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100 YEARS AGO May 5, 1914 STUTTGART - A lightning bolt late this afternoon crashed through the roof of the residence of Andrew Voss on South Grand avenue, flashed through a room occupied by Mrs. Voss and her child, and, after burning a portion of the linen on a bed and scorching the pages of a book in the mother’s hands, left mother and child unhurt, but badly frightened. About $25 will cover the damage to the residence.

50 YEARS AGO May 5, 1964 MEMPHIS - Winthrop Rockefeller, the Arkansas Republican gubernatorial candidate, said here Monday that Gov. Faubus “hurt my feelings” with charges that his Democratic primary opponents were being supported with Republican money. Rockefeller made the statement in a brief talk to a group of Young Republicans at Southwestern at Memphis, a Presbyterian college. Rockefeller said if he had planned to support Democratic candidates, they would be better known. Faubus faces four political unknowns in the primary. “Actually, I think the governor spoke from a guilty conscience,” Rockefeller said. “I had heard reports he planned to field a Republican to make my summer anything but boring.” Rockefeller said he expects to beat Faubus in the November election,adding: “The only thing unbeatable about Faubus is his adroitness as a politician.”

25 YEARS AGO May 5, 1989 RUSSELLVILLE - An Arkansas Supreme Court decision Monday may result in some couples having to remarry and adopt their children to make them legitimate. Chancellor Richard Mobley of Russellville, whose ruling in a Pope County case was overturned and remanded by the Supreme Court, said he didn’t know how many couples or children might be affected. The Supreme Court, in a 4-3 decision, ruled that a Russellville couple were not married legally because they wed before the woman’s divorce decree was filed in the chancery clerk’s office.

10 YEARS AGO May 5, 2004

Gov. Mike Huckabee announced a new initiative Tuesday to reduce obesity, tobacco use and physical inactivity in Arkansans within two years, but he offered no set program details or funds to achieve those goals. The initiative, known as Healthy Arkansas, “is really about creating an entire momentum for our culture of health that no state has ever attempted before,” Huckabee said at a news conference. The program establishes three main goals for the state - reducing obesity, smoking, and physical inactivity.

Arkansas, Pages 10 on 05/05/2014

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