The Arkansas Business Hall of Fame on Friday inducted four new members: Walter Hussman, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette publisher and WEHCO Media president and CEO; Jack C. Shewmaker, a former president and chief operating officer of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. who died in 2010; John Ed Anthony, chairman of Bearden-based Anthony Timberlands Inc.; and Wayne Cranford, chairman emeritus of Little Rock advertising agency Cranford Johnson Robinson Woods.
Leading lights of news, timber, marketing, retailing inducted
About three years after Walter E. Hussman Jr. took over as publisher of the Arkansas Democrat in 1974, the paper was in such poor condition that he thought the…