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Job Corps (U.S.). Reading File of David Squire, (a series), 1966.

Title: Reading File of David Squire, (a series), 1966.

This outgoing correspondence for the months of January through August (except May) 1966 concerns the establishment of Job Corps policies and procedures, various aspects of center management, personnel matters, and the direction of enrollees, including recruitment, travel, training, placement, and discipline. Included are copies of outgoing correspondence of other officials in OEO that were furnished to Squire for his reference.

ArchivalResource: 7 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122600974 View

United States. Office of Economic Opportunity. Office of the Director. Alphabetical File of Samuel Yette. 1964-66.

Title: Alphabetical File of Samuel Yette. 1964-66.

Mr. Yette served as Special Assistant to the Director for Civil Rights. His office corresponded with the OEO staff, other Government agencies, and the public. This series consists of correspondence, agenda, minutes, transcripts of testimony, legal documents, reports, press clippings and releases, charts, and publications pertaining to, among other subjects, implementation of the equal employment opportunities program, efforts to achieve compliance of OEO programs with the Civil Rights Act of 1964, complaints of racial and sex discrimination, conferences about civil rights, congressional hearings, and staff and advisory council meetings. Some of the materials were accumulated by Steven Lowenstein, Deputy Special Assistant.

ArchivalResource: 3.25 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86118881 View

Job Corps (U.S.). Records of the Job Corps, (a subgroup introduction), 1964-1966.

Title: Records of the Job Corps, (a subgroup introduction), 1964-1966.

ArchivalResource:

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Deane, Ernie. Official opening of Jobs Corps Center, Ouachita National Forest, March 22, 1965 [Flags wave over center] [graphic] / Ernie Deane [photographer].

Title: Official opening of Jobs Corps Center, Ouachita National Forest, March 22, 1965 [Flags wave over center] [graphic] / Ernie Deane [photographer]. 1965.

Negative taken for March 23, 1965, Arkansas Gazette article "Job Corps Center Ceremony Stirs Depression Memories," B1:2. The first Job Corps Conservation Center in the south was opened in the Ouachita National Forest west of Hot Springs, Garland County, Arkansas. The Ouachita Civilian Conservation Center is a program to educate youths between the ages of sixteen and twenty-one for work that they currently are inadequately trained. Ralph Kunz, a career National Forest Service employee, will direct the center. The Job Corps is part of the Office of Economic Opportunity. United States Secretary of Agriculture Orville L. Freeman (1918-2003) and Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus (1910-1994) spoke to several hundred persons at the opening ceremony. Airline Mobile Home Corporation in Cabot, Lonoke County, Arkansas, built the prefabricated barracks and other buildings for the center, which will also use facilities constructed by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s.

ArchivalResource: 1 negative : b&w ; 6 x 6 cm. (2 x 2 in.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52804436 View

Job Corps (U.S.). Correspondence file of Franklyn A. Johnson, (a series), 1965-66.

Title: Correspondence file of Franklyn A. Johnson, (a series), 1965-66.

Correspondence, reports, and a few press clippings pertaining to public relations and administrative matters.

ArchivalResource: 7 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122396289 View

Job Corps (U.S.). College and University File, (a series), 1964.

Title: College and University File, (a series), 1964.

Various educational institutions participated in the planning of, offered suggestions for, and helped in the administration of Jobs Corps Centers. The records concern these matters and public relations.

ArchivalResource: 5 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122554335 View

Moore, Garland. Camp Ryan (Death Valley, Calif.) : Job Corps, 1964.

Title: Camp Ryan (Death Valley, Calif.) : Job Corps, 1964.

This report gives information on the suitability of the Camp Ryan site, including cost of restoration and weather statistics.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (28 p., 18 photographs, 2 maps)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86130390 View

Brown, Jeanetta Welch, 1910-. Papers, 1946-1987 (bulk 1961-1976).

Title: Papers, 1946-1987 (bulk 1961-1976).

Correspondence, newspaper clippings, and publications, relating to Brown's work with the Democratic Party in the 1940s and the National Negro Business League (1951-1952), her founding of the National Association of Fashion and Accessory Designers, her work as a community relations specialist at the Cleveland Job Corps Center for Women during the 1960s, and her role as founder and president of the Detroit-based Women's Public Affairs Committee of 1000. Includes material relating to a 1963 tribute to Rosa Parks in Detroit.

