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Last week the Senate: ¶After long consideration, amended the 1928 Standard Container Act by legalizing a smaller, round stave, ⅜-bu. basket for fruits and vegetables. Already legal are ⅜-bu. baskets made of splints, but, explained Florida's Spessard Holland, these are less satisfactory for tree-ripened fruit. ¶ Passed a $29 billion defense appropriation after voting down, 38 to 50, Massachusetts' John Kennedy's attempt to add $350 million to keep the Army at its present 19-division strength. Michigan's Homer Ferguson argued that the cost of continuing the two divisions...
...Supreme Court's decision in the public school segregation cases. The court's ruling could not be determined immediately." At 1:12 the A.P. sent a second message to editors all over the world, who had been awaiting the momentous decision. Warren was attacking segregation in schools, bu " the Chief Justice had not read far enough in the court's opinion for newsmen to say that segregation was being struck down as unconstitutional...
...despite government attempts to cut down surpluses. Many farmers whose wheat and cotton plantings were cut by quotas increased corn planting to the point where 1954's acreage will be almost as high as last year's 81,037,000 acres. The estimated crop of 3.1 billion bu. will be on top of the present 750 million bu. carryover...
...varsity rifle team scored 1,373 points to place sixth in the Boston University Intercollegiate Matches held on the BU campus Saturday. John Hessel led the team with .280 points, while Marv Prescott and Charlie Walcott scored 274 and 275 points, respectively. The Coast Guard Academy finished first in the ten team field with 1,410 points...
...crisis and warnings of impending catastrophe, only a few weeks ago rushed through authorization for Benson to buy potatoes and channel them to Government-supported outlets such as the school lunch program. While potato consumption in the U.S. has fallen off slightly, production has gone up, from 349 million bu. in 1952 to 374 million last year. Benson thought that to resume Government buying of potatoes would only compound the problem by raising the incentive for big plantings, thereby increasing the surplus...