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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1976
Page
2
A Kansas City radio alert announced a two hour delay for federal workers not in life support or emergency roles. The piece argues government timescales reflect a service lapse and criticizes holiday and emergency schedules that raise taxpayer costs while reducing public performance.
Gerald Ford faces retirement regardless of 1976 outcomes with about $90,000 annual pension from 31 years of federal service. He would also receive a $60,000 per year presidential pension plus transitional salaries and expenses totaling over $100,000. His career spans Navy service, 25 years in Congress, a vice presidency, and the presidency.
Hedrick Smith surveys Soviet life in Moscow noting elite privilege, fear of falling out of favor, and a people clinging to vodka as a spiritual stand-in. The piece argues Communist dogma fades beside material hunger and a rigid state price system for alcohol.
A brief devotional appeal asking God to help seek newness in life every day. It emphasizes faith, love, and diligence as paths to transform dullness into excitement. Amen.
John Q. Jennings argues Americans lack arithmetic about profits and income shares, citing 1975 manufacturing profits of 21.7 billion on 513.7 billion sales. He urges companies to disclose division of income to workers to reduce frictions. unions respond responsibly when facts are clear. He notes 89.6 percent of divisible income goes to employees, 10.4 percent to profits after tax, challenging common misperceptions.
A 1966 study found Kansas University classrooms averaging 36 hours weekly. Vice Chancellor George B. Smith called the figure among the nation's highest and said it shows the physical plant is used efficiently. Also notes Viet Cong attacks in Saigon, Corps projects timing, local football success, a sheriff sale, New York trip home, a Supreme Court ruling on the AAA, and KU honors for E. C. Buehler.
A playful essay explores anthropomorphism as interpreting nonhumans with human traits. It cites pets, plants, and cars as common targets, notes affection and frustration in talking to them, and imagines ventriloquism aiding household life with humorous dialogue between humans and animals.
Washington reports that Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin refused a full text of President Ford's Dec 7 letter, prompting U.S. edits to remove a paragraph opposing four Golan Heights settlements. The move defuses a cabinet fight but heightens future U.S.-Israel tensions ahead of UN debates on the Palestinian issue.
In seven degree weather two strangers towed a stalled church bus across town to a service station and refused pay. Dennis McNish and his companion were thanked by Lawrence Heights Christian Church, Mr. and Mrs. Dean Warner, 2003 Clare Rd.
On this date 1953 President Truman announced the United States had developed a hydrogen bomb. Other events include 1584 Gregorian calendar adoption, 1800 Millard Fillmore birth, 1927 radio telephone link New York and London, 1938 Joseph Kennedy as ambassador to Britain, 1967 Red Guards and workers clashes in Nanking, 1968 Lebanon government resignation after Israeli raid, plus a Chrysler rebate plan and Claude Kirk turning 50.
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