ArchivalResource: 2.25 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70938814 View

Minnesota Academy of Science (1932- ). Organization records, 1873-1986.

Title: Organization records, 1873-1986.

Records documenting the history, administration, and activities of the Minnesota Academy of Science (1873-1986) and a number of related organizations including the National Science Foundation (1953-1971), the Minnesota Junior Academy of Science (1936-1986), the Minnesota Science Teachers Association (1963-1972), and the Minnesota Environmental Resources Council (1969-1974). The records include correspondence, bylaws, minutes, financial records, registers and lists, annual reports, contracts, programs, reports, field journals, manuals, newsletters, and newspaper clippings.

ArchivalResource: 32.55 cu. ft. (33 boxes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81213928 View

Job Corps (U.S.). Subject File of David Squire, (a series), 1965-1966.

Title: Subject File of David Squire, (a series), 1965-1966.

These records include correspondence, reports, legal documents, speeches, transcripts of hearings, charts, press releases, publications, and tables pertaining to operational and administrative concerns of the Job Corps, its relationship to other OEO programs and Federal and nongovernmental organizations, and policies regarding civil rights.

ArchivalResource: 4 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122578330 View

Job Corps (U.S.). Job Corps Center Files of Franklyn A. Johnson, (a series), 1966.

Title: Job Corps Center Files of Franklyn A. Johnson, (a series), 1966.

Correspondence and press releases and clippings pertaining chiefly to administrative matters, conferences at and Johnson's visits to the centers, suggestions for the locations of centers, and problems of enrollees. A few letters written by Deputy Director David Squire are included.

ArchivalResource: 11 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122333666 View

Job Corps (U.S.). Reading File of Otis A. Singletary, (a series), 1964-1965.

Title: Reading File of Otis A. Singletary, (a series), 1964-1965.

The file contains only copies of outgoing correspondence to May 1965. After that date it consists of both incoming and outgoing correspondence. The correspondence (with the public, government officials, and members of Congress) concerns public relations and various administrative matters.

ArchivalResource: 2 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122292095 View

United States. Office of Economic Opportunity. Office of Public Affairs. OEO Program Accomplishments Report, (a series). 1967.

Title: OEO Program Accomplishments Report, (a series). 1967.

"Accomplishments of the Anti-Poverty Program by States and Territories," published by OEO in May 1967, consists of vertical bar graphs that show for each State and territory the amount of money spent for each of the following programs: Adult Basic Education, CAP, Head Start, Job Corps, Neighborhood Youth Corps, Rural Loans, Small Business Administration, VISTA, and Work Experience.

ArchivalResource: 0.5 linear in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122546886 View

Deane, Ernie. Official opening of Jobs Corps Center, Ouachita National Forest, March 22, 1965 [Edward P. Cliff, left] [graphic] / Ernie Deane [photographer].

Title: Official opening of Jobs Corps Center, Ouachita National Forest, March 22, 1965 [Edward P. Cliff, left] [graphic] / Ernie Deane [photographer]. 1965.

Negative taken for March 23, 1965, Arkansas Gazette article "Job Corps Center Ceremony Stirs Depression Memories," B1:2. The first Job Corps Conservation Center in the south was opened in the Ouachita National Forest west of Hot Springs, Garland County, Arkansas. The Ouachita Civilian Conservation Center is a program to educate youths between the ages of sixteen and twenty-one for work that they currently are inadequately trained. Ralph Kunz, a career National Forest Service employee, will direct the center. The Job Corps is part of the Office of Economic Opportunity. United States Secretary of Agriculture Orville L. Freeman (1918-2003) and Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus (1910-1994) spoke to several hundred persons at the opening ceremony. Airline Mobile Home Corporation in Cabot, Lonoke County, Arkansas, built the prefabricated barracks and other buildings for the center, which will also use facilities constructed by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s.

ArchivalResource: 1 negative : b&w ; 6 x 6 cm. (2 x 2 in.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52804442 View

Deane, Ernie. Official opening of Jobs Corps Center, Ouachita National Forest, March 22, 1965 [Faubus speaks] [graphic] / Ernie Deane [photographer].

