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Presents news briefs on politics, science and social issues as of March 1940. Estimated number of divorces conducted in Miami, Florida; Amount of Washington relief apples shipped by the Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation to Bentonville, Arkansas; Research conducted in London, England on the effects of radium exposure on the human body.

The article reports on the expansion of Lord Kenneth Thomson of Fleet in Ozark, Arkansas. In the fourth week of April 1968, Thomson acquired the "Northwest Arkansas Times" from Senator James Williams Fullbright's family worth 3,000,000 dollars, bringing Thomson's papers to 56. The Fullbright sold the company due to lack of interest shown by younger members of the family, pressure of other affairs, and the attractive offer of Thomson.

The article reports on a resolution passed by the Arkansas state legislature in the U.S. Congress to oppose the enforcement of a constitutional amendment which aimed to limit federal inheritance, gift and income taxes up to 25%.

Presents information on developments in the field of education in the U.S. Information on consultative services in elementary curriculum development provided by the Ohio Department of Education, to local communities upon request; Report that the Arkansas Department of Education is projecting a program looking toward the preparation of personnel and statutory provision for their employment; Features of the Regents Plan for Postwar Education; Launch of a camp by public schools in Ithaca, New York, based principally on the need for child care outside the homes of parents working in Ithaca industries.

This article focuses on the barbarous acts against Negroes in the valley of the Mississippi. The most barbarous of all burnings of a human being, that of Henry Lowry, at Nodena, Arkansas, near Memphis, Tennessee, is directly and immediately traceable to the debt-slave system. The newspapers of that section, which described in great detail the Negro murderer's deed of killing a white planter and the savage torture which the farmers inflicted upon the slaver, either pretend not to know the cause of all this or deliberately ignore it. Some of the newspapers, whose representatives saw members of the white planter's family and found out everything else, said that no reason could be ascertained as to why the Negro shot the white man.

The article focuses on Charles J. Finger, writer of adventure stories. Finger is a picturesque person. His head is large, his hair gray and fluffy; he is five feet seven tall, broad-chested, well-muscled, a strongly built specimen of man. His voice is deep, he speaks with a broad English accent, and his gait is that of a sailor. This Englishman, who has been by turns music-master, sheep-herder, sailor, gold-hunter, cowhand, boiler-maker, auditor, anarchist, railroader and railroad executive, is now become a country squire, in Arkansas, where from his office in a bramble-grown hollow out in the back hills he writes books and edits his paper, All's Well.

This article presents information regarding books and journals. The Arkansas Legislature, Historical Society, and Eclectic Society of Little Rock have combined to suppress the vulgar pronunciation of the name of the State, viz., Arkansas, finals sounded, and to constrain all cultivated persons, and especially all dictionary and school-book makers, to observe the State's preference for the original and orthodox pronunciation, as first adopted by the U.S. Congress. The June 1881 "Harper" has a characteristic table of contents readily estimated from a bare enumeration of the titles. The emphatic illustrated article is Samuel Adams Drake's "White Mountains," a first paper, with beautiful designs, chiefly by W.H. Gibson.

Presents letters to the editor. Assignment of permanent membership in the Council by five nations; Information on the conditional entrance of nations to the League; Discussion on the importance of the cases of the Arkansas Negroes.

The article reports on the attacks made by several U.S. newspapers against U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower following his decision to send paratroopers into Little Rock, Arkansas to enforce the desegregation ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court. The "Montgomery Advertiser" rebuked Eisenhower for evoking a sectional animosity. According to the "Louisville Courier-Journal," the desegregation ruling showed that the U.S. Constitution is the supreme law in the country.

The author offers comments on U.S. issues as of January 1969. He lauds U.S. President Richard Nixon's adviser appointments in his administration and the breadth and depth of his understanding and wisdom. He also praises Arkansas Congressman and chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee Willbur Mills for stopping the so-called Big Spenders and Egotistical Economy Experts. He advises economists to consult actress Elizabeth Taylor on how to turn failure into success.

The article highlights the story about the political fallout and political issue of Arkansas Congressman Wilbur Mills.

