European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 24, 1963, Darmstadt, Hesse Bath House Row in the Thermal wort of hoi Spring on of America i Motl popular thai. Those United states Arkansas by Biu Collins staff writer Giffis Arkansas i Din Only officially mis pronounced state in the Union. The state legislature moving to end two centuries of conflicting enunciation declared once and or All that it s Arkansaw thu dooming the final s to Allence forever. The lost letter of their state i name i one of the few thl Ngi a Kartans need be Lent about. The Bear state Hai the wealth of Oil Felda the climate for one of the country big get Cotton crops the nation s Only Diamond Field and hot and cold run Ning water. The hot water bubbles up from the Holli around hot Springs one of America s most popular Thermal Bath resorts. The cold can be found almost anywhere Arkansas claims to have More of Shable streams Rivers and lakes than any other state. Then1 is also Rich Timberland that pro Vides scenery As Well As work for 41 per cent at the state s Industrial work Force Rice soybean Spica cd and oat crops rank ing with the biggest and Best in the lond slate and National Parks where the out. Doorman can hum anything from ducks to diamonds visitors at the Diamond Field outside Murfreesboro can keep any Gem found up to five carats in weigh plus a Good share of . History. Spanish explorer Hernando de Solo the first european to set foot in the territory got there in the 16th Century he was followed More than 100 years Luter by Marque Etc and Jollet who were on their a Down a Large River toward the mighty Mississippi in 1673 when they came across a tribe of indians living near the River Mouth the indians so far As the French men could make out. Called themselves the Arkansas the name stuck Tor the tribe the River and the land the first permanent settlement waa set up a dozen years later near the spot where us explorers met the indians. It was Page 12 called Arkansas Post and still is. Colonization was slow. There was Only a handful of settlers in the area when Arkansas was acquired by the United states As a part of the Louisiana Purchase. In 1812, it was separated from Louisiana and became a port of Missouri. The original Arkansas territory which included what is now Oklahoma was marked out in 1819. It took time to develop the area because Arkansas like met other states was not All scenery. There were muggy malaria Breeding swampland and rive Bottoms in the Eastern and Southern sections. North of these were the ozarks. Small mountains but rugged enough to present serious transportation and communications obstacles. Hacking life out of this terrain produced a hard. Independent Breed of settler with o spirit o individualism that Hill lingers in the stale. Arkansas was Mem Llord to the Union As a slave mute in in tit. Twenty five years inter. It joined other Southern states in secession and became the site o several bloody Battles in the civil War. The ravages of the War weren t Felt As much in Arkansas As in some other secessionist states but there was plenty of interim strife during and immediately after the War Over such is slavery carpet Belr gang Naif eneral politics. This culminated in 1u72 with an armed in tilt Tor the St Ftp governorship. It was won by Elithan Baxter who held office for two years the last Republican to it sly in the Arkansas stat Chou a to this Day. It started slow. By the stale has come on with a Rush in this Century. A Fine irrigation and drainage system hns conquered the Southeastern swampland. In the ozarks tourists and vacation Sites have Ali but routed the razorback hog an mule. The stars and stripes Prairi Cray pork near Fayel Levill Marki on of Okia Taxaj Copl Tah Uttel. Rock Arhat 53.104 a. My. Population 1,786,272 1960cnwi flown Apple a lotion stale Capitol in Ull Roc j
