In the spring of 1967, at the end of his senior year at Fair Play High School in Polk County, Jim Lowery believed the best way to escape the limited employment opportunities of his rural community was through an education.
My maternal grandparents grew up in the Depression-era poverty that surrounded the lumber mills around Ashdown, Arkansas. When World War II ended, and my grandfather came home from the front lines in Europe, there was no work in the Texarkana area. He and his young family moved to northeastern Oklahoma where he found a job at the newly opened BF Goodrich tire factory.
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The State Fair Community College Speech and Debate team had the tournament champion for debate and were named the “Top Community College” at its opening competition last weekend at Southwest Baptist University in Bolivar.
Well-treated chickens lay the best eggs, CEO Alex Worley believes, and his premium free-range brand stakes its business on it. And he s not above a little crowing about how business is going.