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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1962
Page
4
Industrial leaders say federal tax relief will drive expansion plans. The literacy bill as a voting qualification standard is sidelined for this year in Washington, prompting questions on fair, non political voting criteria and who can justly determine it.
Louis Spilman in The Waynesboro News-Virginian argues against viewing aging as decline. He cites books like Life Begins at Forty and The Second Forty Years, asserting maturity brings understanding and happiness, age is a mental state, and life can improve with each day. He notes octogenarians, such as Princess Olga Kotuchoubey, stay mentally active, and urges living each day anew to keep youthfulness.
Washington analysis finds doom chatter inevitable in the presidency as Kennedys advisers cope with Western alliance tremors. Adenauer and de Gaulle voice disapproval of Berlin talks, while Kennedy stays restrained, reaffirming Berlin talks and unified deterrence. Schroeder emerges as a key Liberal voice within Adenauer's cabinet amid factional tension.
Advice urges concentrating interests on near and personal spheres. Do not scatter energy across many aims. Focus on local duties, helping individuals, supporting your church or community, and improving government and human relations where you are.
Ezra Taft Benson’s pulpit politics draw fire from fellow Mormons led by Nevada Senator Howard Cannon who complains to church leadership. The column covers Cold War policy in Europe, France’s Algeria crisis, and internal US political maneuvering, linking Benson’s conduct to factional tensions within the church and Republican circles.
Republican charges of favoritism surround an Agriculture Department official who kept Billie Sol Estes’s bond at 700000 for storing government grain. Carl J. Miller testified he met Estes twice and based the decision on a net worth statement showing 13.7 million dollars, not favors. The case ties to Estes’s wider collapse in cotton, grain, and fertilizer ventures.
Homer Vinson of Clements High School vocational agriculture will join 32 others to receive honorary state farmer degrees June 7 at the Alabama FFA Convention in Auburn. Seventeen voag teachers and sixteen business and professional men will be honored for their contributions to voag and FFA programs. State FFA President Jimmy Barnes will confer the degrees at Auburn University’s Union Building.
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