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guest lectures not really what you call it but anyway I'm glad you all are here and of course I'll Frank bigger and John Jackson are going to be talking about businesses and Industry and banks of the past and so that's going to be a really great a great topic for the night I have an updated schedule if you'll remember if you looked at your schedule July 31st was a to be announced well we got it worked out and did you turn that off oh my god it worked out and it's going to be a great topic also on July 30 burns at 6 o'clock the German Catholic migration from the late 1800s by Tom to right and also Ronnie rose so we're thrilled about that so we were able to get that worked out in on the schedule and also on the second to the last night August 21st remembering Eddie my hair and by Pat Johnson we're going to have an additional speaker that night Cindy Robinette and she's going to be talking about when the nuns taught the black students here it started the first school so that's going to be really great also I want to remind you all that we have a raffle we're having a raffle the tickets are $1.00 there's quite a few different prizes and on the last night we'll draw for the raffle and one raffle ticket we don't have the prizes connected to the raffle ticket so we'll draw for the first one then we'll draw for the second one so the raffle tickets per dollar and court that's a fundraiser for the museum which allows us to do that we also have a donation box bacteria's you are inclined to making the donations to the museum which by the way we're a 501 C 3 so you'll get some tax advantage if you do we have this book with is asking for comments so if you get a chance that one of these one these classes that you attend to make some kind of comments about the programs or suggestions suggestions I guess it's a better thing to say then be sure and sign this book and sign in but anyway don't leave anything out okay with that I'm turning it over to John in front there you go John guys first I'm going to can you all hear me in the back I'm going to try this without this but if I get drifting off I'll let me know I'm going to start this thing last week several of you were here and we talked about the depression and one of the things we talked about was ice boxes and the cards that went in the window I have one of these problems oh there's a leak others you could whatever you wanted you hung it in the window the ice delivery man could be illiterate or it could be color blind but he couldn't be both but that's most folks ice boxes were on the front porch because they drain they leaked and they drain through the porch so the Ashman would come and bring your 12 and a half or hundred or whatever put it in the icebox and on up you pre-purchase my grandfather was a good business man you page money upfront you purchased a book of tickets there none in here but the Iceman if you got 12 and a half there would be a coupon in here for 12 and a half or he would tear 25 in hagun and that was system that left you with with that much anyway that's a continuation from last week that's where I'm going to start with the Depression in the depression we had in Pocahontas in 1930 there were two banks in town Frank is a much better historian than I am and I'm going to ask him to correct me at any time I'm going first because I he's going to bring this to a crescendo with his abilities and I've got a meeting I've got to leave about 7:15 in 1930 over to banks in Pocahontas Pocahontas State Bank and Randolph County Bank this is a Randolph County Bank of advertising piece of thermometer somebody gave to me you can't read it very good but it says 4% on savings that'd be a heck of a good rate today Wow anyway here comes the Depression both banks failed in late 1930 remember no FDIC insurance the banks failed if you have money in the bank you lost your money the bank of Biggers with Frank's ancestors involved and the State Bank of success merged and open in on March the 2nd of 1931 in the building next door here on the corner as Bank of Pocahontas they use the Charter from the Bank of Biggers you had to have official permission to operate a bank and that came in the form of a bank charter they use the bank charter from the bank of Biggers which dates to 1903 and that was the where the 1903 came problem anyway these two banks merged and formed the bank of Pocahontas their total assets the day they opened $80,000 by the end of that first year they had doubled to a hundred and sixty thousand dollars people were there still no FDIC insurance people are scared to put their money in a bank you've heard money in them under a mattress there was a lot of that done I don't have any deposit records but my guess is that most of the money on deposit in the bank was probably the bank stockholders and a few others who had confidence in those fellows people just did not trust banks with good reason several are you all are old enough to remember your parents or your grandparents saying they just don't fight banks don't trust banks and Carroll referred last week to her grandmother who lost $2,000 and kind of food food that button of that $80,000 starting point for banker Pocahontas that would have been two and a half percent of the total bank and today two and a half percent of a 100 million dollar bank would have been two and a half million dollars so somebody tell aunt Carol that our grandmother lost two and a half million dollars FDIC insurance started in January of 1934 as part of Franklin Roosevelt's total program what was his slogan the great society that was Lyndon Johnson anyway new to you the New Deal thank you that was a harvest that was part of his new deal program and it gradually that FDIC insurance gradually instill confidence in banks and bankers he Roosevelt had a bank holiday to for a long weekend one time to let all the word get out that we are now insuring deposits up to five thousand dollars that was the first insurance in July of 1936 a couple years after FDIC came into effect the Bank of Pocahontas assumed the bank of Maynard deposits and the bank of Manor ceased to exist at that time Thank You Pocahontas was the only bank in Pocahontas from 1931 until 1962 that Bank started on this corner in in 1944 it moved diagonally across the across the square where it was for many many years there when I started until the new bank was built in the very very late I think 1999 I was going through some stuff this just popped into my mind Harry Belford a former and longtime