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...campaign caught Hays by surprise; in last July's primary he handily defeated a segregationist opponent, seemed sure of a ninth term. But then Dr. Dale Alford, 42, a Little Rock ophthalmologist and school-board member, announced against him as "Your Democratic Write-in." Public Service Commissioner and onetime Faubus Executive Secretary Claude Carpenter Jr. took over Alford's campaign. And Governor Faubus made discreet phone calls on behalf of Alford...
...short-term hope for avoiding a damaging fight is the possibility that the state legislature will convene by September, vote a local-option plan for integration. Arlington County school-board members, polled privately, have said they would vote to integrate if an option plan allowed them to do so. But the legislature would have to be called by Segregationist Almond, who last week said: "We have state laws which we believe to be intact, and they will be applied in an honest effort to save public education from chaos...
...Educators who hold that the nation's schools have turned into public-supported playrooms (see above) got some sharp if incomplete statistical support from a survey of Texas schools by a group of ten Texas school superintendents and school-board members. Of the schools giving answers to various questions of the survey, 112 out of 232 allow private music and/or dancing lessons on school time; 188 out of 220 give credit for band time, physical education, chorus, etc.; 166 out of 218 allow athletic teams to eat up school hours with practice sessions. ¶More than half the nation...
...wrong. Huffed Superintendent Threatte when she showed him the statement : "This may not be the last you hear of this business." The same day, a school-board member called on Armstrong Baskin, told him that his wife should resign, or be fired. A few days later, Superintendent Threatte, Board Chairman Wallace Thigpen and Member John Crum visited Teacher Baskin herself. Confronted by the awesome threesome of Threatte, Thigpen and Crum, she decided to quit...
Last week she reconsidered, insisted that her resignation "is illegal because it was under duress." But no one around town really thinks that Schoolmistress Baskin will ever teach in Lakeland again. "What is my crime?" she once demanded of a school-board member. "Not a thing," said that worthy, "except you put a white boy on a nigger bus, and a lot of folks don't like...