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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1966
Page
7
Santa and Billy confront the giant Goko blocking the moon in a sealed box. Tweedleknees searches three days for the magic words while Santa lends his thinking cap. A hungry Billy is fed as the boy discovers the spell words in a surprising place, the spelling book. Tomorrow: The Harp Witch.
Two Arkansas inmates Bill Watson and Ben Crippen serving life sentences donate kidneys to two women at the University of Arkansas Medical Center in Little Rock. Watson will give a kidney to Doris Ratliff of Fayetteville and Crippen to Lillie Lewis of Earle. Surgeons report transplant success around 50 percent.
William A. Dearth a 55 year old Parsons insurance man was nominated to fill the Kansas Senate vacancy in the 2nd District. Democratic committees from Labette Neosho and Wilson counties voted unanimously to recommend Dearth to Governor Avery after Wade Ferguson resigned due to ill health.
In Bristol Virginia a Beckley College freshman Rudy McCray 18 is hopeful about hospital safety after repeats of injuries through high school and college. His father quips about safety and Rudy recounts past incidents including a broken wrist fingers ankle and a neck injury from a 1963 auto crash. He recently suffered a torn car fault during horseplay.
A veteran with knee surgery and a week in a cast was released but six days later suffered a head on collision on November 19. He sustained a fractured leg two teeth and facial cuts and returned to the hospital. His father Jack McCray says he handles it well and jokes about safety in hospital.
Charles C. Calnan Sr., longtime editor of the Kansas Chief, died at his Troy home after a heart attack. Survived by his widow and two sons, Charles C. Calnan Jr. of St. Joseph and Henry J. Calnan of Ellsworth, who are also editors of other papers. He became editor around 1920 after his father’s death.
In Miami James Lamka 24 of Coral Gables survived a 60 second countdown before being shot in the head at close range. Clark 25 allegedly urged a beating or killing of a man. he was arrested and charged with aggravated assault with intent to murder. Lamka remains in fair condition in ICU.
A January start will impound water in Milford Reservoir northwest of Junction City to supplement Kaw River flow while Tuttle Creek Dam gates are lowered for boat ramp extensions. Army Corps of Engineers official M. O. Smith notes temporary impounding at Milford amidst project work.
Curley Grieve longtime San Francisco Examiner sports editor died Thursday likely from a heart attack. He served 35 years shaping the paper’s sports coverage and reporting.
About 600 Negro students damaged at least 13 businesses in a three hour Tuskegee demonstration following the acquittal of Marvin Segrest in the Tuskegee Younge case. No arrests were reported. Police and city officials noted shattered windows and vandalism amid chants and black paint on a Confederate statue.
Mrs. Harry Wilkins, 51, was killed Thursday when she fell from the top of a kitchen stove as it toppled over. Investigators say she climbed the appliance to reach a high shelf and was fatally crushed when it tipped. Wilkins found her body on his return from work.
Belgrade Yugoslavia AP reports the government told Parliament the secret police once bugged the office and apartment of President Tito. It cites a lengthy report on abuses under Rankovic and his purge from the Communist Party. No criminal prosecution for Rankovic or his group.
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