Lawrence Daily Journal World 1960 Began Evening Edition
Lawrence Daily Journal World edition dated Wednesday January 27 1960 lists editors and staff including Dolph Simons Jr and Bill Mayer. Paper notes publication in Lawrence Kansas with 20 cent weekly carrier rate and annual mail rates for Douglas counties and elsewhere.
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W. C. Simons
the World Company
Sixth
New Hampshire
Lawrence
Kas
Lo Lawrence
Douglas
Counties
United States
Audit Bureau of Circulations
Associated Press
Kansans poised to repeal personal property tax
Local sentiment backs removing the personal property and household goods levy. Indications are the Kansas Legislature will approve the resolution and put the question to voters at the next election. Backers claim minimal revenue loss thanks to exemptions and assessment flaws. Policymakers and citizens see fairness issues and high administration costs.
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Kansas
Odd Williams
Census Takers Compared to Mounties as 1960 Count Opens
The 1960 Federal Census begins with an area office in Lawrence. Census workers seek names, addresses, birth details and work travel for transportation planning. Forms will mail to households a week before April 1. responders may be fined up to 100 dollars or jailed for 600 days for refusals.
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U.S. Census Bureau
Lawrence
U.S
Census Bureau
Letters Editor urges hospitable hosting of international scholars
The writer argues for welcoming foreign youth through international scholarships and fellowships. They stress presenting the United States in a favorable light, hosting scholars at home, and using daily conduct to foster trust. The piece calls for open dialogue to harmonize views and advance global cooperation.
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United States
Earth
America
Coventry Police Probe After Strip Teaser Charge
Coventry police ordered an inquiry into a stripper's claim that she shed all seven veils at a party for fifty city policemen. Jeaneatte Day, 25, faced indecent exposure charges in Bolton magistrates court, and was fined one pound after asking why her act was acceptable to Coventry officers.
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Coventry
England
Jeaneatte Day
Bolton
Kenya's volatile path as Mboya tests white and Asian roles
In Nairobi, Sir Patrick Renison notes Kenya's complexity amid race tensions and labor strikes tied to the Constitutional Conference. Tom Mboya's push for rapid democracy concerns whites and Asians as violence rises. population estimates vary, and future independence seems volatile. The piece ends noting Swahili phrase Shauri a Mungu meaning God's will.
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Tom Mboya
Mboya
London
Tom
Jimmy Hoffa
Kwame Nkrumah
Julius Nyerere
Ghana
Tanganyika
Mau Mau
Patel
Kenya
Patrick Renison
Missile Gap Debate Signals Risk to U S Deterrence
In a Washington column Joseph Alsop reviews how Gates and Twining claim a missile gap is not a problem while SAC chief Power warns the threat could nullify U S retaliation with as few as 300 ballistic missiles. The piece notes reliance on National Intelligence Estimates and questions their certainty.
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Washington
United States
Thomas Power
New York Economic Club
SAC
Gen. Power
Gates
Gen. Twining
Nikita S. Khrushchev
Supreme Soviet
Congress
Power
Twining
Darby Day honors Kansas City pioneer Harry Darby
Old Home Town features Darby Day in Kansas City celebrating Harry Darby the first citizen to become a U S Senator with fireworks a 19 gun salute reception and program in Memorial Hall. Lawrence loses to Pretty Prairie 39 38 in Dodge City invitational tourney with Mulvane 44 41 in second game.
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Kansas City
Darby
Harry Darby
Bible Message and Prayer Reflections
A short religious passage highlights the depth of God’s wisdom and knowledge from Romans 11 3 and offers a prayer thanking Jesus as teacher and the Word as our lesson book seeking to know God more through Jesus name.
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Heavenly Father
Jesus
Mrs Danny Kaye Honored and Accused of Riding the Wave
The piece notes Mrs. Danny Kaye receiving a Woman of Achievement citation in New York after watching Lorraine Hansberry accept hers. It jokes about Kaye feeling like a motorist signaled by a police officer and includes brief theater notes about Shelley Winters, Miss Winters’s reading feats, and public figures like Sol Hurok and Mary Garden. It also covers Melvyn Douglas dining with Gore Vidal, Tennessee Williams quips, Jerry Lewis TV talk, Ketti Frings remarks, and Dalton Trumbo buying Jack Levine’s painting, with the work described as Exodous.
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Leona Prize
Irs
Danny Kaye
N.Y
Lorraine Hansberry
Hidden attic finds spark rare book boom
Old volumes in attics basements or barns may hide valuable Americana from $25 to $25 000 with examples like Poe The Murders in the Rue Morgue and an 1844 Chicago City Directory turning up substantial sums. Experts note many readers have found 1 000 plus values and warn that value often isn t obvious from a title.
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New York
van Allan Bradley
Chicago Daily News
Bradley
Edgar Allen Poe
Rue Morgue
Chicago
Lansford Hastings
Oregon
California
United States
Kansas
Nebraska
L. Frank Baum
Bardleh
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Dolph Simons Jr
Bill Mayer
Jack Zimmerman
Ernest Pontius
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Mahomet
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Godiva
Africa
Robert C. Ruark
Nairobi
Latin America
Sir Patrick
Renison
Kenya Posts and Telecommunications African Workers Union
Mboya and Co
Ruark
Joseph Alsop
Old Home Town
Dean Templin
B. W. Woodward
Topeka
Oklahoma
FAU
W. B. Thayer
Florence Snow
Thayer
Griffith
Phi Delta Theta
The
Lyons den
Shelley Winters
Actors Studio
Miss Winters
Shelley
Tony Franciosa
Sol Hurok
Mary Garden
Miss Garden
Hurok
Schumann- Rein Coolant
OPERA
le Pavillon
Arthur Goldberg
LYONS
Melvyn Douglas
Gore Vidal
Kenneth Tynan
Tennessee Williams
Tynan
Williams
Jerry Lewis
Jack Gleason
Jerry
Dean Martin
Lewis
Art Carney
Carney
Gleason
Ketti Frings
Angel
Whitney Museum
Jack Levine
Dalton Trumbo
Trumbo
Hal Boyle
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