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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...
...Wirges took a census of township voters: the first 14 voters he talked to swore that they had voted against the machine. The Democrat's story went a long way toward proving hanky-panky at the polls-although the county government has yet to take any action. When Morrilton's city aldermen, ignoring two defeats on a new sewer tax referendum, enacted a special ordinance permitting them to spend the money anyway, the Democrat gleefully printed this example of unrepresentative government...
...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...