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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1962
Page
11
Kennedy announces a record 92.5 billion dollar budget while planning Ranger 3 to the moon on a 66 hour mission to record moonquakes. NASA targets Apollo era milestones with delayed cycles and multiple craft in a bid to land a man on the moon by 1967.
President Kennedy unveiled the first budget he authored forecasting 92.5 billion in outlays for fiscal 1963 with a 463 million surplus only if revenues rise and postal rates climb. The plan increases defense and space spending while proposing tax and farm policy changes and a higher debt limit.
Dandridge M. Cole of General Electric described a plan to use a Nova-class rocket to divert a near earth asteroid and explode hydrogen bombs on its surface, pushing it toward Earth to unleash a multi megaton impact. He warned such a system could masquerade as a natural catastrophe and evade retaliation.
The Netherlands formally asked Acting Secretary General U Thant to dispatch UN observers or representatives to West New Guinea to aid peace talks with Indonesia. Thant urged both nations to refrain from precipitate action after the January naval clash and to discuss a peaceful settlement under the UN charter.
Lawrence and surrounding areas braced for up to four inches of new snow as a fresh storm swept in overnight. The Kansas University weather station logged two inches by early afternoon while frigid temperatures lingered near 12 degrees.
Lawrence patient Leo Lamphere, a 265 pound transient, left Lawrence Memorial Hospital for a year of narcotics treatment at a federal facility in Fort Worth Texas. He claims a decade of narcotics use and credits local doctors with helping his admission while police record his Munchausen syndrome driven hospital hopping across at least 40 states.
President Kennedy’s fiscal year budget includes local flood control planning for Melvern and Pomona reservoirs and construction funds for the Perry Dam. An appropriation of 78,000 for Lawrence flood protection design is proposed, with Melvern and Pomona planning money of 200,000 and 2,200,000 requested for Pomona construction. Levee work and Mud Creek improvements are included in the Lawrence project.
Kansas University receives a $100000 unrestricted gift from the KU Endowment Association to expand international programs. Chancellor Wescoe says the funds support ongoing activities and new initiatives guided by the International Education Affairs Committee. The plan includes foreign student orientation, exchanges with Costa Rica University, and a summer language institute sending KU students to Europe. The People to People program grows on campus with new national expansion plans.
The KU Endowment Association announces $6,080 in scholarships supporting 16 slots for a 10 week Japanese language course and an 8 week Soviet studies expansion. Dr. Smith leads the Japanese program and Dr. Backus heads the Russian studies, with aims to boost Russian study across Kansas and the Midwest.
Dolph Simons Jr. Warren Rhodes and Robert Georgeson were top honorees at the Lawrence Jaycees Awards Banquet at the Hotel Eldridge. Cliff C. Jones Jr. of Kansas City spoke on One Step Beyond Salesmanship. Simons received the Distinguished Service Award for community contributions.
A heavy blizzard struck Wichita with a record 12 inches of snow by noon and the Weather Bureau warned of many more inches to fall as the storm continued across the city of roughly 350 000 residents.
The region endures heavy snow with total accumulations of four inches or more. Weather eases tonight as cold air persists. Friday brings cloudy skies and more snow likely with lows near five above and highs around fourteen.
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