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Wednesday, December 5, 2012

— 100 YEARS AGO Dec. 5, 1912

IMBODEN - One hundred men, women and children walked out of the button factory at Black Rock yesterday afternoon when the foreman forbade them to buy hot tamales from a little orphan boy who made his living by selling them on the streets. The trouble first arose last week when the little boy peddled his stock of hot tamales in the factory. The foreman ordered him out of the factory and forbade his returning. Yesterday he returned and stopped near the door. The laborers went out and bought tamales again. When they returned the foreman told each one to weigh up his buttons and leave. They walked out in a body.

50 YEARS AGO Dec. 5, 1962

Patrons of the Pulaski County (rural) School District have paved the way for two new elementary schools and a high school and also retained John L. Ulmer as a board member. Total unofficial returns from yesterday’s election showed that the 3-mill tax for the proposed construction carried by 1,690 to 946. At the top of the priority list are new elementaryschools at Sylvan Hills and a new high school at Mabelvale.

25 YEARS AGO Dec. 5, 1987

FOUNTAIN HILL - Two teachers in Ashley County will find out Monday if they no longer will be suspended for refusing to tell their students to write Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Jane Graves and Kay Hammil, teachers in the Fountain Hill School District, were suspended with pay Wednesday for refusing to order their students to write letters to Gorbachev as part of an effort by Sen. David Pryor, DArk., to persuade the Soviet leader to visit Arkansas.

10 YEARS AGO Dec. 5, 2002

Gov. Mike Huckabee got an earful of complaints Wednesday, on his first radio call-in show since the election, from Arkansans upset that he has proposed a sales tax increase. He blamed his call for the increase on court decisions, federal mandates on programs such as Medicaid and the fact that “people want things” from government. “It’s the old classic - everyone wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die,” Huckabee said.

Arkansas, Pages 14 on 12/05/2012