Title: Official opening of Jobs Corps Center, Ouachita National Forest, March 22, 1965 [Faubus speaks] [graphic] / Ernie Deane [photographer]. 1965.

Negative taken for March 23, 1965, Arkansas Gazette article "Job Corps Center Ceremony Stirs Depression Memories," B1:2. The first Job Corps Conservation Center in the south was opened in the Ouachita National Forest west of Hot Springs, Garland County, Arkansas. The Ouachita Civilian Conservation Center is a program to educate youths between the ages of sixteen and twenty-one for work that they currently are inadequately trained. Ralph Kunz, a career National Forest Service employee, will direct the center. The Job Corps is part of the Office of Economic Opportunity. United States Secretary of Agriculture Orville L. Freeman (1918-2003) and Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus (1910-1994) spoke to several hundred persons at the opening ceremony. Airline Mobile Home Corporation in Cabot, Lonoke County, Arkansas, built the prefabricated barracks and other buildings for the center, which will also use facilities constructed by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s.

ArchivalResource: 1 negative : b&w ; 6 x 6 cm. (2 x 2 in.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52804434 View

[Marlene Sanders reports--miscellaneous] [motion picture] / ABC News.

Title: [Marlene Sanders reports--miscellaneous] [motion picture] / ABC News. [ca. 1966]

A collection of four stories presented by Sanders on the ABC Evening News. Topics include: a citizens' crusade against smoking; the effects of moving the Head Start program from the Department of Economic Opportunity to the Department of Health, Education and Welfare; a report by ABC reporter Bill Gill on the war on poverty; a report by Sanders on cuts in the Job Corps program.

ArchivalResource: 1 film reel of 1 (223 ft.) : sd., b&w ; 16 mm. arch pos.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173697377 View

Deane, Ernie. Jobs Corps Center, Ouachita National Forest, March 22, 1965 [Pre-fabricated buildings, view 1] [graphic] / Ernie Deane [photographer].

Title: Jobs Corps Center, Ouachita National Forest, March 22, 1965 [Pre-fabricated buildings, view 1] [graphic] / Ernie Deane [photographer]. 1965.

Negative taken for March 24, 1965, Arkansas Gazette article "Lacking Work, Schooling, Skills, Corpsmen are Hopeful," B1:2. The first Job Corps Conservation Center in the south was opened in the Ouachita National Forest west of Hot Springs, Garland County, Arkansas. The Ouachita Civilian Conservation Center is a program to educate youths between the ages of sixteen and twenty-one for work that they currently are inadequately trained. Ralph Kunz, a career National Forest Service employee, will direct the center. The Job Corps is part of the Office of Economic Opportunity. Airline Mobile Home Corporation in Cabot, Lonoke County, Arkansas, built the prefabricated barracks and other buildings for the center, which will also use facilities constructed by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s.

ArchivalResource: 1 negative : b&w ; 6 x 6 cm. (2 x 2 in.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52804433 View

Stuart, Alice Jackson, 1913-2001. Papers of Alice Jackson Stuart [manuscript], 1930-2001.

Title: Papers of Alice Jackson Stuart [manuscript], 1930-2001.

