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100 YEARS AGO May 28, 1912 It now begins to look as if City Attorney Harry C. Hale may not heed “the call of the breakers” at Atlantic City, as he anticipated when he composed a formal application to the City Council for a month’s vacation. Some of the aldermen who have examined the document profess to see a technical flaw which might make the granting of the leave of absence unconstitutional. For instance, it is held that without the guiding hand of the city attorney during these several days there is a possibility that the municipality might founder on the rocks of law, and the refuse wash ashore on the breakers of technicality. 50 YEARS AGO May 28, 1962 A 19-year-old woman and a Little Rock Air Force Base Airman were fined $27 each in Little Rock Municipal Court today on charges of petting in a public place. Marianne Williams, 1922 W. Short 17th, North Little Rock, and Guadalupe D. Flous, 26 were arrested by police at the bus station at Markham and Main. They were charged under a city ordinance. 25 YEARS AGO May 28, 1987 TUCKERMAN — Jeanie Lea Morris, 27, wife of Tuckerman Police Chief Dickie Morris, is to appear June 15 in Newport Municipal Court to answer a number of charges — including an accusation that she bit a Newport policeman. Mrs. Morris was arrested at 3 a.m. May 3 and charged with one count of possession of a controlled substance, one count of operating a motor vehicle under the influence of drugs, one count of resisting arrest and two counts of assaulting an officer. 10 YEARS AGO May 28, 2002 SPRINGDALE — The collapse of the Interstate 40 bridge near Webbers Falls, Okla., was getting the blame Monday for service blackouts to some Northwest Arkansas wireless communication customers. The bridge, which collapsed Sunday morning after barges slammed into a piling, carried a fiber-optic link used by telephone companies, paging systems and computer networks.