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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 23, 1963, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday june 23, 1963 the stars and stripes Page 7 the National scene Kennedy asked 5-Point civil rights program a sweeping five Point civil right program was sent to Congress by president Kennedy last week. The president sold hit rights package Wai impera Tive find asked for n halt in racial demonstration while the program is under consideration. His Prapo Tali Are designed trend  in John Vot ing schools and Arr run to rental rants hotels and other accommodations. Or. Kennedy urged cons res necessary to Ennert to pro rom warning that the alternative will be continued. If not in creased racial  his 5.200-word ape civil Messne is one of the Bronde to civil right program proposed in nearly n Century. It is it run in to set of weeks of de tote in Congress particularly about the sections nondiscrimination by privately owned Public accommodation Sand a bar against Federal Aid for  in which such discrimination occurs. Appealing to every member of Congress to set aside sectional and political to und to View the Issue from a National View Point or. Kennedy proposed legislation which would guarantee All citizen equal Access to the services and facilities of hotels restaurant places of amusement and retail establishments. Empower the attorney Gen eral to file suits in Federal courts of behalf of negro students seek ing admission to All White  unemployment among negroes by broadening the Federal manpower develop ment and training program expanding the pending youth employment Bill and pausing legis lation to Spur vocational Educa Tion among other Steps eliminate racial discrimination in employment through pending Federal fair employment practices legislation applicable to both employers and  permanent Legal Sta Tus to the committee on equal employment opportunities head and by Vic president Lyndon b. Johnson and strengthen us now i. Or. Kennedy said he will establish by executive order a Community relations service to supplement the biracial human relations committee he has urged the nation s mayors to setup in every City. The mayors committees would mediate civil rights  president further urged of a comprehensive pro vision making it Clear that the Federal government is not required under any statute to fur Nish any kind of financial assistance. To any program or activity in which racial discrimination  be said this approach would be better than a requirement for won court fight or. And or. Pal Ward  go through some of the More than boo letter received by them in he Pant five Ottara the coup Elegal action started in a Pella Delphia Federal court against compulsory Bible Reading in Public i whoop resulted in the t  court ban on such activities. Their Chil Dren Donna. 17, and Koger. To look on. I i court ruled out school prayers tit supreme court lust ruled against stole ordered religious exercises in Public  court said such practices violate the establishment of re Ligion clause of the Constitution and rejected the argument Bluit the exercise Are essentially mor Al teaching and not reunions  court s decision was by n Vole of 8-1. Justice Potter Stew Art wrote a Distant ing opinion. The court said it was no de sense that students could be no sent from required exercises with parental consent. Justice Tom c. Clark who wrote the court s main opinion. Sold it is no defense to urge that the religious practices Here May be. Relatively minor encroachments on the first Amend ment. The Brenth of neutrality that is today a trickling Stream May All too soon become a raging Tor rent and in the words of Madison it in proper to Tuke alarm at the first Experiment on our Liber lies the decision which had involved cases in Maryland and Pennsylvania Imd been anxiously waited spec Lilly since the High court s decision Juno 29, 1962, Ina new York Stute Case. This ruling held that he use of  prayer com labor peace guaranteed in steel labor peace in the steel Industry was virtually Guaran teed but week As the United steel workers Union and the Basic steel Industry reached an agreement for a new 21-month contract the Union has been free since May to formally reopen Basic steel contracts. It did not dose s t r 1 v i n g with management through the human relation committee to work out an agree  committee has been meet ing since january on changes in the  agreement Calls for an extended vacation plan for Veteran employees. Improvements in the insurance program and some Oil str  stateside news develop ments personal income in the United states climbed to a record annual rate of �w8 billion in May. Commerce Secretary Luther h. Hodges reported. Personal in come for the first live months of 1963 was at an annual rate s19.5 billion higher than the Cor responding rate in the first five months Lait year. Former president Herbert Hoover Mode an almost miraculous improvement from his ill Ness. Or Hoover had been seriously 111 with anaemia and inter Nal bleeding. Or. Hoover who will be 89 on aug. 10, last year under went an operation for the removal of a malignant intestinal tumor. Pennsylvania gov. William  said publicly for t he first time that he would be a favorite son candidate for the1964 Republican presidential nomination. Hugh l. Dryden Deputy administrator of the National aeronautics and space administration received the first