The collection contains biographical materials including copies of the correspondence and press coverage related to her application to pursue graduate work at the University of Virginia in 1935 and its denial for "good and sufficient reasons" based on her race; as well as some selected personal and professional correspondence; some original writing by Jackson and her son Julian Houston, including speeches, essays, and poetry; scrapbooks and albums; a few photographs; and some papers and photographs pertaining to the career and estate of her second husband Dr. James Earle Stuart. A small group of VIP correspondence includes letters from Mary McLeod Bethune, Edward W. Brooke, W.E.B. DuBois (copy of letter to another individual), Michael S. Dukakis, Lena Horne, Robert F. Kennedy, Ada MacLeish, Arhibald MacLeish, Isabel (Mrs. Adam Clayton) Powell, Dan Quayle, Barbara Summers, Mary Church Terrell, and Harrison A. Williams, Jr. The very small selection of personal correspondence contains letters pertaining to educational opportunities, particularly a letter from Charles Houston regarding the money paid by the state of Virginia for her to attend graduate school at Columbia. P. B. Young of the Norfolk "Journal and Guide" is also a correspondent. Original writing in the collection include drafts of her book on baseball player Don Newcombe, her masters thesis on John Milton, and various play adaptations, articles, poetry, speeches and short stories, as well as college course notes, notes for classes she taught and notes about the teaching of black history and culture. The bulk of the collection consists of topical files related to her teaching career, particularly at Middlesex County College, Edison, N.J. and the Kilmer Job Corps Center of Edison, N.J.; her active roles in the National Council of Teachers and the Conference on College Composition and Communication; the African-American experience; and the work of Jackson and her husband J. Earle Jackson in civil rights and social issues in Plainfield, N.J. Other topics include the First Unitarian Churches of Richmond, Va., and Plainfield, N.J., L. Douglas Wilder, VIrginia Union University., Roland Hayes, Langston Hughes, John Keats, Alice Dunbar Nelson and Maggie Lena Walker. The collection also contains address books, calendar and appointment books; recipes; routine correspondence, cards and invitations; material regarding her membership and activities in the Delta Sigma Theta sorority; index cards; subject files consisting chiefly of clippings; obituaries and funeral programs for friends, praticularly Spottswood W. Robinson; diplomas, resolutions and plaques; postcards; and papers concerning her travel abroad. Other items of interest include the World War II diary and letters of African American Granver Paige Thomas of the 1313th Engineer Regiment; Ervin L. Jordan's "Blacks and the University of Virginia: an overview 1819-1987" The collection also contains four videocassettes : "Our Inspiration, the story of Maggie Lena Walker," "The Wilder inauguration, January 13, 1990," "Who is ? Roland Hayes," and "Alice Jackson Stuart," a speech by Julian Houston; two compact disks "With good reason, race and admissions"; and two filmstrips "Outstanding Americans of Negro origin" and " A trip with UNICEF."

ArchivalResource: 19,200 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647972305 View

Job Corps (U.S.). Subject File of Franklyn A. Johnson, (a series), 1965-1966.

Title: Subject File of Franklyn A. Johnson, (a series), 1965-1966.

This file contains correspondence, agenda, minutes, reports, speeches, press releases and clippings, statistical tables, publications, and photographs pertaining to Job Corps administartive matters, enrollee activities amd problems, various meetings and workshops, including those of advisory groups, and to interagency relations, particularly those with the Bureau of Employment Security.

ArchivalResource: 10 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122333665 View

Job Corps (U.S.). Subject Files of Otis A. Singletary, (a series), 1964-65.

Title: Subject Files of Otis A. Singletary, (a series), 1964-65.

These records include correspondence, reports, legal documents, transcripts, contracts, speeches, and press clippinga containing much information on the development of the Job Corps camps and Conservation Centers, including information on the selection of locations, the preparation of their budgets, contracts for facilities and supplies, the setting of standards for enrollee admission and training, appointment of their staffs, and dissemination of publicity. Also included are proposals from business and other organizations for the training of Job Corps youth. The records concern relations of the Job Corps with the Departments of Agriculture and the Interior, with other government agencies, and with State Governors; reflect contacts with potential enrollees and interested citizens; and pertain to relevant legislation, program development and evaluation, conferences and meeting, press reaction to the Job Corps, other OEO programs, and organizational and administrative matters.

ArchivalResource: 2 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122572485 View

Job Corps (U.S). Decimal File of Otis A. Singletary, (a series), 1965.

Title: Decimal File of Otis A. Singletary, (a series), 1965.

Correspondence, agenda, minutes, legal documents, reports, maps, charts, transcripts of hearings, press releases and clippings, publications, and photographs, including a few from 1964, which pertain to a variety of Job Corps administrative matters. They also pertain to OEO responsibilities under the Civil Rights Act; to the relations between the agency and the Congress, the States, and other Agencies; and to such concerns of enrollees as admission, training, payment, entertainment, food, transportation, and placement.

ArchivalResource: 4 linear ft. 10 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122600951 View

Deane, Ernie. Jobs Corps Center, Ouachita National Forest, March 22, 1965 [Pre-fabricated buildings, view 2] [graphic] / Ernie Deane [photographer].

