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100 YEARS AGO June 12, 1918

PARAGOULD — Mrs. Ella Yarno, who recently returned from France, is visiting her sister, Mrs. J. H. Cloud, 10 miles west of this city. Mrs. Yarno was a Red Cross nurse and was working in a hospital just back of the French lines when the Huns shelled the hospital on the night of Feb. 11. Two nurses were killed and several others were wounded. Mrs. Yarno was among the wounded. She was blinded and was unconscious for some time. She was sent to Camp Taylor, Ky., where an operation was performed, which restored her eyesight.

50 YEARS AGO June 12, 1968

Police officers returned Tuesday to the place in Grant County where the body of Ronald Edward Lovelace Sr., 21, of 820 Abeles Street, a Yellow Cab driver, was found Monday night but they found no new clues. Sheriff Frank Mackey of Pulaski County said. Mackey said the results of an autopsy performed Tuesday at the University of Arkansas Medical Center would not be available for several days. Lovelace, a Negro, who had gone to work for the cab firm May 14, was reported missing June 3 after he failed to return home after a night’s work.

25 YEARS AGO June 12, 1993

The Gentleman’s Club 70 opened Friday night in North Little Rock against the wishes of some area residents and city officials. “We’re going to look this over with a fine-toothed comb,” Mayor Patrick Henry Hays said Friday. City officials said they had little notice that the club was opening this weekend with partially nude dancers. Hays has asked City Attorney Randy Morley to research the issue to see whether the city can do anything to restrict the activity. “When it comes to places like this, we are generally protected by the First Amendment. We’re within our constitutional right,” Michael Rosen, the club’s owner, said.

10 YEARS AGO June 12, 2008

Advocates for drug and alcohol treatment centers made a pitch for more funding Wednesday, more than a year after an alcohol tax increase died in a House committee. “By God, we need your help,” Bob O’Dowd, executive director of Quapaw House in Hot Springs, told the House and Senate Public Health, Welfare and Labor committees. Rep. Stephanie Flowers, D-Pine Bluff, asked how much more the 27 Arkansas centers need. “The bad thing is I did a projection and you’re probably talking $10 million … to make it right,” said Sonny Ferguson, director of treatment services at the state Office of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention.