Lawrence Daily Journal World personnel listing
Lawrence Daily Journal World staff includes Dolph Simons as President and Editor and Dolph C Simons Jr as editor in chief. Other leaders noted are Bill Mayer as vice president and publisher Tach Vam Murreen as managing editor Ernest Pontius as news editor and Leo Eller as advertising manager. The paper traces its establishment to 1854.
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Dolph Simons
Dolph C. Simons JR
Bill Mayer
Wwe
Tach Vam Murrean
Soa Srben
Ernest Pontius
Leo Eller
After Apollo Tragedy a Call to Persist in Space Program
The nation faces the Apollo loss with dread yet urges continued effort. Officials vow to learn from the incident and improve safety while recognizing astronauts freely choose to join the program. The piece argues against delaying space exploration despite public sorrow and risk.
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Vietnam
Ed White
Gus Grissom
Roger Chaffee
Canada Faces U S Economic Dominance Dilemma
Canada worries over loss of its identity as American capital tech and goods flow across borders. Lester B. Pearson warns living standards depend on buying American and watching American TV. Cabinet minister Walter L. Gordon to study foreign investment and preserve Canadian control.
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Canada
U.S
United States
Lester B. Pearson
Walter L. Gordon
Gordon
Dr Franklin Murphy leads UCLA stance in California university clash
The quoted former Kansas chancellor now in California fronts the nine chancellors in the system. He urges faculties and students to have faith in a great state and a distinguished university while warning against faculty poaching amid the Kerr controversy. Murphy frames dialogue as key to California’s university future and resists lure from other schools.
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Franklin Murphy
Kansas University
Ucla
Ronald Reagan
California
Murphy
Harry Wellman
California University System
Autonomy Push Tests Regents’ Hiring Leeway for Murphy
The text discusses granting more campus autonomy and warns California Regents may hesitate to hire the outspoken independent Dr. Murphy as a successor to Clark Kerr. It suggests Murphy may welcome this dynamic.
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California Regents
Clark Kerr
Dr. Murphy
Murphy
John Greer Named Sunflower Plant Manager Amid Transfers
Old Home Town notes that in 1957 John Greer succeeded Richard Tucker as resident manager of Hercules Powder Co at Sunflower Ordnance Plant. Tucker moved to Wilmington. Greer returned from Ishpeming where he had been manager. Steve Robb earned a 154 bushels per acre corn yield, top in the state, and joined the Raw 150 Bushel Corn Club with a $100 trust for college education.
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John Greer
Richard Tucker
Hercules Powder Co
Sunflower Ordnance Plant
Tucker
Wilmington
Del
Greer
Ishpeming
Mich
Steve Robb
Saul's Vision on the Road to Damascus Prayer Reflection
A Bible message citing Acts 9 4 5 asks who is Lord and affirms Jesus as the persecutor's question and response. A closing prayer seeks spiritual sight repentance and surrender to God's will through Christ.
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Saul
Jesus
Christ
Right Presidential Politics Heavily Fraught With Offstage Candidates
Buckley surveys the crowded Republican field for 1968 noting George Romney Richard Nixon Nelson Rockefeller Charles Percy and Jacob Javits as contenders or potential kingmakers. He weighs Rockefeller's leverage in New York delegates and the dynamics shaping Nixon's centrism amid liberal skepticism and GOP strategizing.
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George Romney
Nixon
Fred Seaton
Eisenhower
Romney
Charles Percy
Scranton
Rockefeller
New York
Jacob Javits
Javits
New York State
Lindsay
Rocefeller
Goldwater
New Hampshire
Henry Cabot Lodge
William Scranton
Republic
Lyndon Johnson
Richard Nixon
California
Stassen
Lodge Opposes Negotiated Vietnam Peace and Seeks Conditions
Fortune notes Ambassador Lodge arguing against bargaining for peace, urging secretive, conditional settlement terms. He predicts a fade-out of North Vietnamese forces, criticizes public negotiations, and calls for verifiable concessions including withdrawal, ceasefire, and guaranteed borders.
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Washington
Henry Cabot Lodge
Vietnam
Lodge
Hanoi
U.S
V.C
Lanscape
Rusk
South Vietnam
Saigon
North Vietnam
Viet Cong Lose Million in Rural South Vietnam
An AP report states a captured document from Military Region 4 in the Iran Triangle area claims the Viet Cong have lost control of about one million people in rural South Vietnam due to the presence of U S troops.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
Iran Triangle
Cedar Falls
South Vietnam
U.S
Mississippi Poverty War Deepens in Head Start Fight
The Mississippi poverty program struggle shifts to guerrilla tactics as black radicals led by CDGM disrupt MAP run Head Start sites with aid from Snick and CORE. The clash pits segregationist establishment against black radicals and a small bi racial moderation, shaping state politics and access to early education funds.
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Jackson
Miss
Mississippi
Child Development Groups of
CDGM
Greenwood
Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
Snick
Congress of Racial Equality
CORE
Chicago
Mississippi Action For Progress
MAP
Sargent Shriver
Office of Economic Opportunity
OEO
Shriver
Aaron Henry
Owen Cooper
OFO
LeRoy Percy
Greenville
Percy
Jule Sugarman
Washington
Sugarman
Snick and
Congress Scrambles to Trim Budget Across Fictitious Debates
A satirical transcript shows economy minded lawmakers debating dozen items including Okaloohee Dam and a clam digging lab, with threats to cut a veterans hospital and a Mississippi Head Start program, ending in a vow to slash nonessential spending.
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Washington
Johnson
Okaluchee
George
Spiderwood
Veterans’ Hospital
Swafford
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