Atlanta Daily World

Quiet Hangs Over
Little Rock Front

BY JOHN BARROW

LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-(INS)- A weekend quiet hung over Little Rock's integration front Saturday and attention turned to cold weather and football games.

Central High School's nine Negro students rejoiced over reaching a milestone in their historic integration. No longer are they using a military escort to make the trip between home and school.

The back-to-normal effort also has reduced the number of troops patrolling the school area where five weeks ago mobs rioted.

The rest of Central High's 2,000 students are rejoicing, too. The Tiger football squad extended its undefeated string to 28 by knocking off the El Dorado Wildcats, 28 to 0.

And the rest of Arkansas divided its attention between the grid fortunes of the University Razorbacks meeting Ole Miss at Memphis, and a cold snap which plunged temperatures within one day to below freezing. A Sunday high of 50 was forecast.

TEXAS SITUATION

But integration issues were not forgotten. The governor of Texas says he is seriously considering asking the state legislature to pass a bill automatically closing any Texas school which is occupied by troops.

At Austin, Gov. Price Daniel told a news conference he does not consider the issue to be one of segregation. Daniel said his chief concern is to avert the possibility of armed soldiers patrolling Texas schoolgrounds as they are at Little Rock's Central High.

In Arkansas, Gov. Orval Faubus' latest attack on the use of federal troops at the Little Rock school was to demand a Congressional investigation.

Gov. Faubus pointed to the way the Arkansas National Guard was pulled into Federal service and the manner in which many are being released, and called the procedure a 'flagrant and unwarranted evasion' of the National Selective Service Law.