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...least one point: the religion issue exists and will continue to bulk large in the 1960 campaign. A few papers, such as the Charleston, S.C. News & Courier, argue that Kennedy's Catholicism is a vital and valid political issue. More typical is the Columbus, Miss. Commercial Dispatch: "It is regrettable that what ought to be at most a relatively minor concern is overshadowing such major issues as foreign aid, economic growth and civil rights...
Some papers simply thought that Jack Kennedy was getting a bum religious rap. Wrote the Richmond Times-Dispatch: "Senator Kennedy seems to us to have demonstrated admirable independence on this issue, since he has voted at least twice contrary to what we believe to be the position of his church. He voted against the use of public funds for parochial schools and against sending an ambassador from the U.S. to the Vatican." Some papers seemed to think that the whole religion issue was a Republican plot. Said the Fort Worth Star-Telegram: "Regardless of how it has been raised, religion...
Nowhere is Norfolk's quest for a new personality better reflected than in the city's two newspapers: the morning Virginian-Pilot and the afternoon Ledger-Dispatch and Portsmouth Star (which is in fact one paper, with separate editions for Norfolk and neighboring Portsmouth). Although both are owned by the parent Ledger-Dispatch Corp., the papers are fiercely competitive in their search for the news and often differ editorially on some of the South's most basic problems...
...Obnoxious." By Northern standards both papers are conservative. But by Southern standards the Pilot is downright liberal, and the Ledger-Dispatch is at best middle-reading. In Virginia's 1958 school desegregation crisis, the Pilot was the only daily in Virginia to agree from the very beginning that the U.S. Supreme Court's integration orders must be obeyed. "We don't call ourselves liberals," says Editor Lenoir Chambers of the Virginian-Pilot. "We never preached the doctrine of integration." But as Chambers wrote in a 1959 editorial series that won him a Pulitzer Prize, "The mark...
...Ledger-Dispatch, on the other hand, remains staunchly states' rightsist, though there are signs that it has mellowed slightly. Says former Editor Joseph Leslie, an ardent segregationist who retired last year: "The paper is not as obnoxious now as when I was running it." Arriving this week to take over Leslie's old job is an editor who can be expected to follow the Ledger-Dispatch's traditional policies: William H. Fitzpatrick, 52, a Pulitzer prizewinning editor for the New Orleans States and for the past eight years an editorial writer on the Wall Street Journal...