The article focuses on editor Gene Wirges, wherein the Arkansas Supreme Court in Morrilton has charged him with a libel suit against his newspaper after reporting an election fraud against Sheriff Marlin Hawkins' political machine. It is said that Wirges denied writing the column, however, Hawkins' witness swore he did. It also mentions that Governor Winthrop Rockeffler has provided him with office space in Little Rock, secretaries, financial support and top-drawer legal assistance.

Presents information on the political conditions in the world with emphasis on the U.S. Explanation by the U.S. Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes about the changes that have occurred with time in the original Monroe Doctrine, named after U.S. President James Monroe, on the occasion of the one hundredth anniversary of the proclamation of the Doctrine; View that the U.S. has emerged as the most dominant force, both politically and economically, in the hundred years after the proclamation of the Doctrine; Reasons for the resentment of the other American nations over the increasing disposition of the U.S. government to rule the American hemisphere; View that the Monroe Doctrine is no more a Pan-American mutual policy; Criticism of Hughes regarding his delineation of the relationship between the United States and Europe; View that the promise made by French government in lieu of abandonment of passive resistance in Ruhr, Germany is false and that France is not interested in having Germany to pay reparation, instead it only wants to destroy Germany; Possibility of dissolution of the legislative assembly of Germany; Charge that the Allies has worked directly against the interest of German democracy; Opposition of the of proposed tax reduction by Secretary of the U.S. Treasury Andrew William Mellon; Move in the U.S. Congress for a constitutional amendment prohibiting the issue of tax exempt securities and account of the implications thereof; Means to meet out the manpower shortage in the farms in the Southern part of the U.S.; Appreciation of Ernest Martin Hopkins, president of Dartmouth College, Hanover, North Hampshire, for preserving the principles of free speech and freedom of thought; Criticism of the law passed in Arkansas, which orders that history of the U.S. shall be taught in the primary grades; Doubt over the role of U.S. President John Calvin Coolidge in remitting the sixty-day jail sentence imposed on Comptroller of New York City Charles L. Craig.

The article offers information on the customer relations program of Continental Motors Corp. that involves duck hunting sessions. The company invites guests for two days of hunting at its club in Stuttgart, Arkansas. C. J. Reese, president of Continental, says that the duck hunts are the cheapest type of customer relations that the company could have. Reese says that the guests are picked at random from companies that deal with Continental or are prospective clients.

The article discusses the efficacy of the crop rotation system, employed by Lonoke County farmers in Grand Prairie, Arkansas. It details the farmers' creative utilization of their fields in which rotation according to conventional pattern was applied where idle lands were used as pasturage for livestock such as ducks and fish farms including catfish and buffalo. Additional benefits of such scheme were cited which include increased rice production and improved water supply.

Several letters to the editor are presented in response to articles in 1957 issues including one on brave troops in the October 7 issue, one on the name of Little Rock, Arkansas, and one on the definition of faubus as intransitive in the October 7 issue.

The article focuses on the U.S. government defiance of Arkansas' Governor Orval Eugene Faubus. It states that Faubus intended to boost his own political ambitions by way of crying out the National Guard against the integration among schools in Little Rock, Arkansas. It also mentions that the rebelliousness of Faubus in his state brought a sharp and immediate impact. Meanwhile, aside from Arkansas, Faubus also influenced the South.

The article presents world news briefs. U.S. Congressional confirmation hearings on the appointment of Lewis L. Strauss as U.S. Secretary of Commerce are mentioned. The defeat of an amendment to the Kennedy-Ervin labor reform legislation is examined. The impact of a school committee recall election vote on school segregation in Little Rock, Arkansas, is discussed.

The article focuses on the fear prevailing in a community in Morrilton, Conway County, Arkansas. Politics has played a major role in the history of Conway County, but one could hardly call it political action. Some countries in Arkansas have two factions of the Democratic Party; some even have a few Republicans to contend with at election title. Not so in Conway County, just one party, just one faction, just one machine. The effort has been stifling. Every time the census is taken, fewer people are found to be living here. Industry seems disinclined to move in. There's nothing wrong with the general area, a town just east of Morrilton has nearly tripled in size in the last twenty year, one to the west has doubled.

