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100 YEARS AGO Feb. 13, 1914

Veterans of the Blue, their wives and daughters, had as their honored guests veterans of the Gray and their families at a banquet at Hotel Marion last night, commemorating the 105th anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln. Under the auspices of McPherson Post No. 1, Grand Army of the Republic, the banquet marked perhaps the most ostentatious celebration of an anniversary of Lincoln’s birth ever conducted in Little Rock. A fitting program, with Judge John W. Blackwood the principal speaker of the evening, followed the spread. He referred to the many different characteristics of Lincoln’s life and reviewed at length the scenes of his boyhood, his early political life and struggles, his fight as president to save the nation, and his tragic death.

50 YEARS AGO Feb. 13, 1964

Someone apparently had a rough ride up the Capitol front steps last night. Secretary of State Kelly Bryant discovered skid marks and pieces of vehicle scattered from W. Capitol into a hedge on the Capitol lawn. Bryant said that Joe Walhower, ground superintendent, made the discovery at 7 a.m., when he came on duty. Bryant was checking with wrecker services and police.

25 YEARS AGO Feb. 13, 1989

Although few new buildings have them, fallout shelters are alive and well, still in place should they ever be needed. The shelters are “still very much around but the focus is on peacetime use,” said Lee Collard, a spokesman for the Office of Emergency Services. The shelters became popular in the 1950s and 1960s when there was widespread fear of nuclear war as a result of tension between the United States and the Soviet Union. The shelters were built into post offices, schools, and high-rise buildings.

10 YEARS AGO Feb. 13, 2004

A group of University of Arkansas students last fall planned to exchange beer for votes at a party the night of a student fee election, according to an e-mail obtained by the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. The Fayetteville campus’s student Senate stopped the two-day election Nov. 18, just hours before the party was supposed to take place. The Democrat-Gazette obtained a copy of the e-mail through the state Freedom of Information Act. The e-mail directed students to help handle beer kegs, even if they were under the legal drinking age of 21, and to “kick … out” any students who didn’t vote for the proposed fee to support the UA debate team.

Arkansas, Pages 12 on 02/13/2014

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