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...operative reason was Governor Orval Faubus. Already the board had rejected a "solution" by Faubus that masked segregation with an illegal veneer of "integration" (TIME, Aug. 10). And the board was painfully mindful that last summer Faubus called a sudden session of the state legislature that stopped high schools from opening all year. Though the laws that turned this trick have since been declared unconstitutional, another special session might pass new ones...
With awkward surprise, Faubus improvised a segregationist defense against the board's offense. Last week he kept his hands under the table, but they still showed. Little Rock's Raney High School, the privately run effort to educate segregationists' children, announced suddenly that it was broke and would close. Raney may well have run out of money-this was the first such news-but it was busily building new classrooms when it shut down. The effect: turning back 1,235 of the city's most segregation-minded children to Central, Hall and Tech high schools...
...making the assignments, the board ignored the "solution" to Little Rock's school problem that Governor Orval Faubus offered earlier in the week. Faubus suggested that the board 1) designate two of Little Rock's four high schools (Hall and the all-Negro Horace Mann) for integration; 2) "ask all parents who wish their children to attend integrated schools to come forward and so state"; 3) assign half these children to each of the two integrated schools, though segregating them by sex-all boys, white and Negro, in one, all girls, white and Negro, in the other...
...desegregation. Last week the doors of Little Rock's embattled Central High School swung open again-for the registering of students for the September reopening ordered last month by a federal court. Some 48 Negro youngsters were registered at Central, including five of the nine admitted before Governor Faubus closed the schools last year. Six more applied for admission to other Little Rock schools where Negroes have never been enrolled before. Elsewhere in the South, there was progress, however cautious: ¶ Florida's first desegregated school will be Miami's Orchard Villa Elementary School, where four Negro...
...Arkansas' Crater of Diamonds, which lets ticket-buying prospectors keep any find under five carats, a Texas lady unearthed a 3.65-car. rock. She promptly named it the "Faubus Diamond" after the state's Governor Orval E. Faubus, of whom she is "a great admirer." The stone, naturally, was a white diamond...