This article presents information on various socio-political developments in the U.S. All official denials of serious trouble with the U.S.'s new-hatched republic on the Isthmus are themselves denied by the U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt's letter of instruction to Secretary William Howard Taft. Military officials and a minister have each in turn pictured Panama as a little paradise of contentment. This pretence, however, is now brushed aside by Roosevelt. A geological excursion through the Cotton Belt of northeastern Arkansas has, to a Northerner, much beside scientific interest. Indeed, such an excursion probably offers better opportunities for observing sociological conditions than would a trip made for that special purpose.

Presents an account of life and social conditions in Marked Tree, Arkansas to discuss the problems between cotton planters and tenants. Views of planters and storekeepers regarding tenants due to their role in low price of cotton and high manufacturing costs; Efforts of a preacher to solve the problems between planters and tenants; Reason behind the decision for not including African Americans in labor unions in Marked Tree; Perception about the people of Arkansas that an Arkansan will shoot from behind; Description of drugstores and shops in Marked Tree.

Presents information on the struggle of white and Negro sharecroppers in eastern Arkansas. Establishment of the Levee Board to throw up huge dirt banks to keep back floodwaters of Mississippi; Development of Drainage Districts to draw off water from the lowlands; Imposition of heavy taxes in return of services provided by the Levee Board and the Drainage Districts; Exploitation of Negro sharecroppers by forcing them to accept inferior living conditions; Information on the pattern of plantation in Arkansas; View that the economic status of the sharecropper is between that of the small managing share-tenant and that of the day laborer; Establishment of the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union to improve the living condition of sharecroppers; Information on the fact that worker's organizations and liberals throughout the country have come to the aid of the sharecroppers' union with financial and moral support.

The article presents information on Arkansas. Three strains, the mountain people, the Crackers and the Piker numskulls, have united to make the Arkansas nation for they are a nation, as distinct from the other peoples in the U.S. as is a Swede from a Dane. Whenever Arkansawyers appear in Kansas, California, South Carolina or Texas the natives hold up their hands in horror, fearing that their Spartan State will be erased by the obliterating helot swarm. The high wages in the agricultural North west during the World War drew a few Arkansawyers to Nebraska whether they took their dogs and women, their customs and ideals and labored for the Swedish and Teutonic farmers.

The article features the Arkansas Plan, a campaign conceived by C. Hamilton Moses, chairman of Arkansas Power & Light Co., to encourage organized communities to work for the progress of Arkansas using its available resources. He started by going town to town, starting a community project, and asking them to show a willingness to improve. The next step is to ask them for projects they want done in their town, followed by the organization of a community council.

The article focuses on Arkansas Governor Orval Eugene Faubus as he was not able to effectively deal with the crisis on the desegregation of schools in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957. It states that Faubus did not follow a court order and the recommendations of U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower with regards to the issue of promoting desegregation. It also says that the actions of the Governor had triggered negative reactions from Arkansas businessmen and the clergy.

The article presents an overview of the April 11, 1959 issue of the "The Nation." Gambling is illegal in Arkansas, but not in Hot Springs, central Arkansas. This season, an estimated U.S. $100,000,000 found its way into the coffers of the Southern Club, the Belvedere Club and the other plush casinos of this unique resort community. Receipts were so large that special caravans of armed guards were employed to take the money to the local banks. What is unique about Hot Springs addiction to gambling is that it is neither obscured nor denied, but accepted as a matter of course.

According to state laws passed last year, Negroes and whites are forbidden to mingle at sports events, social affairs, in cafes, or almost anywhere else. All this has been interpreted to mean that cab drivers should not carry fares of the opposite race. In Nashville, Little Rock and other places, Negro ministers have lectured to their congregations on the need to remain calm and orderly while pressing steadily for their rights. In Arkansas, the Colored Fellowship Association, an organization of ministers, has attacked the State Sovereignty Commission and various suppressive laws on the grounds that they interfere with constitutionally established relationships between church and state.

