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100 YEARS AGO

Dec. 23, 1917

FORT SMITH — Price Pardin, age 20, married, is dead, and Charles Dewberry in 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, 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.

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.