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LITTLE ROCK — 50 YEARS AGO July 29, 1962

If predictions of the gubernatorial candidates two days before the primary are realized, Arkansas will have the most unusual governor’s race in any state’s history. One man - Gov. Faubus - will win with 58 percent of the vote or about 232,000 votes, according to Faubus’ campaign manager, State Sen. Clarence Bell. The other five candidates, according to themselves or their managers, don’t see it that way. They say there will be a run-off, and they’ll be in it.

25 YEARS AGO July 29, 1987

Gov. Bill Clinton on Tuesday blasted Pulaski County Sheriff Carroll Gravett for chaining inmates to trees at a state prison in Pine Bluff Monday, but Gravett firmly stood by his actions. “I don’t know what precipitated it,” Clinton said in Traverse City, Mich., when reporters asked him about the incident at the closeof the 79th National Governor’s Association meeting. “I don’t think it was a very smart thing to do. If we have been reduced to stunt-pulling, there’s a lot of stunt-pulling the Board of Correction could do,” Clinton warned, without elaborating.

10 YEARS AGO July 29, 2002

Pulaski County is among 10 Arkansas counties to split $2.15 million in federal money aimed at aiding emergency response to terrorism and biological or chemical hazards. The money, set up before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks but enhanced with additional amounts to meet potential threats, comes from the Justice Department’s Office of Domestic Preparedness and the Arkansas Department of Emergency Management.Emergency departments will use the money to buy and train with equipment needed for events involving weapons of mass destruction, such as biological or chemical weapons.