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I'm riding through what once was Fort Chaffee with Keith Gibson, a west Arkansas business leader and member of the powerful Arkansas Highway Commission. We're looking at land that eventually will be part of a 13.7-mile stretch of Interstate 49. The new road will connect Arkansas 22 in Barling with the Interstate 40-49 interchange at Alma.
Radio had been in Arkansas since the 1920s, but the number of stations didn't begin to take off until after World War II. It was left to a judge from Jonesboro, Francis Cherry, to first use radio as the key to winning a statewide political campaign.