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— 100 YEARS AGO Jan. 14, 1913

NEW YORK - “Women of Arkansas will win the ballot in 1914,” declare the officers of the National Woman Suffrage Association, who have prepared a chart showing the date when, they are determined, the states that have not already fallen will capitulate in the fight for equal rights. “And more,” they say, “the fight is on right now.” Mrs. Mary Ware Dennett, who is executive secretary of the association, has spent all her spare time for the last month in the Law Library studying the constitutions of states, to find out just when the suffrage bill may be brought up and what course it will have to take before it materializes into votes for women.

50 YEARS AGO Jan. 14, 1963

A German television network crew is in Little Rock filming the city’s integration story five years after it happened in 1957. It will be seen by some 25 million viewers in West Germany within the next few weeks. The crew said that the Little Rock story would depict this city as having successfully integrated.

25 YEARS AGO Jan. 14, 1988

Records of the Razorback Scholarship Fund at the University of Arkansas - at least records kept this week - are public under state law, Attorney General Steve Clark said Wednesday. In one of the most awaited attorney general opinions in years, Clark also said that records of “similarly situated” private foundations assisting branches of state government are subject to the state Freedom of Information Act. The catch in Clark’s opinion - as it applies to the scholarship fund, anyway - is that records the organization started keeping Tuesday would not be subject to the law. Clark said his opinion applies only to organizational records created before Jan. 12, 1988.

10 YEARS AGO Jan. 14, 2003

The state Board of Education cleared the way Monday for the formation of Conway’s first charter school by approving an application made by a nonprofit academic group against the wishes of the Conway School District. The new school, headed by former Conway resident and native Leroy McClure Jr., will enroll up to 120 students in the 2003-04 session.

Arkansas, Pages 8 on 01/14/2013

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