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100 YEARS AGO Dec. 23, 1917
FORT SMITH — Price Pardin, age 20, married, is dead, and Charles Dewberry is seriously injured as the result of the first fatal mine accident that has occurred in Sebastian County for several years. Pardin was killed and Dewberry injured early this morning by runaway coal cars in the Peacock Coal Company’s mine, three quarters of a mile east of this city. The cars, six in number, composed the first trop of the day’s work. They had reached about 20 feet from the top of the slope, when the cable broke and they ran back into the mine gaining terrific speed and running over Pardin and Dewberry, who were 500 feet from the top of the mine.
50 YEARS AGO Dec. 23, 1967
A Christmas salute honoring American servicemen in Vietnam will be held on Christmas Day on the second floor rotunda of the State Capitol. Governor Rockefeller, who will recognize Arkansas servicemen during the ceremony, has invited all families with sons serving in the military overseas and all other interested persons to attend. Beginning at 11 a.m., the ceremony will include servicemen, recently returned from Vietnam, representing all branches of the armed forces.
25 YEARS AGO Dec. 23, 1992
HUNTSVILLE — A Madison County teenager faces arraignment today on a charge he killed his mother, then tried to mask her death as a suicide, authorities said. Burl Harvey, 16, allegedly shot his mother with a .22 caliber rifle as she was hiding in a bedroom closet, Madison County Sheriff Ralph Baker said. The teen then pulled the body face up onto the bedroom floor and tried to make it appear as if she killed herself, he said. “(The rifle) was laying in the arms with her hand on it,” the sheriff said.
10 YEARS AGO
Dec. 23, 2007
Nothing could keep 3-year-old Jordan Nixon from Santa’s lap Saturday. The Little Rock girl darted straight from the front door to the Man in Red in the rear of the room. She hopped up onto his lap and whispered into his beard as parents and teachers hovered, taking pictures. The party Saturday was for visually impaired babies and toddlers who attend the Arkansas School for the Blind’s early intervention program. It was held by the school and the Arkansas affiliate of the National Association for Parents of Children with Visual Impairments.