When Lois Irene Watkins was born on 29 March 1920, in Van, Arkansas, Arkansas, United States, her father, John Wesley Watkins, was 24 and her mother, Ruby Katherine Katie Reed, was 19. She married Ray Donald Dickson on 8 April 1939, in Arkansas, Arkansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in La Grue Township, Arkansas, Arkansas, United States in 1940 and De Witt, Arkansas, Arkansas, United States in 2007. She died on 4 January 2003, in Little Rock, Pulaski, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Cedarcrest Memorial Gardens, De Witt, Arkansas, Arkansas, United States.
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In 1922, Harvey C. Couch Sr. started WOK the first radio station in Arkansas. After a trip to Pittsburgh and the KDKA radio he came up with the idea for Workers of Killowatts (WOK). WOK had no commercials which was nice for the listeners.
Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.
Caused by the tensions between the United States and the Empire of Japan, the internment of Japanese Americans caused many to be forced out of their homes and forcibly relocated into concentration camps in the western states. More than 110,000 Japanese Americans were forced into these camps in fear that some of them were spies for Japan.
English and Welsh: variant of Watkin , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
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