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100 years ago

May 24, 1918

MENA -- The Grand Jury today returned an indictment charging Eli Daffron with first degree murder. Tomorrow the jury will consider the case of his brother, Mike Daffron. It is charged that the two brothers killed A. D. Boatner Saturday, April 28, in the community where all three lived, on the Arkansas-Oklahoma line west of Grannis. The Daffron brothers are Germans and Boatner was a director of the school district. In this capacity he called on the Daffron brothers, as he had been asked to do by federal authorities. He requested them to sign pledges promising to raise all the food and feed stuffs consistent with good farming. A quarrel followed and Boatner was shot twice in the back.

50 years ago

May 24, 1968

• Mrs. Mildred Saunders Woods, who as food home and garden editor of the Arkansas Gazette from 1949 to 1965 became almost an Arkansas institution, died by her own hand Thursday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. George F. Bartsch. She was 61. Mrs. Woods had been in steadily declining health since before her retirement, suffering from emphysema. She rarely left her home and recently had been hospitalized. The police said that Mrs. Woods died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound about 4:15 p.m. the body was found by her daughter.

25 years ago

May 24, 1993

• It is widely believed that some families suffer when abused children are placed in state-supported foster care. Consequently, the state of Arkansas is implementing a family preservation program that would end such "disruptive fragmentation," a national expert on the issue said Sunday. Roger Friedman, a Maryland psychologist and social worker, is one of several child welfare experts lecturing this week at the 1993 Southern Region Training Conference of state social workers and foster families.

10 years ago

May 24, 2008

• North Little Rock has received approval to begin testing a 5-foot-long, remote controlled helicopter that it hopes to someday use to fight crime. But a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration, which regulates the use of such aircraft, said the city would have a "significant hill" to climb before it is allowed to use the helicopter in populated areas. The city wants to use the $60,000 helicopter, equipped with surveillance cameras, to patrol parks, trails and street corners in the city.

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