Lawrence World Journal World Solph Simons Officers 1854 1952
The Lawrence World Journal World, published daily except Sunday from Sixth and New Hampshire Streets, Lawrence Kansas, lists staff including editor W C Simons and executive editor, with established history since 1854. Subscription rates: by mail in adjacent counties $12.42 yearly, remaining Kansas counties and Kansas City area $16.56, elsewhere in United States $20 yearly. Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation.
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the World Company
Sixth
New Hampshire
Lawrence
Kan
Mae
Nail
Dougla
Kansas
Greateransas City
United, States
Pershing Rifles Organize KU Escort Service
The Pershing Rifles at Kansas University plan an escort program to reduce assaults on campus women. Twenty five men will be available from 6 p.m. to midnight daily with Sigma Alpha Epsilon backing as needed. The effort aims to address a troubling situation and reflect well on campus youth.
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Pershing Rifles
Kansas University
Sigma Alpha Epsilon
Stamp deal taints NASA image and astronaut earnings
A West German dealer earned 150000 from selling autographed lunar souvenir stamp sheets, with up to 20000 astronauts signing sheets that netted about 55000 to the astronauts. NASA allegedly kept records secret and warned astronauts who remain, while controversy grows over questionable authenticity and potential fraud in moon mission related philatelic sales.
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Astronaut Corps
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA
Moon
Space Program
Break-in at Osage City Army Reserve Center Fails to Steal Arms
Unnamed intruders rammed the armed vault at the Osage City Army Reserve Center with a Jeep but failed to penetrate the vault and take weapons. Army officials have not disclosed arm types and warn other units to tighten precautions amid the troubling incident.
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Osage City Army Reserve Center
Osage City
Court suit claims Weiss Hospital denied emergency aid to addicts
Two self described drug addicts sue Louis A Weiss Memorial Hospital Chicago for emergency care refusal during withdrawal seeking $100000 each and a court order mandating admission. The female Jane Poe with a $50 daily habit and male John Doe with a $25 daily habit are both said to be 20 years old.
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Louis A. Weiss Memorial Hospital
Chicago
King
Weiss Hospital
Jane Poe
John Doe
Lawsuit challenges hospital emergency duty to drug addicts
The suit claims hospitals accepting federal funds must provide emergency care to drug abusers even if detoxification services are not available. Defendants include Weiss Hospital, former HEW secretary Elliott Richardson, and Dr. Frederick Nathan. The case could shape future treatment requirements and access.
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Chicago
U.S
Elliott L. Richardson
Weiss Hospital
Business Uses Analysis To Gauge Fund Performance
Arthur Lipper Corp reports that average fund gains lagged behind major indices in 1972, with the average fund up 9.26 percent vs Dow up 14.58, S and P 500 at 15.63, and NYSE composite over 14. The New York Stock Exchange notes a 1972 midyear slump in commission revenue, with a third quarter drought and a 9.2 million loss, though overall 1972 profits remained.
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New York
Arthur Lipper Corp
Dow Jones
Standard & Poor
New York Stock Exchange
Nixon Reflects De Gaulle Loyalty and Nixonian Faith
A critical portrait of Richard Nixon compares him to Charles de Gaulle and traces his rise through loyal aides and a reshaped White House. The piece argues loyalty must serve the presidency and the Constitution, warns against personalism, and notes Nixon's intelligence and energy but lacks warmth and broad humane vision.
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Washington
Charles de Gaulle
Free France
Malrauxs
Guichards
Foccarts
Freys
de Gaulle
Richard Nixon
Nixon
John Kennedy
Pat Brown
Haldemans
Ehrlichmans
Colsons
Zieglers
White House
United States
China
Soviet Union
Vietnam
General Motors
IBM
Norway
Korea
City expands area for orderly growth by annexation
The City Commission announced a 3.7 square mile annexation to guide growth and planning. Health officials dismissed rumors about a free oral polio vaccine as being totally safe.
Today’s Bible Message Prayer
A devotional message prays for purification from sin and deeper devotion to God. It asks that nothing separate believers from divine love and eternal life, concluding with an Amen.
Inaugural Vietnam War Reflections and Calls for Peace
Letter from Richard Cook, a Vietnam era veteran and KU graduate student, reviews past official Vietnam assessments by U.S. and South Vietnamese leaders, critiquing repeated optimistic predictions. He urges President Nixon to pursue a genuine path to peace on January 20, 1973, rather than repeating deception.
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Nixon
Melvin Laird
Pacific
Richard Nixon
Cambodia
Abrams
Henry Kissinger
North Vietnam
Hanoi
Haiphong
Washington Post
United States
Saigon
Johnson
Thieu
Vietnam
Richard Cook
Dept. of Medicinal Chemistry
University of Kansas
Today in History highlights from Jan 17 across years
Highlights note events on January 17 including the 1945 Warsaw liberation by Soviet and Polish forces after Nazi occupation, Benjamin Franklin's 1706 birth, a war declaration in 1757, James Cook crossing the Antarctic Circle, the 1917 U S Virgin Islands purchase, 1950 armored car robbery, 1962 quiz show perjury sentences, 1960s nuclear substitutions, a 1965 Viet Nam cease fire, and 1969 West Coast dockworker strikes resuming after 100 days.
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Warsaw
Benjamin Franklin
Boston
Holy Roman Empire
Prussia
James Cook
Antarctic Circle
United States
American Virgin Islands
Denmark
New York
Italy
Mediterranean
Lyndon B. Johnson
U.S
West
Pacific
Winter Trouble Try a New Tack
A humorous New York AP piece lists fictitious winter illnesses by naming a string of phobias such as chronophobia for snow cremnophobia for steep places and pedophobia for children. It suggests many misnamed fears as excuses for social discomfort and solitude.
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New York
Tokyo
London
Tim
On the Other Hand by Gus diZerega
Kansas University graduate student from Wichita Gus diZerega writes a regular column for the Journal World Opinion Page offering reflections and commentary on campus and local issues.
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Gus diZerega
Kansas University
Wichita
Journal-World Opinion
Kat My Words and Alaska Pipeline Missteps
A Kansas columnist admits two errors from past pieces. First, he retracts claims that the Attorney General’s office harassed Psychic Dynamics, noting the group left for its own reasons and ESP claims may be learnable. Second, he revises a Alaska Pipeline story, clarifying road costs, construction sequence, and that fund sources were company money, not taxes.
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Kat
Consumer Protection Division
Attorney General’s Office
Psychic Dynamics
Emery Good
Lance Burr
Goad
Burr
Kansas
Alaska
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