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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1962
Page
4
Williamson County Sheriff Carl Miller pledges to collect back taxes and will meet with school officials after the holidays to discuss the drive. More than $775000 in delinquent taxes sit on the books. full collection would boost funding for schools and government, improve assessments, and promote taxpayer accountability.
Brooks Atkinson argues rural America is no longer provincial due to urban influence. Technological and social changes have integrated country life with the national economy, while politics remain conservative. Despite higher taxes for schools, rural residents gain better education and independence from city pressures.
The Kaiser Steel-United Steel Workers agreement of 1002 signals a new labor management relation akin to American Motors UAW profit sharing. It uses cost-saving shares to workers, with job protection during transitions, aiming to extend similar terms to automotive giants and address obsolescence from tech changes.
Gov. Ross Barnett's visit to Chicago to attract industry is overshadowed by a Meredith controversy and rising social tensions. Reporters pressed him on race during his pitch to 200 executives, highlighting Mississippi's racial climate as a barrier to investment. Critics label his stance naive or foolish amid ongoing unrest and alleged law manipulation.
Backing the Rhodesian Front and leader Winston J. Field, Southern Rhodesia may abandon enlightened policies. Field seeks barriers between black and white citizens and may rely on South Africa for support, while misjudging global reaction to shifting Africa. Whitehead warned of looming bloodshed from chronic oppression, hoping to save the land and people.
Dave Felts reviews changes in the American Academy of Arts and Letters with new members Thomas Hart Benton Bruce Catton Lillian Hellman Jacques Lipchitz and Georgia O Keefe filling vacancies after the deaths of Speicher Faulkner Jeffers Mes trobic and Cummings. The column also notes Information Please Almanac details and President Kennedy's interview remarks including a pronunciation note on Cuba.
Washington columnist Ray Tucker notes the era of conjecture about who should be secretary of state. Rumors link Dean Rusk and McGeorge Bundy to the post while many White House aides and lawmakers imagine themselves steering US foreign policy. The piece mocks the habitual bid for the secretary role across administrations.
The piece notes the planned parenthood society figure with a December 27 birthday and cites President Kennedy’s 90 minute interview edited to 60. It questions which national magazine will publish the remaining 30 minutes while accusing unions and right wing groups of usurping foreign affairs decisions and boycotting Iron Curtain merchandise. Kate Louchheim of State condemns these actions.
Nobel laureate T. S. Eliot condemned The New English Bible as vulgar trivial and pedantic in a Sunday Telegraph article. The 1961 translation of the New Testament drew praise and criticism as a modern yet contentious update amid plans to complete the Old Testament rendering in five to six years.
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