Education: Report Card

¶ While awaiting the U.S. Supreme Court's decision on the question of segregation in the public schools, Mississippi came to a decision of its own: the state senate voted down an amendment to the Mississippi constitution that would have allowed the legislature to keep Jim Crow by putting the public schools into private hands.

¶ In Oak Ridge, Tenn., the town council formally approved a resolution to the Atomic Energy Commission. No matter what the Supreme Court does, the council wanted the AEC to abolish segregation in the Oak Ridge public schools anyway.

¶ Promotion of the week: Huckleberry Finn to the Great Books list of St. John's College in Annapolis, Md.

¶ Statistic of the week: after 39 years of teaching, Mrs. Margie Aust of Scooba (Miss.) Grammar School figured she had pulled exactly 1,533 second-graders' teeth.