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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1967
Page
1
President Johnson urged Congress to expand Vietnam era veteran benefits to match those for World War II and Korea. He highlighted gaps in current law leaving eligible veterans without certain advantages and proposed higher education stipends, disability and death pensions, medical care, auto aid, and increased life insurance up to 30,000.
Kansas House Education Committee backs a nonpartisan state board of education with policy making powers. The move follows a November constitutional amendment authorizing the board. In other action, committees address property appraisal staffing, murder bill reform, and school funding measures. Senate actions include bills on junior college trustees elections and shared special education costs.
Maoist troops claimed control of the Shantung port Tsingtao with army aid and repelled a counteroffensive by Liu Shao chi loyalists. The Liberation Army Daily said the city was captured on Jan. 22, noting the struggle to end bourgeois rule and the site’s long Communist role in industry and shipping.
Police report shows a two car collision near 14th Street and Jayhawk Boulevard at 9 51 p m Monday. No injuries were reported. Drivers were Carlyle Harmon a KU student from Hutchinson and Robert Magness a KU student from Independence Missouri. Harmons car sustained 175 dollars in damage. damages to the Magness vehicle were not estimated.
Governor Docking's recommendations add 1.4 million general funds for merit pay and 1.2 million for vocational-technical schools plus 75 new positions at the Medical Center. The plan includes 90.7 million for School Foundation Finance, 65 thousand for professors at state schools, and operating budgets totaling 123.2 million for state regents institutions with a 2.5 percent cut from requests.
Gov. Robert Docking said he is considering replacements for J. H. Reeves as superintendent after receiving an informal resignation and noted there will be a new head of the patrol. He declined to name any candidates or provide details.
Governor Docking urges a modest start for Title XIX a federal medical welfare program costing nearly 5 million dollars in his budget to the Legislature He proposes 92.4 million dollars for welfare this year up 8.1 million and says full implementation should come over several years to meet 1970 federal requirements This action aims to adopt the program in a businesslike phased manner aligning with people s needs.
KU police said $35 was stolen from a filing cabinet in Snow Hall amid a weekend of break ins. Room 33 in Strong Hall was entered with open windows but no items missing. In the Natural History Museum a safe was moved but nothing missing. Room 113 in Broadcasting Hall was entered with two locks broken and no items taken.
Nine Pelathe District Boy Scouts from Douglas County will be honored at Kaw Council Eagle Recognition Banquet in Kansas City Kansas. The event starts at 7 PM in the Grand Ballroom Town House Hotel with nine sponsors from Lawrence and Baldwin counties accompanying the youths.
Robert Payne manager of the Hallmark Cards plant suffered a separated left shoulder while skiing at Mont Bleu over the weekend. He is in good condition at home and expects to return to his office later this week after pin insertion. Payne, 42, began skiing as GM of Hallmark's Thompsonville plant for five years before moving to Lawrence in 1958.
Special agents of the Internal Revenue Service seized a pinball machine from Carol's Patio at 109 W. 6th St. in Kansas City Kansas for lacking a $250 federal stamp. Local police were not informed before the IRS agents arrived and no charges were filed. The machine was moved by truck to Kansas City Kansas.
The Kansas Turnpike reports 1966 as its best year yet with about 12 percent growth in gross and net revenue and traffic over 1965. Traffic rose by 799,065 vehicles, gross income doubled since 1957, net income more than tripled, and interest coverage improved to 1.60 times.
Severe winter weather and two snowstorms have caused deep ruts on the Kansas Turnpike between Lawrence and Kansas City. Public relations officer Louis Stroup says crews have begun temporary fillings with epoxy planned for spring overlays to restore the surface. The $850,000 resurfacing budget for 1967 aims to cover about 50 miles and finish by summer.
The family expresses sincere gratitude to everyone who offered kindness and consideration during the loss of their loved one.
Frank Remley a longtime guest on Jack Benny programs and a left handed guitarist for the comedian died Saturday in Newport Beach California after open heart surgery.
Former U S ambassador to Japan Reischauer told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that prudent de-escalation offers the best path to a speedy end to the Vietnam War. He endorsed ending the conflict without withdrawal or major escalation and supported targeting military aspects such as bombing the North.
Rep. Robert H. Michel of Illinois said the Job Corps cost the government 53502 per graduate, with 9766 graduates from 112 centers and total spending reaching 522,502,378 through early 1967. He called the anti poverty program mighty costly.
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