LR banker receives Easter Seals award
Rush Harding III, the chief executive officer of investment banking firm Crews & Associates of Little Rock, is Easter Seals Arkansas’ 2014 Arkansan of the Year, Easter Seals said Thursday in a news release.
Harding received the award because of his leadership in philanthropic causes in the state, including Easter Seals.
His community involvement includes serving on the board of trustees at the University of Central Arkansas and as a board member of the Arkansas Arts Center and the Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame.
Easter Seals will honor Harding on May 9 at the Statehouse Convention Center in Little Rock.
Harding, a Clarendon native, and six partners founded Crews & Associates in 1979. The news release says Harding has more than three decades of experience as a leading authority on municipal bonds.
- David Smith
UA, Missouri school form animal effort
The animal-science department at the University of Arkansas System’s Agriculture Division is beginning a collaboration, including shared research, with Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Mo.
The schools have signed an agreement that will provide training and research opportunities for students and faculty, according to a release Thursday. The faculty, research personnel and graduate students of both organizations will participate in lectures and visits.
“We all recognize these students are the next generation of animal scientists and leaders that will, in some way, help feed the world,” said Michael Looper, head of the UA animal-science department, in the release.
The collaboration also will include conferences, seminars and training at selected sites.
- John Magsam
State stocks up 2.53 as 14 climb, 3 slip
The Arkansas Index, a price-weighted index that tracks the largest public companies based in the state, climbed 2.53 to 319.63 Thursday.
“U.S. stocks showed continued strength on Thursday, ending higher for the fifth day out of six, after Comcast Corp. agreeing to acquire Time Warner for $45.2 billion helped overshadow some lackluster retail sales numbers,” said John Blackwell, senior vice president and managing director of equity trading at Stephens Inc.
in Little Rock. “The Arkansas Index moved higher as 14 stocks advanced and three declined.”
Shares of P.A.M. Transportation Services rose 2 percent in heavy trading.
Deltic Timber shares rose 1.8 percent on below-average volume.
Arkansas Best lost 1.8 percent above-average trading.
Volume for the index was 22.1 million shares.
The index was developed by Bloomberg News and the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette with a base value of 100 as of Dec. 30, 1997.
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