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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1963
Page
6
The brief notes a prolonged stoppage ending and mixed feelings about resuming papers. It highlights unresolved disputes, long-term economic damage, and anticipated effects on advertising, logging in Canada, and the industry’s future. It suggests the stoppage may teach lessons to prevent future deadlocks.
The IOC suspended Indonesia over Israel and nationalist China bans, article argues sports intertwine with politics and economics. Sukarno says sports cannot be separated from politics while praising Baron de Coubertin’s creed that participation and effort matter more than winning. The piece stresses balance and integrity in amateur and international competition.
Senator Vern Lisle of Clarinda argues the Senate Transportation and Highway Safety Committee should drop the words highway safety and insert highway hazard amid a bill to extend truck lengths from 50 to 60 feet. He notes faster speeds and longer trucks slow passing and worsen safety.
Senator Allen Ellender recounts a hostile reception in Tanganyika Somali Ethiopia and Uganda during a December trip on appropriations business. He criticizes emerging leaders as thin skinned and says diplomats were chicken hearted while praising the Peace Corps and warning of costs to U S goodwill.
Brazil faces severe inflation and a widening split between hard line communists and coexistence factions. Dantas proposes tax reform and subsidy cuts while Brazil seeks international loans. the Alliance for Progress falters as growth persists.
Children play acting as cowboys gather around a large empty packing case labeled The Last Chance Saloon. A swaggering youngster bangs the bar and orders a rye while a younger boy imitates with a gun at his holster and asks for a whole wheat as part of the game.
A Roscoe Drummond piece argues Congress should vote on foreign aid based on facts not fiction. Gallup data from 1955 to 1963 show 58 percent approve, 30 percent oppose, and 12 percent neutral, with broad regional support and rising voter approval despite annual appropriations around 4 billion dollars.
Joseph P. Kennedy says Newton Minow, FCC chairman, is quitting soon after meeting President Kennedy. Kennedy notes his father's habit of quick government moves. The piece discusses Kennedy’s desire for longer terms and a White House influenced commission.
A humorous summary notes a New York Times attributed glossary of official euphemisms. It lists terms like program, note and initial, point up the issue, research work, we are aware of it, under consideration, under active consideration, we are making a survey, statistician, and expert with satirical definitions.
Spokesmen for the Real Estate Board and Home Builders Assn opposed tighter platting rules at a city council meeting. Four high school orchestra horn players rehearsed for All City Music Festival. Linn County Board of Education welcomed Hinton and Airy. USO helped entertain servicemen with Chamber of Commerce support. Major Harmon led North Dakota training detachment. Tom Farmer praised as top Big Ten athlete. Taxi drivers sought lower licenses. Don Hutchinson elected exalted ruler of the Cedar Rapids Elks. Gold flow returned to Cedar Rapids banks after Roosevelt wartime crime warning.
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