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100 YEARS AGO Dec. 17, 1913 HOT SPRINGS - When the City Council convenes Monday night it will be for the purpose of passing the new license ordinance, which contains the agreement entered into between the Executive Committee representing those having in charge the petitions for licensed saloons for next year, members of the City Council and County Judge Robert H. Mooney. The ordinance specifies that all saloons must close at midnight and remain closed until 5 o’clock in the morning; that there must be no wine rooms; that violation of the Sunday law, or ingress or egress between the hours provided for closing, as well as violation of any of the other provisions of this ordinance, means an immediate forfeiture of the license.

50 YEARS AGO Dec. 17, 1963 PINE BLUFF - The city of Pine Bluff almost doubled its area today and added an estimated 5,000 residents in the wake of a state Supreme Court mandate issued yesterday. The area of the city was increased from nine to almost 17 square miles. The population was increased to an estimated 50,000. The court refused to rehear an appeal by W. S. Rogers of the Dew Drop community, who has opposed annexation of 7.5 square miles instate courts for two years.

25 YEARS AGO Dec. 17, 1988

North Little Rock Mayor Terry Hartwick thanked residents for their foresight in a 20-minute dedication ceremony Friday for the $88 million Murray Hydroelectric Generating Plant. The ceremony was watched by a former NLR mayor and a future NLR mayor with an active stake in the plant. They were former Mayor Reed Thompson, who Hartwick said “got the ball rolling” in 1984, and Mayor-elect Patrick Henry Hays, who will take office the day after the first of 360 monthly $973,680.21 bond payments is due.

10 YEARS AGO Dec. 17, 2003

Arkansans who discovered a coat of mud on their cars Tuesday morning can blame Texas. A dust storm in west Texas on Monday “transported a huge amount of dust into the air,” said Robert Darby, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service’s office in Tulsa. That dirt then mixed with rain and fell on Arkansas on Monday night and early Tuesday morning. “I’ve gotten a few calls on, ‘Why was my car dirty this morning?’” said John Lewis, a senior forecaster with the National Weather Service in North Little Rock. Such muddy rain happens once every few years, Lewis said.

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