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100 YEARS AGO

Nov. 10, 1913

HUNTSVILLE — Hill Burns, the owner of the telephone system from here to Springdale, is the first man in Huntsville to own an automobile. Business men here are becoming interested in cars and it is expected that practically every business man in town will be in the market for an auto when spring begins.

50 YEARS AGO

Nov. 10, 1963

Tomorrow is the day a deer hunter lives for. Before the sun sets Monday evening many a boy will bag his first buck and many an old-timer his last. It will be a time for listening to the hounds trumpet in the dawn shadows and every stump will look like an 8-point buck. Many an eye will strain to scan the hardwood ridges, pin oak flats and pine scented delta deer areas. “Surely I won’t see a deer,” many a hunter will think to himself. “Other people see deer, but I won’t”… until he comes bursting out of a thicket, big as life, and not looking like a stump at all. In old South tradition, tomorrow will be the day to mark a man’s first deer with the brand of a bloody thumb on his forehead. True, a gory custom, but an unforgettable one. For those that miss, there is a ragged shirt tail hanging on the wall as a reminder to everyone of a golden opportunity that was flubbed.

25 YEARS AGO

Nov. 10, 1988

Schools that don’t do their job should get the “death penalty,” Rep. Jodie Mahony of El Dorado told a legislative committee on education budgets Wednesday. And other legislators said the public wants to start seeing evidence that schools are doing their job before it will be willing to pump significant amounts of new tax money into them. The topics came up as Mahony made a pitch for a new remedial education program before the Legislative Council’s Subcommittee on the Education Budget.

10 YEARS AGO

Nov. 10, 2003

Little Rock had the third-highest crime rate in the nation last year among cities with 100,000 or more residents, according to data from an FBI report. While Little Rock’s crime rate increased 22 percent, the rates for the country as a whole and for cities of similar size fell slightly in 2002. Among cities nationwide with populations between 100,000 and 249,999, the crime rate fell 0.08 percent, according to the FBI’s Crime in the United States report released in late October. Little Rock’s dramatic crime rate increase comes after several years in which the crime rate mostly fell.