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100 YEARS AGO July 6, 1913 BIGELOW - During a speech by Prosecuting Attorney Robert L. Rogers at the Fourth of July celebration, a fight resulted in Marshal Houk landing in jail, but not through the usual route. Jim Harris and Ernest Kinney were the fighters and Marshal Houk arrested Kinney. Kinney resisted and the marshal clubbed him into submission, then led him to town. When the officer arrived a party of citizens took Kinney from the marshal and placed the officer in jail in his stead. Marshal Houk was released after about three hours.

50 YEARS AGO July 6, 1963 FAYETTEVILLE - Thirteen liquor and beer retailers have been arrested for violating a city ordinance against selling intoxicants on the Fourth of July. Mayor Guy Brown, whose administration had not enforced the statute in recent years, said he couldn’t understand why the dealers were arrested and said it would be “silly” to try them. Police Chief Hollis Spencer and City Atty. Bass Trumbo took the position that the ordinance is on the books and should be enforced. Brown said the ordinance was void under a 1956 attorney general’s opinion which said that state law prohibited sale of liquoron Sundays, Christmas and election days and cities are not empowered to further restrict the days of sale.

25 YEARS AGO July 6, 1988

The state Department of Human Services won legislative approval Tuesday to spend $200,000 to provide fans to the qualified poor, although lawmakers criticized administration of the program. The Joint Legislative Committee on Energy agreed to spend $200,000 to purchase the fans from the Stripper Well Fund, which is court settlement money paid by oil companies as compensation for underpaid royalties. The money will be paired with $200,000 made available last week by Gov. Bill Clinton from his emergency fund.

10 YEARS AGO July 6, 2003 EAST END - More than 60 East End residents protested Saturday a recent drive to incorporate this rural Saline County community. The residents say incorporation would lead directly to heavy taxation. East End’s needs already are being met without incorporation, they say. “We don’t want a local government out here,” said Larry Thiel, chairman of the group, which calls itself Citizens Against Incorporation of East End. “We moved to this district to be free of that.”

Arkansas, Pages 14 on 07/06/2013

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