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Manuscript Collection 1053
INFORMATION
ABOUT THE RURAL ARKANSAS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
The Rural Arkansas Community Development Program was carried out by
the Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service as part of the United States
Department of Agriculture. Records document efforts to assist small
business development, educate community leaders, develop comprehensive
community planning, improve community facilities and housing, increase
the quality and availability of health services, implement manpower
training programs, improve the operation of recreation and tourism, improve
the quality of the environment and reduce pollution, organize rural cooperatives,
assist with taxation and local government issues and civil rights issues
throughout the state in the 1960s and 1970s. Areas of emphasis include
Community Resource Development, Overall Economic Planning, Rural Development,
and Rural Areas Development. Individuals primarily involved include
Dr. Donald Voth, J. B. Williams, Leo Rainey, Mark Peterson and Delton Price.
J. B. Williams was the head of the Community Development Program when the
majority of the records were generated.
The collection contains correspondence, reports, photographs, newspaper clippings, brochures, publications, conference files, committee files, committee minutes, case files, and audio visual materials.
For additional information regarding Rural Arkansas Community Development, see the Leo Rainey Papers (MC 1227) and the University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service Papers (MC 1145).
The Rural Arkansas Community Development Records were donated to Special Collections by J. B. Williams, former state leader of Community Development, on January 12, 1990.
Processed by Georgia Ann Kunze, Special Collections Division, University of Arkansas Libraries, Fayetteville, Arkansas, in October 1999.
CONTENTS OF THE COLLECTION (19.25 linear ft.)
Series 1. Administrative Files. Box 1
Series 2. County Development Council. Boxes 2-3
Series 3. Progress Reports. Boxes 4-8
Series 4. Community Resource Development. Boxes 9-10
Series 5. Overall Economic Development Programs. Boxes 11-12
Series 6. Extension Committee on Organization and Policy. Box 13
Series 7. Delton Price Files. Box 14
Series 8. Census and Economic Data. Box 15
Series 9. Audio Visual Material. Box 16
Series 1. Administrative Files (Box 1)
This series contains materials which pertain to the overall organization and administration of the program in the state. Included are area agents' reports, district agents' reports, conferences materials, committee materials, programs, publications, and University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service files. Files are arranged alphabetically.
Box 1
1. Area Agents Material
2. Arkansas Development Digest [1967-1973]
3. Arkansas State Water Plan
4. Capacity Building
5. District Agent Reports-McCartney (Westcentral)
6. District Agent Reports-Rainey (Northcentral)
7. District Agent Reports-Shelton (Northwest)
8. District Staff Conference 1980
9. Economic Development Papers
10. Extension Agent Training August 8, 9, 10, 1979
11. Extension Professional Association Recommendations to Administration
12. 4-H Youth Programs
13. Handbook for County Extension Program Committees Long-Range
Program Development
14. Leader's Seminar Invitational List - 1968
15. Pennsylvania
16. Physicians Search Committee
17. Program Committee Transparencies
18. Resource Development Report for Department of Planning
19. Searcy County Career Day - 1981
20. Small Business Conference, Mountain View, AR, 1980
21. Small Business Project
22. Solid Waste Management
23. State USDA Committee
24. University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service Report
of Accomplishments 1983 (form)
25. University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service Report
of Accomplishments 1984 (form)
26. University of Arkansas 5-Year Plan Update - August, 1984
27. University of Arkansas Biennium Report 1985-1986
28. University of Arkansas Extension and Research Advisory Committee
Series 2. County Development Council (Boxes 2-3)
This series consists of files maintained by county development councils beginning in 1963 regarding all aspects of community development in counties and areas throughout the state. Included are correspondence, reports, plans, brochures, transparencies, photographs, and newspaper clippings. Also included are materials pertaining to the Concerted Services Program for the St. Francis, Cross, and Lee county areas. Files are arranged alphabetically.
