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...year fight of Melvin and Frances Ellis, a Jewish couple, to keep Hildy McCoy, whom they had adopted as a baby from her unwed Roman Catholic mother (TIME, April 1), was halted by Florida's Governor LeRoy Collins. At Tallahassee, after hearing more than two hours of testimony, Collins announced that he would not allow the Ellises to be extradited to Massachusetts, where they face a charge of kidnaping Hildy. Background of the charge: a few weeks after she signed the adoption papers, Hildy's mother, Marjorie McCoy, said she had not known that the Ellises were Jewish...
...article in the June issue of Fortune magazine, Dr. Richard W. Husband of Florida State University said that his survey of members of his class at Dartmouth, the class of 1926, indicated a direct relation between present income and number of extracurricular activities in college...
FIRST ATOM POWER PLANT in U.S. using natural uranium as fuel, instead of more expensive uranium enriched with U-235, will be built near Tampa by three Florida utilities. Florida Nuclear Power Group is expected to get AEC subsidy for $40 million plant that will have capacity of 136,000 kw. when it is finished...
There is plenty of evidence that research can solve many farm-surplus problems. Powdered eggs have been so improved that they have hatched a new line of cake and cookie mixes. Only a few years ago surplus-ridden citrus growers in Florida were destroy ing tons of oranges in an effort to bolster prices; now about 50% of their crop is being turned into frozen orange juice and many growers are expanding. A new process, developed by the Agriculture Department, to dehydrate cooked potatoes has proved so successful that several manufacturers have put the product on the market. Predicts...
...first step in an ambitious plan to make it an "important and influential paper around the world," said Publisher Thomson, 63, a plump, pink-cheeked, bustling Scottish-descended Toronto native who owns 20 dailies in Canada (almost one-fourth of Canada's English-language dailies) as well as Florida's St. Petersburg Independent (circ. 25,820). This summer he plans to assign staff correspondents to major international news centers, and will start publishing a special airmail edition that will be flown to world capitals and reach European newsstands only a few hours after publication. Thomson hopes the Scotsman...