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...High School. The injunction had been handed down by Chancellor Murray Reed of the State Chancery Court after a hearing on a petition filed by the secretary of the newly formed pro-segregationist League of Central High Mothers. Reason for the chancellor's decision: witnesses, including Governor Orval Faubus, testified that integration would inevitably mean violence...
...Moses, then chairman of Arkansas Power & Light, set up the Arkansas Economic Council in the middle 1940s to attract new industry (TIME, Feb. 9, 1953), managed to bring in $854 million in new plants in ten years. But this was far from enough. In March 1955 Governor Orval E. Faubus, who had campaigned on a program of industrialization, asked the Arkansas legislature to declare a state of emergency, formed the Arkansas Industrial Development Commission to industrialize the state. He asked Winthrop Rockefeller...
Arkansas (26): Officially uncommitted, the delegates figure to follow Governor Orval Faubus onto the bandwagon, give 26 unit-rule votes to Stevenson...
ARKANSAS: Grade C Plus. "It is a problem that must be left to the people of the local districts to solve," said Governor Orval E. Faubus. Four of the state's 228 interracial school districts are integrating this fall, moving 49 Negro children in, along with about 2,170 whites. Little Rock (pop. 102,213) will integrate its 24% Negro student population in the high schools in 1957, the junior high schools in 1958. The University of Arkansas held its first integrated summer session this year...
...appeal got an enthusiastic response in Faubus' home county, Madison, where 108% of the eligible voters cast ballots...