Box 2
1. Arkansas County
2. Ashley County
3. Baxter County
4. Benton County
5. Boone County
6. Boone-Marion-Baxter-Newton-Searcy Area
7. Bradley County
8. Calhoun County
9. Carroll County
10. Chicot County
11. Clark County
12. Clay County
13. Cleburne County
14. Cleveland County
15. Columbia County
16. Conway County
17. Craighead County
18. Crawford County
19. Crittenden County
20. Cross County
21. Dallas County
22. Desha County
23. Drew County
24. Faulkner County
25. Franklin County
26. Fulton County
27. Garland County
28. Grant County
29. Greene County
30. Hempstead County
31. Hot Spring County
32. Howard County
33. Independence County
34. Izard County
35. Jackson County
36. Jefferson County
37. Johnson County
38. Lafayette County
39. Lawrence County
40. Lee County
41. Lincoln County
42. Little River County
43. Logan County (North)
44. Logan County (South)
45. Lonoke County
46. Madison County
47. Marion County
48. Miller County
49. Mississippi County (North)
50. Mississippi County (South)
Box 3
1. Monroe County
2. Montgomery County
3. Nevada County
4. Newton County
5. Ouachita Valley Economic Development Association
6. Perry County
7. Pike County
8. Poinsett County
9. Polk County
10. Pope County
11. Prairie County
12. Pulaski County
13. Randolph County
14. St. Francis County
15. St. Francis County - Concerted Services Program
16. St. Francis, Cross and Lee Counties - Concerted Services
Program
17. Scott County
18. Sevier County
19. Sharp County
20. Stone County
21. Union County
22. Washington County
23. White County
24. Yell County
Series 3. Progress Reports (Boxes 4-8)
This series consists of progress reports pertaining to community development throughout the state from 1964 to 1988. Included are area, committee, Community Development, Community Resource Development, county, district, federal, Rural Development, Rural Areas Development, Title V, Title IX and USDA reports. Reports contain materials pertaining to assistance programs, manpower training programs, leadership, civil rights issues, economic development and planning, education, community facilities, health and welfare services, housing, environmental issues, local government, recreation, and tourism. Files are arranged alphabetically.
Box 4
1. Area Development Progress Reports, June 30, 1966
2. Area Development Progress Reports, December 31, 1966
3. Area Development Progress Reports, June 30, 1967
4. Area Development Progress Reports, December 31, 1967
5. Area Development Progress Reports, January-June, 1969
6. Committee Reports, July-December, 1968
7. Community Development - Report: Civil Rights Narrative
FY79
8. Community Development - Report: Civil Rights Narrative
FY80
9. Community Development - Report: C. D. Meeting, Washington,
DC, February 11-13, 1981
10. Community Development - Report: C. D. Report for Arkansas,
June 1980
11. Community Development - Report: Community Power Actors
Survey 1981 (County Reports)
12. Community Development - Report: Five Year Report 1975-1980
13. Community Development - Report: Forms
14. Community Development - Report: Material for U. of
A. President 1975-1980
15. Community Development - Report: Northcentral District
CD Narrative Reports FY80
16. Community Development - Report: Past Years
17. Community Development - Report: Pilot Test of Accomplishment
Reporting
18. Community Development - Report: Report of Accomplishments
FY78 & FY79
19. Community Development - Report: Report of Accomplishments
FY80
20. Community Development - Report: Report of Accomplishments
1975-1980
21. Community Development - Report: Rural Development Annual
Report FY75
22. Community Development - Report: Special Report Title
V FY79
23. County Annual Report of Accomplishments FY79-Civil Rights
24. County Annual Report of Accomplishments FY79-Narrative and
Statistical
25. County Annual Report of Accomplishments FY80-Civil Rights
26. County Annual Report of Accomplishments FY80-Narrative and
Statistical
27. County Annual Report of Accomplishments FY81-Civil Rights
Box 5
1. County Annual Report of Accomplishments FY81-Narrative and
Statistical
2. County Annual Report of Accomplishments FY82-Civil Rights
3. County Annual Report of Accomplishments FY82-Narrative and
