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Wednesday, December 25, 2013

100 YEARS AGO Dec. 25, 1913

MOUNTAIN HOME - Harve Anglin who lives west of town in the Pilgrim Best neighborhood was tried here today on a charge of breach of peace, committed over the telephone. It is alleged that from some point in his neighborhood he gave Marshall Curry of Cotter a “cussing” over the rural wires. Several women who happened to have the receivers down at the time heard the burning message conveyed to Curry over the wire and were today witnesses. Anglin has had trouble with Marshall Curry before. It is alleged that on one or two occasions he used the concrete sidewalks of Cotter to exercise his horse.

50 YEARS AGO Dec. 25, 1963

A four-day old snow fought doggedly against rising temperatures to stay around long enough to give Arkansas a white Christmas. Highways were open and streets were passable in Little Rock except for early travelers who found that hills were hard to negotiate until the sun thawed them out. By midmorning State Police reported highways “clearing up fast.”

25 YEARS AGO Dec. 25, 1988

June Mitchell in Saudi Arabia got a surprise Saturday - a 45-minute call from her son Barrington Bailey in Little Rock. A grandfather in Boise, Idaho, answered the phone to hear “I love you” from his 9-year-old granddaughter Ginny Millican and “Merry Christmas” from 6-yearold granddaughter Mary Millican. The calls were a Christmas present from the U.S. Associates Inc., a Little Rock investment banking firm at Sixth and Louisiana streets. Anyone who didn’t have Christmas Eve plans was invited to eat dinner at company offices and use the firm’s telephones Saturday.

10 YEARS AGO Dec. 25, 2003

Arkansas’ teen birthrate dropped sharply again last year, continuing a decade-long trend, according to data released this month by the National Center for Health Statistics. About 60 out of every 1,000 Arkansas teenage girls between 15 and 19 gave birth during 2002, a number almost 7 percent below that of the previous year. Since 1991, the teenage birthrate in Arkansas has fallen 25 percent. Even with the relatively steep drop, Arkansas still has one of the highest birthrates in America. Nationwide, 43 out of every 1,000 teens gave birth in 2003. Child advocates and medical officials say better access to birth control and increased efforts to promote abstinence account for much of the state’s decrease.

Arkansas, Pages 16 on 12/25/2013