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100 YEARS AGO May 30, 1918
With Senator Robinson’s renomination assured, the feature of the election news this morning is the radical change in the race for state treasurer. During Tuesday night Joe Ferguson led Ernest Tipton steadily and by a margin of about 2,000 votes, but last night Tipton jumped into the lead and this morning is 6,921 votes ahead of his opponent.
50 YEARS AGO May 30, 1968
The state Senate killed the Rockefeller administration’s mixed drink bill decisively Wednesday. Senator Q. Byrum Hurst of Hot Springs, the sponsor of SB 17, afterward put much of the blame for the defeat on Governor Rockefeller. He said he had enough votes Friday to pass the bill but Mr. Rockefeller’s remarks about the legislature in a telecast Saturday and afterward had alienated supporters of the bill. “They just weren’t going to pass anything he’s for,” Hurst said. “And he’s honest in this.”
25 YEARS AGO May 30, 1993
Every summer, homeowners dread the day when they finally give in to the heat and flick on the air conditioning, a decision they eventually feel in their wallets when the monthly electric bill arrives. With situations like this, utilities across Arkansas expect the demand for electricity to keep going up. But energy planners are hoping that existing power plants, some of which will be refurbished, and conservation can meet residential, commercial, and industrial needs for the next two decades.
10 YEARS AGO May 30, 2008
The Arkansas Supreme Court threw out the death sentence Thursday of a man who was convicted of committing a murder over money lost in a three-card monte game, hinging its decision on a 68-year-old ruling that retaking gambling losses by force can’t be aggravated robbery. The court opinion written by Justice Robert L. Brown upheld the capital-murder conviction of Michael B. Daniels in the stabbing death of James Williams in a Warren gas station in January 2006. But the court’s 6-2 decision also reversed Daniels’ aggravated-robbery and capital-felony murder convictions, ordering further proceedings.