Statistical
4. County Annual Report, 1986
5. County Annual Report, 1987
6. County Annual Report, 1988
7. County Development Progress Report, June 30,1966
8. County Development Progress Report, December 31, 1966
9. County Development Progress Report, June 30, 1967
10. County Development Progress Report, December 31, 1967
11. County Development Progress Report, June 30, 1968
12. County Development Progress Report, December 31, 1968
Box 6
1. County Development Progress Report, June 30, 1969
2. County Development Progress Report January 1, 1968-June 30,
1969
3. County Narrative Plan of Work Materials FY81
4. Federal Progress Report, June 30, 1966
5. Federal Progress Report, December 31, 1966
6. Federal Progress Report, June 30, 1967
7. Federal Progress Report, December 31, 1966
8. Rural Development - Annual Report 1969-1970
9. Rural Development - County Annual Report-USDA, 1970
10. Rural Development - Plan of Work 1973-1974
11. Rural Development - Plan of Work 1975-1976
12. Rural Development - Plan of Work 1979
13. Rural Development - State Rural Development Committee Minutes
1956-1964
14. Rural Development - State Rural Development Committee Minutes
1965-1982
15. Rural Development - Title V, Past Years [1972-1977]
16. Rural Areas Development - Extension's Job
17. Rural Areas Development - Extension's Role in relation to
EDA and EDD
18. Rural Areas Development - Federal Progress Reports 1965-1970
Box 7
1. Rural Areas Development - Quarterly Progress Report, November,
1964
2. Rural Areas Development - Quarterly Progress Report, February,
1965 - Working Material
3. Rural Areas Development - Quarterly Progress Report, May,
1965 - Working Material
4. Rural Areas Development - Quarterly Progress Report, August,
1965 - Working Material
5. Rural Areas Development - Quarterly Progress Report, November,
1965 - Working Material
6. Rural Areas Development - Quarterly Progress Report, February,
1966 - Working Material
7. Rural Areas Development - State Progress Reports 1966-1968
8. Title IX Report FY71
9. Title IX Report, June 30, 1972
10. Title IX Report, June 30, 1973
11. Title IX Report FY73-Rural Development
Box 8
1. Title IX Report FY74-Rural Development
2. Title IX Report FY74-USDA
3. Title IX Report FY74 & FY75-State USDA
4. Title IX Report FY75
5. Title IX Report FY75-Rural Development
6. Title IX Report FY76-Rural Development
7. Title IX Report FY76-Rural Development District Report
8. USDA County Awards, 1981
Series 4. Community Resource Development (Boxes 9-10)
This series consists of records pertaining to Community Resource Development. Included are annual reports, county reports, administrative files, conference materials, plans of work, files regarding the development of tourism, and materials pertaining to the Southern Regional Community Resource Development Committee from 1971 to 1982. Files are arranged alphabetically.
Box 9
1. Administration-Laws, Ordinances and Regulations-State
2. Annual Narrative Report 1966-1969
3. Annual Narrative Report 1971
4. Annual Narrative Report 1977
5. CRD Leader Training Conferences 1979
6. CRD Leadership Development and Organization Maintenance-Area
Studies 1969
7. CRD Work-Baxter County
8. CRD Work-Cleburne County
9. CRD Work-Faulkner County
10. CRD Work-Fulton County
11. CRD Work-Independence County
12. CRD Work-Izard County
13. CRD Work-Jackson County
14. CRD Work-Lawrence County
15. CRD Work-Marion County
16. CRD Work-Randolph County
17. CRD Work-Searcy County
18. CRD Work-Sharp County
19. CRD Work-Stone County
20. CRD Work-Van Buren County
21. CRD Work-White County
22. CRD Work-Woodruff County
23. District or Area Committees - District USDA Committee
24. Plan of Work FY79
25. Plan of Work FY80-County and District
Box 10
1. Proceedings of First National Extension Workshop in Community
Resource Development, Michigan State University, July 12-30, 1965
2. Recreation and Tourism-General
3. Recreation and Tourism-Trails
4. Report of Accomplishments FY77
5. Report of Accomplishments FY78
6. Report-General
7. Report-Narrative Report of Accomplishments 1976-1982
8. Report-National Extension Study-Social and Economic Consequences
9. Report-Progress
10. Southern Regional CRD Committee-Asheville, North Carolina,
