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Posted on Friday, July 25, 2008
URL: http://www.nwanews.com/adg/News/232293/
100 YEARS AGO
July 25, 1908 TEXARKANA — At a congregational meeting of the Arkansas Presbyterian church of which Rev. F. E. Maddox is pastor, a large majority of the congregation voted to withdraw, with the understanding and the avowed purpose of organizing a Congregational church. This action of the congregation comes as a sequel to the trial and conviction of Dr. Maddox of heresy by the Ouachita presbytery two weeks ago.
50 YEARS AGO
July 25, 1958 Gov. Faubus denounced two former governors of Arkansas and his two opponents in some of the most blistering terms he has used in his campaign. He said sarcastically that former Gov. Francis A. Cherry, in urging his defeat “wanted to make it appear that I’ve done something to hurt us in the eyes of the Communists.” And he said Cherry’s statement “may have been written” by Harry S. Ashmore, executive editor of the Arkansas Gazette, and sent to Cherry through presidential assistant Sherman Adams. He charged that during the Little Rock integration crisis last fall former Gov. Sid McMath spent his time in the Headliners Club at Little Rock “consorting with my enemies and trying to discredit me.” He asserted that while he was fighting in World War II, Judge Lee Ward, one of his opponents, was in an air-conditioned office in Hawaii “fighting the war with a pencil.” And he said Chris Finkbeiner, the Little Rock meatpacker who is opposing him, was building a new meatpacking plant in a place where he could get cheap labor and pay low taxes. 25 YEARS AGO
July 25, 1983 Hillary Clinton, chairman of the State Education Standards Committee, said that she wants to eliminate overcrowded classrooms so public school teachers couldn’t use them as an excuse for substandard teaching. 10 YEARS AGO
July 25, 1998 CONWAY — When Sandi Doherty, an area manager for the Children and Family Services Division of the state Department of Human Services, finished serving a twoday sentence for contempt of court, she was picked up by Gov. Mike Huckabee and taken home. Huckabee said he wanted to show support for a state employee he believes was wrongly jailed. “I wanted to express to her my appreciation for her as a person and as someone who had been singled out for what a judge considered contempt, but there was certainly contempt shown for Sandi in her treatment,” Huckabee said.