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Lawrence Daily Journal World publishes daily except Sunday from Lawrence Kansas. Established in 185 and run by The World Company with editors and staff listed. Subscription rates vary by carrier and mail, with prices stated for local Douglas county and U S delivery.
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the World Company
Sixth
New Hampshire
Lawrence
Kaw
Douglas
United States
Audit Bureau of Circulation
Associated Press
Top 10 consumer swindle schemes flagged by BBB
The National Better Business Bureau lists ten fraud categories including bait and switch, home improvement schemes, chain referral plans, charity gyps, phony credits, business opportunities, debt gouging, targeting the elderly, health quackery and work-at-home gulfs. Kenneth B. Wilson notes some are always deceptive while others may be legal. experts warn about high-pressure chains and payoffs. Consumers urged to deal with reliable firms, read agreements, research investments, and consult reputable medical professionals to avoid losses.
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FBI
National
Better Business Bureau
Kenneth B. Wilson
Memphis 13 year old David Ward spreads Christmas spirit
A Memphis boy David Ward who gave virtually all his income for gifts to family and others after his bike was stolen receives gifts and money. He plans to use funds to educate himself for a future in medicine and aid others.
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Memphis
David Ward
David
Defoliation Unit Lives Perilously in NYT Feature
A recent New York Times piece discusses a defoliation unit and its risky operations. It notes the dangers faced by workers and the measures taken to protect them amid ongoing environmental and agricultural debates.
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New York Times
Defoliation Shift From Nuclear War Dreams To Jungle Sprays
The article notes sprayed jungles in Vietnam and patches on planes from enemy fire. It recalls Barry Goldwater's 1964 remark about using limited nuclear options and contrasts that with Johnson era defoliation using weed killers, critiquing policy shift and public reaction.
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Viet Nam
U. S
Barry Goldwater
Goldwater
Johnson
Spending Rush To Continue
American business pursues a decisive capital spending wave with machine tool orders and metal forming and cutting backlogs rising. Industry leaders forecast 1966 gains outweighing 1965, driven by expansion plans, plant building, and new equipment to meet sustained demand.
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New York
National Machine Tool Builders Association
Lawrence History: Million-Dollar Building Pace and School Sports
A 1955 city building total topped five million dollars as Lawrence added new residences for Baldwin and Eudora. Lawrence High School performed well in a regional invitational basketball meet amid a period of civic growth and service expansions.
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Lawrence
Baldwin
Eudora
Lawrence High School
Today's Bible Message and Prayer for the New Year
A devotional note presents John 10 9 door as the way to salvation and pasture. A prayer asks God to preserve journeys and offerings blessing from this time forth and forever through Christ our Lord.
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Christ
Father-In-Law Caper With Lyndon Johnson
A humorous sketch imagines Pat Nugent, a U S Air Force enlistee engaged to Luci Baines Johnson, facing a domineering father in law. Johnson’s notorious authority plays out in a Western photo shoot ritual as a battle of wills. The piece ends with the prospect of future power and a symbolic suit.
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Pat Nugent
Luci Baines Johnson
Lyndon Baines Johnson
Johnson City
Texas
U. S. Air Force
Best Stories for the Year As Chronicled by a Scribe
A year in review from Art Buchwald highlights touching items and notable quips. It recalls Robert Carre finding a da Vinci painting beneath an angel and postmaster Lawrence O'Brien skeptically addressing a late birthday gift. It also notes a Michigan student burning a draft card and Dean Rusk replying to a child’s Viet Nam question. Ezra Kurnitz faces escalating sentences in a bank robbery case, while a Kennedy aide abandons a memoir project and Lyndon Johnson’s scar photo is declined by the White House photographers.
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Robert Carre
Third Avenue
New York
Mr. Carre
da Vinci
Lawrence Urges Pedestrian Safety Amid Jaywalking Claims
The Lawrence Journal-World asserts Lawrence may be Kansas’s jaywalking capital during the Christmas season, noting pedestrians endanger themselves and motorists despite traffic lights and crosswalks. It calls for stricter pedestrian discipline and warns against overconfidence in Lawrence as a culture center.
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Lawrence Journal- World
Lawrence
Kansas
J-W
Kansas Athens
Topeka
Wichita
Salina
Hutchinson
Pittsburg
Barry Goldwater switches from trombone to tuba
Former Senator Barry Goldwater, 1964 Republican presidential candidate, traded the trombone for a tuba after winning a bet by learning Silent Night on trombone for Christmas. The gift of a tuba followed.
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Phoenix, Ariz
Barry Goldwater
Goldwater
Communist Rift Widens as Rail Attacks Persist
Rowland Evans and Robert Novak describe U S bombing of the Kunming Hanoi rail spur and its impact on Sino Soviet ties. Chinese delays slow Soviet aid to Hanoi while Beijing pressures Moscow to use sea routes, deepening the Moscow Peking split amidst repeated bridge and rail damage.
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Kunming
China
Hanoi
Moscow
U. S
Viet Nam
Red China
Peking
Russia
Haiphong
North
Soviet Union
Black Sea
Suez Canal
Vladivostock
Pacific
Vitamin B and rutin in health questions
Reader asks if daily brewer's yeast with Vitamin B can cause excess amounts. Dr Molner and W R answer excess B is excreted and a small daily intake is safe. Another reader questions rutin in orange peels and cancer risk, Dr Molner sees no evidence of cancer danger and notes some use whole orange with rutin and Vitamin C for eye capillary support.
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W. R
Hal Boyle visits a Nashville male hair salon
Hal Boyle describes a Nashville men’s salon experience featuring Sue Hinds and Tim Bishop. The piece notes plush surroundings, scalp and hair styling steps, a dryer, and spray finishing. Bishops says the business appeals via snob appeal with clients including businessmen and recording artists.
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Nobod
Buddy
Tim Bishop
Bishop
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