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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1966
Page
4
The Christian Science Monitor reports Iowa candidates plan to exceed legal campaign limits. A US senator's race shows a $30,000 cap based on salary equivalence, while $100,000 dinners surface as funding sources. Both parties acknowledge evasion and anticipate stricter spending laws.
A. G. Gaston, Birmingham Negro leader, opposes school demonstrations and urges training for youth in discipline and citizenship. He supports free assembly if legal and calls for qualified Negroes to apply for city jobs and to register to vote. He stresses laws protect rights and praises opportunity for qualified African Americans.
Opinion argues the presidents State of the Union is a sales pitch for party power. It critiques deficits, wasteful spending, Viet Nam war framing, and political maneuvering in Congress, noting how funds are distributed to secure support while truth about economic dangers is hidden.
Louisiana’s Sen. Russell Long pushes to cut interest rates and taxes for the “little fellow” while probing drug patents tied to NIH discoveries. He may clash with the banking lobby over rates and favors higher tobacco and alcohol taxes to fund treatment programs.
A Princeton astronomer Henry Norris Russell lecture prompts a question about God’s care for humanity. The answer cites biblical verses comparing divine magnitude to earthly limits and asserts God’s concern through salvation, explaining belief rests on scripture rather than human scale.
In the past 80 years Texas farmers grown 280 mil bales of cotton valued around 27 billion dollars per e Cotton Research committee report.
The piece argues President Johnson faces a no-win dilemma as he weighs war aims against domestic needs. It cites the Mansfield report guiding a holding operation in Vietnam with intensified village pacification and economic aid, amid risks of riots and a shifting Saigon government. It notes potential pressure from the armed forces toward a broader war and questions a peace push versus escalation.
A compact Decatur column recalls 1966 events and past milestones. It notes a Mississippi civil rights case indictments a year earlier, Alabama Field Trials club gatherings in Decatur, and local business signals including Challenged power outages and plant shutdowns tied to storms.
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