Word: orval
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...returned to Arkansas last fall and hit the hustings in preparation for 1962, Alford's chances seemed about 20/100. Last week Alford took a long look in another direction. He announced that he would run for Governor -a move that might bring him eye to eye with Governor Orval Faubus...
...Alford narrowly upset Hays. In Washington he distinguished himself only by compiling the poorest voting record in the Arkansas delegation (he turned up for 78% of the roll-call votes in the last session, compared with Wilbur Mills's 99%). Back home he saw less and less of Orval Faubus. A year and a half ago, when Alford ran success fully for a second term on his same segregation platform, a Faubus lieutenant backed his opponent...
Inevitably Alford's announcement for Governor, coming four months before such notices are legally due and traditionally given in Arkansas, turned all eyes on Orval Faubus. Rumors spread that Faubus would retire after a record-smashing four terms as Governor or would run for Congress from his own Third District. In fact, Faubus had not yet made up his mind what to do, but the chances were strong that, with the challenge thrown down by Dale Alford, he would run again for Governor...
...faces his most serious opposition since he defeated Senator Hattie Caraway and Governor Homer Adkins in 1944. Democratic Representative Dale Alford, who went to Washington two years ago as an effective segregationist vote getter, has been redistricted out of his seat and has ambitions for Fulbright's. Governor Orval Faubus, finishing a record fourth term as Governor, might be tempted by the larger scope of Washington. Both Alford and Faubus would campaign against Fulbright by calling him a one-worlder who has traveled altogether too far from the pea patch. Already, Fulbright is known caustically as "the Senator from...
...Southern Governors' Conference in Nashville, where Tennessee's racially moderate Buford Ellington beat out Arkansas' diehard segregationist Orval Faubus for the chairmanship, a reporter asked South Carolina Governor Ernest Hollings how he felt about N.A.A.C.P. Special Counsel Thurgood Marshall's recent appointment as a federal judge. Replied Hollings resignedly: "I'm just glad Martin Luther King doesn't have a law degree...