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100 YEARS AGO Aug. 5, 1918
MARIANNA in 12:15 resulted of and the three slight o’clock of mercantile from Bryan in brick damage the a lighted this — Frazier destruction buildings Fire establishment morning to candle about originating two others and store $60,000. was here. at destroyed, between The Mr. loss Frazier’s $50,000 along is estimated with Sims the and store the Leader of Davis store. & The on buildings the town’s were principal located street, Poplar street. It has not been learned whether insurance was carried on the buildings. The electric current for the city had been cut off, due to a break at the Arkansas Light and Power Company’s plant. Mr. Frazier lighted a candle, which in some way ignited his store.
50 YEARS AGO
Aug. 5, 1968
MIAMI BEACH — Arkansas Governor Rockefeller faces a revolt in his state delegation if he sticks to his strategy of keeping himself the favorite son through two presidential ballots. Leader of the opposition is Travis Beeson, a national convention delegate from Camden and Richard M. Nixon’s Arkansas campaign manager. Beeson, like most Nixon supporters, doesn’t believe the convention will go beyond one roll call of the states to name the former vice president the GOP nominee. However, Beeson made it clear to reporters
Sunday while the Arkansas caucus was taking place here that he would stick with the Arkansas governor only on the first ballot.
25 YEARS AGO
Aug. 5, 1993
• Two of the Department of Human Services’ more controversial division directors submitted their resignations this week, effective Friday. Judith Faust, director of the Children and Family Services Division, and Jan Thames, director of the Mental Health Services Division, both will leave the troubled department, DHS Director Tom Dalton said Wednesday. Neither Faust nor Thames was forced out, Dalton said. Interim directors will be named next week, he said.
10 YEARS AGO
Aug. 5, 2008
CASH Highway — and The Transportation Arkansas Department has found good homes for two free bridges. The department is removing historical bridges on either side of Cash in Craighead County when it widens Arkansas 226 and had offered the bridges, at no cost, to whoever wanted them. Highway officials will even chip in the cost of moving the spans, each more that 75 years old. The Girl Scout Council of Crowley’s Ridge and Jonesboro officials should receive the bridges in 2010, when they will be replaced as the Highway Department widens the road to create a four-lane corridor from Jonesboro west to U.S. 67.