Presents information on the condition of the Southern croppers and renters. Information that at harvest time the tenant feels the pinch of exploitation most; Estimate of secretary of Agriculture Arthur M. Hyde on the merchant credit cost to the tenant and fertilizer; Agreement of tenants to work in any condition in order to escape imprisonment as vagrants; Information on the financial condition of an average tenant; Information on the different forms of peonage like the convict-lease system, under which prisoners were hired out entirely into the custody of private planters; Reports of the congressional committee formed to investigate peonage among white immigrants; Accusation of James E. Guilty, prominent Louisiana planter, for holding Negro farm hands in peonage; Suppression of the attempts made by tenants to remedy the conditions.

No distrust of democracy corrodes the minds of the happy citizens of Arkansas. On the contrary, Arkansawyers are so sure of the beneficence of majority rule that they are about to extend it from politics to science. While other communities are trying to judge the theory of evolution by investigation and reason, the citizens of Arkansas, taking a short snappy way to truth, will settle the theory of scientist Charles Darwin on election day by popular vote. At that time a proposition will be submitted to the voters to forbid the teaching of evolution in any state-supported educational institution.

The article discusses the ladies fairs sponsored by Wetterau Foods Inc., in which housewives in Arkansas and Missouri suggest supermarket operators on how to improve the operations of Independent Grocers Alliance (IGA) stores. It says that the discussion begins with entertainment programs including fashion shows, song numbers, and tips on cooking. It notes that food cost was an issue at all fairs. IGA Foodliner owner Orval Shamblin asserts that women will speak more when in a group.

The article profiles baseball pitching coach Johnny Sain. Sain, who hailed from Havana, Arkansas, signed his first professional baseball deal at 50 U.S. dollars monthly with Osceola of the Class D Northeast Arkansas League. Sain played out his career in Kansas City and later retiring in 1955. In 1961, he was hired as pitching coach of the New York Yankees. In 1964, Sain signed for 20,000 U.S. dollars to coach for the Minnesota Twins.

The article features Alabama-based Ray Scott, founder, chairman and president of the Bass Anglers Sportsman Society (BASS) and publisher and editor of "The Bassmaster Magazine." Scott also organizes bass fishing tournaments, including the 1969 All-American Invitational in Arkansas. Also discussed are benefits of membership, plans to increase membership from 7,000 to 25,000, activities during the tournament and tournament rules.

The article presents three telegrams which came from north-eastern Arkansas on successive days. The names in the telegrams are the names of brave men in the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union under attack by the armed planters and their representatives in northeastern Arkansas in the counties of Poinsett, Mississippi, and Crittenden. The president of the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union, W.H. Stultz, is an Arkansas share-cropper. Before share-cropping in Arkansas he tried to eke out the same kind of a living in Tennessee. His wife and six children and all their belongings were thrown out on the road last December because he joined the union.

Presents several letters to the editor. Aspects of literacy level at Arkansas; Development of transportation facilities in Arkansas; Recognition of Soviet government.

The article reports on a decision of the U.S. Supreme Court related to the segregation of public schools in the south U.S. It informs that the court declared the racial segregation in the public schools as illegal and decided to abolish it. It tells that Mississippi is disappointed by the ruling of the Supreme Court and Arkansas will try to comply with the legal requirements of the decision. It further informs that the decision of the court will come into effect after October 1955.

The article presents information on the increasing number of incidents of bank robbery in Arkansas during 1952-1953, and during the past 15 months, nine Arkansas banks have been robbed of sums ranging from 2,000 dollars to 51,000 dollars in wild-west-style daylight robberies.

The article profiles press columnist Theodore Andrica. It notes that Andrica holds the title of a Nationalities editor of the periodical Cleveland Press which is a title that only exists on no other newspaper in the U.S. It also mentions that Andrica's career began when he convince the Press that they were missing a bet by neglecting the immigrant population of Cleveland, Arkansas.

The article focuses on the court ruling regarding the implementation of integration program at Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. It says that the school's board along with its lawyer Richard C. Butler, fought for the postponement of the integration program. It mentions that the court's decision was confronted with the problem of whether the violence in Little Rock can be used as a lawful excuse to delay the integration program. It adds that the court denied the board's appeal.

