Hope, 1953: The most famous person to come out of Hempstead County is pictured next to the teacher in this first-grade class photo. Referring to the future-President Bill Clinton, the back of the card said he was "a deep thinker and a bookworm." The average Arkansas teacher s salary at the time was around $2,000 a year. Card courtesy of Arkansas Post Card Company.
Hope, 1953: The most famous person to come out of Hempstead County is pictured next to the teacher in this first-grade class photo. Referring to the future-President Bill Clinton, the back of the card said he was "a deep thinker and a bookworm." The average Arkansas teacher s salary at the time was around $2,000 a year. Card courtesy of Arkansas Post Card Company.
State Rep. Danny Watson, R-Hope, on Wednesday called it "a flat out lie" for state Sen. Jimmy Hickey, R-Texarkana, to charge that a senior staffer in Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders office told Watson he would get an appointment on the state Post Prison Transfer Board if he, Watson, found a replacement for himself in the House that the governor s office would approve of and "if they did not have to fund a lot of money into this SW Arkansas race."
State Rep. Danny Watson, R-Hope, on Wednesday called it "a flat out lie" for state Sen. Jimmy Hickey, R-Texarkana, to charge that a senior staffer in Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders office told Watson he would get an appointment on the state Post Prison Transfer Board if he, Watson, found a replacement for himself in the House that the governor s office would approve of and "if they did not have to fund a lot of money into this SW Arkansas race."