LITTLE ROCK — 100 YEARS AGO Jan. 26, 1913
HARRISON - Pink Killebrew of Olvey, near Harrison, has prepared a plat of land in that town for the raising of skunks for the market. The skunk hide brings more money in the fur market than that of any other animal in this section, except possibly the mink, and their breeding it is thought will be a profitable business. Such a farm on a larger scale exists about one mile from Zinc.
50 YEARS AGO Jan. 26, 1963
A glaze of ice put Arkansas on its worst footing in years today. The deceptive, thin slickness forced stores to close, caused a rash of minor accidents and fall injuries and even closed down a radio station. Little Rock police were working from behind a backlog of accident reports and had recorded 71 of them by mid-morning.Sgt. T.B. Anderson of the department said streets were in the worst condition he could remember.
25 YEARS AGO Jan. 26, 1988
U.S. Rep. Tommy Robinson, D-Ark., skipped President Reagan’s State of the Union address Monday night, and friends who roasted him in Little Rock wouldn’t let him forget it. His roasters were former governors Frank White and Orval Faubus; A.L. “Art” Lockhart, director of the state Department of Correction; political columnists Meredith Oakley of the Arkansas Democrat and John Brummett of the Arkansas Gazette; and Pat Lynch of radio station KARN-AM 920. White thrust the strongest jabs, sparing none of the other roasters. He called Lockhart “the Rambo of the South,” and swung a strong barb at Lynch. “When I look at Pat Lynch, I know why some animals eat their young,” White said.
10 YEARS AGO Jan. 26, 2003
Arkansas is one of the few states in the nation where the gap between the rich and the poor did not grow wider during the 1990s. That finding comes from an analysis of Census Bureau data conducted by the Economic Policy Institute, a non-profit think tank in Washington, D.C. The study found that during overall prosperity in the 1990s, the rich got richer, concentrating a greater share of the nation’s wealth into fewer hands.
Arkansas, Pages 12 on 01/26/2013