THIS DATE IN ARKANSAS HISTORY 8-Jun 1896 Marie Dawson, 6, hit by train in Woodruff County. Skull crushed, leg severed, entrails protruding, looked like a bundle of rags. St. Louis & Iron Mountain Railway says not their fault; childs father to blame for not warning her. 8-Jun 2006 U.S. Senator Blanche Lincoln is one of three Democrats to vote for the failed motion to proceed with repeal of the federal estate tax on multi-millionaires. Mark Pryor voted against the motion. 8-Jul 1918 Machine Gun Company, Fourth Arkansas Infantry, dispatched to Cleburne County to assist local sheriff in the apprehension of draft resisters and slackers. 8-Jul 1940 Walter Manning convicted in Texarkana for insulting the flag by distributing a magazine with federal court opinion. 8-Jul 1944 Democratic Party of Arkansas revises Rule II and eliminates white only requirement for party membership. 8-Jun 1878 Rev. J. L. Denton preached baccalaureate sermon of one hour and fifteen minutes at Arkansas Industrial University, discussing Darwins theory of evolution and natural selection and attributing to Gods design. 8-Jul 1949 Federal Judge Harry Lemley orders that DeWitt School District provide equal educational facilities for Negro students, including suitable desks, indoor plumbing, and length of school terms. 8-Jul 1951 Harold Flowers of Pine Bluff announces that he intends to file federal lawsuits seeking integration of elementary schools in Union, St. Francis, Conway, Jefferson, and Cleveland Counties. 8-Jul 1952 Congressman Boyd Tackett, campaigning for governor, landed helicopter on the grass of MacArthur Park in front of the bandshell about 7 p.m. Minnie Pearl and Hank Williams entertained before his speech. 8-Jun 2007 Legislative Audit reports Judy Bryant, administrative assistant to Ouachita County Judge Mike Hesterly, spent $150,603 using a county credit card on unauthorized personal items at Wal-Mart. 8-Jun 1994 Holly McGee of Marion elected Governor of American Legion Girls State. Supported censoring student newspapers, said curse words and disrespect of school officials have no place in high schools. 8-Jul 1949 Ed McCuistion, director of Negro education of the state Department of Education, reported that Arkansas spends $ 93 annually for each white student and $ 51 for each Negro student. 8-Jul 1976 Federal Judge Paul X. Williams orders eviction of Gene Nance and 23 other people from his house at Grannis where they had been waiting 9 months for the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. 8-Jul 1986 Federal Judge Harry E. Claiborne, native of McRae, conviction and two year sentence for income tax evasion upheld by United States Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. 8-Jul 1990 State Representative Mike Wilson of Jacksonville, former attorney for Hercules, says that dioxin contamination of soil and water is a public relations problem not a public health problem. 8-Jul 1994 About 30 protesters arrested for criminal trespass while blockading the Arkansas Health Counseling for Women clinic at 5326 W. Markham St., Little Rock. 8-Jun 1920 The parish of the Annunciation received a state charter, under the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan of Detroit, the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of North America, and the Ecumenical Patriarch in Constantinople.
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