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100 YEARS AGO Feb. 14, 1923

■ Dogs and other domestic animals now can be protected from rabies by vaccine injected into their blood, according to Dr. C. W. Garrison, state health officer, who announced that the Department of Public Health has made arrangements with the Lederie & Co. antitoxin laboratories to furnish the vaccine at a cost of $1.25 a treatment. This is a recent medical discovery, Dr. Garrison said, and is based on the Pastuer method of treatment and prevention … The Lederie method is an American process.

50 YEARS AGO Feb. 14, 1973

■ Senator Robert Harvey of Swifton got no support in the State Agencies and Governmental Affairs Committee of the state Senate Tuesday for his bill (SB 355) to re-establish the patient quota system for clinic and emergency visits at the University of Arkansas Medical Center… Harvey’s bill was the law between 1950 and 1963 when each county had a monthly quota of patient visits and beyond that, it had to pay for the visits. Harvey said it would give the Medical Center a little more bargaining power with Central Arkansas counties, mainly Pulaksi County, in its effort to get them to help pay for the hospital operations. He said Little Rock was the only city its size in the nation that did not operate a charity hospital. Instead, it depends on the state to furnish one at no cost.

25 YEARS AGO Feb. 14, 1998

■ A bill to put metal detectors at the entrances of the state Capitol received a lukewarm reception Thursday from members of the Joint Budget Committee. House Bill 1645 by Rep. Marian Owens-Ingram, D-Warren, would appropriate $17,182 to buy detectors and $70,000 in fiscal 1998 and $71,960 in fiscal 1999 to pay four employees to operate them. State Capitol Police Chief Rick Elmendorf told the committee that the detectors would be installed at the east and west entrances … He said there hasn’t been a security problem. He wants to take a proactive approach, he said. Sen. Mike Everett, D-Marked Tree, and Rep. John Miller, D-Melbourne, said detectors are unnecessary. The committee postponed action on the bill to collect more information.

10 YEARS AGO Feb. 14, 2013

■ Just a year after the announced cancellation of Jacksonville’s long-running Wing Ding, the city has come up with a new offering: the Jacksonville FestiVille. Scheduled for June 21 and 22 in Dupree Park, the event is being organized by Jacksonville Parks and Recreation. “Jacksonville has had a festival since the ’80s, with the exception of last year,” said Dana Rozenski, city recreation coordinator. In the past, the fest had gone by many names, including Music, Mums and Muscadines or, most recently, Wing Ding. But after 13 years, Wing Ding was canceled in early 2012 after the 2011 festival resulted in a $12,000 loss, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported … Following the cancellation, Mayor Gary Fletcher approached the parks department about creating something new.