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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1975
Page
2
The column predicts a busy 1976 with national elections shaping policy and labor tensions. Kansas growth hinges on agripower, Topeka politics, and KU leadership, while Lawrence may see job growth, new industry, and higher enrollment as the bicentennial year approaches.
China launches a five year push to double industrial output by 1980 with focus on agriculture light industry and oil. Despite floods and drought 1975 grain output held at 260 million tons while tractors and fertilizers rose. China seeks foreign exchange via oil exports and trade while facing wage disputes and imperfect conomies.
A new state report outlines 15 year highway needs totaling 12.38 billion for construction 2.04 billion for maintenance 1.91 billion for administration and 2.02 billion for stopgap replacement. It lists 17 future four lane projects including US 54 US 75 US 50 and Kansas 12. The analysis notes 90 percent of the state highway system will require some improvement by 1990 and Kansas ranks third in road mileage.
Clinton McMeehan, 18, of 827 Walnut, is held in Douglas County Jail in lieu of 1250 bond after alleged hit and run at Yuk Bar parking lot. Officer Scott Belt tracked the suspect by license plate, found him at his home, and McMeehan allegedly attempted to strike the officer during handcuffing.
In Tel Aviv Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin restated Israel will not talk with Palestinian guerrilla groups or accept a Palestinian state in the West Bank. He warned a separate Palestinian state would fuel tension, while signaling openness to Palestinians within a future Jordanian delegation.
President Ford moves toward the end of a Colorado ski vacation with 28 still awaiting his approval or veto. He signed a $9.3 billion federal water and energy appropriation and named John Carlson deputy press secretary and John Robson CAB chair for 1976 while promising a drug-control push.
President Ford may visit New Hampshire for a campaign trip under White House briefing by Ron Nessen who said the skiing is for enjoyment not votes. Ford plans one or two trips to New Hampshire and Florida while Reagan mounts a busier schedule through March with primary dates setting early contest momentum. A separate news item notes Ron Smith's photo winning first prize in the National Press Photographers Assn. spot news category.
Two people attempting to flee East Germany were shot by automatic weapons along barbed wire at the West German border near GEISA Hesse. Both were wounded and carried away by East German border guards after the Christmas Eve incident. A second item notes Tennessee enacted the first prohibition law in 1838.
Fire crews extinguished a stack of burning railroad ties at Eighth and Delaware around 7 45 p m Friday. Officials suspect railroad workers replacing ties with new ones started the blaze.
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