president of Bank listed on his resume his first job was mechanical bookkeeper that's as opposed to a quill pen and a I shade and hand up at a desk he was operating that's an ad machine but he was operating a mechanical device and was a sophisticated job mechanical bookkeeper growth in banking in in Pocahontas as I said that one bank banker folk on us at the end of 1931 had one hundred and sixty thousand dollars total at the end of 1936 after the merger with the Maynard Bank are the assumption of deposit and with the assurance and insurance of FDIC they grew to four hundred and eighty thousand the first time that that that Bank was over a million dollars in totals was in 1942 right after the start of the war when it at the end of that year they had a million four hundred thousand ten years later three million eight hundred thousand and ten years after that and this is interesting to me from 1952 to 1962 as the only bank in town that Bank grew from 3.8 million to 4.4 million that's just almost no growth at all a group to begin and I don't have their names but mr. AJ vaults senior and others organized planners and Stockman bank and got a charter in 1962 I know that mr. Belford is present the bank and my father who had stock in the bank also in working Bank piranhas were scared to death that if another bank came in there 4.4 million dollar bank would become a 2.2 million dollar bank and the other bank would be 2.2 and it wouldn't be enough deposits for anybody either bank to make money they went to the state capital they you went to Washington trying to fight that chart as it should have happened if their efforts were not successful and they should not have been successful to give you an idea again in 62 when programs became a - Bank town that was thankful - had 4.4 million in deposits and those were the total assets of banking in programs 4.4 ten years later both banks collectively had 19 billion all of that ten years later 282 it was 50 minutes and then another 10 years in 92 it was 92 million and climbing today we have five banks in Pocahontas integrity first Iberia river bank first national and BancorpSouth for deposit-taking institutions their total deposits are two hundred and eighty five minutes so my father and mr. Belford worried for not competition was a good thing and is a good thing I have not mentioned Pocahontas federal savings alone they did an excellent job in this community for a long long time their Charter their mission was to provide to take deposits and provide home loans and they did a very good job with that the Savings and Loan industry has pretty much gone its way and most savings and loans now operate his banks but I had no could find information on kokapetl does anybody know when they started 36 started in 36 again they were they had a specific mission home loans was what they do for the first 30 years or so of their existence interesting in in 1953 I ran across this number there were 230 banks charters in Arkansas some state banks and some federal banks but there was 130 individual charters right now there are 100 that's the last number I saw there might be 1998 to a hundred banking like retailing and schools and a lot of other things has consolidated so you've got fewer banks but they're larger they're more efficient some of my memories are stories about the old days in banking I don't go back who terribly far farther than some of you all but Friday's were payday we had several industrial jobs in Pocahontas Friday's were payday the third of the month every social security check that was paid was paid on the third of the month there were no direct deposits everybody had a check if the third of the month fell on a Friday and you were employed at a bank if you could get your head off the pillow I don't care if you were in the hospital showing up to cash those checks I remember on the corner of the bank down there of the square where a thank Pocahontas used to be had five tellers they were they were all teller windows all the windows were manned our woman the correct terminology is customers will be lined up six to eight deep in each window to cash their Social Security check or their paycheck one Friday a fellow passed out he was number five in my he passed out and number six seven eight just stepped around they were they're not render medically but after check it was a it was a while that we experienced or I experienced in my banking I'm one robbery there was a funny story that came out of that by that time the bank had a little drive in behind the square and the fellow robbed Patty Robinson was the fella out there stuck a gun up and she gave him money and he left well the FBI got involved the heads FBI guy from Jonesboro comes over and he's a senior FBI guy Willard he doesn't know anybody knows this is the shared this is the chief of police this is the deputy prosecutor this is the by witness and so he knows them by their job Jim King at the time is the deputy prosecutor the FBI guy says okay what do we got the sheriff said well the lady was robbed said the fella who was about Jim King high that black hair stuck a gun she gave him the money and the chief Lee said yeah Ken said he ran right there with right by Jim King's car yes and I said Bianca said we need to round up his king bail em said okay Lee said that's me but they did everything the fellas brother was coming to poke on us living walnutrij and saw his brother leaving town going south to Walnut Ridge and thought he said later that's my brother he looks like he just robbed a bank Hey they found me going the next day and I think he'd spent $20.00 maybe so here he didn't get away with very much focus was a to Bank town for for several years we had a awfully good working relationship with each other if something was good for Pocahontas we were both banks are on board trying to get this industry or that business and once we got it then we would compete for the accounts or the loan to whatever the banks back then had to have to have deposit accounts in Little Rock banks or we chose to - we had to have so much all the positive for our reserve requirements and to help us do business anyway those banks have what they call traveling bankers who would make the rounds they would come to focus on us and they'd go see Gerald summit who was president of the planters Stockman Bank and then act like they were leaving town and slip around and come see me our vice versa because they many pounds had if you had two banks there was just a line drawn in the town if you bank with this banker you didn't talk