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Grandfather Andrew J. Clooney, onetime Democratic mayor of Maysville, set her to singing. One Maysville legend is that the Clooney Sisters, aged 6 and 3, made their debut from his electioneering platform, and wowed the voters with a performance of Home on the Range. In any case, the ham in Rosemary was smoked out early: she was in fourth grade when she played the wicked queen in Snow White and terrified the audience with her intensity...
...Concord the squash team whitewashed St. Paul's 5 to 0 with Ham Graven at number four the only member of the team extended beyond three games...
Cattle & Metals. Whenever a town wanted to convert such a thing as a surplus military airport into an industrial site, or reorganize its chamber of commerce, or put up a building for a Northern industry, Ham Moses was there with the know-how-and often some Arkansas Power & Light funds. By such tactics, Arkansas snagged $854 million in new plants since World War II, including light metals, petrochemicals, and a growing timber and cattle business...
...side, Ham Moses also battled public power to a standstill in Arkansas. In one skirmish, when Jackson County was to vote on establishment of a countywide power cooperative, Moses mobilized a force of 50 A.P.L. salesmen, gave them a two-day course in the company's side of the argument, and sent them to spread the gospel among cotton pickers and housewives. Moses himself did two-hour daily stints on the radio. A.P.L. won the fight by better than four...
...installing 2½ times more capacity than it owned in 1946. But Moses thinks there is still plenty of work to be done; for all the progress, Arkansas lost 2% in population from 1940 to 1950, still has 1,250,000 acres of idle farm land. Says Ham Moses: "We've got to out-plan, out-think and outwork all the other states if we are to maintain the pace of industrial growth we've set in the past decade...