Lawrence World Journal notes 1963 publication details
The 1963 item lists staff roles for the Lawrence World Company with Dolph C Simons Jr as editor and C Simons as editor emeritus. It notes the paper published daily except Sunday from Sixth and New Hampshire Streets in Lawrence Kansas and provides subscription rates and mailing info. It is dated Thursday Evening February 28 1963.
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Dolph Simons
Wee
Dolph C Simons Jr
Hig Pres
Bill Mayer Wenensirerseees
Jack Zimmerman
Aw Nova
Ernest Pontius
Leo Eller
C. Simons
the World Company
Sixth
New Hampshire
Lawrence
Kan
Dhs
Douglas
United States
Kaw
Audit Bureau of Circulations
Associated Press
Journal World reader criticizes editorials about Lawrence pride
A reader's comment at a Journal World forum questions the frequent positive editorials on Lawrence, suggesting the paper could benefit from occasional criticism of the hometown.
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Journal- World
Lawrence
Journal-World
Downtown Sprucing Sparks City-Merchant Push
Lawrence advances a downtown renewal via a major 800-block parking lot plan along Vermont Street. Merchants and the Chamber with an architect push rear renovations for 152-car facilities and enhanced lighting at 91 sites. City officials signal faster momentum and a broader lighting program.
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Lawrence
City Commission
Vermont Street
Chamber of Commerce
Massachusetts
Harold Horn
C of C
Horn
Chamber
Local leadership calls for federal aid to curb urban blight
Rochester mayor Henry E. Gillette argues cities decay faster than rebuild and urges federal funding to establish neighborhood offices and mobilize voluntary citizen efforts. He says relying on outside aid risks eroding local responsibility and civic pride as city officials seek voter-friendly solutions.
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Rochester
N. Y
Henry E. Gillette
Gillette
Unnecessary Swing Turns Rage on Narrow Roads
A critical notice denounces drivers who swing out while turning right or left risking wrecks. The piece mocks the flamboyant maneuver, urging motorists to slow and square their turns for safety, calling out both male and female drivers.
Obsolete circus turns risk to traffic in modern streets
The piece argues that wide sweeping turns once used in horse era streets endanger oncoming traffic and drivers now. Modern steering removes the need for such circus maneuvers and should prompt practitioners to abandon the practice.
Tunnel Crews Are Heroes
Berlin heroes of escape drill the underground paths from East Berlin to freedom. The piece notes thousands in Berlin, several hundred tunnelers, dozens of tunnels, 80 projects since 1961, with about 40 abandoned early and 5 tunnelers killed or drowned.
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Berlin
East Germany
West Berlin
East
East Berlin
Times of London
United States
Lawrence music club funds scholarship with comic operetta
The Lawrence Music Club staged The Dizzy Baton to fund a $75 annual scholarship for the Midwestern Band Camp in memory of Earla Majors, a local high school student. C Wade McCoy named assistant to manager at Kansas Electric Power Co in Lawrence from Concordia.
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Lawrence
Earla Majors
C. Wade McCoy
Kansas Electric Power Co
Concordia
Today’s Bible Message on Forgiveness During Lent
A church devotional urges prayer for forgiving others during Lent. It cites Mark 11 25 and asks believers to purge an unforgiving spirit and seek real forgiveness and peace through Jesus.
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Jesus
Problems of the tax cut and reform steps JFK can't handle Congress
President Kennedy faces revolt against tax reform and tax cut plans. Mills demands reform and resists cuts, while Senate Finance is less willing. Advisers split between tax cuts and reform, leaving Kennedy to craft a compromise that still strains leadership.
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Kennedy
Congress
Mills
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Department
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Capitol Hill
Joseph S. Clark
D-Pa
Senate
Woodrow Wilson
Wilson
House
Delirium tremens and health guidance debated
Dear Dr Mother answers questions on delirium tremens risks and cure prospects, the role of sobriety, and what supportive care may help. Epilepsy terminology is discussed with sensitivity to language. Calorie counting for teens is endorsed with emphasis on gradual weight loss and vitamin intake.
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Dr. Mother
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F.R.W
Republican candidates crowd Kansas governor race in 1965
The Salina Journal notes an unusually large field of Kansas Republicans contemplating the 1965 governor race. Names mentioned include John Anderson Jr, Harold Chase, William Fergusson, Paul Wunsch, William Avery, Charles Arthur, Glee Smith, John Conard, Huck Boyd, William Mitchell, Robert Anderson, Rees Hughes, and others possibly unnamed.
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Harold Chase
William Ferguson
Paul Wunsch
William H. Avery
Charles Arthur
Glee Smith
John Conard
Ways and Means
McDill (Huck) Boyd
William Mitchell
Congress
Robert Anderson
Rees Hughes
Rivalry and Wit Roil Broadway and Opera Circles
Met soprano Joan Sutherland headlines a rivalrous scene at Carnegie Hall with Birgit Nilsson in the audience. David Merrick plans a London musical to Broadway rebranding as Joan Littlewood’s Fings Ain’t Wet They Used t Be with songs by Lionel Bart.
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Joan Sutherland
Met
Carnegie Hall
Birgit Nilsson
Miss Suthland
Miss Nilsson
David Merrick
London
Frank Norman
Bart
North American Groups Wonder at Soviet Presence in Havana
Visitors from North America report astonishment at the number of Russians in Havana and other Cuban areas. They describe two main groups: embassy advisers with families housed in Marianao and a larger, younger cohort traveling in unmarked Soviet trucks to a western district and a waterfront food depot guarded by Cuban and Russian personnel. Local Cubans interact with some Russians while others are ignored.
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Havana
North America
Reparto Kohly
Marianao
Prohibition Movement Gains Ground in Kansas Prairie Towns
The Kansas United Dry Forces push a referendum to reinstate prohibition aided by prairie churches. Rev. Roy E. Hollomon fronts a $10,000 radio and TV campaign from Methodists and supporters as rural legislators brace for a House State Affairs Committee hearing next Tuesday on the anti liquor bill.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas
Kansas United Dty
Drys
Roy E
Hollomon
John Barleycorn
Oklahoma
Holloman
House State Affairs Committee
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