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From: "Janice Reed" <>
Subject: [ARIZARD] 3rd post 6-13
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 12:56:14 -0500


Northwest Arkansas Times - Fayetteville, Arkansas - Tuesday, October 18, 1938 - Page 8

Calico Rock Boy Wins State Farmer Award From FFA

Kansas City, Oct. 18 (AP)-Jack Seay, Calico Rock, Ark., today won one of the coveted Star Farmer awards given annually to outstanding members of the Future Farmers of America. Young Seay will receive $100 in cash in addition to the honor bestowed at the annual convention of the FFA under way here. The Calico Rock boy, still in high school, is the owner of a 20-acre farm stocked with animals raised as part of his Future Farmer program. Jack will graduate in June, 1939, but now, in addition to his 2 acres of sandy loam soil, he owns four cattle, four horses, seven hogs, and 25 hens. He also has done work, with dairy cows, bees, corn, legumes, potatoes, cane and cotton. He has carried on an improvement project in shrubbery planting about the home. Because of frequent illness of his father, young Seay has had a good share of the responsibility of the-home place in addition to management of his own tract. He values his investment of $1100 and has earned over $1200 in his Future Farmer projects. A leader in community co-operative enterprises, Jack assisted in organizing a county poultry association, a community terracing program, a home improvement contest, purchase of group owned Jersey .and Guernsey bulls, establishing a game refuge and forming a local granary. He ranks in the upper fourth of hiss school class in scholarship. Seay said he planned to make additional purchases of land up to 400 acres.



Joplin Globe - Joplin, Missouri - Thursday, June 27, 1935 - Page 2

147 JASPER COUNTY BOYS TO CCC CAMPS

.According to instructions, the 147 youths from Jasper County were taken to the Roaring River camp near Cassville yesterday by a member of the local relief office staff. On arriving there, however, it was learned only four youths were to be assigned to the camp. Seventy-nine were to go to Fort Leavenworth, Kan., sixty-two to Calico Rock, Ark., and two to Mountainburg, Ark. The seventy-nine left from Exeter last night for Ft. Leavenworth, and temporary camps were established at Roaring River for those assigned to Calico Rock and Mountainburg pending the transfer there..those assigned to Calico Rock will be in Company No. 3743, and the two assigned to Mountainburg will be in Company No. 3740. Youths assigned to the Calico Rock camp (from Joplin) are as follows: Charles H. Adams, Gerald Allen, Jack Allen, Junior L. Annis, George A. Caldwell, Roger J. Campbell, Edgar R. DeWitt, Henry K. Downing, Jr., Burton V. Esterline, Paul L. Green, Tony Gronos, Charles L. Hendricks, Ernest G. Hensley, Lysle Hostetter, Charles F. Jones, Otis R. Jones, William H. Kates, Jimmy B. Knight, Carl E. Lakey, William C. McMullen, Herbert E. Needham, Gerald W. Parker, Albert L. Richards, Walter G. Scantlin, Thomas M. Shireman, Charles B. Snodgrass, Albert L. Storm, Charles Walch, Everett E. Wheeler, Warren E. Williams and Howard S. Wood. (From Carthage) - Ernest M. Baker, Leonard W. Crow, John M. Davis, Ino B. Dillion, Everett A. Ellsworth, Dearing P. Gilbreath, Frank W. Haggard, James W. Hatcher, Clayton Hensley, Joe H. Hunter, James McCurry, Herbert J. Marrs, Jesse E. Thornburgh, Bob M. Watters and Albert L. Wilson. (From Webb City) - Clyde W. Hatcher and Fred I. Nash. (From Western Rural District) - Virgil E. Bristow, Franklin E. Bryant, Vernon E. Clark, George Melvin Doubledge, Burel T. Downs, Don C. Gilbert, Gene Earnest Horn, Tom E. LaNier, Orvil Lee Mathis, George Nance, Walter R. Shaffer, Kenneth I. Steele, Oral L. Storm, Clark F. Thomas and Herbert Williams.



NOTE: This will be my last post of this kind. I have exhausted all my resources. But I'll be B-A-C-K-K-K--- when I find anything else concerning Izard County.


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