Local News Summary from Lawrence 1966 Evening Edition
The Lawrence Kansas World Company newspaper, established 1854, publishes daily except Sunday from Sixth and New Hampshire Streets. 1966 edition lists staff including Simon as editor and Pontius as advertising manager. Subscription rates shown with carrier and mail options.
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W. C. Simons
the World Company
Sixth
New Hampsire Streets
Lawrence
Kan
Douglas
United States
Audit Bureau of Circulation
Associated Press
Kansas Unemployment Tax Rate Rising In 1966
Kansas Labor Department mails notices to employers warning of a sharp rise in unemployment insurance taxes for 1966. Officials attribute the jump to a shift in taxable wages toward higher reserve ratios. For firms with steady employment, last year’s $1,000 tax could rise to about $1,091 or more. The article notes broader tax hikes across sales, income, beer, and cigarette taxes, with gasoline tax unchanged and the oil industry opposing severance taxes. It criticizes government costs and inflation growth.
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Kansas
State of Kansas Labor Department
Elusive common cold defies medical progress
A retrospective view notes the common cold remains widespread despite medical advances. Families face frequent sniffles and sore throats during school season as doctors, pharmacists, and manufacturers push remedies, yet outcomes remain stubbornly unchanged from earlier generations. The piece questions germ strength versus host susceptibility and calls for renewed test-tube research.
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Dad
Prompt Justice Charges for Two Soldiers Aiding Enemy
The U S Army charges Sgt George E Smith of Chester West Virginia and Sp Mc Claude Mc Clure of Chattanooga Tennessee with aiding the Viet Cong during their imprisonment. They were released last month and allegedly furnished documents and writings of security value to the Communists. Both men say their prior statements supporting antiwar acts were misinterpreted and are under careful review. If innocent they should be cleared swiftly. if guilty, swift justice should prevail.
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U. S. Army
George E. Smith
Chester
W. Va
Claude McClure
Chattanooga
Tenn
U. S
Viet Nam
Reds
Slip of the Lip Makeover Trials Stirteen Fads
Fathers of makeup minded teens share wry takes as daughters enter a phase of rapid fashion and beauty trends. Parents note the sudden emergence of new so-called novelties and the need to guide hygiene and self image while balancing teen independence.
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Mom
Dad
Worldwide metal price tensions key 1965 turmoil
Copper prices jump from 36 cents to 42 cents a pound in global markets while London and Singapore report record spot quotes. Three U S steel firms raise prices provoking government backlash as global shortages push aluminum and other metals higher.
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New York
U. S
Washington
London
Singapore
Airport lease approved by city commission
The city commissioners approved a 30 year airport lease for 100 acres from the university, requiring runway paving within five years at a rent of $1 per year. The measure must later be approved by the Board of Regents after small changes since the original bill.
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University
Board of
Regents
School of Education
Bailey Hall
Prayerful Bible Message For Guidance At Home
This item presents a Sunday or daily devotional prayer centered on Philippians 1 9 10 urging love to abound in knowledge and judgment. It asks for homes to reflect divine love and light and asks for grace to fill hearts through Christ.
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Christ
Jack's Straws Fryers The Source for Amnesia
Humorous strip by Jack Zimmerman about amnesia triggered by furnace filter changes. Narrator forgets to change filters despite reminders, recalls wartime trauma, and jokes that his wife suggests a head blow as cure. Observations mix workplace chores, memory lapses, and light domestic banter in a single panel style piece.
Peace plan by observer via France on Vietnam elections
Art Buchwald recalls N K Hopkins proposal from Chaumont France urging Geneva 1954 free elections in both Vietnams. He envisions Ho Chi Minh moving north, South Vietnam collapsing, and North Viet Nam becoming a Western style showcase while China and the USSR face strains. Balanced by Western aid, espionage, and a delayed Soviet takeover, the plan aims to benefit the free world.
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Washington
Viet Nam
N. K. Hopkins
Chaumont
France
Hopkins
Main Nhu
Saigon
South
China
Arthur Goldberg
Candy Brown Rites Poem for House to Be Razed near KU
Lawrence sixth grader Candy Brown frames a tribute to the Brown home near the Kansas University Nuclear Reactor Center as it faces demolition for a private student dormitory. She notes the house sheltered life and family, echoed a baby’s laugh, and now stands “a house with a broken heart” as it is left behind.
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Candy Brown
Lawrence
Brown
Kansas University
Candy
Forrest Brown
Meadow Lane
Johnson Shelepin Mission Could Shape Peace Talks
Washington regards President Johnsons peace offensive as a maneuver tied to Soviet leader Alexander Shelepins Hanoi visit. Analysts doubt clear Soviet aims, foresee a pause in bombing while Shelepin negotiates, and warn the plan may harden warfare later. Supporters say it may blunt peacenik attacks and avert a 1966 Senate clash.
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Rowland Evans
Robert Novak
Washington
Johnson
Alexander Shelepin
North Viet Nam
U. S
Shelepin
Moscow
Hanoi
Ho Chi Minh
Lyndon Johnson
Senate
LBJ
Pentagon
State Department
Averell Harriman
Arthur Goldberg
17Th Parallel
To Your Good Health Dr Joseph Molner column
Dear Dr Joseph Molner readers ask about relief for pinched nerves without surgery braces for back or neck traction or other physical means can be successful. Note explains semen loss after intercourse is normal and does not prevent pregnancy just one sperm cell suffices.
Adams wife hints at equal space for future chief of state book
The writer Cindy Adams replies to praise for Sukarno biography with a remark that if a future work on a chief of state is published she promises equal space in the Jakarta Daily. The exchange highlights editorial balance and publicity plans.
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Joey Adams
Sukarno
Cindy Adams
Jakarta
Fore
New Yorker Spirit Shines During Short Strike
Hal Boyle writes that average New Yorkers pride themselves on cheerful resilience in adversity and rally to neighborliness during a subway and bus strike. He notes civic leaders like Mayor Lindsay setting examples, while buses and cabs scramble. If the strike endures, frustrations grow and tempers flare across all city life.
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New York
Big City
New Yorker
Brooklyn Bridge
Bronx
Queens
John V. Lindsay
City Hall
Mike Quill
Transport Workers Union
Lindsay
Quill
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Colorado Fuel & Iron
Structural Steel
Old Home Town
Hollywood
Ronald Reagan
Jane Wyman
Art Wolf
Golden Valley
Douglas County
Paul Dinsmoor
Chamber of Commerce
W. L. Newman
H. G. Ingham
George Kirchhoff Jr
Santa Fe
Emporia
Jack
By Jack Zimmerman
Art Buchwald
South Viet Nam
Gen. Westmoreland
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Johnson-Shelepin
Mr. Johnson
Joseph Molner
Hal Boyle
Michael
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