50 YEARS AGO — After a tornado struck at Simmons, neighbors helped clean up the debris at the F.B. Armstrong home at Simmons. The Armstrongs posed in front of an uprooted tree in the yard of their home. "It's a miracle we weren't killed," Armstrong said. It was the fourth twister he had experienced. The others were in St. Louis in 1896, 1927 and 1932. He was a retired railroad worker who moved to the county 15 years earlier.

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