LITTLE ROCK — 100 YEARS AGO Dec. 12, 1912
FORT SMITH - “Your honor, I want to go to jail, so I can get a temporary cure for drinking whiskey,” said Vance Hamilton this afternoon when brought before Justice Clifton to answer to a charge of stealing an over coat. He declared he could not stop drinking as long as he was free, and his theft of the overcoat, which he admitted, was due to craving for liquor. He further stated that the jail or sanatorium were the only places he knew of that would stop his drinking, and having no money to take the Keeley cure he would appreciate a jail sentence. He was accommodated by a sentence of 25 days in the city jail.
50 YEARS AGO Dec. 12, 1962
Little Rock’s coldest Dec. 12 in weather keeping history was recorded at 7 a.m. today. A reading of 8 degrees was put into the Weather Bureau record book. The previous record for this date was an 11-degree reading in 1917, officials said.
25 YEARS AGO Dec. 12, 1987
JACKSONVILLE - Forty to 50 children will fly to the “North Pole” today to visitSanta Claus. The children are current and former cancer patients of the Central Arkansas Radiation Therapy Institute in Little Rock. They will board two C-130 cargo planes around 11 a.m. at Little Rock Air Force Base and fly for about an hour, then go to a hangar decorated as the “North Pole.” “It will be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for some of these children,” said Capt. Jim Bates, base public affairs officer.
10 YEARS AGO Dec. 12, 2002
A group of southwest Little Rock residents are miffed that a single-wide mobile home behind a home at 65th Street and Mabelvale Pike is being classified as a storage shed, making it permissible by the Planning Department.City Director Joan Adcock took her campaign to get rid of the mobile home to City Hall on Tuesday, asking City Attorney Tom Carpenter to do something about it. The structure meets the definition of an accessory building because its plumbing has been removed and no one lives there. “Why not use abandoned autos for utility buildings, just take out the batteries or a seat?” Adcock’s husband, Jack, wrote in the letter given to Carpenter.
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