with this man and we never had that anyway Jarrell and I went to Little Rock one time to on one of these projects I forget what it was an industry program on us rolled down together and walked into one of these banks and we both had accounts with I've never seen the amount of concern on these folks faces and what's wrong well that's a draw where well you over here together what's wrong how often though we we don't operate that way in code honest we're here for this and we'll compete when we get back to town if we get this thing done so we always had good relations with our competitors we competed but we did fairly and positive the rewards of banking things I've heard I've been retired 13 years and I had a lady tell my wife Mary Helen who was also in the bank said you helped us raise our kids they would call you know we call them when the kids ran out of money in their college checking account will transfer $100 from my discount so we helped them raise kids so that was a nice compliment I was in the barber shop the other day and met a fella who I used to bank with and he said do you help me you had a hand in making my business I want to thank you for it those are the things you remember even had one guy thanked me for turning down his loan request which was pretty unusual he said I didn't need that loan I didn't know it at the time but if I've done that why we both been in trouble so he he thanked me for that for me the best parts of banking were helping Pocahontas grow and helping individuals solve their financial problems and take advantage of their financial opportunities I enjoyed it as a career but I sure am glad to be retired now Frank that's my little dog and pony show how oh well left you with plenty of time for yourself I can't add too much to that well I appreciate that because there's a lot of memories never olives one thing I didn't show this is a copy of code of sound making props processes practices I'm sorry remember I told you that bank of Pocahontas opened on March the 2nd of 1931 this thing is signed June the 9th of 1931 and it's a bunch of fine print telling bankers watch out hard times are here they're going to get worse I can't imagine how scared the folks the directors and the officer said that Bank must have been after they read this thing but this is sort of an antique and hid it says I don't know tells him not to make very many loans and make them pretty pretty make sure you got plenty of collateral and very much longer language I thought you all might enjoy looking down take it away okay Thank You Johnny you're cheap you need that I need this and y'all hear me about that I only own thing is whether or not it sticks up on this video pass did you hear me I can hear you but people from all over the country are watching they're just no no come on taste on turn me on the switch up push it up all the way all right all the way all the way you know I know I should have cared a role he may not hear it was Alan John I appreciate that because I what I did was have thoughts because I didn't know exactly how Linda had us arrange for the banking and I was going to be more business I got digging around in the old old files that I keeping some of this stuff separate I w sn't to look at it we could we disband until 1898 there was not a bank in Randolph County banking was all done through the mercantile people people have stores or what have you loved a lot of the old-time stores he made commissaries associated with their with their business and that was fairly common in here smaller communities in 1898 oldest largest bank was chartered get one of the ancestors here mr. John Dalton they they started and with three years later had a confident competition Randolph County Bank and John's right those are two banks started in either 1898 or 1901 and increased his capital 1903 so yet you have two banks but there's a third back you know add last week said the bank one under well we focus at one time in 1920 and three banks the First National Bank was chartered in 1920 a federal charter it went under what 26 or 28 if you look next door to what I call the right or law firms up they will say First National Bank across the batter up there will where they were Smike done here Mike's not here this week because that's an interesting building because that was the done building make a long story short the economy was all right Federal Reserve started in Paso's Randall keep on turning just by the time I started in 1937 1939 4th the end of the Reserve cadences I changed making great didn't impact rural country banks like it did the larger members of the Federal Reserve but it's changing you still today they're still in the headlines every day with what's your name what's that lady's name people so Jenny yelling ow yelling inmate yelling yelling yelling anyway it's still around it changed making quite a bit but not so much is it the Depression when FDR did the 50 I say insurance and Johnny left a little part about he declared abundant holiday he shut all the banks down they're having such runs on banks they couldn't make the demand deposits so the FDR said that shut them down for at least a week everybody cool off think about for a little bit and he gives the FBR FDIC insurance give you a problem is like Jacobson last week 28 was the big crash the most folks that's correct in rural areas like Pocahontas we were in depression in the mid 20s what had happened World War two come along and the farmers United States produced for the world for everything they could grow in commodities were great the price was good and the best farming was in 1913 they refer to that is the ideal year to bed Clarke 1913 in 1936 1930s the number but anyway what happened to the war is over whatever feelings years go back raise their own goods eat their own stuff our farmers are still running in the high gear producing and cotton got down to dollar path there's no one wonder the world was awash of cotton and what have you so the farmers actually went into their depression early on much earlier than the in the crash of 28 which hold people saved brought along the Depression anyway jobs cover everything with the banks we were without a bank for 11 months and photons that was probably an ordeal was it not in the bank we go to hair laying bark here worth your hair laying Davis painting things they say anything I know I did that for me their grandfather tree Belford who was officially affiliated with Bank of Pocahontas at that time in the early 30s when all this taken place the paint of success merging with