Chairman Bill Kelly said Thursday that Gov. Bill Clinton was “grandstanding” by announcing he will seek reelection 16 months before the November 1986 general election. The governor announced he will seek a fourth term in office during a noon ceremony Tuesday at the Governor’s Mansion. He said he made the announcement early to put an end to widespread speculation that he would oppose Sen. Dale Bumpers, D-Ark., in a race for the U.S. Senate.

10 YEARS AGO July 26, 2000

A letter from Gov. Mike Huckabee hasn’t changed President Clinton’s belief that Arkansas children who are eligible for the state’s general Medicaid program should get its benefits, a White House spokesman said Tuesday. Huckabee’s three-page letter Monday to Clinton contended that the president may not have been given all the facts about the state’s request to continue to allow parents to pick a costlier, less expansive version of Medicaid. The general program favored by Clinton is free, whereas Huckabee’s ARKids requires some co-payments.

Arkansas, Pages 10 on 07/26/2010

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