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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1963
Page
4
The Decision notes the plan to slow nuclear weapons production amid a large stockpile and billions spent annually. It argues halving annual production costs, preserving jobs and facilities, and enabling conversion to peaceful uses while delaying full disarmament as impractical.
Premier Khrushchev spoke at length on East West relations signaling a potential shift. He suggested a partial underground test ban paired with a non aggression pact but left key conditions unclear. The move may reflect altered China tensions and could merit Western attention if clarified.
The 73rd General Assembly adjourned with minimal debate on higher education funding. State budgets for six universities were trimmed from 906,910,000 to 294,751,000, a sign of confidence in the new State Board of Higher Education and its budgeting role. The boards accepted the smaller figure, marking efficient handling of university appropriations.
Charles Percy 43, Bell & Howell board chairman, enters Republican race. Secretary of State Charles Carpentier to announce candidacy Aug 4. Percy campaigns from Metropolis county fair as a dark horse. Carpentier a strong vote-getter but 67. Democratic Gov Otto Kerner confident, with cushion of over 500,000 votes from 1960. Vigorous primaries expected, incumbents may face challengers amid reforms.
Dave Felts notes lyric shifts in Avalon from HER to HIM as a reflection on gendered song themes. He also muses on golf broadcasts shaping finales, a Fourth of July garden bloom, and admiration for a nurse who aided a transfusion, plus nostalgia for Staunton cadet ads and distant military schools.
At the World Food Congress 1,200 delegates from 100 countries heard B. R. Sen of FAO outline a global plan to end hunger by 2000. He urged international taxation, world food plans, and a $12.5 billion five year surplus food program to aid developing nations and improve nutrition and growth.
A nostalgic note touts canned buffalo meat as ready to heat and eat, offering stew, pot roast with red wine, and a wine sauce steak. It links buffalo meat to pioneer foodways and American identity, recalling history, canals, rails, and gritty frontier imagery.
An open letter to Egypt Shores GM John D. Stamps condemns a whites-only offer on Lake of Egypt property. It argues Civil Rights laws make discrimination illegal, warns of social upheaval and property-value harms, and urges reconsideration of the policy while defending equal rights and American democratic ideals.
A survey notes Charles Percy seeks broad support from Illinois Young Republicans up to age 80 in his bid for the gubernatorial nomination. The text mentions a rented house in Hyannisport and Kennedy cousins visiting, plus other scattered references to U S politics and Europe.
The column muses that Peggy Joyce Mae West era tales are redirected to Christine Keeler and jokes about prison security shift from light labels to questions about who is protected and why by referring to a prison as minimum security.
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