the bank of Biggers to farm the bank of program they first went to farmers Merchants Bank which had been chartered in 1911 it was still a solid it was still going strong during depression they weren't in any kind of financial difficulty Maynard was a little bit long rocket ravening Springs kind of bit early but they were very small banking up to well customer they had a customer in place because or anybody living over there but you know make long story short the deal the merger with farmers and merchants kind of fell through so then mr. Beltran by the way also on the stock in Bank of success you guys knew that did you know okay even okay so that was what the deal is dr. Brown can put the deal together I've got all these paperwork here back I didn't want to bore by all those details what I'd like to do and not ask Linda if I go back and maybe talk about industry I'm gonna start with the course square that's where you see won't be come from when I was a kid and I feel like I'm talking to myself look in the mirror but be clear you folks remember the stories I tell Doherty's business were who were those business Carolee and I we had one of our favorite stores we're growing fear that this was the below a hardware it might have oily Hardware where it was he was right over here I'm gonna start the east side of the square root that was the most interesting hardware store Haqqanis because their merchandise mix looked like it came out of 1901 and smell the feel the look was an early nineteen fifty years like can I show people yes very sick well doctors like needles is today it looks like they're fifty years ago but anyway that was an interesting story because you know they had wooden barrels and nails and horseshoes and things 1950s those weren't being the me mr. Murrow included his store to walk Ridge make a long story short son going down the block and there was fj's appliance store and we started over to his nephew the next store was child's jewelry store memory of a child's what we refer to him is mr. Bradbury eyebrows for all of us I like to happen out here his eyebrows on the top of my head that guy had eyebrows he's a differencing nice spell I mean he was the second third generation to child's here and they were they were even make a living off the river for a number of years but anyway he moves up talents Darcy's jewelry store nested in the middle of walk down there past the co dynastar Harold was like two doors down there and squeezed in between there was the okay barbershop who was the shoeshine man the okay barbershop damn son who met wrong barbershop all right this is the pastor my spunk defense so far he was one of me one the omec oh it was the other f it was three chairs but who was the who was the shoeshine who was shiner who was Chinese who is chatter chatter a member shiner but everybody called him Chinese hmm you don't remember China a short black guy he was Mabel's competitor he was over the okay in Weber was over sanitary but anyway in the next place was Mary Browns and I achieved of God without my campbell on any cross the street the Marion Pedro had to Western all of the store very much the same location probably sums from the same merchandiser I was fire was here he could bring us up to date on the person dies maker there he was he was ahead of Malloy by 50s look what else did Marion have in that story that's kind of unique to our where so grocery store there one okay Miller not a vice therefore their chairs are I had another field thank you you're in the back southwest corner round the Main Street there's a little room back there there's a door it goes out to Marsh Street out there and that's where marrying so is alcohol beverages that Polk houses winter is legal I go across the street to where what drug store Johnson thank you before is Johnson into curtains didn't Trump rocks that sound all right what the disappears of interesting things because even goes back to thanks mr. Pringle and they know who owned the store before a sole director Johnson frame within Pringle was in one of the early Bank State 1903 Banks program State Bank and his competitor was a guy named who Pat who had the who had the drugstore right next door dear Han Nippon poet on earning I'm earlier her down scanner thank you scanner there you go Wilmer William will Skinner was his last night hey it takes general a boy will Skinner was a competitor a director one drugstore one drugstore and interesting enough both of them were competitors in the bank they had to tender drugstores in two different bank now the Skinner locked up he made the soap box and though some of those bottles are still around here what's this sir think about both drugstores is you could follow their history from Pringle the Johnson the future Phil future ball from Johnson field then sold it to his son Phil Mark Martin it marks Phillips old Marquess phonetic so that's the same baby the same drugstores been there for well over 100 years interestingly enough Skinner's which was the second building coming this way at a store there so got a old sold out to a guy I get this running be embarking my dream didn't burn what happened to Dan Burke the in Bergdorf the remaining inventory from mr. Skinner he kept her belong in with bankrupt in the 30s went under and then here comes Millard Perrin what'd he do he buys out Skinner lose store next door in the corner with it Carter saloon was he also had what kind of franchises what's interesting to me no no no no that much dr. Hamill franchise what Patrick who offering thank you whoever when I look at a Walgreens drugstore can you imagine that did you also know we had a Kroger grocery store you know I feel that people in Italy how strange I'm trying to stick with the square so he'll forgive me if I bounce around too much I want to get the two drugstores involved in because they were competitors and they both have redness today of their beginning back well over a hundred years ago the one parents been singled out on Park Street so where was a go down the square my uncle had a Firestone store there that competed with Western Auto Jhansi Johnson had a gamble store which competed those to Oklahoma tired supply had a store to compete with those three who yes do we have we had about four or five of them Western Auto was out of Kansas City Oklahoma tire spots Tulsa I get confused under a while but don't forget we had a Hubbell shoe store right here mobile shoe stores here that's denied right here just feeling right here nice people the bubbles they came down from where West Plains are fair