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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1963
Page
4
Congress has approved a defense appropriations bill totaling 47.22 billion dollars and sent it to President Kennedy. The plan emphasizes maintaining military readiness and economic support, promising most funds return to the American people through boosted national economy.
The U S Department of Commerce reports a net paid circulation gain of 1 967 000 over ten years for southern dailies. By end 1962 Alabama Florida Georgia Mississippi Tennessee the Carolinas Virginia Kentucky Arkansas Louisiana Oklahoma Texas Maryland Delaware and DC totaled 14 930 000, about one paper per 3 83 residents of a 57 161 000 South. Florida Texas NC VA AL GA lead gains, signaling improving product for readers and advertisers.
The Kennedy administration keeps January 1 as the hopeful passage date for the Senate on the two stage 11 billion tax reduction. The House approved it 271 to 155. The endorsement notes hoped benefits like more jobs higher family incomes and a stronger dollar while urging support or opposition from Alabama senators.
President Kennedy reportedly spoke with bitterness about top-bracket taxpayers and exemptions that fund ultra-right propaganda on TV radio and print. He cited J Paul Getty and H L Hunt as billionaires using tax breaks to subsidize anti government messaging, while lawmakers debate reforms amid election pressures.
The article speaks on life tides being regular yet unpredictable like the sea. It urges persistence in humanitarian work, noting shadows yield to light and support grows with time. It cites Harriet Beecher Stowe's line about not giving up in tight places.
The column reports underworld tipsters saying Cosa Nostra bosses in prison ordered a murder contract on five U.S. narcotics agents to intimidate federal crackdowns. Names are withheld. plotters allegedly aim to strike one agent as a warning to the others, with Carmine Galante and Vincent Mauro among those identified.
Gov Nelson Rockefeller at an Indiana bar luncheon suggests the Kennedy era used investigative powers to pressure two newsmen. He notes an unnamed Herald Tribune correspondent and Victor Lasky faced probing harassment connected to the Estes inquiry. The Justice Department offered no immediate comment.
Norman Vincent Peale recounts Bob Richards pole vault win at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics. After a leg injury, Richards prayed, found wind favorable, and cleared 14 feet 9 18 inches to set an Olympic record. Peale urges not to quit after defeats, to learn and push on.
The Southern Baptist Convention Home Mission Board will donate $2,000 to Birmingham's Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, which suffered the September bombing that killed four African American children. H. C. Hester of Montgomery, Alabama, will present the gift.
The Times quoted Lasky saying an Immigration and Naturalization Service official sought any information from the Senate Internal Security subcommittee about him. Mazo recalled a one hour exchange with the attorney general in which both exchanged insults, noting the incident occurred about six weeks before his book’s publication.
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