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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1968
Page
8
A surreal tale follows Ding Dong the hippie artist as he frees the Red Witch from a monster’s jaws by using a hippie record. He retrieves a red thread she spun, then escapes with her to safety while the Butterfly Queen watches. The Red Witch hints at a future Purple Witch.
Apollo 8 commander Frank Borman says he hopes the United States will be first to orbit the moon, though he calls the race with the Soviet Union healthy. Lovell and Anders join him, with a 6:51 a.m. CST launch set for a six day mission around the moon ending on Christmas Eve. The window favors a December moonward flight as Soviet timing looms.
The Electoral College formally elects Richard M. Nixon president with 301 votes in North Carolina and 119 for Humphrey nationwide, while Wallace gains 46. Some electors question the system as Congress weighs a constitutional amendment to reform the process.
A mid dle aged mailman Herbert F. Gray and his wife Maurine Thelma were found shot to death in their southeast Kansas City home. Hands and feet bound with tape and woman gagged. robbery suspected after a wrecked car and missing TV and phonograph.
Dearborn mayor Orville Hubbard installed a time clock outside his office and soon 20 aides used it daily. Three punchers earn over 20000 a year. Hubbard says the idea may help administration in the Detroit suburb of 115000. He notes his hours often run from before 8 a.m. to around 10 p.m. and staff work varied shifts.
A KU student faculty conference committee is ironing out differences in the new Senate Code approved by both the All-Student Council and the Senate Council. Members include Russell Bradt Edwin Stone Keith Weltmer Rick von Ende Bob VanCleave and John Lugstrum. Recommendations will go to the student body in a campus election and must also be approved by the Kansas Board of Regents before taking effect.
Lawrence Postmaster John B. Harris announces the Christmas and New Years Day schedules with no mail delivery and no window service on December 25 and January 1. Only special delivery, lockbox mail, normal holiday collections, and standard holiday mail handling will operate.
A threeMember panel continues hearing over the December incident involving graduate student Elbert Walton Jr. and four Washington University campus policemen. Rexford Caruthers says Walton swung at an officer and kicked another as officers pursued him off campus and detained him. The panel will decide facts and implications for Chancellor Thomas H Eliot.
Paris reports Premier Maurice Couve de Murville declaring that no occupation will be tolerated in the universities. He urged students and teachers to work with the government to end contention as campus clashes flare at Nanterre, Toulouse, and other campuses amid reform protests.
The U S submarine Plunger will dock at Sasebo in southern Japan for a three day rest and recreation visit for its crew The move marks the first U S nuclear sub port call in Japan since May 6 when radioactivity was detected during a Swordfish visit Officials say the United States and Japan have agreed on tighter safeguards for future visits
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