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YESTERYEARS FOR MONDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2008

Monday, December 1, 2008 10:03 AM CST

65 Years Ago

December 1, 1943

Horace Bryan Whyte, 33, popular young business man of Pine Bluff, died early Wednesday morning at his home, 920 W. Thirty-fifth avenue, from illness lasting several months.

He was the son of Mrs. Chester E. Whyte of Pine Bluff and the late Mr. Whyte.

Farmers of Jefferson County were urged today by H.E. Trulock, secretary of the county farm bureau, to limit their planting of cotton next year due to labor shortage and uncertainty as to the future of the world and national market.

48 Years Ago

December 1, 1960

LAS VEGAS — Little people can handle big jobs. That’s the theme of a convention that by all odds is one of the zaniest this gambling resort has seen. Bartenders, blackjack dealers and bellboys are baffled by the comings and goings of 300 men and women “no bigger’n a minute,” as one said.

It’s the first annual convention of the National Association of Little People of America.

Hundreds of school children, parents and school officials attended the Book Fair held in the auditorium of Lakeside School this week.

Those attending were: H.W. Reasoner, Mrs. Hazel Watkins, Mrs. Ira Cherry, Dorothy Nell Jones, chairman, Roy Scoggins and Mrs. Hazel Dabney.

Some students browsing through the books were: Nancy Gay Owen, Carolyn Caperton, Ned Scallion and LeAnn McNulty.

25 Years Ago

December 1, 1983

Ruth Elizabeth Greenberg will be called up as a bas mitzvah at the Temple Anshe Emeth, 40th Avenue and Hickory Street at 8 p.m. tomorrow.

Miss Greenberg is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Greenberg of 2406 W. 39th Avenue.

The bas mitzvah ceremony is celebrated at the age of 13 and marks the acceptance of adult religious responsibilities. The bas mitzvah is the equivalent, for girls, of the bat mitzvah for boys.

This is to be the first bas mitzvah in the 117-year history of Temple Anshe Emeth.

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