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100 YEARS AGO Dec. 29, 1913

For the purpose of aiding in the formation of a movement intended to bring about a close relationship between fathers and sons all over America, Mayor Taylor of Little Rock, in company with hundreds of other heads of cities the country over, has issued a New Year proclamation to the fathers and sons of the city asking a sounder relationship of families and the upbuilding of community interests. The father and sons movement is of recent origin, but is gaining in popularity all over the country, and this New Year will see hundreds of proclamations issued by mayors of the larger towns and cities of the United States.

50 YEARS AGO Dec. 29, 1963

Arkansas Baptist Hospital will hold open house from 3 to 5 p.m. today in its new 134-bed surgical patient area. The newly opened area, constructed at an estimated $1.1 million, is directly above the surgery pavilion and occupies two new floors on the north side of the hospital. With the opening of the new 134-bed area, 100 beds in the old section of the hospital have been closed down to permit remodeling.

25 YEARS AGO Dec. 29, 1988

Walt Patterson, director of the state Department of Human Services, said Wednesday he will retract a memo that told his deputies how to avoid turning back money to the treasury. “The memo could have been written a lot different. I think it could have been interpreted wrong,” Patterson said Wednesday of a memo written to division heads by Scott Howard, director of the department’s Division of Finance. The memo was criticized by Gov. Bill Clinton and his chief fiscal officer Mahlon Martin. Patterson plans today to circulate a “clarification memo” that would retract Howard’s request for lists of “nice to have” items in the event DHS gets extra money to spend, the DHS chief said.

10 YEARS AGO Dec. 29, 2003 CONWAY - With a tight city budget, three failed sales tax proposals and no firm promise of funding from state or federal transportation sources, the future of a project to create a western loop around Conway is uncertain at best. A topic of discussion since the mid 1970s, the loop project would connect with Interstate 40 near Exit 129 between Mayflower and Conway. It would run west toward Toad Suck and then reconnect with I-40 west of Exit 125. It’s been touted as the solution to much of the city’s growing traffic problems in fast developing west Conway.

Arkansas, Pages 16 on 12/29/2013

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