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100 YEARS AGO June 24, 1913

Another day has slipped by and still returns from Saturday’s Democratic gubernatorial campaign are too incomplete to determine who has been nominated, but Stephen Brundidge of Searcy yesterday cut down George W. Hays’ lead to a bare 770 votes, with four whole counties and scores of precincts yet to report. As the governor’s race continues neck and neck, it becomes more and more apparent the official count will be necessary to determine who has won and back of that fact lurks the strong possibility of a contest. Both camps charge the vote has been padded in certain counties and talk of a contest is heard more frequently hourly.

50 YEARS AGO June 24, 1963 PINE BLUFF - Four Negroes sat in the white section of a Pine Bluff movie theater (Malco) Friday night. Theater Manager Bruce Young said there was no incident. The Negroes saw a double feature. Young said there were about 150 white persons in the downstairs section and about 40 Negroes in a balcony customarily reserved for their race. Young said President Kennedy’s recent appeal for desegregation of movie houses was responsible for the action.

25 YEARS AGO June 24, 1988

Gov. Bill Clinton Thursday proclaimed Sunday a “Day of Prayer for Rain” in the face of a “prolonged, unrelenting drought.” Clinton issued a proclamation asking “all our citizens who so desire to join me in prayer for rain … (to) replenish our water supply and nourish our land.” Clinton said the drought is causing great damage to the state’s farms and is forcing restrictions on water use in communities throughout Arkansas.

10 YEARS AGO June 24, 2003 FAYETTEVILLE - The advisory board that oversees the museum at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville declared Monday it will fight to keep the museum open.The museum’s longtime director led the charge. “The fight has been engaged,” University Museum Director Johnnie Gentry Jr. told the 10-member advisory board. Gentry gained vocal support from all of the advisory board members, who said they’d work together in an effort to save the 130-yearold museum. Meanwhile, state Sen. Sue Madison, who represents the district that includes UA, criticized the university’s decision to shutter the museum. “It is absolutely outrageous they would choose to close a museum,” Madison said Monday.