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F I V E ENTER THE OZARK SOCI ETY Along with the W. o. Douglas tirade in the Marshall Mountain Wave of May 3, 1962, there was another quarter heard from. In the editor's column entitled "Here and There about Town;' this information was submitted: Much has been said and written about the Buffalo River during the past week. Last Thursday evening and Friday morning the state daily newspapers of Little Rock carried a release purported to have been written by one Charley McRaven, who claimed to be a property owner of Searcy County, and opposing the construction of the proposed Lone Rock and Gilbert dams. The Gazette headed the article thusly "Buffalo Dams Are Opposed for the First Time." What a laugh. We thought that Bill Apple, the Outdoor Writers and Ray Heady claimed that distinction. Later in the month I was to learn more about this "one Charley McRaven." On May 23,1962, I received a letter from him which was an eye opener: Dear Dr. Compton: I was very pleased to learn from Democrat writer John Heuston that your group planned to form, and even more pleased to see in today's paper that this had become a fact. I trust you have been following the issue of the Buffalo quite closely for the past few weeks especially, and you probably know that it was I who incurred the wrath of the Buffalo River Improvement Association by helping draw up and circulate a petition opposing the dams. Because the BRIA erroneously linked my company, AP&L, with my activity, I have found it prudent to bow out gracefully as far as any overt action as spokesman for the property owners is concerned. The opponents ofthe dams who have the best reasons for being such (and who can command the most sympathetic ear, I believe) are those farmers who own property in the river basin who would lose this land. These people, I must warn you, are as 105 F I V E ENTER THE OZARK SOCI ETY Along with the W. O. Douglas tirade in the Marshall Mountain Wave of May 3, 1962, there was another quarter heard from. In the editor's column entitled "Here and There about Town:' this information was submitted: Much has been said and written about the Buffalo River during the past week. Last Thursday evening and Friday morning the state daily newspapers of Little Rock carried a release purported to have been written by one Charley McRaven, who claimed to be a property owner of Searcy County, and opposing the construction of the proposed Lone Rock and Gilbert dams. The Gazette headed the article thusly "Buffalo Dams Are Opposed for the First Time." What a laugh. We thought that Bill Apple, the Outdoor Writers and Ray Heady claimed that distinction. Later in the month I was to learn more about this "one Charley McRaven." On May 23, 1962, I received a letter from him which was an eye opener: Dear Dr. Compton: I was very pleased to learn from Democrat writer John Heuston that your group planned to form, and even more pleased to see in today's paper that this had become a fact. I trust you have been following the issue of the Buffalo quite closely for the past few weeks especially, and you probably know that it was I who incurred the wrath of the Buffalo River Improvement Association by helping draw up and circulate a petition opposing the dams. Because the BRIA erroneously linked my company, AP&L, with my activity, I have found it prudent to bow out gracefully as far as any overt action as spokesman for the property owners is concerned. The opponents ofthe dams who have the best reasons for being such (and who can command the most sympathetic ear, I believe) are those farmers who own property in the river basin who would lose this land. These people, I must warn you, are as 105 violently opposed to a park or recreational area as they are a dam. They do not like the idea of restrictions being placed on the land they have been heretofore free to call their own. I have discovered this in talking to numbers of them and feel it may be useful to you ifyour group is to use the stand they have taken in your plans to oppose the dams.... Concerning the valley opposition petitions-these have several hundred signatures , with the amount of acreage of each. (this as of...

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