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100 YEARS AGO May 28, 1917

BLYTHEVILLE — Fifteen people, all but three of them white, are known to be dead, and many are seriously injured, as the result of a destructive tornado which struck Mississippi county about 4 o’clock this afternoon, leaving a trail of deaths, injuries and complete devastation in its wake and completely disrupting wire service over a wide area. Among the injured are several whose wounds probably will prove fatal, and it is expected the death list will exceed 25.

50 YEARS AGO May 28, 1967

Unwed motherhood itself is no ground for excluding persons from public housing projects, federal Judge J. Smith Henley has ruled in a suit filed by two negro women with illegitimate children. But Judge Henley found that the Little Rock Housing Authority, against whom the suit was filed in what was believed to be the first such test in the nation, was not required under the United States Constitution, the Public Housing Act or Arkansas law “to permit the facilities to be operated as brothels or places of assignation” nor was it required to “tolerate criminal activities within the facilities, or disorderly conduct, or conduct amounting to a nuisance or which seriously violates ordinary standards of decency.”

25 YEARS AGO May 28, 1992

A Little Rock couple are expecting their first child in November thanks to Arkansas’ first successful embryo freezing procedure. The technique, known as human embryo cryopreservation, is part of the in vitro fertilization program at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. The couple, who requested anonymity, entered the UAMS in vitro program after two years of unexplained infertility.

10 YEARS AGO May 28, 2007

When relatives of Rachell Ludwick and Michael Williams remember the two Arkansas residents who died in a traffic accident earlier this month, they say they remember loving people who were close to their families, who each spent hours helping an ailing grandmother in recent years. But those memories, they say, are overpowered by the bitter thought that the man police say caused the accident that killed Ludwick, 20, and Williams, 37, is on the loose despite a history they say should have landed him in jail.