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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1964
Page
7
AP reports personal income reached a new July high with total annual rate at $490.8 billion led by higher wages and salaries and more employment. Farm income fell $200 million while dividends and stock-price gains supported the rise.
Total carloads moved on the Santa Fe System were 30,633 for the week ending August 15, down from 31,102 a year earlier. On line loadings were 19,178 versus 20,212 last year, and cars received from connections totaled 11,460 compared with 10,890 in the prior year.
Kansas fertilizer dealers posted a fiscal year total of 610 163 tons for 1963 64, a 21 554 ton rise from 1962 63 and the sixth straight record high. Brown County led with 13 335 tons, followed by Sedgwick Marshall Reno and Washington counties.
The Soviet journal Problems of the History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union mocks Kansas University political scientist Roy D. Laird as a “bourgeois falsifier.” It cites his work on Soviet agricultural problems, criticizes Khrushchev’s virgin lands scheme as wasteful, and mentions co author John E. Chappell.
The National Farmers Organization said members will start withholding meat animals from the market in 23 states from the Rockies to the East Coast to push for higher prices. The group seeks minimum prices of 32.45 per cwt for beef cattle 900 to 1,000 pounds, 22.75 for hogs 190 to 210 pounds, and 29.45 for sheep.
Eleven Negroes registered to attend white schools as Jackson public schools desegregated first grade under a federal court order. Galloway and Watkins schools reported one Negro pupil enrolled within ten minutes of the registration kickoff.
No incidents were reported as boys were accompanied by parents.
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