Arkansas Business back issues from May 1992:
Playing in the NBA: North Little Rock bank returns to profitability, but the schism remains. (National Bank of Arkansas in North Little Rock)(includes related article on NBA's history) (Company Profile)
May 04, 1992; Waldon, George ... There was a small celebration in the main lobby of North Little Rock's National Bank of Arkansas on April 16. The $29.2 million-asset bank finally was back in the black. But the celebration was decidedly low-key. Al Harkins, NBA's president and chief executive ...
A rash of robberies: Central Arkansas banks become targets for criminals.
May 04, 1992; Rengers, Carrie ... It's the middle of the afternoon at a Little Rock branch of Worthen National Bank of Arkansas. It's Monday, April 20, to be exact. On March 17, the branch had been robbed. Now, just more than a month later, two black males in their late teens or early 20s walk across ...
A burning issue: the proposed 25-cent tax increase on cigarettes stokes a smoking fire.
May 04, 1992; Webb, Kane ... A pack of cigarettes is placed on the counter of a Little Rock convenience store. The customer pushes $2.10 back toward the sales clerk. The buyer palms the cigarettes in his hand and quickly shoves them in a jacket pocket, out of sight. It's not chic to be a ...
The color boom: customers are demanding more color, and printers are working to satisfy those demands. (Industry Overview)
May 04, 1992; Harper, Kim ... Gone are the days when craftsmen hand set type for printing. Type trays have been traded for computer keyboards. Manual letterpresses have been replaced by computerized offset presses and color laser copiers. Also gone are the days when customers realized that ...
Pressing matters: technology and decreased demand increase competition in the printing industry. (Industry Overview)
May 04, 1992; Fleisch, Shelley ... Demand for printed products nationwide slipped in 1991 due to the recession and resulting decreases in advertising budgets. Arkansas' printing industry did not escape that trend. The future for the printing sector appears more encouraging, however. There was slight growth ...
Joining the big leagues: construction of slack-water harbor will put Helena on the waterways map.
May 04, 1992; Harper, Kim ... Helena and West Helena offer their 17,000 residents more than many Delta towns. There's an excellent community college, Phillips County Community College. There's the recently completed Delta Cultural Center. There's a well-known concert series. There ...
Stepping out with Russ: Baptist's restructuring includes higher profile for Russell Harrington. (Baptist Medical System; Russell Harrington Jr) (Company Profile)
May 11, 1992; Webb, Kane ... Russell Harrington Jr. is addressing some of the 5,500 employees of Baptist Medical System, Arkansas' largest provider of health care. Harrington has turned from his overhead projector and picked up a copy of a text by business author Philip Crosby. Harrington begins ...
Playing chicken: poultry companies, growers and government agencies square off as animal wastes pile up. (includes related article) (Industry Overview)
May 11, 1992; Griffee, Carol ... Major poultry companies are preparing to place manure-disposal policies in their contracts with almost 6,000 Arkansas growers. While tightly controlling what farmers feed the birds they grow, the firms have never claimed ownership, control or responsibility for the wastes those ...
Clinton's financial plowboy. (Mark Middleton, Bill Clinton's presidential campaign finance director)
May 11, 1992; Waldon, George ... The Governor's Campaign Is Bringing In Funds From Across The State With Mark Middleton Riding Herd Over The Cash Cow A four-woman assembly line of volunteers is busy cutting red and blue ribbons, attaching them to invitations and stuffing envelopes. The site is the downtown ...
Growing old gracefully: hospitals are catering more to the elderly as Arkansas grays. (Industry Overview)
May 11, 1992; Webb, Kane ... The graying of Arkansas is real. The state has the nation's fifth-highest percentage of residents age 65 and older. The percentage has increased from 13.7 percent to 14.2 percent since 1980. That's about 350,000 senior Arkansans. There are 418 people above the age ...
The health report. (Baptist Medical Center, Little Rock still ranks as Arkansas' biggest hospital)
May 11, 1992; Webb, Kane ... Baptist Medical Center At Little Rock Is Still The State's Biggest Hospital, But It's Not The Most Profitable The battle to be the biggest, most profitable health care facility in the state is usually between Baptist Medical Center at Little Rock and St. Vincent Infirmary Medical ...
A sign of steel. (Huntco Steel Inc. to shut down Memphis plant and move operations to Hickman)
May 11, 1992; Taylor, Tim ... Steel Processing Company To Shut Down Memphis Plant And Move Operations To Hickman It's a move that makes sense to the management of Huntco Steel Inc. By shutting down a facility in Memphis, Tenn., and opening a new plant at Hickman in Mississippi County, the company will ...
In tune with tomorrow. (Fayetteville Chamber of Commerce's s headquarters remodelling)
May 11, 1992; Taylor, Tim ... Fayetteville Chamber Of Commerce Makes Plans For The Future Bigger and better things are ahead for the Fayetteville Chamber of Commerce. Bigger in terms of the expansion and renovation of its headquarters. Better in the way of a drive for national accreditation. ...
Workers in the hood: $1.5 million program seeks to stem decay in urban neighborhoods. (includes related article of business and philantrophic organizations)
May 18, 1992; Waldon, George ... At a 1989 planning retreat, revitalizing older neighborhoods was identified as a priority by the Little Rock Board of Directors. In part because of that brainstorming session, there's a new acronym in central Arkansas -- LISC. Supporters of the concept believe it will ...
