June 13, 1933

A bill for a game reserve in the Ouachita National Forest became law. The bill was first introduced by Lockesburg (Sevier County) native Effiegene Locke Wingo. However, it never came to a vote during her term as the second of only four women from Arkansas to be a House representative; the bill did eventually become law. Wingo served her congressional term in relative anonymity. One article in the New York Times Magazine referred to Congresswoman Wingo as the “silent Mrs. Wingo,” noting, “Mrs. Effie Gene [sic] Wingo…who sits in the middle of the Democratic section, comes from De Queen, Ark., and represents some 270,000 persons scattered over eleven counties. She does her duty, she is gentle and kind and friendly, and when her people go back home they talk of her as a ‘real nice woman.’”