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To the Editor:
Being honest used to be valued by most people. People today don’t have the values they used to. In every community across the globe you will find groups of people who stretch the truth and distort information. However, none are more deceptive than the A Vote For Growth Committee which has been hard at work since 2006 trying to get Clark County wet. A Vote For Growth tells people going wet will make Arkadelphia grow massively. Nothing could be farther from the truth.
I have done a lot research on population growth in dry counties and wet counties in Arkansas. What I have found is dry counties average 22 percent population growth and wet counties 7.4 percent. I can back this up since statistics on www.drysharpcounty.org prove this is true. I encourage anyone who wants to dispute this to explore that Web site.
Going wet won’t make Arkadelphia grow as big as Little Rock, Hot Springs, or Texarkana. The reason those cities are so big isn’t because they are wet, the reason is they have a lot more rivers, lakes, industry, and four-lane highways. If Clark County were to work hard at recruiting more industry, if all of Pine Street was four lanes, Highway 7 made four lanes all the way to Hot Springs, and Highway 67 four lanes all the way to Malvern, then Arkadelphia would grow.
If Clark County goes wet it will give us more problems than we can handle in the sense there will be more violent crime, auto accidents, underage drinking, and AA programs. I’m sure most of the police officers and church people don’t want to see it go wet. Something else that could happen if Arkadelphia goes wet is OBU might decide to relocate to a dry county since most of the Christian colleges in Arkansas are in dry counties. It would be a shame for Clark County to go wet after Ouachita has invested so much money into the community.
I saw on the news that Pine Bluff was rated the third poorest city in the U.S. and Hot Springs ranks as the 9th most dangerous city in America. That doesn’t surprise me since those two cities have a lot of drugs, alcoholics, and prostitution. Arkadelphia was rated one of the 50 best cities in the United States to live a few years ago. That article is still on www.arkadelphia.org under the Web page quality of life. Arkadelphia has one of the lowest crime rates in Arkansas.
If the community goes wet, it will no longer be a good place to live. At one time Clark County was wet. The reason it was voted dry in 1943 is there was a lot of violent crime when it was wet. Going wet is a big mistake.
Forrest Millsap
Arkadelphia
To the Editor:
Being honest used to be valued by most people. People today don’t have the values they used to. In every community across the globe you will find groups of people who stretch the truth and distort information. However, none are more deceptive than the A Vote For Growth Committee which has been hard at work since 2006 trying to get Clark County wet. A Vote For Growth tells people going wet will make Arkadelphia grow massively. Nothing could be farther from the truth.
I have done a lot research on population growth in dry counties and wet counties in Arkansas. What I have found is dry counties average 22 percent population growth and wet counties 7.4 percent. I can back this up since statistics on www.drysharpcounty.org prove this is true. I encourage anyone who wants to dispute this to explore that Web site.
Going wet won’t make Arkadelphia grow as big as Little Rock, Hot Springs, or Texarkana. The reason those cities are so big isn’t because they are wet, the reason is they have a lot more rivers, lakes, industry, and four-lane highways. If Clark County were to work hard at recruiting more industry, if all of Pine Street was four lanes, Highway 7 made four lanes all the way to Hot Springs, and Highway 67 four lanes all the way to Malvern, then Arkadelphia would grow.
If Clark County goes wet it will give us more problems than we can handle in the sense there will be more violent crime, auto accidents, underage drinking, and AA programs. I’m sure most of the police officers and church people don’t want to see it go wet. Something else that could happen if Arkadelphia goes wet is OBU might decide to relocate to a dry county since most of the Christian colleges in Arkansas are in dry counties. It would be a shame for Clark County to go wet after Ouachita has invested so much money into the community.
I saw on the news that Pine Bluff was rated the third poorest city in the U.S. and Hot Springs ranks as the 9th most dangerous city in America. That doesn’t surprise me since those two cities have a lot of drugs, alcoholics, and prostitution. Arkadelphia was rated one of the 50 best cities in the United States to live a few years ago. That article is still on www.arkadelphia.org under the Web page quality of life. Arkadelphia has one of the lowest crime rates in Arkansas.
If the community goes wet, it will no longer be a good place to live. At one time Clark County was wet. The reason it was voted dry in 1943 is there was a lot of violent crime when it was wet. Going wet is a big mistake.
Forrest Millsap
Arkadelphia
