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100 YEARS AGO Dec. 7, 1918
HOPE – Governor Brough spoke here today to a large audience in support of the new constitution. Time was divided with J.O.A. Bush, ex-state senator. The governor’s speech was well received and O.A. Graves of Hope, a member of the Constitutional Convention, spoke briefly in support of the proposed constitution.
50 YEARS AGO Dec. 7, 1968
The Arkansas law requiring mills, mines, shops and factories to suspend work or change shifts by 4 p.m. on election day so that their employees may vote does not apply to commercial establishments like department stores, the attorney general’s office said Friday. Labor Commissioner Thomas R. Stover asked whether the word “shops” in the law applied to department stores, discount houses, ice cream parlors, automobile repair facilities and similar establishments. The opinion, written by Assistant Attorney General James C. Johnson, said that the intent of the 1907 law was to provide an opportunity to vote for employees of businesses that must continuously operate machinery or that require constant service by the employees.
25 YEARS AGO Dec. 7, 1993
FORT SMITH – A Sebastian County couple plans to sue the Fort Smith School District for allegedly depriving their son of a public education because their religious beliefs and practices prohibit childhood immunization shots. “We were both taught as children and adults from the Bible and from the churches that we attended that it is contrary to the teachings of the Bible to introduce such foreign substances as used in immunizations to our bodies or the bodies of our children,” Hazel and Mack Lineberry of Barling said in a typed affidavit dated Oct. 21. …The district excluded 12-year old Joshua Lineberry from attending Barling Elementary School in March after his parents unsuccessfully attempted to secure a medical exclusion from the state Health Department.
10 YEARS AGO Dec. 7, 2008
A recession that has sapped wealth and swelled the ranks of the needy has put the world of charity on a trail of worry — from crowded food pantries to the richest foundation boardrooms… As this year’s giving season hits its stride, Arkansas charities already are planning for budget cuts, grant freezes and lighter handouts. “You can’t do what you can’t pay for,” said Salvation Army Maj. Harvey Johnson, whose eight-county central Arkansas region … is in the early days of its red-kettle campaign. The kettle effort — that typically collects customers’ loose change at storefronts but now includes a Web-based component — is on pace with last year’s roughly $300,000 take, Johnson said. But the individual donations that make up the bulk of its $4.5 million in direct public support are lagging “way behind.”