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Blunt Answer. Part of Arkansas' economic growth was a natural result of the postwar boom. But a great deal of it was due to the energy of Ham Moses and the Arkansas Economic Council and community development program which he inspired. Until recently, Arkansas was especially celebrated as a butt for bad jokes by Northerners. In 1944, Ham Moses went to New York to sell $35 million worth of Arkansas Power & Light bonds, was laughed out of many a Wall Street office. He finally sold the bonds, but, he said: "Everybody thought we were just a state of hillbillies...
Last week, in Little Rock's Hotel Marion, "Ham" Moses threw a steak dinner for some 700 top Arkansans to report on progress and exhort his guests to still greater accomplishments. Arms waving, tangled grey hair falling over his eyes, Ham Moses ticked off some impressive statistics on Arkansas' ten-year growth...
Realizing that as Arkansas went, so went his power company, Ham Moses organized the economic council, a private organization, and got the state to set up a similar body. The two groups started helping communities help themselves, conducted "foreign" capitalists on tours of the state to show its progress. Nondrinking, nonsmoking Ham Moses became a modern-day Arkansas traveler, ran some of the tours himself in his chauffeur-driven Chrysler, which has a built-in ice box always stocked with Coca-Cola...
That's the experience story. But it's not the entire picture, for the top five round out with Corey's surprise of the season, Ham Graven. Ham hasn't played squash before, he was sidelined with a bum foot most of the early season, but with a "surprising come back" is undefeated in five starts. Bob Cook alternates between fifth and sixth only because "he misses that power or accuracy of top player," says Corey...
...same day controls on the prices and uses of cereals and livestock feeds will also end. This should mean more eggs, ham and bacon, because British farmers will be able to raise as many hens and pigs as they choose, and feed them as they please. Prices will probably go up, but should more honestly reflect real costs. Taxpayers will save about ?30 million a year now spent on subsidies, plus the salaries of some 1,200 clerks, inspectors and other bureaucrats now to be lopped off the Food Ministry's payroll...