okay I was sculptor out by bit but anyway I'm coming to square I'm on the west side now what does the corner building was the bank who was in there longest most people remember was in there that company thank you and been a brown was asking John about been a brown and early banker here he was in the wrong place there all the time of that bank went under but he hadn't known the building and the abstract coming so he sold the abstract company later on but he remained in that corner building up there for hundred years forever and ever next was Johnny Johnson he had that he had the gamble story and his wife didn't you remember what his other job his first jump on us was some of you older know county age and then they get close i dra teacher photons Public Schools John Steve Johnson was the agra destructor up there when it was in the rock building of the CCC built okay you remember that now don't you just too long you are taking a drive you will wait to get miss Mary's home that class but anyway John C was there then you come on next door opposed and you had in Mauldin pose and they're not little max help and run that hour and yeah whatever guy or almost forgot the liquor store now I want back a little bit getting a sanitary barbershop it might know is why sanitary barbershop right yes and the reason why yes and the reason was looks how she didn't bring them up in that if you're a regular customer and sanitary barbershop you had your own load with your name inscribed on the side when you're getting getting a shame you didn't get I didn't get hair later I got my mug I don't what hair like squish yourself you know me but if I was a Saturday barbershop those mugs going to be enough goddamn got to them I like to call back on the route see what that picture looks like but coming on down past PO is the next on the corner there who remembers Jim McDaniel came to take oh yeah who did Jim McDaniel by that story hair what a hot burger who did proper get that storefront maybe I'm not caught up with it he's a bum who said it might this table Sam Weber smoked a box a box they bombed us to prom burger - Mac - you know Pocahontas I told y'all we have an infusion of all these guys a pair of Google here you just dab some barigoule man beautiful fairy Google rayandpaul boiling from para goo and somebody said something about large Jewish they were pretty well gone in 1910 they were three well gone but they all moved to Memphis because there's a little honey medicine it wasn't called honest I got to get up on the corner crossing gosh we take leave out Eddie King Eddie King a very interesting to you you loved her you did maybe she was missing she was a merchant she was and merchants her before she had her store there she bought the store from the Hamill family da camera on the orient handle Billy hey he started out with a suitcase with clothes and she traveled around the train or car Alenia her wagon probably covered wagon GoDaddy and she'd go out in the county and sell their merchandise she took great pride in going to st. Louis and buying merchandise because that was kind of a company thing every once while back there - three or four years she'd go to Chicago two things happened in Chicago - Hattie King one she sees this beautiful building in there called the Wrigley building she's interested in heading she found what they do there and she do about chewing gum you know they started Wrigley chewing gum the guy had sold soap everything he gave you a piece of gum you bought a bar so confusing closer and people like this chewing gum Berenice cokes he started making more chewing gum as they say rest is history but she was infatuated by regularly involved some stock in the Wrigley chewing gum company same time she then she told us I work for one summer she said it doesn't think she liked there there was a pair of broken Butler brothers were there and they have started company called federated department stores but they're big girls company was a chain store called Ben Franklin's that you can buy a franchise for so she buys a franchise for she did encourage him didn't keep it right now they sold it to Harrison Bergeron he'll choke compared so here in Christmas miracle you know that they're interesting coming on down this block you've got on the corner you had parent we talked Walgreens agency next door and MS Burke where her husband diem had the pharmacy he came on down to the next building I'm trying to back Sterling's service turning was a competitor Ben Franklin Starling was all about the grunted fast family in Little Rock Jews down there who owned company called cash wholesale and their big business was to sell small merchants all the auto Arkansas and Missouri parts of Oklahoma but there they started and open their own stores they figure there's better gross margin being vertically integrated so they hope the chain stores call Sterling's it's it right there and my brother and I say by members John it's Sterling's candy for you it's hard as a brick and tough as a tick that Sterling's candy for you because they didn't keep their inventory tournament candy all very well you got a big candy there hey feed him on the 10th and just a flip going again first of all is a mile-long candy counter joke piece everything there was a penny or two for a penny or 10 per nickel or wondered look I'm coming this way what else Toledo coming on down this was hell shoe store here and next door that building their first house the First National Bank starting 22 without 28 26 or 20 dispensation then mates to Mike's uncle dr. Dunham mr. Dunn open info known that took that building because they didn't pay him offering stuff on the own that building stored hey in there you ain't ask Mike Dunn about this story interesting story anyway when the bank of Biggers and success merge they move into that building in the early 30s and stay there a little early parties are mid forties and did include over there so that's kind of square my two favorite places when older co-counsel was the colonial hotel and the Randolph hotel everybody men where they work okay waste words Randolph okay it's not high neutral it sure was who ran that hotel Frank Barnes who was the cook in the restaurant thing we all know her no thank you now a favor that's before he had the silver drills melted they were related they were cute right here'll a I've got this story rather interesting family and though Frankie Barnes with our age he played the BAM verse they moved to Arizona and the rest is history the other hotel was the colonial era with a clothing