The article features Harry Scott Ashmore, editor of the newspaper "Arkansas Gazette," which excelled as the voice for reason and principle, as well as key figure in the school integration process in Little Rock, Arkansas. It states that agitators who have been fired by Governor Orval Faubus have sent threatening calls to Asmore. It says that Ashmore had stressed the unavailability of alternative between compliance and defiance since the ruling of U.S. Supreme Court on school integration in 1954.

The article focuses on the court hearing of Civil Case No. 3113 On A Motion For Preliminary Injunction involving the action of Arkansas Governor Orval Eugene Faubus of calling out his National Guard to prevent school integration in Little Rock, Arkansas. It states that the Faubus was absent, but sent three lawyers including Tom Harper. After deliberations, Federal Judge Ronald Davies issued a preliminary injunction, preventing Faubus and his National Guard's intervention on the integration.

Reports on the abortive walkout and demonstration by white students at Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. Story published by journalist Homer Bigart about the incident in "The New York Times" newspaper; Television newscast of the walkout; Prohibition of television cameras from the scene.

Reports on the issue of school integration crisis precipitated some weeks ago by Governor Orval Faubus of Arkansas that reduced the Presidency of the United States and separation of power. Report that President Dwight D. Eisenhower has for five years now insisted on reading into the concept of the separation of powers between States and the Union, the Executive, Congress, and the Judiciary; View that the Governor of a state should refuse to honor the federal writ has been and remains a distinct possibility, which the judicial process, operating alone, would ultimately be helpless to deal with; Views of the President on the question of integration; Views on the role of the courts in this matter.

The article ponders the steady decline in the population of Arkansas. The Census Bureau has revealed that the state had lost approximately 7.8% of its residents between 1950 and 1956. The significance of studies on the labor force by the Industrial Research & Extension Center of the University of Arkansas and a series of university seminars to the aim of the state to cope with the population problem is noted. Doctor Harold A. Frey notes the increasing number of marketing majors who stay in the state.

The article reports that Little Rock, Arkansas will host the American football bowl game, Aluminum Bowl, on December 8, 1956. Top teams from among the 450 member colleges of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) will fight out a championship game in the area. Businessmen members of the Aluminum Bowl Association have promoted and organized Little Rock as the site for the game with the intention of also promoting Arkansas industrially.

The article focuses on Arkansas Power and Light Co. (AP&L), which has been turned down by the Public Service Commission (PSC) due to the increase in the electricity rate. It states that the decision of PSC to run down the AP&L was the result of the comment of Governor Orval Faubus. Meanwhile, it mentions that president R. E. Ritchie of AP&L says that the company has postponed the construction of its office building in Little Rock, Arkansas due to the uncertainty in the electricity rate.

The article focuses on ways of enriching the laboratory experiences of students enrolled in teacher education programs. The author reports on the results of an experiment which aimed to examine whether an informal approach might yield positive results in terms of enriching the laboratory experiences of the students in an Arkansas college. The features, methods and processes involve in the experiment are explained by the author. The implication of the results on teacher education in general is also discussed.

The article reports on various complaints and concerns that Arkansas Governor Winthrop Rockefeller received from the state's residents. It mentions some of their concerns including the need for additional state deposits, the regulations at highway truck stations and the impact of state legislation on exterminator's trade. It notes that the Governor noted all their problems and offered immediate explanations. It adds that the gathering is part of Rockefeller's four weeks roaming in the state.

The article focuses on the plans of the U.S. government to barter surplus war plants to businesses in return of Munitions Board's strategic materials list. It mentions that the barter is possible because of a clause in the country's law that permits the General Services Administration (GSA) to dispose surplus property in exchange of any critical materials and informs about various barter deals which include sale of two aluminum plants in Arkansas to Reynolds Metal Co.

The article profiles journalist Gene Wirges who runs the weekly newspaper "Democrat" in Morrilton, Arkansas. According to Wirges, operating the newspaper has been a basic course in the kinds of violence because of the threats he received from anonymous telephone callers who put his life and his family in danger. It also states that the fearless leadership of Wirges has helped Arkansas' county machine in power and has pierced the apathy of the public.