annual Theodore von kantian space award. A plaque Given in memory of von Karmon a rocket expert who died Las month was awarded to Dryden particularly for his negotiations of International apace agree  my now who resigned recently As chairman of the fed eral communications commission was named executive vice presi Dent and a director of encyclopaedia Brit Annoca inc., and was appointed general counsel for the corporation in Chicago. Kathryn crony wife of blog Crosby was among june graduates of the Queen of Angels school of nursing in los Angeles. She received her diploma in commencement exercises at  s Cathedral. Pam d by state school officials was unconstitutional. Clerk sold the derision do snot bar study of the Bible or of religion when presented objectively As part of a secular pro Gram of  slew not n dissent said he fell the records in the Maryland in Pennsylvania cases were so fundamentally deficient an to make impossible an informed or responsible determination of the constitutional Issue  in the a Rylund Case m is. Mariilyn e. Murray and her 16 year old son. Identifying them selves is atheists attacked constitutionality of a Baltimore Cit school regulation. The regulation called for doll opening exercises of Bible rend ing and recitation of the lord s  the Pennsylvania Case a three judge . District court i Philadelphia unanimously upheld objections to a stale Law requiring Bible a Ding dully at school opening . And mrs. Edward l. Schempp unitarians and parents of two students attending Ablong ton township schools objected to the Law. Cutting off Federal funds in such cases since withdrawal of Schaid would Hurt negroes As Welt As Whites without ending discrimination or. Kennedy sold state an local approaches and voluntary efforts have been tried in end ing discrimination. But these prevent the no flow of com Merce from being arbitrarily an inefficiently restrained and distorted by discrimination. An explosive National prob Lem cannot own it ally by cloy solutions and Federal action is needed to open doors in Ever part of the country which never should have been  the president said his propos als were banned on common sense and common  rancor violence disunity  Shunmo can Only hamper our National standing and  or. Kennedy deplored the rash of Street demonstrations and a Rodes that have been led by negro integration leaders in recent months in such cities As Bir Mingham. Ala., Philadelphia. Jackson miss., b ton and Cam Bridge my this hex happened because these race no injustices Are Realand no other remedy was in sight. But As feelings have risen in recent Days these demonstrations have increasingly endangered lives and properties. In flamed emotions and in Necemar Fly divided  the president appealed to members of Congress to look into your hearts not in search of Charity for the negro neither wants nor needs condescension but for the one Plain proud and priceless Quality that unites a Alt As americans a sense of jus  he called discrimination anally insult that has no place in a country proud of its heritage the heritage of the melting pot of equal rights of one nation Andone people. No one hns been barred on account of his race from fight ing or dying for America there Are no White or coloured signs on the Foxholes or graveyards  there v 4re mixed and some times violent reactions from  the president s requests unconstitutional unnecessary unwise beyond the realm of Rea son sen. Strom Thurmond . Said Southern congressmen would use All our Powers to completely stymie or. Kennedy legislative program unless he withdraws his civil rights proposals. Senate democratic Leader Mike Mansfield of Montana said  has shown great leadership a Jeral forces in both parties praised the proposals but key republicans took a cautious approach. Coy the greatest did it again i t too in tie fourth round that Clay not knocked Down but Cooper Watt miffed in the Utah. Talkative caul us Clay fulfilled prediction last week slopping British Empire heavyweight Champion Henry Cooper in five rounds. Referee Tommy Little halted the Fristic encounter with Cooper streaming blood from a Cut near his left  was booed As he stepped into the ring at London s Wem Bley stadium wearing a Satin Robe a Crown and a Robe emblazoned a a s s i  Clay the greatest Cooper started fast and oven decked Cassius in the fourth but Cassius prevailed hacking away at Cooper s Eye until the crowd shouted for the fight to be halted. Clay flew Back to the stale with a poetic prediction that he would Lake Champion Sonny los ton in eight  on the sports scene Juan Marschal fired the third no hitter in the majors this year lending san Francisco past the Houston Colls 1-0. Marschal Al Lowed two walks and struck outlive in posting his sixth straight win Arnold Palmer pulled one of his patented finishes in the thunderbird Golf classic at Rye,. He beat Paul Handy on the first Hole of a sudden death play off to win the $23.000 first prize. The two finished their regulation bottle with 3-under-Par 277s. Detroit manager Bob Salt eff ing and his entire coaching staff were fired in a Surprise move last week. Named new manager was Charlie Dressen former manager at Cincinnati. Brooklyn Washington and Milwaukee. The three new coaches Are Bob Swift stubby Overmire and Pat Mullen. Scheffling was offered a positioning the Tiger organisation and indicated he would take it  
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