Week of June 1, 1955
Yugoslavia signs a declaration of principles with the Soviet Union, but President
Tito didn’t yield an inch on his independence. Tito did join Russia in backing up
Red China’s claim to Formosa.
The Supreme Court hands to local officials and to local Federal courts the
historic and delicate talks of ending all racial segregation in public schools “as
soon as practicable.”
Georgia Atty. Gen. Eugene Cook, asserting that the tribunal “neither gave a
formula for integration nor established machinery for enforcement” joins Gov.
Marvin Griffin in open defiance of the U.S. Supreme Court school segregation
ruling.
The U.S. Public Health service clears 200,000 c.c.s of Salk polio vaccine for use
in the nationwide immunization campaign.
President Eisenhower predicts that all first and second grade children will have
Salk vaccine inoculations in 60 days.
Dies in gas chamber -
Barbara Graham
, sentenced
to death with Jack Santo and Emmett Perkins for
murder, dies in the San Quentin gas chamber. The
other two died two hours later for their part in a 1953
murder.
Some Ford employees are striking as negotiations
continue. Walkouts or picketing were reported at Ford
plants in Cleveland, Buffalo, Chicago and Cincinnati
and Livonia in suburban Detroit as a midnight strike
deadline passed with negotiators still trying to avert a general strike. Later, The
CIO says it has settled with Ford, with workers getting a
guaranteed wage plan. The plan calls for the company to
establish a $55 million fund during a three-year contract
period to finance payments to workers idled from their jobs,
supplementing state unemployment compensation benefits.
Sports - Dodgers on a roll, beating Milwaukee 13-2. Duke
Snider hit another homer - his 16
th
for the year.
Entertainment news
-
Marilyn Monroe and Joe
DiMaggio
, although separated - attend the premiere of her
“Seven Year Itch” in New York at Lowe’s State.
