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Egged on by the local police chief, the leading toughs of the Van Buren, Ark. High School staged a 45-man school "strike" and managed to scare away the 13 Negro youngsters trying to return to school at term's beginning. Last week the Van Buren school board, wavering before pressure to revise the integration plan that worked last year, announced a public hearing for the anti-integration White Citizens' Council. Up before the meeting that night, to the general astonishment, stood Jessie Angeline Evans, 15, grocer's daughter, straight A student and one of the rare...
...BUREN, ARK. (pop. 7,300), once-important frontier post, stagecoach stopover on Arkansas River in north-central Arkansas, corn, livestock, truck-crop center, home town of Humorist Bob Burns, few Negroes...
John Smith Thach was born in Pine Bluff, Ark. in 1905, the third of four children. His mother was a schoolteacher and a beauty in her day ("Men still whistle at her," he says fondly, "and so help me, doctors don't believe that she's 80"); his father was an insurance executive and an enthusiastic outdoorsman. The family moved to a big ten-room house in Fordyce, 37 miles away, when John was four...
...first wife died after they were unhappily divorced; his second wife died in 1935 of spinal meningitis. Son Max, by the first marriage, also died of meningitis while serving with the Army in North Africa in 1943. And in 1949, three days after Max was reburied in Sheridan, Ark., John Mc-Clellan's second son, John Jr., child of the second marriage, was buried beside his mother in nearby Malvern. John, the Senator's favorite, had been fatally injured in an automobile accident...
Common Census. In Douglas, Ark., Lee Edward Whitney, 84, decided to move away, changed the town's population from...