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Florida: Republican Charley Holley, 39, former Florida house minority leader, last week unveiled "photocopies" of bank ledgers purporting to show that Democratic Candidate Haydon Burns, 52, Jacksonville's segregationist mayor, had $1,215,690 stashed in Nassau. Burns denied it, flew with reporters to Nassau, proved to their satisfaction that Holley's documents were phony, came home a near cinch to replace outgoing Democrat Farris Bryant...
Against Rockefeller, a onetime trustee of the Urban League, Faubus has also returned to the all-out segregationist stands that made him a national figure in 1957. Last month he shouted about Negro demonstrators: "The first time they lie down in the streets to block traffic of a legitimate business, they're going to get run over. And if no one else will do it, I'll get in a truck and do it myself...
...Presidential election, the polls will once again be covering unstable emotional ground as November 3 approaches. For one thing, polls have never had great success in predicting elections in which race is a major issue. It has been observed in Southern elections that the more segregationist candidate often comes on strongest in the last two weeks of a campaign: this is the kind of change that goes unnoticed by polls...
...miles away in Tifton (pop. 10,000), displayed a giant Georgia goober, deadpanned: "I want to tell you that Lyndon Johnson and Hubert Humphrey like peanuts enough to make the peanut economy worth more than just peanuts." Then he laced into Goldwater and tried to convince his segregationist Southern audience that Barry is some sort of secret integrationist...
...LOUISIANA. A Negro was shot after trying to eat at a lunch stand, but most of the better New Orleans restaurants served Negroes. Many restaurants in bitter Shreveport became private clubs rather than welcome Negroes. After a long court battle, stubbornly segregationist St. Helena Parish gave up, integrated its schools. Louisiana State University and New Orleans kindergartens also opened their doors to Negroes. Negro voter registration, however, was virtually stalled; fewer than 1,000 signed...