Word: faubus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mississippi River flatlands, to the southwest plains, where watermelon is king. Last week he toured the Central Valley, a region studded with pulp and paper mills. The week before, he turned up in the high plateau country of the northwest, where he paid a call in Huntsville on Orval Faubus, his predecessor. Instead of lodging a complaint, Citizen Faubus heard one: Rockefeller had not received the past two issues of Faubus' newspaper, the Madison County Record...
...years ago, in a major test of the Supreme Court's educational desegregation rulings, Arkansas' Governor Orval Faubus ordered out the National Guard to prevent Negro pupils from entering an all-white Little Rock high school. Last week Little Rock's school board unanimously named William Harry Fowler, 45, assistant superintendent for personnel-the man responsible for hiring and assigning employees throughout the system. Fowler is a Negro...
...constitution, and proposed a thorough, professional study of state operations, which are now hindered by an incredible total of 187 boards and commissions. As if to make the Republican Governor's job of managing and coordinating the various boards that much harder, outgoing Governor Orval Faubus packed them with 93 last-minute appointments...
...constitutional convention, a comprehensive merit system for state employees, continuing audits of state agencies and improvements in both academic and vocational education-but says that he will keep his campaign pledge not to raise taxes during his first term. He insists that he will force the resignations of some Faubus appointees who have fixed terms, but has praised several able incumbents. It was, after all, Democratic votes that elected him, and he will still need Democratic votes when he runs in 1968 for a second two-year term-which he says will be his last...
High Hopes. On paper, his chances for accomplishment seem slim. The Democrats will hold all 35 state senate seats and all but three in the 100-man house. But the Democratic Party, shaken first by Faubus' retirement, then by the defeat of a Faubus candidate in the party primary, and finally by Rockefeller's victory over Jim Johnson, is in a state of unaccustomed disarray. Moreover, the new Governor will give the Republicans control of each of the county election commissions, and that will tend to inhibit construction of a new statewide Democratic machine. Many...