The sultan of taxes. (Wilbur D. Mills; includes related article)
May 18, 1992; Terrell, David ... Figuring Out Wilbur D. Mills Was No Easy Task, But For 15 Years He Was A Titanic Force In American Business Wilbur Daigh Mills was a chameleonic character, appearing, within limits, to be whatever you wanted to see. (His political coalition included most of the Little Rock liberal ...
Comeback or crash landing?: Bob Stroud fights to save his North Oaks Special Events Center in North Little Rock.
May 18, 1992; Waldon, George ... Things appeared to be looking up for North Little Rock businessman Bob Stroud in late March. Stroud twice averted losing his North Oaks special events center through court-ordered foreclosure sales during a two-week period. He scrambled to come up with two lump-sum payments ...
April in Arkansas. (economic indicators)
May 18, 1992; Taylor, Tim ... State's Unemployment Rate Moves Above National Rate In April In April, it was the nation's turn to upstage Arkansas, rather than the other way around. The Arkansas unemployment rate, which seldom rises above the national rate, reached 7.4 percent in April. That's up from ...
Help for the helpless: low-income Arkansans are finding more affordable health care.
May 18, 1992; Webb, Kane ... Last year, a man in his mid-30s living in rural Arkansas complained to his wife of chest pains. The family lived on a strict budget. Like thousands of Arkansas, the man and his wife had no health insurance. The man had not been to a doctor in years. His wife, ...
The miracle at Mattocks Park: Great Lakes Chemical Corp. of El Dorado recognized for community service.
May 18, 1992; Harper, Kim ... Not many companies can boast that 90 percent of employees devote extra time to community service. An El Dorado company can. Great Lakes Chemical Corp., the world's largest producer of elemental bromine and bromine derivative chemicals, recently was named a 1992 "Corporate ...
Matchmaker, matchmaker, make me a match: Blytheville Chamber of Commerce tries to arrange marriage of manufacturers and suppliers.
May 18, 1992; Taylor, Tim ... The matchmaker of old had a simple job -- find single, earnest women willing to marry bachelors too busy or too lazy to find their own wives. The Blytheville Chamber of Commerce has given that old concept a new twist as it attempts to "marry" manufacturers and suppliers. ...
Hamming it up: Pine Bluff plant receives productivity award from Honda. (Stant Manufacturing Inc.)
May 18, 1992; Harper, Kim ... What's the one thing on a car everyone is familiar with, regardless of automobile acumen? The gas cap, of course. What most people don't realize about their automobile's gas cap is that it might have been made in Arkansas. Stant Manufacturing Inc. of Pine Bluff, a ...
A hazardous cleaning bill. (environmental liabilities)(includes related article)
May 25, 1992; Waldon, George ... Environmental Liability: Must Lenders Bear Cost Of Cleaning Up Wastes? Arkansas lenders aren't in the habit of walking away from a bad loan without trying to recover a portion of the debt through a foreclosure sale. But that's not the case when the collateral securing the ...
A workmen's compensation compromise: Arkansas Medical Society and state Chamber of Commerce reach an agreement, but labor is locked out.
May 25, 1992; Griffee, Carol ... Arkansas' hottest small business issue -- soaring workmen's compensation insurance rates -- may begin to cool this summer. More than two months of negotiations between the state's business and medical communities have produced an agreement on the fees business leaders think ...
Taking the credit: conservative approach to lending helps Arkansas banks avoid the crunch. (Industry Overview)
May 25, 1992; Taylor, Tim ... Is there a credit crunch in the United States? Economists and financial experts believe there is. They point to a downward spiral in private-sector credit growth. But if there is a credit crunch, Arkansas bankers and their customers aren't feeling it. The annual ...
A winning combination: historic setting and unique shops lead to revival of downtown Hot Springs. (Across Arkansas)
May 25, 1992; Harper, Kim ... A decade ago, even a gambler wouldn't have bet on a comeback for downtown Hot Springs. With the exception of a few determined merchants who refused to cut their losses and relocate, the once-vibrant area was home mostly to strip joints, winos and boarded-up buildings. Mark ...
Refashioning the fort: new superintendent has some ideas about improving Fort Smith National Historic Site. (Across Arkansas)
May 25, 1992; Taylor, Tim ... Judge Isaac Parker presided over federal court at Fort Smith from 1875 to 1896. Considered one of the greatest criminal judges of his time, Parker presided over 13,490 cases and sentenced 160 people to be hanged. Fort Smith's gallows were designed to hang as many as six convicted ...
Signing up: candidates' signs cropping up thanks to a Marianna firm. (Landmark Services Inc.) (Across Arkansas) (Company Profile)
May 25, 1992; Taylor, Tim ... Politics is big business. No one is more aware of that than Marianna's Mark Birchler. As president of Landmark Services Inc., Birchler knows how important name identification is to a candidate. With Landmark Signs, a sign-printing company, and Landmark Campaigns, ...
A sporting investment: Memphis businessman reopens Stuttgart hunting retreat for year-round use. (Charles Smith Jr. organizes hunting club) (Across Arkansas) (Company Profile)
May 25, 1992; Harper, Kim ... A year ago this month, Charles "Chuck" Smith Jr. realized a duck hunter's dream. He purchased one of the South's premier hunting clubs near Stuttgart. Since the end of duck season in January, Smith has been marketing the facility as a site for corporate retreats and seminars. ...
