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Sunday, February 3, 2013

— 100 YEARS AGO Feb. 3, 1913

The Civic church of Little Rock is no more. The end came yesterday when the Rev. Robert Goldsmith, the manager, resigned in disgust after the audience had filed from the Kempner theater just as he was preparing to deliver a lecture on “The Evangel of Efficiency.” In all the history of the Kempner theater, perhaps never has a more dramatic situation been portrayed upon its stage than when the Rev. Mr. Goldsmith, surprised and angered, hurled derision at his departed audience and attacked the Chamber of Commerce and City Council for failure to lend financial support to the Civic church.

50 YEARS AGO Feb. 3, 1963

Hempstead Rep. Talbot Feild would make Mount Holly Cemetery in Little Rock a state shrine under HB269 which he introduced today. The Feild measure directs the State Publicity and Parks Commission “to enter into the necessary agreement with the city of Little Rock to resume responsibility and management” of the cemetery. The cemetery dates from about 1843 and there are buried in it 10 governors, 12 justices of the Arkansas Supreme Court, three United States Senators, a United States attorney general, five Confederate generals, David O. Dodd and many figures of territorial history.

25 YEARS AGO Feb. 3, 1988

Calling legislative efforts to pass an ethics bill a sham, a coalition of interest groups said Tuesday it is time to start thinking about an initiated act. A collection of political activists claiming to represent 23 public interest groups gathered in a committee room at the state Capitol on Tuesday afternoon. They denounced legislative actions that they said had severely weakened the original ethics legislation.

10 YEARS AGO Feb. 3, 2003

HOXIE - Jeff Brady’s reign as mayor of Hoxie was short-lived. After leading the city for 29 days, Brady was ousted when a Lawrence County Circuit Court judge ruled last week that absentee ballots cast in November were illegal. After subtracting the invalid ballots from the election totals, former Mayor Paul Hendrix reclaimed his post.

Arkansas, Pages 16 on 02/03/2013