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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1961
Page
4
President Kennedy outlines the administrations stance on tariff cuts and ties to the European Market. He rejects joining the Common Market while warning against U S isolation and warns that freer trade requires balancing domestic interests with rising foreign competition.
Five New York families challenge the ten year public school prayer, arguing it violates separation of church and state. The piece argues separation imposes not freedom from religion but freedom of religion, and government must not endorse or fund religious activity while preserving pluralism.
President Kennedy directed all federal agencies to recognize employee organizations in forming personnel policies. The plan allows unions to exist but bans union and closed shops, and bars mandatory strikes. Three recognition forms will shape consultative roles, potentially elevating union prestige while preserving management prerogatives.
A young Chicago man charged with a confidence game fled a fifth floor courtroom and was captured on a stairway. He argues all courtrooms should be on the ground floor. Meanwhile cantankerous Katangans attempt to secede, but U Thant states they cannot.
A December Saturday Review column by John Lear examines how national health and welfare campaigns fundraise and spend money. It cites a Rockefeller funded study showing many agencies duplicate appeals and overstate results, with limited transparency on spendings.
C L Sulzberger reflects on twenty years since Pearl Harbor, detailing World War II memories, shifting empires, and the uneasy postwar balance. He notes Stalin, De Gaulle, Mao, and Chiang Kai-shek as contemporaries of a transforming world, predicting future upheavals and uncertain alliances.
An editorial argues for national Civil Defense urgency, urging youth indoctrination with symbols of freedom and God. It cites Kennedy and Lenin to condemn atheistic communism, stresses survival to protect liberty, and warns Americans to sustain traditional values amid geopolitical risk.
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