hotel we're waiting for word ban and programs federal built their building there moved out of this building just feeling here house a lot of thanks II make a pope honest movie and then oh god federal moved in there with all the plantings other enterprises interesting film anymore I can feel this story because he was very involved in the founding of poco Smith he and a fellow by the name of Jay V John Joe Dale Ewell's were partners in the insurance business that guarding 1900s and they both worked as cashiers in the bank John those days you couldn't have an insurance company and being a bank you had to keep them separated something they worked and everyone by sure didn't step around the tellers when they go there cuz desk and buy some insurance and they were partners Martin and weddings Martin also had a partner in the wall Ridge was his name flunk I forgot anyway lady event the ends up with the insurance company Judge Joe daily by the way I've got some of these pictures hope I'm not boring people now that's that picture rounding most you palapa will not recognize anybody that photograph just John I'll probably and imperil a million awesome where they get to programs federal and they move down stay vacant for a while in Flanders and stopping when they came to town that was there that was their headquarters before they built Bank belly or what I call the hammer loss or dr. Hamptons house burn anyway it's pretty Willie thing I stayed away from the neighborhood groceries but work those you need ever neighborhood pretty well had a neighborhood grocery every small town had a little place you can buy some gas get a cold drink get a lonely sandwich a candy bar be on your way they're all gone I don't guess I guess the Midnight's adults and still have somewhat of a place like this video but wants uh partly supply I should have known survivor supply I understand a goal they're gonna chain this will have ten more stores but first to you why does that say G but most those by the way if they're gone I mean people now come to town to get their fuel to where the market when gas got so skinny so thin margins that they couldn't pump gas for thirty cents and many things is now dollar ninety cents for two dollars forty cents for a video I'm on ten minutes I'm go get certain I got on there I'm going to Craig Festa George Stigler has a warehouse then he's the Philo's Country stores he did and the something called Oh which one Harmon Cox worked in up through cash wholesaler oh yeah cash and carry thank you yet those they were competitors they supply those little stores for rescission readers huh for City grocery distant yes well they still sports they may still be in business pro I know I'm not sure they are make a long story short those are the stories we'll start on the whole hey I'm sorry long story short but I'd like to do in the next few minutes is tell you how pogon has changed in 1946 and I still only kind of still on the air I've got so much just under sentimental tiny fibers you found all this let's know if you're being best friends did everybody look at those dollar bills for $20 right here oh those are called saddle blankets and I think 20 that's what regular size currency was it was that size it's that large they refer to the settled lanes the $20 bill was the first issued in 1949 when you had the FBI when he had the Federal Reserve in 1913 calling here was that was that look that bill right there daddy I get carried away and get forget where I am but I want to talk real quick about industries coming because this was changed for the hunters he realized in 1900 1920 the 1931 British was happy unit Lord still comes yeah that's larger family program I think 50 it changed anybody know what change we were now nine other people to go got some more than want a rich what caused battery solution true nope Sarge a routine factory thank you except a shoe battery that's it now look at this yeah with the copulation didn't grow until everybody started working that census are taking on their technique is you're right before you say man I've got to find something that's true what was the fellas name I'm going to give you the test ah no it was the first plant manager I've got your side yeah what's his name I hate - I'm sorry I'll call jasmine she's cooking spices my daily right Julie he came on later oh yeah what they did the Browns you coming up which started out is whatever was brown lost my notes I lost them note that lost my memory they end up changing another nineteen hundreds of the Browns five star that was named shoe company then in the time that came on World War two all the manufacturing in the country was making project for the war effort brown shoe coming you made boots for the military so they cease production of ladies and men's little boys and little girls Buster Brown shoes that's what on the back burner because they were making merchandise for the war one of my favorite stories is I'm making this quit whether there's a company in Tulsa Oklahoma that make bombs C Road bombing company may have heard of them zero bombing comes good name for a bonding company zero Bonica when the war is over they that much the ban for problems guess what they did they change your name to zip code and they make fishing lure a fish bring us hey guys is it cold fishing reel was what is an acronym for the zero Bobby come again on comms got into fishin trip same way brown shoe got away from the military and started there was such a pent-up command we've come through the depression no way have you money no one could buy a thing to work in love still bent up the man there's demand for cars for houses for refrigerators for machine deduce things and this you pack use the first shoot that you can south of mason-dixon line a guy's name was shoemaker which is only interesting sort and they came to Pocahontas with the city on the Chamber of Commerce that was a key to what happened does to a committee one anything like that here and pestis were affected canceled checks each program vectors that trigger the city of Pocahontas had no money can you imagine that the nineteen forties would come through the war there was no tax base so they tried to get ten individuals to put up $500 or $5,000 to put up a factory billing for branchy we could do that the city could match up five and extend down ours and they found a place to put some shoot back to them and you'll notice that check there it's for under $25 and that's only 1/4 it's forward to ever hit six months to come up with your $500 and everybody pretty well stretched