For the Record

Georgia’s Senate unanimously passed a resolution asking Congress to declare the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments null and void. It contends that the refusal of the post-Civil-War Congresses to seat duly elected representatives of Southern states rendered them “nothing more than private assemblages unlawfully attempting to exercise the legislative power of the United States.” Governor James Folsom of Alabama charged that the Army’s interference in National Guard training is but the first maneuver in a struggle to take complete control Secretary of the Air Force Donald A. Quarles is expected to succeed Charles Wilson as Secretary of Defense; and if the rotation system is honored, Air Force General Twining will succeed Admiral Radford as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. But President Eisenhower might find it impolitic to appoint Air Force men to both key positions In 1956 non-agricultural employment averaged 1.5 million higher than in 1955. But in January l.66 million employees lost their jobs—the most serious seasonal decline in eight years Before a House subcommittee on education, a witness accused the federal government of channeling state funds away from schools by requiring the states to match federal aid to highway construction and to health and welfare programs The Commodity Credit Corporation reports that from 1933-1953, direct farm price supports cost the government $1.1 billion a year; from 1953 to 1956, $2.9 billion Senators Knowland and Bridges predict that Congress will trim $2 billion off the federal budget, primarily from the $4.3 billion marked for foreign aid As General Curtis LeMay told a group of cadets, the Soviet Union has developed its long-range nuclear weapons and its continental air defense system so dramatically in the last five years that the U.S. must sustain serious damage in case of war. But today, he added, we still have the edge on the USSR.

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Georgia’s Senate unanimously passed a resolution asking Congress to declare the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments null and void. It contends that the refusal of the post-Civil-War Congresses to seat duly elected representatives of Southern states rendered them “nothing more than private assemblages unlawfully attempting to exercise the legislative power of the United States.” Governor James Folsom of Alabama charged that the Army’s interference in National Guard training is but the first maneuver in a struggle to take complete control Secretary of the Air Force Donald A. Quarles is expected to succeed Charles Wilson as Secretary of Defense; and if the rotation system is honored, Air Force General Twining will succeed Admiral Radford as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. But President Eisenhower might find it impolitic to appoint Air Force men to both key positions In 1956 non-agricultural employment averaged 1.5 million higher than in 1955. But in January l.66 million employees lost their jobs—the most serious seasonal decline in eight years Before a House subcommittee on education, a witness accused the federal government of channeling state funds away from schools by requiring the states to match federal aid to highway construction and to health and welfare programs The Commodity Credit Corporation reports that from 1933-1953, direct farm price supports cost the government $1.1 billion a year; from 1953 to 1956, $2.9 billion Senators Knowland and Bridges predict that Congress will trim $2 billion off the federal budget, primarily from the $4.3 billion marked for foreign aid As General Curtis LeMay told a group of cadets, the Soviet Union has developed its long-range nuclear weapons and its continental air defense system so dramatically in the last five years that the U.S. must sustain serious damage in case of war. But today, he added, we still have the edge on the USSR.