Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-11-16
Negro Vote
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the number Of Federal troops sta
toned at Central High School.
About 500 paratroopers of the
1O1st Airborne Division are now in
Little Rock to prevent interference
with court-ordered Indignation, and
1900 Arkansas National Guards
men are still in Federal service.
The election surged back and
forth last night and into the early
hours. Until almost the last minute
the candidates supported by the
segregationist Capital Citizens
Council, an affiliate of the White
Citizens Councils, held tire lead in
four of the seven contests.
But toward 3 am. Eastern Stand
ard Time, three wards, including
a heavily populated Negro area,
reported county that tipped the
scales of six Good Government
Committee-the moderate" slate
and thereafter they held to their
slim leads.
In one of the contests, a good
government candidate, Leo H. Crit
fin, an automobile executive, edg-
ed out his rival, H. H. Crow, a re-
tired machinery manufacturer, by
only 81 votes, according to the I'M
official count.
Mrs. Edgar F. Dixon, a former
member of the Little Rock School
Board, who Was on the board VIXEN
it set up Central High Schools in
tegration plan, defeated Mrs. Clyde
Thomson, Secretary of the seq
regationist Mothers League of
Central High, by 482 votes.
The largest margin of victory by
a Good Government Committee
candidate was 1869 votes. Gervase
w. Blankenship, a sign executive,
defeated Mrs. F. E. Bates, a real
estate operator by a vote of TO-
500 to 1921.
The only victorious segregation
ist-sponsored candidate, Letcher L.
Langford, an insurance salesman,
defeated Leland F. Leatherman, a
lawyer, by 2,845 votes, the largest
margin piled up by any of the
candidates.
In the campaign preceding the
election, the Good Government
Committee had tried to avoid TIE
race issue. But in the final week,
the Capital Citizens Council began
campaign 70 suggest that if the
Good Government Committee slate
was elected it would promote inte-
grafton in Little Rocks swimming
pools, parks, Fairgrounds and other
municipal facilities. On the eve of
the election, a Good Government
spokesman declared that its can
didates had been "unjustly accus-
ed" of being for Indignation.
Negro Vote Is Cited
It was obvious that the Negro
vote put the Good Government
Committee candidates over.
The total vote in Little Rock
was 21,5O0, or a little more than
so per cent of the 41,000 qualified
voters in the city.
However, a Negro political lead
err here estimated today that of
approximately 5000 qualified Ne
gro voters in Little Rock. more
tran Is per cent had gone to the
polls and had voted almost unani-
mouslv for the Good Government
candidates.
The winners in the other con-
tests we're: Warren Baldwin, a
real estate executive; H. L. Win
burn, a tile manufacturer, and
Warren C. Knoop, construction
executive.
Seven other candidates ran as
independents, but trailed badly
from the outset and were never
serious threat.
The new Board of Directors,
which replaces Little Rocks old
CITY Council, will elect Mayor
and an Assistant Mayor from its
ranks and eventually will hire
professional City Manager.
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