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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1964
Page
4
A Hastings Michigan minister Lon Woodrum offers a New Year prayer urging readers to begin a greater voyage with God and fellow humans. The piece frames Jesus Christ as the beginning and ending and invites personal renewal.
A concise meditation on self mastery noting that ruling one’s passions desires and fears elevates a person beyond mere kingship. The aphorism emphasizes inner discipline as true power and personal sovereignty.
Senator Goldwater has made a strong conservative impression in his post and appears to have secured continued support from GOP kingmakers who seem to want him kept in place.
The Cotton Trade Journal reports a positive shift as boll weevil control nears, promising lower Southeast production costs. Representative Jamie Whitten is credited for securing funds, with $3.2 million for cotton research and $3.25 million for facilities and equipment, boosting utilization and production cost studies.
The Alabama State Chamber of Commerce and the State Planning and Industrial Development Board report 1963 capital investment of $336.839 million and over 19,000 new jobs. The 163 expansions span 44 counties and 68 cities, with 120 new industries in 51 counties and 80 cities, underscoring local ground work for sustained growth and a $17,737 implied cost per job created.
The 1963 Agriculture Department appropriation, over six billion dollars, was held up for months by a Georgia senator Richard Russell and Mississippi representative Jamie Whitten over a Dawson peanut lab and an Ath ens food utilization lab. The clash delayed passage until a year-end compromise funded Ath ens lab for nine point five million and a smaller cotton weed lab for Mississippi, while the Dawson peanut lab was postponed. The piece argues seniority harms government function. It also covers protection of presidents with proposed reforms including more Secret Service funding and a bipartisan commission to oversee FBI, CIA, and Secret Service cooperation.
Plato and ancient maxims frame self mastery as superior to conquering others. Humans often seek power externally while neglecting thoughts, motives, and emotions, leading to fear and misery. True strength lies in overcoming oneself through deliberate self direction and discipline.
An editorial in The New York Times argues that de facto segregation and desegregation tensions move beyond the South. It notes the federal role in education and cites rising northern Negro migration, suggesting future agitation over integration will grow in cities like New York Philadelphia and Chicago.
In the shift from Kennedy to Johnson, the President assumes party leadership while retaining national aides at headquarters. Johnson relies on coattails, big-state alliances, and loyalists like Buford Ellington, as he reshapes strategy for 1964 amid evolving Democratic challenges in New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and California.
Today marks history with the 1842 opening of the first wire suspension bridge for general traffic over the Schuylkill River at Fairmount, designed by Charles Eliot and costing $35,000 for a 358 foot span.
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