it out for 125 125 per dollar so we got five hundred dollars and I've got a couple more of those floating around the manager though spec was my grandfather's but this is going back what was the what was the pay scale and brass you open up Mellon wage what was it - one - forces 30 cents an hour 40 cents oh my god sorry mom again they discriminate a mellow verse 46 I was a woman I am exactly that your goal quite often is a matter anyway as they came what women brown shoe company League what things your clothes thanks E versus imagine joint year's grow things 90 said I've got hot books here and I don't look at my numbers but they're classy knock on I have a novella right that they started over suppose things started moving anyway we've gone really got we've gone guns you merely when Pope Mouse was named the most progressive city in the mid-south the press eMeter they that was a bit to do you remember the street bath out here we were celebrating part of that all came about the industrial because of aq9 bonds that 49 bonds they were later on run industry could come the city was stand behind the bond issue the bonds make this the company that to pay for all these companies took advantage then you give that credit to our good friend Orval Faubus we've had a really bad taste with people whose 57 school crises but our will focus recognized already on everybody hardness always leave and going to california chikage own he says let's keep these people here so what is he do it gets the legislature to pass a law and creates a would the aidc arkansas industrial governor crook and yet he put in charge the IDC a republican there was it went on well thank you let's for rockefeller and that's what really kicked off his so these bond issues 40:19 well what happened there - I could talk about all about I want to talk about - one I know something about - the accompaniment or talk about the hotseat company because like brown shoe company the hotseat dog bank um he started out in st. Louis what was the reason they started out there either one and why were they there what Adams the hot he started making sales but why was why was brown shoe company there because they start with in the same year not 1870 why were they there what mentally put the business there because Midwest Stock Yards slaughter cattle by the thousands leather was cheap and they both use leather and hot see started in 1870s as did brown shoe defects around with the guys nameless anyway they were there for a reason kind of like we were here slave rose was here because of live timber flax bathing was here because there's lots of timber but he was here because there's a lot of timber so we used basically things run getting off but one weekend they had a labor dispute of st. Louis been Topsy who was the president isn't if you had said we can't put up this we got to get out here so they hired six semi trucks load them up on Friday and they were open in business on Monday morning here in Pocahontas they just shutting down those folks left up there with nothing that's how they that's how hot you got here another story I like to tell is McGee Konig since I was there for a few years right Reed we were there how long we were there on our life that is quickness wrong here's what's better there John McGee and Rachel Medina what you girls are standing is John McGee didn't start to become his wife dear Rachel McGee founded the mihika and what she wanted to do they had to use first store in Chicago in Corning and they wanted to find the money so they could send roof and that was really started if you want to go to Stephen's College in st. Charles and they didn't have that money to say anybody site generally they might consider the southern banks they may be starts making these picture frames it grows they moved it over wants it and nothing from there they can call the city in the city they want to help them so they get the car and coming south they stopped adding the hill Chris if I fill this story before start at the Hillcrest motel they run into north on he's not here to always been on here they run into their friends clam and Tola Cox and they all sit down dirt talking and Clem says what are you doing here aren't you he said we're looking for a building site somewhere out of this country move our picture frame faculty out of corner and so Clem says why don't you talk to face Lee he's got an empty building over in these folk islands where Jerry a typical business it's an empty building over there and so this long story short they moved the corning basically over the week in the same way to the building there and then they pass the pack nine foundation built the building where they over there my other two real quick I've got to get a cure in three minutes with I talked about all them but I talk about those two especially since I've read one of you the other always tells an interesting story away the hot seats were here you know they start out making John says I got saddles of course it's a saddle business died they started making new golf bags and they were all leather until mile comes along I didn't bring Kyle got the bag I've got some stuff to donate here but others buy for my favorite stores is southern aircraft remain here in the southern air crepe doesn't remember crew members just other aircraft story Carol you want to give you a feeling joy okay thank you pretty sure it's so well hairy backs names familiar right southerner Craig what they call it in Long Ridge called it blades but they had a contract southern aircraft built a building on the at night over at East Pocahontas and made Swift wings for fighter planes for General Dynamics in Fort Worth Texas and they sent these wings down there one small problem when you sent the wing you'd have to send up x-ray what that wing looked like the inside because it's sealed off some of the wings didn't pass muster got down there and pilots and get them jaren dynamics crashed two planes one pilot was killed big lawsuit hit the fan so in order they made their my first time worth I got I got nolo contendere like I said that right yes nolo contendere who's a lawyer here right now website intend right contend rate what means what on visa now I there's no objection to it those fellows it's other aircraft all took that not saying they're innocent not saying they were guilty yourself on the you know phone the court I guess you'd say he has a big long story short man without business no don't get no contest the wings didn't make it they didn't make it so poke eyes was stuck with an empty building