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

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

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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.

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Deane, Ernie

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United States. National Youth Administration

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Arkansas History Commission

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The Arkansas History Commission was created by the General Assembly in 1905. Inspired and guided during its early years by John Hugh Reynolds, the commission is the official archives of the state, responsible for collecting and preserving the source materials of the history of Arkansas. From the description of Arkansas History Commission records, 1905-1984 [microform]. (Arkansas History Commission). WorldCat record id: 244818119 ...

Job Corps (U.S.)

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The Job Corps provided work experience and training for youths from 16 to 21 years if age who had not completed their secondary education or who were unable to find satisfactory jobs. They were trained in conservation camps and in residential or work training centers. The Job Corps program was delegated to the Department of Labor on July 1, 1969. From the description of Records of the Job Corps, (a subgroup introduction), 1964-1966. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122597171 S...