Arkansas Newspaper
United States Newspaper Program
The USNP has supported projects in each of the fifty states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Each project is conducted by a single organization within a state or territory, usually the state's largest newspaper repository. A project's staff inventories holdings in public libraries, county courthouses, newspaper offices, historical museums, college and university libraries, archives, and historical societies. Catalog records are entered into a national database maintained by the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) and accessible through more than 43,500 dedicated computer terminals worldwide. Microfilm copies of newspapers are generally available to researchers anywhere in the country through inter-library loan. ... [Read More]
Arkansas Post National Memorial - The Arkansas Gazette
published in Little Rock is not a direct descendant of Woodruff's newspaper, it represents the legacy of Arkansas' first newspaper. Read the ... [Read More]
War Memorial Stadium - Little Rock, Arkansas
Note - Some of the information contained herein was obtained from the War Memorial Stadium Staff, the Arkansas Department of Veterans Affairs, old newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, programs and photographs stored in historical archives. ... [Read More]
FULBRIGHT, James William - Biographical Information
FULBRIGHT, James William, a Representative and a Senator from Arkansas; born in Sumner, Chariton County, Mo., April 9, 1905; moved with his parents to Fayetteville, Ark., in 1906; attended the public schools; graduated from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville in 1925, as a Rhodes scholar from Oxford University, England, in 1928, and from the law department of George Washington University, Washington, D.C., in 1934; admitted to the District of Columbia bar in 1934; attorney, United States Department of Justice, Antitrust Division 1934-1935; instructor in law, George Washington University 1935, and lecturer in law, University of Arkansas 1936-1939; president of the University of Arkansas 1939-1941; also engaged in the newspaper business, in the lumber business, in banking, and in farming; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-eighth Congress (January 3, 1943-January 3, 1945); was not a candidate for renomination in 1944; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1944; ... [Read More]
History
The first person elected by the legislature is best known for printing the first newspaper in Arkansas in November, 1819. William E. Woodruff, founder of the Arkansas Gazette, served as Treasurer of Arkansas from 1836 until 1838. Treasurers were elected by legislature until the Constitution of 1874 called for the State Treasurer to be elected by popular vote. The first woman to be elected as a Constitutional Officer in Arkansas was Mrs. Nancy J. Hall. In the race, she carried every county in the state by a two and one-half to one majority. Mrs. Hall served longer than any Treasurer in state history, from January ... [Read More]
ARKANSAS: Buckle Up For Bucks
On a predetermined, confidential day, STAT members invited the local media to each of the three Buckle Up For Bucks sites. At an appointed time during the day, as motorists used the drive-through windows of participating businesses, those who were buckled up received $5 for being properly restrained. Occupants of vehicles who were not wearing seat belts as they drove through the businesses received reminder cards containing a Lifesaver© candy and the message Safety Belts are Lifesavers Too—Please Wear Yours, provided by another program sponsor, the Pulaski County Youth Accident Prevention Program. Each of the events received extensive coverage from local television and newspaper affiliates. ... [Read More]
U.S. Newspaper Indexes at the Library of Congress
The researcher using this list is cautioned that not all newspapertitles held by the Library of Congress are indexed; however, earlyU.S. newspapers often covered areas much larger than just thetowns where they were published. The user is further cautioned that few indexes are complete, and many errors and omissions can beexpected. ... U.S. Newspaper Indexes at the Library of Congress Home Page ... The format of the entry follows that of the Library's printed catalogcard including the classification number and an indication of the holdingsin the Newspaper and Current Periodical Room. ... [Read More]
Arkansas Post National Memorial - The History of Arkansas Post
Artist's conception of the first Arkansas Post, 1686. This painting was part of a series done by a St. Louis newspaper commemorating the 100th aniversary of the Louisiana Purchase. ... [Read More]
AESD - Disaster Unemployment Assistance
A "major disaster" means any natural disaster (including hurricane, tornado, storm, flood, high water, wind-driven water, tidal wave, earthquake, drought, ice conditions, fire or other catastrophe) declared by the President to warrant federal government assistance to communities and individuals. After the President makes the declaration and defines the disaster area (if DUA benefits are made available), the Arkansas Employment Security Department announces the filing period and issues filing instructions for DUA applications in a newspaper of general circulation and other news media. ... [Read More]
Moving to IndependentChoices: The Implementation of the Cash and Counseling Demonstration in Arkansas
In Arkansas, direct mailings to recipients of Medicaid PAS appear to have been the most effective approach to generating enrollments. State program staff consider the direct mailings to have been much more cost-effective in generating enrollments than the public service announcements. Perhaps because personal assistance was carefully defined in later direct materials, state staff report that a larger proportion of those calling the toll-free number after later mailings were eligible for IndependentChoices than were those calling after the initial governor's letter. In contrast, public service announcements generated a lot of interest in the cash program, but many of those interested proved to be ineligible. State staff viewed newspaper articles as more cost-effective than public service announcements in generating enrollments but less cost-effective than direct mailings. They reported, however, that copies of newspaper articles were useful additions to direct mailings; the articles of ... [Read More]
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