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...farm program; some Republicans are displeased because of his feelings toward Secretary Benson. And some of the plain, quiet, steady people of Iowa, who like their public officials plain, quiet and steady, are against him simply because he has moved so fast and has done so much. Said one Indianola house wife last week: "That 'Hoag' should stay around Iowa instead of gallivanting off every which way on this and that. I think he's stuck on himself...
...with that decision was on his way to becoming a national figure. One month before he started his re-election campaign (which he won handily), the Supreme Court handed down its anti-segregation ruling. Less than a month later, a small group of white citizens of Indianola, Miss., in Eastland's own Sunflower County, founded what they called a Citizens' Council, the first appearance of a movement which Mississippi Editor Hodding Carter describes as "the uptown Ku Klux Klan." Though it lacked-and still does-any kind of interstate organization or direction, the movement rapidly spread through...
...segregationist Citizens Council of Indianola, Miss. offered a $50 prize for the best essay written as part of the required work in the high-school's junior and senior English classes. Subject of the essay: "The Advantages to Both Races of Continued Separate Schools...
...Indianola, Miss., members of the Citizens Council have been buttonholing patients of Negro Physician Clinton Battle, have warned them that they will lose their jobs if they continue to consult him. Reason: Battle, the first Negro in Sunflower County to register and vote, had been urging other Negroes to follow suit. The council's campaign has been so successful that at the last election not a single Negro-including Dr. Battle-appeared at the polls...
...Indianola Chamber of Commerce called a special meeting and an officer said "a wave of disgust, indignation and shame" had swept the town. In the face of such civic outrage, slow-moving Sheriff Marshall decided to fire Deputy Sheffield after all. Newsmen began looking into the background of Private Eye Underwood. They discovered he had been given a three-year sentence for the stickup of a Chicago bottling firm in 1947, and was wanted as a parole violator. He was slapped into jail, protesting that he would "rather die" than go back to Chicago...