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Article in Religious Herald that includes a photograph of Marion Hays with senators David Pryor and Dale Bumpers and representatives Ed Bethune and Beryl Anthony Brooks Hays Memorial Fund Launched in Capitol Ceremony Accolades for a former Southern Baptist Convention president and member of Congress whose name became a household word marked a ceremony at the U.S. Capitol January 26 establishing the Brooks Hays Memorial Fund. The fund, in memory of the former Arkansas congressman who died in 1981, will benefit five organizations in which Hays took a lively interest: the Baptist Joint Committee on Public Affairs, the U.S. Capitol Historical Society, Former Members of Congress and Calvary Church (all of Washington, D.C.) and Second Church of Little Rock, Ark. Hays was a member of both churches. Sen. Dale Bumpers, D-Ark., who announced the fund, called Hays "first, last and always a devout Christian Baptist. He was a household word in our house from the time I was a child." "Sometimes you pay a high price for principle and Brooks paid a very high price," Bumpers told the 40 journalists and friends of Hays in the Mike Mansfield Room in the Senate, "but later Brooks said it was a small price to pay." Hays was defeated for a ninth term in Congress in 1958 after seeking to mediate a dispute between then-Governor Orval Faubus of Arkansas and President Dwight D. Eisenhower, during the 1957 school desegregation crisis at Little Rock's Central High School. Former Congressman Walter Judd of Minnesota, who...

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