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Friday, January 4, 2013

— 100 YEARS AGO Jan. 4, 1913

Plans are being prepared by a local architect for a 15-story skyscraper to be built at the southwest corner of Second and Center streets, the site being property formerly owned by Bishop John B. Morris. According to present plans, the structure will occupy ground space 60x150 feet and is expected to be the finest office building in the state.

50 YEARS AGO Jan. 4, 1963

There will be no charge to register for voting under Arkansas’ new voter registration law, due to replace the now controversial poll tax system. A subcommittee of the Arkansas legislative council said today it wanted to get away from the $1 charge for the poll tax as now collected. The state will have to appropriate funds for the initial registration of voters and after that the counties will bear the expense.

25 YEARS AGO Jan. 4, 1988

HOT SPRINGS - Hot Springs plans to boost local tourism with a national oriented advertising campaign that begins airing today on the Cable News Network and the Nashville Network. “It’s uncharted territory for Hot Springs,” Lee Schissler, executive director of the Hot Springs Convention & Visitors Bureau, said Sunday. In the ads, viewers see scenes of Hot Springs lakes and mountains while the Mama Cass song “Dream a Little Dream” plays in the background.

10 YEARS AGO Jan. 4, 2003

MARKED TREE - It would have to be suckers. Dum-Dum suckers at that. Michael Brown, 33, of Marked Tree pleaded innocent Friday in Poinsett County Circuit Court to burglary charges involving break-ins at the Marked Tree Bank and Craft’s Jewelry. But police say the trail of evidence is pretty convincing. Brown broke into the downtown bank after hours on Nov. 16 by smashing in the door, police said. The bank’s security cameras showed that the intruder got away with a clock radio, a compact disc player and a handful of Dum-Dum suckers, the hard candy on a stick that the bank gives to patrons’ children. The next morning, police followed a trail of Dum-Dum wrappers down Frisco Street, across railroad tracks and to a mobile home park where Brown lives.

Arkansas, Pages 13 on 01/04/2013