THIS DATE IN ARKANSAS HISTORY 2-Dec 1996 Governor Huckabee in speech to Arkansas Agriculture Council blasts, Wacko environmentalists, who get out of their concrete towers one weekend a month and go look at a tree. 2-Dec 1998 Wayne Nichols found not guilty of disorderly conduct by Bentonville Municipal Court, holding that flipping the bird to Arkansas State Trooper did not constitute fighting words. 2-Dec 1986 Ellen B. Brantley, 38, a professor at the UALR Law School and former Assistant Attorney General, appointed by Governor Bill Clinton as Chancellor and probate judge of the Sixth Judicial District. 2-Dec 1903 Birthdate of Alfred E. Smith at Hot Springs. Founder of the Capitol Press Club in Washington, DC. 2-Dec 1920 Birthdate of Dr. Marian Ruth Kruse Breland Bailey, founder of the I.Q. Zoo in 1955 at 380 Whittington Avenue in Hot Springs. 2-Dec 1924 Sebastian County coal miner F.C. Bratcher electrocuted by 250 volts while checking faulty lights in mine. Altus Coal Company denied widows claim saying drivers duty is to pull coal, not to fix lights. 2-Dec 1957 Arkansas Supreme Court say mine operators, who breached contract with UMWA miners on payments to Welfare and Pension Fund and vacation bonus pay, cannot claim strike to excuse royalty payments. 2-Dec 1998 About 900 union members gathered at the Wal-Mart headquarters at Bentonville for a march to repeat criticisms that Wal-Mart pays low wages and is stingy with benefits. 2-Dec 2003 State Office of Long Term Care ended the Medicaid agreement with Northwest Nursing Center in Fayetteville after finding 68 violations during five visits to the nursing home from May through October.
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