100 years ago
June 22, 1917
• Mrs. O. F. Ellington, chairman of the Equal Suffrage State Central Committee, in speaking of the "silent sentinels" who have been picketed for some time about the White House grounds in behalf of the women suffrage cause, yesterday said that the Equal Suffrage State Central Committee is not in any way affiliated with the Congressional Union, which picketed the sentinels with their banners, but is an auxiliary of the National American Woman Suffrage Association founded in 1848, and is very much opposed to the partisan methods employed by the Congressional Union.
50 years ago
June 22, 1967
BAUXITE -- The handful of residents left in this placid little mining community just east of Benton were informed this week that as of July 1, 1969, Bauxite will cease to exist. The Aluminum' Company of America (Alcoa), which owns the town lock, stock, and barber and beauty shop, sent letters to the 27 families which still occupy homes in Bauxite, where during World War II upwards of 12,000 persons worked around the clock to produce desperately needed bauxite ore for the aluminum industry.
25 years ago
June 22, 1992
• Kirby Stough of Maumelle contends that the closing of a North Little Rock treatment center almost resulted in the death of his 18-month-old daughter, who suffers from a birth defect. He says the state Department of Human Services is to blame for the closing. "This facility was forced to shut down," Stough said. "And it could have cost my daughter her life." Bob Sterling, owner of the Arkansas Skilled Care Center in North Little Rock, closed 12 beds reserved for medically fragile children May 4 because the center was operating in the red. He said the facility was losing money because Medicaid would not pay the costs to care for the children and their multiple medical needs.
10 years ago
June 22, 2007
• The 21-year-old driver of the getaway car in last summer's slayings of two teenagers at North Little Rock's McCain Mall threw himself on the mercy of the court Thursday, pleading guilty to two counts of first-degree murder. In exchange for his plea, prosecutors reduced the charges against Norman Angelo Dednam -- the third and final defendant to be tried in the case -- from two counts of capital murder and dropped a third charge of committing a terroristic act.
Metro on 06/22/2017