100 YEARS AGO Dec. 12, 1913
Little Rock, regardless of the success or failure of the effort to retain licensed saloons, will be without saloons for the first 10 days of the new year, if the advice of attorneys representing the liquor interests is followed. The provisions of the Going liquor law, which becomes effective at midnight December 31, make it necessary that the signatures to petitions to the county judge be published at least 10 days prior to the court’s action on the petition. “This means,” says Attorney Morris M. Cohn, who, with W. L.Terry, represents the liquor interests in Little Rock, “every day will be Sunday for a time, at least.”
50 YEARS AGO Dec. 12, 1963
Gov. Faubus said today he had been advised that Ft. Chaffee is one of the defense establishments scheduled for closing and added, “I am for it if it is an honest economy move.” Faubus said he got this information yesterday from Rep. Wilbur Mills of Kensett after he telephoned Mills about such a rumor around Fort Smith. “If President Johnson is interested in real economy and balancing the budget then I am for him and I am for his program,” Faubus told a press conference today.
25 YEARS AGO Dec. 12, 1988
Arkansas leads the nation in corporal punishment of public school students, according to a study released Sunday by the National Coalition of Advocates for Students. Arkansas also ranks first in the disparity of percentages of black and white students paddled, the NCAS report said. The report, which is based on 1986 data collected by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, also shows that Arkansas ranks second nationally in the percentage of students assigned to classes for the mentally retarded. The state is also second in the disparity of black and white students in such classes.
10 YEARS AGO Dec. 12, 2003
Magic Springs and Crystal Falls, the only family amusement park in the state, has applied for a state permit to sell beer and wine at concerts and private functions, a move that has upset some area churches. “A lot of our churches supported them and went out there,” said Ken Barnard, speaking for the 14,000-member Central Baptist Association. “We might avoid going there now.” Barnard said his organization, with headquarters in Benton, consists of 50 Southern Baptist churches in Garland, Grant, Hot Spring and Saline counties, prime drawing areas for the Hot Springs park. He said the group opposes beer sales at the park now as it did in 2000.
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