Word: rocked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Little Rock, the Arkansas Supreme Court upheld city ordinances requiring the state branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, as a corporation, to produce its records of membership and contributions. The 5-2 decision ignored a U.S. Supreme Court finding that protected the N.A.A.C.P. in a similar case in Alabama, and slapped down as unwarranted the N.A.A.C.P.'s contention that public disclosure of records might lead to "harassment, economic reprisals and even bodily harm...
...forgotten child of Little Rock and Virginia who is not receiving an education...
...Arkansas Fifth (Little Rock) District, where Segregationist Independent Dale Alford defeated respected eight-term Democrat Brooks Hays after a write-in campaign attacking Southern Baptist Convention President Hays's moderate stand on integration (TIME, Nov. 17). Protesting the outcome last week was not Hays but John F. Wells, publisher of the Arkansas Recorder, a Little Rock weekly and Hays's longtime friend-and longtime political critic. Charged Wells* in a well-documented complaint: 1) Alford write-in stickers were delivered to election officials along with ballots and ballot boxes; 2) contrary to law, the stickers...
...Little Rock, Publisher Wells was speedily disciplined for standing up for Brooks Hays. Arkansas' house of representatives, which does Orval Faubus' bidding, notified Wells that it was canceling his $10,200 contract for publishing a daily digest of legislative sessions. Professed reason for the sudden cut: economy...
...petroleum-bearing strata. Disgusted, Starr sold the well, equipment and 80 acres of surrounding lease to Turner for $2,500. Undiscouraged, Turner decided to try his own method. He thought an extremely powerful pump might draw down the water level so fast that the oil locked up in the rock would flow into the bore, where it could be pumped up. Using a tractor for power, Turner soon had the well producing as much oil in a day as the Starr Co. pump had produced in a month...