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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1969
Page
3
Santa declares the Troll defeated but warns many orders remain. Mrs Claus and elves rush cakes and toys as the workshop hums. Santa and the boy Robert Clarence Hector Lee ride the world delivering gifts and promising friendship to the children.
Commonwealth Theatres Inc of Kansas plans to expand by selling 250000 shares to the public, with 150000 shares offered by the company at 18 dollars each. Proceeds fund equipment, debt payoff, four new drive ins, theater builds, remodels of 38 houses, and upgrades to 195 theaters.
About 50 welfare rights activists confronted the Kansas Board of Social Welfare in Topeka demanding a 100 percent increase in public assistance to cover 1970 living costs and higher fuel allowances for winter. Members cited monthly bills and food needs while officials pledged review and a future fiscal-year decision.
A US prisoner of war in North Vietnam sent a Christmas greeting broadcast by Radio Hanoi. The message, monitored in Hong Kong, was relayed to the United States and played by CBS News for families. recaps cite Capt. Joe David Luna and others.
Charles Beal, 20, was sentenced to die in Missouri's gas chamber Feb. 2 after a Jackson County circuit court jury found him guilty of murder. Beal, fleeing a Feb. 15 robbery, crashed his car killing Mr. and Mrs. Ward Ray Wooderson and their son James Keith Wooderson. judge John H. Lucas denied a new trial and a commutation to life.
The Agriculture Department reports 1969 as the biggest year for total farm output with an all crops production index of 121 percent of the 1957 to 1959 average. Average yields for 28 leading crops reached a record 182 percent, despite idle government land exceeding 50 million acres. In Missouri corn for grain averaged 70 bushels per acre totaling 182,210,000 bushels and Kansas 74 bushels with 91,464,000 bushels. Winter wheat in Kansas yielded 31 bushels per acre for 305,319,000 bushels. Sorghum showed Missouri 64 bushels and Kansas 36 with totals of 13,696,000 and 182,896,000 respectively.
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