100 YEARS AGO Feb. 18, 1914 MORRILTON - Fire, which broke out at 4 o’clock this morning in the lint room of the Morrilton Cotton Oil Company, destroyed the lint room, the press room, the engine room and the machine shops, causing a loss of about $50,000. It is thought that the fire was caused by a match head going through one of the linters.
50 YEARS AGO Feb. 18, 1964
An attorney for the State Welfare Department argued in a brief filed with the Arkansas Supreme Court today that Archie Cude of near Mena does not have the right to deny his children an education because of his religious beliefs. Cude and his wife are appealing to the Supreme Court from proceedings in the probate and chancery courts of Polk County in which Cude lost custody of three of his children because he would not have them vaccinated so they could attend school. Ivan H. Smith, the Welfare Department attorney, said in his brief that the courts have uniformly held that, while a person has a right to his own religious beliefs, he does not have the right to damage others, including his own children, as a result of those beliefs.
25 YEARS AGO Feb. 18, 1989
The Little Rock newspaper war moved into one room Friday when Arkansas Democrat Managing Editor John R. Starr and Arkansas Gazette Editor Walker Lundy debated. The two spoke to the Arkansas Press Association convention at the Robinson Center Exhibition Hall in Little Rock. In opening remarks about newspaper philosophies, Lundy talked about the long history of the newspaper and said the Gazette told the news without favoring anyone. Starr, meanwhile, used his opening remarks to question the Gazette’s news judgment and accuracy on certain topics, using a slide show that featured Gazette stories. His aim was to point out the difference between the Democrat and the Gazette. When Lundy said Starr had used his time to talk about the Gazette, Starr replied thathe preferred to discuss the present and future - not the past.
10 YEARS AGO Feb. 18, 2004
The 15-year saga of Summit Mall ended Tuesday. With an election looming to decide the fate of the proposed west Little Rock megamall, Simon Property Group officials confirmed what many have suspected for years. Summit Mall “will not be built under any circumstances,” Tom Schneider, Simon executive vice president for development, said in a Tuesday morning release.
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