St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1958-05-16

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plant corporations operating in
economy. Arkansas, like othei
Southern states, has vigorously
solicited Northern manufacturing
companies offering unusual land
subsidies, free plants, generous taS
exemptions and loyal, native.
born, productive workers"
The significant expansion Of In.
dustry and commerce In Arkansas
has now perhaps come 10 an end
for an extended period. The collu-
sion between Governor Orval Eau
bus and the white mobs that
brought violence 20 Central High
School and led ultimately to the
use Of Federal troops was, in the
words Of DR.. Charles II Carpenter.
industrial engineering consultant
10 the Arkansas Industrial Devel-
opment Commission, "a terrible
misfortune. DIR. Carpenter further
states that racial violence has
wiped out" the gains made by
the Commission In It's campaign
TO attract new industry.
Commission Chairman Rockefel-
Ter stated that II would take at
least six months ito accurately es-
innate the damage hat has been
done 49, and damage there has
been" In a later interview, DIR.
Carpenter said that the Indignation
riots had cost Arkansas thou
sands Of new jobs"
Spokesman for Northern manu-
featuring communities that had
lost payrolls through the relocation
Of plants In the South we're quick
10 comment. Oswald d. Heck,
Speaker Of the New York State
Assembly. told a meeting OF the
states Small Business Advisory
Council:
"All Of us have been concerned
about the efforts of Southern
states TO seduce industry out OF
New York with fantastic lures
describing the advantages of To-
eating in peaceful, buoolio, low
cost Southern towns. One OF the
most aggressive OF the states play
ing the pirating game has been
Arkansas. Certainly IL would be
no easy task TO be an employer
in the capital city Of Arkansas at
this time"
An example OF this "pirating
game was recently exposed by
Irving J. Fain Vice President of
the Apex Tire and Rubber Com
pany OF Pawtucket Rhode Island,
who made public a letter received
from the Hattiesburg Mississippi
Chamber OF Commerce. Fain's
company was invited TO enjoy"
the advantages OF that states So
called "right-to-work law" and
was informed that "in this sec
ton Of Mississippi our population
Is predominantly white"
Soon after winthrop Rockefel.
Ter conceded In a nationwide nv
interview that great damage had
been done 10 the drive for new in
dustry In Arkansas, keonard c,
Yaseen, senior partner OF the Fan.
tus Fuctory Locating Service, one
Of the nations leading consultants,
told the press that many clients
had eliminated Little Rock and
Arkansas from their future plans
for industrial investment Yaseen
said.
ANY company contemplating an
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In town must make certain that
law enforcement agencies and
will control extremist elements IN
the community Mob action and
civic irrcsponsibnity over any issue
place community on industry's
black list"
Nasceu revealed that Montgom-
cry Alabama and Clinton, Tenn
eSsec -- two other communities
with widely pubHcized racial dlt-
ncultes were also now summed
by industry.
The annual meeting OF the
Southern Governors Conference AZ
Sea Island, Georgia conceded with
the dramatic events at LATHE Rock.
Governor Leroy Collins OF Florida
warned the conferees that. u the
South wraps itself In a Confed-