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100 YEARS AGO Sept. 11, 1913

PINE BLUFF - All the patrolmen in the city service went on a strike tonight, and now Pine Bluff is almost without police protection. Chief of Police Frank Stewart and Assistant Chief Fiveash were the only members of the department who did not resign. The action of the officers in handing in their stars and clubs was due to their inability to cash the city warrants given them as pay for the month of August. It was stated that the banks and merchants, who have been taking the city script, are refusing to do so because of the threatened reduction of the city’s revenues in the coming year, which will be lessened nearly $30,000 if the saloons are closed and the state goes “dry.”

50 YEARS AGO Sept. 11, 1963

Eugene (Bull) Connor, former Birmingham, Ala., public safety commissioner, pleaded with Little Rockians last night “to fight this thing” (integration). “You can’t win if you’re in the wrong,” he said, “but if you’re in the right, you can’t lose - and we’re in the right.” Speaking before about 130 members of the Capitol Citizens Council at Coachman’s Inn, Connor lambasted familiar targets from “the Kennedy Clan” to “those so-called Negro preachers and reverends” leading the integration movement. During his hour-long speech, he also fired off individual salvos of denunciation at such diverse personalities as the late Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt and Negro comedian Dick Gregory.

25 YEARS AGO Sept. 11, 1988

BRINKLEY - A field partly owned by Rep. Tommy Robinson, D-Ark., has allegedly been baited to attract federally protected migratory birds to the site to be hunted, the Arkansas Democrat has learned. Robinson denies the allegations. He said Friday that no hunting has been done at the field.The state Game and Fish Commission investigated the allegation starting Sept. 3 in response to a complaint, and officials of the agency said no hunting was done at the site. However, Democrat reporters found spent shotgun shells, plastic shell wads and bird feathers among the wheat scattered in the field.

10 YEARS AGO Sept. 11, 2003

Little Rock employees and residents will gather this morning at City Hall to remember the events of Sept. 11, 2001. A 10 a.m. ceremony at 500 W. Markham St. will give participants a chance to pay respects to those who died in terrorist attacks on New York City and the Pentagon and in a Pennsylvania air crash two years ago.

Arkansas, Pages 16 on 09/11/2013

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