LITTLE ROCK — 100 YEARS AGO Feb. 16, 1913
Governor Robinson yesterday signed the bill which substitutes electrocution for hanging, and as soon as a death chamber is erected and equipped at the penitentiary, legal hanging will be abolished in Arkansas. In the future all criminals will be electrocuted at the penitentiary instead of hanged in the county where the crime was committed.
50 YEARS AGO Feb. 16, 1963
Desegregation of virtually all city-owned recreation facilities except the two swimming pools was ordered yesterday by Federal Judge J. Smith Henley, in a ruling resulting from a suit filed by 22 Negro residents against the city of Little Rock last March 8.The swimming pools apparently will remain segregated for the present. No specific mention of swimming pools was made in a petition for summary judgment filed by the plaintiffs last month, following the city’s admission that public facilities have been segregated at times.
25 YEARS AGO Feb. 16, 1988
FAYETTEVILLE - University of Arkansas researchers said Monday that they’re leading the worldwide race to produce a high-temperature superconductor material. To prove it, they showed off a bit of levitating superconductive material. The irregular disc, perhaps a quarter-inch in diameter, floated freely in the air above four small magnets in a paper cup filled with liquid nitrogen. Dr. Allen Hermann, chairman of the UA physics department and the superconductor project director, said the demonstration is proof the new superconductor works.
10 YEARS AGO Feb. 16, 2003
More than 600 people gathered on the lawn of the state Capitol Saturday to protest a possible war they say appears inevitable and also appears to be gathering more opposition at home and abroad. The rally was one of many throughout the nation and world against possible U.S. plans to attack Iraq. New York, Philadelphia, Chicago and Seattle had similar, albeit much larger, protests. A protest in Rome that attracted about a million people was the largest.
Arkansas, Pages 10 on 02/16/2013