Add to ORKG-33- century, largely due to the initiative and resourcefulness of Southern citizens. However, progress has been slow in relation to the economic growth of the Nation as a whole. In 1953 per capita income in Arkansas was less than a thousand dollars and only 54.67% of the national average. By 1962 our per capita income had risen to $1443 -- 61.48% of the national average. This trend has continued and per capita income for this year is estimated at over $1600. While Arkansas's per capita income increased approximately 50% in the last decade, expenditures per pupil in average daily attendance in its public schools increased 107.2 %. My State ranks second in the Nation in rate of increase behind our neighbor state to th