Word: morrilton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lanky, red-haired Gene Wirges, 34, running the weekly Democrat (circ. 3,600) in Morrilton. Ark., has been a basic course in the varieties of violence...
...They" are the city and county political machine, an entrenched and well-oiled apparatus whose power Wirges first realized four years ago after arriving in Morrilton to take over the paper he had just bought. Wirges paid a visit to the Conway County Courthouse, where an aged citizen introduced him to one of the ineluctable facts of local political life. "Son," said Wirges' informant, "we don't have elections in this here county. We have selections. If you don't get selected, you don't get elected...
Wirges and the Democrat carefully cased the situation before declaring war on the city-county machine-a fight for which Morrilton's other weekly, the Headlight (circ. 1,600), had no stomach at all. When Democrat editorials began hammering at Hawkins and his gang, Headlight Editor Earle Haynes maintained the courteous silence of a man who has been "selected" three times: once as city recorder, once as alderman, most recently as Morrilton mayor (to replace the incumbent, who resigned because of ill health...
...Harvard scholars are: David S. Eisenberg '61, of Quincy House and Winnetka, Ill.; Michael T. McNevin 2L, of the Canal Zone; James S. Moose, Ill '61 of Quincy House and Morrilton, Ark.; O. Ralph Raymond II '61, of Quincy House and McCall, Idaho; and David H. Souter '61, of Lowell House and East Weare...
...trouble is that mounting civic pride has also stirred Morrilton to shell out more cash for new churches, sewers and an industrial-development fund, leaving little surplus for schools. Should the town not boost school taxes, it will have to drop the psychologist, art instruction, adult education and numerous other "frills." Last week some citizens seemed inclined to do just that. "Our town is too small for big, spectacular things," said one housewife. But other citizens were ready to pay at least a little more in taxes, retain some of the frills. Whatever the decision, Morrilton will never forget...