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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1965
Page
4
Editorial notes Gov. Kerner and Illinois lead in interstate mental health cooperation. Many states aren’t in the compact and most lack robust programs. Overcrowded state hospitals and prisons, slums and ghettos worsen mental health, reflecting a failure of government to address citizens' needs.
Across the week the AFL-CIO in San Francisco reelected George Meany as president and renewed most vice presidents while the AFBF in Chicago reelected Charles B. Shuman as president and filled most director seats. The two bodies diverge on policy with the AFL-CIO backing Johnson’s Great Society and higher federal spending, while the AFBF pushes spending cuts and market freedom for farmers.
Retail activity surges as sales could reach 3.2 billion with a 10 percent rise from last year. Consumers run up about 85 billion in non mortgage debt while durable goods and cars go on credit. economists warn anti poverty cuts may follow. The Viet Nam war continues with no end in sight amid festive sentiment.
Pamela Jackoobson of New Brunswick New Jersey followed a trolley into a subway tunnel for four blocks thinking it was a bus. Both she and the car emerged unharmed and she was not ticketed for driving the wrong way on a one way track. The incident offers a blunt lesson that sunways aren’t for sleeping.
The piece notes Gemini 6 and Gemini 7 missions achieving near perfect launches and a successful Atlantic Ocean landing. It jokes about a possible Gemini 7 rescue transfer scenario while praising Cape Kennedy Houston and tracking stations for making orbital flights look easy.
Dave Felts surveys books on Civil War era Northern intellectuals and a Kennedy-era volume. He notes Frederickson's The Inner Civil War for English majors and rounds to Schlesinger A Thousand Days and Citadel Press titles, discussing article usage and publication details.
John V. Lindsay inherits a budget shortfall tied up in court and major city challenges. A Republican though elected on a fusion ticket, he must navigate the Board of Estimate and City Council, plus water pollution crime and housing issues, while national fate looms for a potential 1968 bid. The outcome could prove New York governable or derail future ambitions.
The 106th merger anniversary marks George Meany's sixth term as AFL CIO president. Born in Harlem in 1894, he rose from plumber’s apprentice to union chief, uniting AFL and CIO and steering the merged federation through internal tensions and political power plays.
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