Kerner Split Over Riots at Governors Conference
Editorial notes Gov Otto Kerner favors reform and social solutions over pure law enforcement. The Governors Conference debate featured harsh quotes from Gov Hughes on tough action, while Kerner urged addressing root causes as well as police measures.
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Otto Kerner
Rowland Evans
Robert Novak
Harold Hughes
New Jersey
Newark
Hughes
John B. Connally
Texas
Gov
Kerner
President’s Commission On Civil Disorders
The South Is Rising Economically Across The Nation
A four year Twentieth Century Fund study and the book The Advancing South report that per capita income leads the nation in the South and investment in plants rises. It notes wage growth for whites and Negroes, reduced Negro migration, and expanding agriculture with soybeans and beef cattle alongside pecans. Progress in education is uneven though improving through Head Start and college departments, with integration slowing, yet boards act more rationally. Blessed with climate and resources, the South should sustain rapid growth benefiting the country.
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Diehard
Twentieth Century Fund
South
Lester Maddox
Boards of Education
Debated corporal punishment at Carbondale CCHS
A Southern Illinoisan reader argues against school swats at Carbondale Community High School describing the late policy as barbaric and harmful. The letter outlines students being paraded and struck on the rear, sometimes in various attire, with mentions of boards causing injury.
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The
Southern Illinoisan
Carbondale Community High School
Carbondale
CCHS
Community
Horace Mann
Stand Against Corporal Punishment In Schools
A Carbondale reader argues against corporal punishment in schools, urging alternatives like fitness programs and disciplined reform. He cites CCHS practices where teachers administer paddle swats or offer push up exercises, and asks readers to contact officials with their views on the policy.
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Reid Martin
CCHS
Devaluation and rising costs loom for Americans
The piece analyzes how Britain's pound devaluation affects the United States trade, dollar stability, and balance of payments. It explains how cheaper British exports, U.S. deficits, and military and foreign aid outflows shape inflation, tax policy, and possible wage and price controls, with Paris and De Gaulle weighing in on devaluation options.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dwight Connelly
Lindsay-Schaub
Britain
United States
U.S
U. S
Carl Arlt
University of
Europe
Vietnam
West Germany
Italy
Netherlands
Switzerland
Belgium
France
Roosevelt
Congress
Johnson
de Gaulle
America
Soviet Union
South Africa
Who is Walter Rose resigns amid campus expulsions
Professor Walter Rose, a 11 year petroleum engineering faculty adviser, resigns after seven students were expelled for the October 25 Dow Chemical protest. Rose, present during the controversy, says he never participated in campus radicals and criticizes the expulsions as he supports peace but objects to the disciplinary action.
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Richard H. Ieen Lindsay-Schaub
Champaign
Walter Rose
University of Illinois
Dow Chemical Co
Rose
Illini Union
Vietnam
Resignation Sparks Protest Over University Administration
A professor resigns from the engineering faculty citing dissatisfaction with university administration. He closes his office to protest, receives mixed public reaction, and seeks a teaching post in liberal arts, noting interest in an interdisciplinary program on ideas and world relations.
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Rose
Engineering
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