Peace in Eastern Europe prompts defense budget rethink
Editorial analyzes reform movements in Czechoslovakia East Germany Poland Hungary and the USSR as a potential broad reduction of the communist threat. Cites Cheney defense cuts and Campbell PaineWebber projection of GNP defense share down to 3 percent. Argues for a smaller yet strong deterrent and continued U.S. leadership in world affairs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
Czechoslovakia
East Germany
Poland
Hungary
Soviet Union
Richard Cheney
Pentagon
Joseph Campbell
PaineWebber Inc
Robert B. Costello
Defense
United States
Uncle Sam
America
Berlin Wall
Liquor Should Be No No, Says Public Forum Letter
A public forum letters page contains a piece urging a ban on liquor and stricter enforcement of speed limits, citing tragic losses. The letter references Ben Franklin and compares past health warnings to alcohol dangers. A sixth grader from Broken Arrow School asks for access to adult library cards for research.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ben Franklin
Thomas C. Ryther
Hasold
Broken Arrow School
Public Library
Sarah Ward
Belle Crest Dr
Journal-World Letters Policy and Submission Guidelines
The Journal-World invites public forum letters under 350 words. Letters must be about public interest and avoid name calling or libel. The paper may edit letters without changing viewpoints and prefers shorter items with greater readership. Writers must include name address and phone number.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Journal-World
Lawrence City Officials Announce Nonrelection Plans 1965
Three Lawrence city commissioners Rusty Springer Jim Owens and Fred Cooper said they would not seek re election in March and April Holdovers were to be Jim Schubert and Ernie Pulliam School board members J J Wilson and Dr H P Jones also chose not to seek re election Carl Althaus undecided Holdovers on the school board were Oscar Rumsey Mrs Ethan Allen and Ray Culbertson An 1890 Journal note described sleighing parties with merriment and sleigh bells
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence
Rusty Springer
Jim Owens
Fred Cooper
Jim Schubert
Ernie Pulliam
J.J. Wilson
H.P. Jones
Carl Althaus
Oscar Rumsey
Ethan Allen
Ray Culbertson
Will the 1990s Be Century's Best Decade Yet
A retrospective survey compares the Gay Nineties with the 1990s, noting optimism after hardship and rapid social change. It traces progress from infrastructure and science to art, culture, and global politics, concluding the 1990s might rival the 1890s as the century’s most hopeful decade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Jim Brady
Lillian Russell
Chicago
Wounded Knee
S.C
William McKinley
Tienanmen Square
Aging Athletes Rip-off Public Demands Foreman Cooney Match
A column condemns the Foreman versus Cooney boxing spectacle as a gullible public cash grab. It cites sports nostalgia, empty nostalgia fights, and prior era tossups like Louis versus Marciano, arguing the event offers little real competition and profiteering on aging stars. It notes related acts from seniors leagues to Legends of Hockey and warns that boxing’s aim to injure sets it apart.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miami
Elvis
Ferdie Pacheco
George Foreman
Gerry Cooney
Tyson
Amnesty International
Foreman-Cooney
Cooney
Sugar Ray Leonard
Roberto Duran
Bobby Riggs
Billie Jean King
Foreman
Joe Louis
Rocky Marciano
Joe
Madison Square Garden
AARP
Air Florida 737 crashes into bridge and Potomac River
History notes two events on January 13. A 1982 Air Florida 737 failed takeoff in a snowstorm struck the 14th Street Bridge and fell into the Potomac, killing 78. Earlier in 1733 James Oglethorpe led about 130 colonists to Charleston to settle present-day Georgia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Air Florida
14Th Street Bridge
Washington, D.C
Potomac River
James Oglethorpe
Charleston
S.C
Present-Day
Georgia
Power of Soviet labor unions may rise
A story on the emergence of a genuine Soviet labor movement amid miners' strikes and bureaucratic control. It notes leaders from Donbass, Kuzbass, Sakhalin and others seeking organizational tools, equipment, and safety measures, while weighing crackdowns, potential reforms, and the future of a Soviet federation with stronger unions and elected workers' influence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Soviet Union
Aflcio
Lane Kirkland
Solidarity
Poland
U.S
Borakov
Gregenyuk
Donbass
Vinukov
Kuzbass
Topalov
Sakhalin
Tbilisi
Bucharest
Beijing
Red Army
Gorbachev
Baltic
Moscow
Lithuania
Communist Party
Also Mentioned on This Page
the Public Forum
Journal- World
Dolph C. Simons Jr
Ralph Gage
Gene Armstrong
Robert Nordyke
Caroline Trowbridge
Ann Gardner
Dolph Simons
Donna Wiley
Dallas Dolan
Keith Foutz
W.C. Simons
Dolph Simons Sr
the World Company
Sixth
New Hampshire
Kaw
Douglas County
Kansas
Kansas City
Kan
Audit Bureau of Circulations
Associated Press
P.O
Old Home Town
Watkins Museum
Lawrence Journal
Hussars
Bismarck
Henry Adams
Queen Victoria
Russia
Nicholas II
Germany
Britain
Hitler
Berlin
Mussolini
Julius Caesar
Neville Chamberlain
Africa
Col
Jenkin Lloyd Jones
Howard Kleinberg
Cox News Service
Florida
National Hockey League
Lincoln
Union
Politburo
William Safire
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!