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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1965
Page
9
A tale features Mr D and a lost boy disguising as Santa and the Princess to confront a Voodoo man. He fails to harm them with charms, using chalk lines and powder. The boy asserts magical power, uses a coat hanger wand, and vows to reveal the sorcerer’s secret as the Yankees’ home game count and attendance are noted.
Kansas farmers posted a record soybean crop of 18 240 000 bushels and the highest corn and sorghum grain yields in state history in 1965 as reported by the Department of Agriculture. Corn yield reached 59 bushels per acre with production at 62 127 000 bushels, sorghum grain yield 45 bushels per acre and total sorghum production 136 710 000 bushels. Winter wheat production fell 5.3 million bushels but still ranked seventh all time at 243 624 000 bushels.
The California Angels staged 63 night games at Dodger Stadium last season, leading the American League in evening contests.
In Philadelphia an elderly woman Ida Herman sixty six had her leg caught in an automatic elevator door as she entered. She was carried up twelve floors while screaming in pain and her husband Morris Herman seventy two chased after. Firemen freed her and she was taken to Graduate Hospital with a crushed ankle and condition listed as satisfactory.
In Boise Idaho three officials of the American Federation of Musicians Boise local made astronauts Walter M Shirra Jr and Thomas P Stafford honorary members after their rendition of Jingle Bells from space. International officers in Newark forwarded honorary membership cards and scrolls to Houston noting the event puts live music on the high level it merits as America’s foremost cultural art.
Stanley Dancer captures his sixth harness driving championship at Roosevelt Raceway in Westbury New York, extending his record in the marquee event and cementing his status as a top driver of the era.
In Parsons Kansas thieves stole about three miles of copper wire from the Katy Railroad along the right of way a mile north of town On Monday engine crews reported signals were not functioning causing traffic delays and prompting an investigation by railroad police and local authorities.
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