June 3-4, 1971
11. Southern Regional CRD Committee-Atlanta, Georgia, May 17-19,
1972
12. Southern Regional CRD Committee-Biloxi, Mississippi, June
13-15, 1973
13. Southern Regional CRD Committee-Wrightsville Beach, North
Carolina, October 17-19, 1973
14. Southern Regional CRD Committee-1974-1975
15. Southern Regional CRD Commitee-Kentucky Dam Village, Kentucky,
June 12-14, 1974
16. Southern Regional CRD Committee-Asheville, North Carolina,
September 24-26, 1974
17. Southern Regional CRD Committee-Report May 1, 1974-April
30, 1975
18. Southern Regional CRD Committee-Myrtle Beach, South Carolina,
June 17-19, 1975
19. Southern Regional CRD Committee-Jackson, Mississippi, December
3-5, 1975
20. Southern Regional CRD Committee-Buford, Georgia, June 22-24,
1976
21. Southern Regional CRD Committee-Knoxville, Tennessee, September
27-29, 1977
22. Southern Regional CRD Committee-Natural Bridge State Park,
Kentucky, June 19-22, 1978
23. Southern Regional CRD Committee-Lexington, Kentucky, April
19-21, 1979
24. Southern Regional CRD Committee-Williamsburg, Virginia, June
24-27, 1980
25. Southern Regional CRD Committee-New Orleans, Louisiana, October
28-30, 1980
26. Southern Regional CRD Committee-Raleigh, North Carolina,
May 31-June 3, 1982
Series 5. Overall Economic Development Programs (Boxes 11-12)
This series consists of Overall Economic Development Programs prepared by county development councils in Arkansas dating from 1961 to 1969. Included are Preliminary Overall Economic Development Programs, Overall Economic Development Programs, annual progress reports, programs appraisals, program reviews, and correspondence. Files are arranged alphabetically.
Box 11
1. Arkansas Ozarks Redevelopment Area (Newton, Searcy, Baxter
and Marion Counties)
2. Ashley County
3. Baxter County
4. Baxter and Marion County Redevelopment Area
5. Boone County
6. Carroll County
7. Chicot County
8. Clark County
9. Clay County
10. Cleburne County
11. Cleveland County
12. Columbia County
13. Conway County
14. Crawford County
15. Crittenden County
16. Cross County
17. Dallas County
18. Desha County
19. Drew County
20. Faulkner County
21. Franklin County
22. Fulton County
23. Grant County
24. Greene County
25. Hempstead County
26. Hot Spring County
27. Independence County
28. Izard County
29. Jackson County
30. Johnson County
31. Lafayette County
32. Lawrence County
33. Lee County
34. Lincoln County
35. Little River County
36. Logan County
37. Lonoke County
38. Madison County
39. Marion County
40. Miller County
Box 12
1. Mississippi County
2. Montgomery County
3. Monroe County
4. Nevada County
5. Newton County
6. Ouachita-Calhoun County
7. Perry County
8. Phillips-Lee County Development Area
9. Pike County
10. Poinsett County
11. Polk County
12. Pope County
13. Randolph County
14. St. Francis County
15. Scott County
16. Searcy County
17. Sebastian County
18. Sevier County
19. Sharp County
20. Stone County
21. Van Buren County
22. Washington County
23. White County
24. Woodruff County
25. Yell County
Series 6. Extension Committee on Organization and Policy (Box 13)
This series consists of minutes of national meetings of the Extension Committee on Organization and Policy from 1951 to 1974. Also included are subcommittee files of the Extension Committee on Organization and Policy on Community Resource Development and Public Affairs from 1976 to 1980.
Box 13
1. ECOP Subcommittee on Community Resource Development and Public
Affairs
2. ECOP Subcommittee, Washington, D.C., November 29-December
1, 1978
3. ECOP Subcommitee, Little Rock, Arkansas, February 27-29, 1980
4. ECOP Subcommittee, Washington, D.C., October 1-3, 1980
5. Minutes of ECOP Meetings 1951-1955
6. Minutes of ECOP Meetings 1957-1965
7. Minutes of ECOP Meetings 1966-1968
8. Minutes of ECOP Meetings 1969-1974
Series 7. Delton Price Files (Box 14)
This series contains files maintained by Delton Price, Area Resource Development Agent for the Fort Smith Area in the 1960s and 1970s. Included are materials pertaining to tourism in Arkansas, reports published by the Arkhoma Regional Planning Commission, and files pertaining to natural resources and manpower training. Files are arranged alphabetically.
