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Died. Chauncey Sparks, 84, wartime Governor of Alabama, who started a former Army Air Corps sergeant named George C. Wallace on a new career in 1946 by giving him a $175-a-month assistant attorney general's job; of a heart attack; in Eufaula...
Cheaper by Water. To shore up the sandy, crumbling banks of the Arkansas, the project will spend $118.5 million alone on dikes and retaining walls. To control the silt, two large dams will be built on major tributaries to the Arkansas: the Eufaula on the Canadian River and the Oologah on the Verdigris. Finally, to make the shallow, shifting Arkansas navigable, engineers will build a series of 18 locks and dams along the 516-mile route, including the $90 million Dardanelle lock...
...pensioners: an aged Negro who lived on a county line, had changed his name to draw pensions in both counties; the mother of a $14,000-a-year major league baseballer; a woman at whose home the investigator had been received by a butler. Snorted Representative Jack Nichols of Eufaula: "I didn't know there was a butler in Oklahoma...
...Alabama and not of Judge Lynch took its course last week against Lester Bouyer, Negro criminal. Near Eufaula, Bouyer had murdered a young white man, raped his white woman companion. Arrested, he was lodged in the State prison near Montgomery for safe keeping. The familiar rumblings of lynch preparations were loud and ominous. But Governor Bibb Graves declared: "There will not be a lynching in Alabama if I can prevent it." He called out 200 National Guardsmen to protect Bouyer "at any hazard" on his journey to Eufaula for trial. The courtroom resembled an armed camp. Bouyer was convicted...