Word: barnetts
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...Jones, "but they were either killed or watered down next to nothing in the legislature. I figured the only way I could get some of them into practice was to come to Parchman as superintendent." He did just that, using his political prestige and his friendship with Governor Ross Barnett to gain Parchman's wardenship in 1960. By last week Jones had proved one thing for certain: the reformer's life is a hard...
...himself and become a trusty; he also displayed considerable interest in furthering Warden Jones's reform program. Back at Fort Smith, Ark., he told Jones, he owned a fine stud horse whose services he would gladly contribute to Parchman's animal farm. With written permission from Governor Barnett, Jones sent Morris, along with two guards, off to fetch the horse. The guards and the horse came back. Morris didn't, and not until last week was he captured in a Tulsa, Okla., bar, a loaded pistol tucked in his belt...
...Morris escape was the last straw for the Mississippi Penitentiary Board, which tried to fire Reformer Jones. But Governor Barnett defended his man in the Morris episode. Asked he: "If you can't trust a trusty, who can you trust?" Last week, even before Morris was recaptured, the board gave way to Barnett's pressure, rescinded its decision: Jones would remain-although obviously on terms of good behavior...
Voted into being in 1956, the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission was assigned to "protect the sovereignty of the State of Mississippi from encroachment by the Federal Government." To do the job, it has plenty of political muscle -Governor Ross Barnett, his lieutenant governor and the attorney general are among the members-and ample funds, from a two-year budget of $350,000. It works hand in glove with the state's White Citizens Councils, whose educational foundation it subsidized with $50,000 last year. It also has a private, secret network of paid spies, who report the attitudes...
...other departments, the following students were elected: James M. Murphy 2L and David M. Wishnick 2I, as article editors; Clay C. Long 2L and Lloyd L. Weinreb 2L as case editors; Steven R. Barnett 2L and Bruce J. Havighurst 2L as note editors...