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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1968
Page
7
Ding Dong in Santa Land seeks three colored threads from three witches to lift a spell. He enters a black castle ruled by the Black Witch who hangs artists who fail portraits. Ding Dong repaints the wall with hippies finger paints, pleasing the Witch and earning 12 feet of black thread.
David Jacobs, lawyer for the Beatles and other stars, was found hanged in the garage of his seafront mansion in Hove. An inquest was ordered. Jacobs, 57, had been under strain. manager Brian Epstein died in 1967. He also represented Olivier, Dietrich, Garland, Liberace, Bassey, and Zsa Zsa Gabor.
Defense Secretary Clark Clifford calls for an early ceasefire and U.S. troop withdrawals in Vietnam with political settlement left to Saigon Hanoi and the NLF. He says military matters should precede politics and urges removal from Paris talks to speed disengagement. He notes possible winter offensive and enemy buildup in the Third Corps area.
Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey will teach at Macalester College and the University of Minnesota after his 25 years in politics. He will lecture and hold seminars, earning 30 000 for nine months, 20 000 from Macalester and 10 000 from the university.
The City Planning Commission will reexamine a 13.5 acre industrial zoning request on the east side of U.S. Highway 40 and south of the Kansas Turnpike interchange, submitted by Lawrence Industrial Development Corp. Other rezoning and site plan items are on the agenda. Rats carry at least eight parasitic organisms that cause disease in humans.
Four inmates serving narcotics sentences at the federal penitentiary honor camp in Leavenworth Kansas were missing Sunday night. The men named were Hector R. Trevino 27 of San Antonio Texas Jorge A Villa 27 of Dallas Ramon Yzaguirre 27 of Brownsville Texas and Isaac Quiroz 38 from Nueva Laredo Mexico.
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