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...while, hard-bitten little Judge Davies was steering a carefully legal course and refusing to back water by so much as an inch. Clearing the way for possible future Government action against Faubus (see The Law), Davies ordered U.S. enforcement agencies to start collecting the facts behind Faubus' defiance. At a weekend hearing Davies flicked aside a new petition for delay by the Little Rock school authorities. Said he, coldly: "The testimony and arguments this morning were, in my judgment, as anemic as the petition itself ... In an organized society there can be nothing but ultimate confusion and chaos...
...Preservator. Why had Orval Faubus created the crisis? For one thing, Faubus recently began talking about running for a third term in a state that traditionally frowns on three terms for a governor. He needed a dramatic issue, and he needed the red-neck votes of segregationist eastern Arkansas. Beyond that, there were indications that Faubus was being used by segregationist politicians in the South. From Georgia's raucous Governor Marvin Griffin, who spoke at a Little Rock dinner last month, came loud praise for the Arkansas "preservator of the peace."- At almost the very moment that Griffin used...
...Orval Faubus' own state he was far from being acclaimed. For the first time in years, Little Rock's rival newspapers agreed in denouncing Faubus' folly. Arkansas' conservative Senator John McClellan was carefully noncommittal about the wisdom of Faubus' action. Arkansas' liberal Senator William Fulbright, a wholehearted Faubus supporter in the past, refused to answer his phone, packed up his bags and took off for London and a meeting of the Inter-Parliamentary Union. The officers of adopted Arkansan Winthrop Rockefeller's industry-seeking Arkansas Industrial Development Commission said priva;te-ly that...
ORVAL EUGENE FAUBUS (rhymes with raw buss) was born 47 years ago in a rough-cut plank cabin near Greasy Creek, so far back in the Ozarks of northwest Arkansas that the first paved road to the outside world was not completed 'until 1949. when Orval Faubus was a state highway commissioner. He trapped skunk and muskrat to help his family scratch out a living from their hill farm, and trudged five miles a day to a one-room country school. Eager for book learning, he finally managed to graduate from Huntsville High School when he was 24, three...
...Faubus crawled through the Depression years as a student, a country schoolteacher, an itinerant farm laborer, a lumberjack. In 1938 he was elected circuit clerk and recorder for Huntsville (income from fees about $2,300 a year), the first of his long series of political jobs. He enlisted in the infantry in 1942, went through Officer Candidate School, served 392 days under fire in the ETO with the National Guard 35th Division, came home a major. He promptly got himself appointed acting postmaster of Huntsville (pop. 1.150), resigned after he bought a scraggly Huntsville weekly, the Madison County Record (circ...