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...their children to the South's private "segregation academies." When Alabama's Jefferson County was ordered to adopt unitary desegregation this fall, white suburbs formed their own tiny districts. The toughest problem of all is the movement of whites to outlying residential suburbs. Example: in Little Rock, Ark., where Central High School was desegregated 13 years ago, the proportion of white students has shrunk from 75% to 61% and is still declining...
Until a few months ago, the only place where Dale Bumpers was known and admired was the Ozark foothills town of Charleston, Ark. (pop. 1,353), where he is choir director and lead baritone at the Methodist church. He is the city attorney because he is the town's only lawyer, and he has at one time or another represented nearly every business firm, plaintiff, criminal and divorcee in the community's recent history. Outside of Charleston, Bumpers was so unknown that shortly after he decided last spring to run for Governor, one computer sampling showed that...
...seems to have spread the desired tranquillity. Spring fears of a "liquidity crisis" that might force other major corporations to follow the Penn Central into bankruptcy have subsided. Indeed, conditions have eased so much that two tiny banks-Canal National Bank of Portland, Me., and Citizens Bank of Jonesboro, Ark.-in the past two weeks have cut their "prime" loan rate (the minimum charge from which all other rates on business loans scale upward) from 8% to 7½%. Big-city banks are not yet ready to follow, but moneymen are increasingly hopeful that they will do so sometime this...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark Aug. 7-With slightly more than two weeks remaining before the primary elections here, former Governor Orval E. Faubus is the clear favorite for the Democratic nomination to oppose Republican Governor Winthrop Rockefeller in the general election this fall...
WAYMAN C. DUNLAP Little Rock, Ark...