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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1966
Page
3
The first printing of a four seasons of fun in Kansas travel folder was released today. Jack Lacy, director of the Department of Economic Development, announced. The folder highlights fishing hunting and other recreation areas in Kansas and will be distributed in motels and available by mail on request.
Violence erupted for a second night in a mixed Detroit East Side neighborhood with fire bombs and missiles. Police arrested 32 Negroes and seven whites. Tyrone Powers was shot in Detroit. Similar clashes occurred in Brooklyn New York Grenada Mississippi, with injuries and arrests as civil rights tensions rose while Congress debated the civil rights bill.
Lawrence High School announces fee payment book rental and schedule pickup for the 1966-67 year. Readiness slots run Aug 22 23 24 by grade and name groups with after hours enrollment for working students. Fees total 21 dollars including yearbook and activity ticket. Classes begin Sept 1 with shortened day then full sessions Sept 6.
James Donald French was executed at Oklahoma State Prison for the 1961 strangling of his cellmate Eddie Shelton. The 30-year-old killer entered the chamber with cocky defiance, having repeatedly rejected mercy offers while already serving a life term for a 1958 murder.
The Agriculture Department announced a 15 percent increase in 1967 wheat planting allotments to replenish stocks and possibly meet Soviet grain requests. With overseas shipments potentially restricted until harvest, the move seeks to improve the U S foreign balance of payments after recent sales to the Soviet Union and related financing details.
SAIGON, South Viet Nam AP reports Premier Nguyen Cao Ky shifts from reluctance to active engagement in South Viet Nam's September Constitutional Assembly election. Ky hosts nationwide briefings, orders provincial governors to educate locals, and permits rival Gen Nguyen Chan Thi to travel to the United States. The assembly will have 117 seats eight categories.
Gov John N Dempsey and wife plan to travel to Cahir Ireland for the ordination rite that marks their son reaching the diaconate stage in the priesthood. The trip follows the governor’s return to duties after the ceremony.
President Johnson told a White House ceremony he longs to be a president of peace yet vowed to confront aggression in South Vietnam. He received an award from the 8th Armored Division Association praising his contribution to peace and urged world leaders toward a better life for all.
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