what happened that building who moved into its hinge didn't get one wrong time no like you said we're losing water we were in a panic here what we going to do what we're going to do in this while loop drives up says we put two boxes over there and they had a plant in Waterloo Iowa they put one here for is over the F word in Muskogee oh I'm the ones a day of Missouri in one in the Gala's tax or Old Mexico round the board what point and they moved in and that was a savior for southern aircraft because we could sure use the jobs what early did a fantastic job here for long ago Waterloo is still in business where they manufacture today you figure China or Taiwan or India or Mexico that's where they manufacture today and yes John what the sales manager our commanders name is last night Sally there in Sedalia Missouri they still manufactured interesting story which they say what happened with that plant was they built it was almost totally automated read the only automated that's why it's still in resistance and the cheap labor and the galas and Polk honest no lack of cheap labor cheap we got is very good sell here but make a long story short that's what happened - they asked one of my favorite stories on more queries on the civil clock later a journalist my apartment we don't care oh yeah you do you're gonna well we have this casting pass that I looked at the building up their home to make a fantasy with you recognize the building my favorite story is asking up and that's an acronym for what elastic stop notes associates elastic stop and they did what they took a nut bolt and nut and they lined it with plastic under a lot of vibration 1000 double back off with plastics it stays it stays fix Christy for airline airplanes next sort of even automotives their plastic line who owned the who owned @s at that time all my favorite stories a company called M erase they own this M erase and one of em race big going back to World War two me and one their big products with what this is the real test did he make my running they need a lot of nuts and airplanes and tanks all that stuff so they kept their st. products plan Amar'e's own own the 8th coal company I feel plastic combs got a member that they were a plastic injector and molding company and they had a contract with the US military where all the soldiers get a little black comb realizing cotton Commission will see around and that's when there was their original business and from that grew into what they are today how far they get section this is real quick and I will cut will cut quick this engine if you centralism probably the largest most successful company they've ever been in Pocahontas they were on the fortune 500 list they ranked number 154 thing at the time jump very large New York this didn't all the ability or an automotive business what they made because this is the one thing we were so close to being a Silicon Valley what would they do with the many professors connectors of an actress and necks for phones for automotiv for aerodynamic all of that cats that we were so close into getting what we call a Silicon Valley company that's what they made over there if a lot if I covered everybody because I throw when I make this quick three-oh bed board everybody now what anyway I'm about finished half inch and that this program if they buy any questions for Johnny did such a good job on the bike stop I've got all this stuff past me there's a lot of history there if you look at it I left out I say this very last I don't know if anybody recognize these two gentlemen in this picture I know the lady will recognize now don't read them nothing Joe have that nine-nine who said that one as one who who's the gray headed fellow there Kirti you are going wall people breakfast chairs here the governor of Arkansas all right Peggy performing man yes and look they got me with blue tie there when they playing with no tractor here's the same tractor what did it mean what would they make if I said Peggy Madrid read you wanted Oh God thank you I'm choppers there sir there is one right there got a patent on it long story got almost a century where did that cotton chopper end up what happens we gone shopping our balance remember that weird way in there out west to the beach they made big choppers out there later on my right Peggy on that but that was a small industrial coming here then far ahead of this time I left I saved I guess I don't want to talk about Pico is so nude and we talk about the code they either they butcher 22,000 chickens a day or they make 44,000 one I get those numbers that's their current production at the moment pinko made the single largest investment in Randolph County history Pico on one fell swoop investing more money here in all the previous industries combined it does and all the clues knowledge anything you want to measure that one investment here now ask John again pension question our bank deposits has done what in the last 24 months 12 hours increase dramatically the first quarter that they were here late deposits increase to 18 percent so - we were running the top five we had surpassed Springvale let's go down down the Conway what's that we grow in town down there Little Rock's he taught me a fusion of capital those jobs save this neck sixties I'm saving the best waste because the what is the most successful manufacturing plan ever establish starting piranhas they grew the largest employer who was that what the things that comes they don't make anything they sell they didn't start here anyway who started in manufacturing the largest manufacturing plant ever established by Pocahontas natives they're gone too hard oh wait a minute I didn't talk about water horse if you took one horses next go who's not talking about they didn't start here starting Corning Thank You red I appreciate that because they are a product of Pocahontas Arkansas started by Ed Rosen son Larry Don and they're still here and they employ more people and they're the only as far as I know still going established manufacturing plant here it is truly native to coke humus all the rest is me Lucas we overlooked that quite a bit robot you like them you probably back on the map right away right on the problem is we should build program is a station and it therefore and I am busy I've covered everything let me just say I know everybody's got questions for these guys but if you need to get up and go get some goodies very do some ladies facilities or whatever go write it in so but stick around [Applause] here is all speculative work I mean y'all here's now