Title: Jobs Corps Center, Ouachita National Forest, March 22, 1965 [Pre-fabricated buildings, view 2] [graphic] / Ernie Deane [photographer]. 1965.

Negative taken for March 24, 1965, Arkansas Gazette article "Lacking Work, Schooling, Skills, Corpsmen are Hopeful," B1:2. The first Job Corps Conservation Center in the south was opened in the Ouachita National Forest west of Hot Springs, Garland County, Arkansas. The Ouachita Civilian Conservation Center is a program to educate youths between the ages of sixteen and twenty-one for work that they currently are inadequately trained. Ralph Kunz, a career National Forest Service employee, will direct the center. The Job Corps is part of the Office of Economic Opportunity. Airline Mobile Home Corporation in Cabot, Lonoke County, Arkansas, built the prefabricated barracks and other buildings for the center, which will also use facilities constructed by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s.

ArchivalResource: 1 negative : b&w ; 6 x 6 cm. (2 x 2 in.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52804438 View

Job Corps (U.S.). Correspondence file of Otis A. Singletary, (a series), 1965.

Title: Correspondence file of Otis A. Singletary, (a series), 1965.

Copies of outgoing correspondence to the public, government officials, and members of Congress concerning public relations and various administrative matters. Included are a few reports on various aspects of the Job Corps.

ArchivalResource: 4 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122515906 View

Stoddard, Charles Hatch, 1912-. Charles H. Stoddard papers, 1931-1973.

Title: Charles H. Stoddard papers, 1931-1973.

Correspondence, subject files, speeches, articles, reports, studies, memoranda, and regulations relating largely to Stoddard's work as director of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) (1963-1966) and the U.S. Department of the Interior's Upper Midwest-Great Lakes Area (1967-1968). Topics include management of public lands, range land, and watersheds; BLM administration and policies; public land laws and the Public Land Law Review Commission; the "Stoddard Report" on taconite tailings in Lake Superior; the Job Corps program; Voyageurs National Park; and the maintenance of Stoddard's model forest at Minong, Wisconsin. Charles H. Stoddard died in December, 1997.

ArchivalResource: 7.0 cu. ft. (7 boxes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/313834758 View

Deane, Ernie. Official opening of Jobs Corps Center, Ouachita National Forest, March 22, 1965 [Group of corpsmen] [graphic] / Ernie Deane [photographer].

Title: Official opening of Jobs Corps Center, Ouachita National Forest, March 22, 1965 [Group of corpsmen] [graphic] / Ernie Deane [photographer]. 1965.

Negative taken for March 23, 1965, Arkansas Gazette article "Job Corps Center Ceremony Stirs Depression Memories," B1:2. The first Job Corps Conservation Center in the south was opened in the Ouachita National Forest west of Hot Springs, Garland County, Arkansas. The Ouachita Civilian Conservation Center is a program to educate youths between the ages of sixteen and twenty-one for work that they currently are inadequately trained. Ralph Kunz, a career National Forest Service employee, will direct the center. The Job Corps is part of the Office of Economic Opportunity. United States Secretary of Agriculture Orville L. Freeman (1918-2003) and Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus (1910-1994) spoke to several hundred persons at the opening ceremony. Airline Mobile Home Corporation in Cabot, Lonoke County, Arkansas, built the prefabricated barracks and other buildings for the center, which will also use facilities constructed by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s.

ArchivalResource: 1 negative : b&w ; 6 x 6 cm. (2 x 2 in.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52804441 View

Deane, Ernie. Jobs Corps Center, Ouachita National Forest, March 22, 1965 [Job Corpsmen Harry Duckworth, 16, learns to cook] [graphic] / Ernie Deane [photographer].

Title: Jobs Corps Center, Ouachita National Forest, March 22, 1965 [Job Corpsmen Harry Duckworth, 16, learns to cook] [graphic] / Ernie Deane [photographer]. 1965.