Box 14
1. Arkansas Tourism: Recommendations for Economic Development,
A Report on the Impact and Future of Tourism in Arkansas
2. Arkansas Tourist Information Centers Annual Report 1970
3. Arkhoma Regional Planning Commission Report I: The Region's
Population, September,1968, Project Number Ark.P-77, 59 pages
4. Arkhoma Regional Planning Commission Report II: The Region's
Economy, February, 1969, Project Number Ark P-77, 140 pages
5. Arkhoma Regional Planning Commission Report III: The Region's
Resources, June, 1969, Project Number Ark P-77, 47 pages
6. Arkhoma Regional Planning Commission Report VII: The Region's
Education, January, 1969, Project Number Ark P-77, 145 pages
7. Arkhoma Regional Planning Commission Report VIII: Land Use,
June, 1969, Project Number Ark P-77, 50 pages
8. Arkhoma Regional Planning Commission Supplement to Report
IX: Financial Capabilities of Government, January, 1969, Project Number
P-77, 113 pages
9. Arkhoma Regional Planning Commission Report 8: Initial Housing
Element for the Arkhoma Region, October 1969, Project Number Ark P-105,
13 pages
10. Arkhoma Regional Planning Commission Report 8: Water and
Sewer Study - Phase I for Fort Smith Urbanizing Area, December, 1969, Project
Number Ark P-77, 59 pages
11. Arkhoma Regional Planning Commission Report: Water, Sewer
and Drainage Plan for Fort Smith Urbanizing Area - Phase II, June 1970,
Project Number Ark P-105, Volume I - Water, 134 pages
12. Arkhoma Regional Planning Commission Report: Water, Sewer
and Drainage Plan for Fort Smith Urbanizing Area - Phase II, June 1970,
Project Number Ark P-105, Volume II - Sewer and Drainage, 98 pages
13. Arkhoma Regional Planning Commission Report: Housing Report
for the Fort Smith Metropolitan Area Phase II: Crawford County, June, 1972,
Project Number CPA-AR-06-37-1003, 86 pages
14. Arkhoma Regional Planning Commission Report: Housing Report
for the Fort Smith Metropolitan Area Phase II: Crawford County Revision,
June 1974, Project Number CPA-AR-06-37-1021, 101 pages
15. Arkhoma Regional Planning Commission Report: The Arkhoma
Region: Regional Housing Goals, 1974, Metropolitan Series II, Report Number
3, June, 1974, Project Number CPA-AR-06-37-1021, 91 pages
16. Franklin County Land Resources Report, June 1, 1975
17. Outdoor Recreation
18. Recreation-Parks
19. Recreation-Tourism in Arkansas
20. Water Transportation
21. Western Arkansas Ancillary Manpower Planning Board
Series 8. Census and Economic Data (Box 15)
This series contains materials pertaining to census records and economic data for Arkansas dating from the 1950s to the 1970s. Files are arranged alphabetically.
Box 15
1. Census and Statistical Data for Employment and Wages [1964-1977]
2. Census and Statistical Data for Housing [1970-1974]
3. Census and Statistical Data for Income and Wages [1970-1976]
4. Census and Statistical Data for Selected Services [1972]
5. Family Income [1969]
6. Housing [1971-1976]
7. Index to Census Material [1968-1973]
8. Manpower Census and Statistics [1973-1975]
9. Population of Arkansas Counties [1950-1976]
10. Population-County and City [1960-1976]
11. Retail and Wholesale Trade Census [1963-1972]
12. Socio-Economic Census [1967-1970]
Series 9. Audio Visual Material (Box 16)
This series consists of one 16mm film and two 3/4" videotape cassettes.
Box 16
1. Film - When Neighbors Meet
2. Video Cassette - Community Development in Mississippi County,
March 1981
3. Video Cassette - Viewpoint: Building Support for Community
Services 1979, Produced and directed by Ellen Czaplewski and John Reaves.
A color videotape cassette to accompany Generating Support for Community
Services by J. David Deshler and Joan W. Wright (Ithaca, New York,
Cornell University, 1979)