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100 YEARS AGO Feb. 12, 1919

■ Billy Bales, Little Rock restaurant proprietor, was arrested by E. V. Visart, United States game warden, on the charge of having violated the migratory bird treaty act. Nine ducks, which are said to be wild ducks, were seized by Mr. Visart, who is holding them in cool storage pending Bales hearing before W.B. Allen, United States Commissioner, next Monday.

50 YEARS AGO Feb. 12, 1969

NEWPORT —“Brownbagging”” is being practiced flagrantly at Oaklawn Park racetrack where beer is sold, and a justice of the peace here has asked the attorney general’s office why the track shouldn’t be closed for this violation of Arkansas liquor laws. Ellis Huff of Union Township, the JP, sent a letter to Attorney General Joe Purcell Monday saying that many persons had reported the brownbagging, the practice of carrying a bottle of liquor in a paper sack. Huff said this was in open defiance of an attorney general’s opinion and a ruling of the state Alcoholic Beverage Control Board that liquor, even brought in by the bottle cannot be consumed on premises where beer is sold.

25 YEARS AGO Feb. 12, 1994

■ A 35-year-old Little Rock man was killed in a freak sledding accident Thursday night when another sled collided with his on River Mountain Road. Sledding accidents sent several children and adults to Little Rock area hospitals Thursday, but no other deaths were reported. Hospital spokesmen said more than 50 people, injured after falling on the ice, came to emergency rooms…Vincent “Vince” Evans Thomas of 2373 Amherst Drive died of injuries he suffered sledding Thursday night. A Suzuki 4-wheel-drive vehicle was pulling Thomas up River Mountain Road on a sled about 8:30 p.m. when the vehicle swung to the left, police said. Thomas veered to the left behind the car, police said. But Greer Flake, on a sled coming down the hill, didn’t see Thomas and slammed into Thomas half a mile north of the Cantrell Road intersection.

10 YEARS AGO Feb. 12, 2009

■ A Little Rock city director is questioning a panel’s recent recommendation to sell Ray Winder Field to the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences because the medical school’s presentation included a brief mention of its financial offer. City Director Brad Cazort asked City Attorney Tom Carpenter for an opinion on UAMS’ proposal and whether showing a slide mentioning UAMS’ $1.1 million offer for the midtown baseball stadium disqualified the medical school plan from consideration. “I think that’s a violation” of the specifications laid out in the city’s request for proposals, Cazort said during a meeting.