Negative taken for March 24, 1965, Arkansas Gazette article "Lacking Work, Schooling, Skills, Corpsmen are Hopeful," B1:2. The first Job Corps Conservation Center in the south was opened in the Ouachita National Forest west of Hot Springs, Garland County, Arkansas. The Ouachita Civilian Conservation Center is a program to educate youths between the ages of sixteen and twenty-one for work that they currently are inadequately trained. Ralph Kunz, a career National Forest Service employee, will direct the center. The Job Corps is part of the Office of Economic Opportunity. Airline Mobile Home Corporation in Cabot, Lonoke County, Arkansas, built the prefabricated barracks and other buildings for the center, which will also use facilities constructed by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s.

ArchivalResource: 1 negative : b&w ; 6 x 6 cm. (2 x 2 in.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52804435 View

United States. Office of Economic Opportunity. Office of the Director. Program Files of the Office of the Special Assistant to the Director for Civil Rights, (a series). 1964-67.

Title: Program Files of the Office of the Special Assistant to the Director for Civil Rights, (a series). 1964-67.

The Office of the Special Assistant to the Director for Civil Rights was responsible for ensuring that the various programs administered directly by OEO and those delegated to other agencies were conducted in compliance with civil rights legislation. This material consists of reports, correspondence, press releases and clippings, charts, and publications pertaining to civil rights aspects of the programs, especially equal opportunity guidelines, compliance procedures, and complaints. Included are materials pertaining to allegations of violations of civil rights at several Job Corps centers. Much of the correspondence is with the Farmers Home Administration, the Small Business Administration, and the Departments ofAgriculture, Health, Education and Welfare, and the Interior.

ArchivalResource: 1.5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122558286 View

Deane, Ernie. Official opening of Jobs Corps Center, Ouachita National Forest, March 22, 1965 [Faubus, Freeman and Kunz talk after lunch] [graphic] / Ernie Deane [photographer].

Title: Official opening of Jobs Corps Center, Ouachita National Forest, March 22, 1965 [Faubus, Freeman and Kunz talk after lunch] [graphic] / Ernie Deane [photographer]. 1965.

Negative taken for March 23, 1965, Arkansas Gazette article "Job Corps Center Ceremony Stirs Depression Memories," B1:2. The first Job Corps Conservation Center in the south was opened in the Ouachita National Forest west of Hot Springs, Garland County, Arkansas. The Ouachita Civilian Conservation Center is a program to educate youths between the ages of sixteen and twenty-one for work that they currently are inadequately trained. Ralph Kunz, a career National Forest Service employee, will direct the center. The Job Corps is part of the Office of Economic Opportunity. United States Secretary of Agriculture Orville L. Freeman (1918-2003) and Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus (1910-1994) spoke to several hundred persons at the opening ceremony. Airline Mobile Home Corporation in Cabot, Lonoke County, Arkansas, built the prefabricated barracks and other buildings for the center, which will also use facilities constructed by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s.

ArchivalResource: 1 negative : b&w ; 6 x 6 cm. (2 x 2 in.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52804437 View

Deane, Ernie. Official opening of Jobs Corps Center, Ouachita National Forest, March 22, 1965 [Orville L. Freeman speaking] [graphic] / Ernie Deane [photographer].

Title: Official opening of Jobs Corps Center, Ouachita National Forest, March 22, 1965 [Orville L. Freeman speaking] [graphic] / Ernie Deane [photographer]. 1965.

Negative taken for March 23, 1965, Arkansas Gazette article "Job Corps Center Ceremony Stirs Depression Memories," B1:2. The first Job Corps Conservation Center in the south was opened in the Ouachita National Forest west of Hot Springs, Garland County, Arkansas. The Ouachita Civilian Conservation Center is a program to educate youths between the ages of sixteen and twenty-one for work that they currently are inadequately trained. Ralph Kunz, a career National Forest Service employee, will direct the center. The Job Corps is part of the Office of Economic Opportunity. United States Secretary of Agriculture Orville L. Freeman (1918-2003) and Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus (1910-1994) spoke to several hundred persons at the opening ceremony. Airline Mobile Home Corporation in Cabot, Lonoke County, Arkansas, built the prefabricated barracks and other buildings for the center, which will also use facilities constructed by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s.

ArchivalResource: 1 negative : b&w ; 6 x 6 cm. (2 x 2 in.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52804440 View