Arkla funds program to train unskilled workers
Arkla Petroleum and Gas Co chairman W R Witt Stephens announced a new $500000 program at the annual meeting to train unskilled and unemployed residents into qualified workers. The effort, funded from company earnings, marks a fourth obligation beyond customers stockholders and employees. Arkla noted it has created over 1500 permanent jobs and more than 2000 temporary construction roles in the last decade while operating in four states.
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Texas
Oklahoma
Kansas
Arkansas Leaders Push Codes and Growth in 1967 Arkansas
Hope Arkansas Star reports on Frank Whitbeck and Rep Marion Crank advocating county building codes and housing standards to curb unethical builders. Clarksville Port Authority leases 28 acres for a Dardanelle Reservoir river port as work to begin in months. Five Republican governors including Winthrop Rockefeller plan to meet in Little Rock to discuss GDP platform planks ahead of the national convention.
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Whitbeck
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Clarksville
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Moving Into Shanties in Washington
About 300 Poor People's Campaign members moved into Resurrection City near the Lincoln Memorial as hundreds more head toward Washington. Volunteers note neat shelters with skylights while leaders organize housing and kitchens for about 450 demonstrators. Abernathy led fundraising and logistics as he prepared to press Congress for jobs and income, meeting with Sen. Brooke and Rep. Diggs.
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Abernathy
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Congress
Edward W. Brooke
Mass
Charles C. Diggs Jr
D-Mich
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