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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1971
Page
3
The Lawrence Journal-World announces staff and contact details for the World Company with editors publisher and offices listed. Subscription rates are shown for various delivery options including carrier and mail in Douglas County and surrounding regions. Thursday evening July 1, 1971.
Editorial notes the 6 to 3 Supreme Court vote in favor of The Times and Post to print the McNamara papers. It argues press freedom carries risk and responsibility, warns against prior restraint, and comments on Nixon appointees Burger and Blackmun supporting government interests. It also critiques Johnson era commentary and press behavior.
In New York AP report the administration’s negative economic stance puzzles political and economic circles. Treasury Secretary Connally’s refusal on wage price controls tax cuts and more spending fuels consumer fear with 5 million jobless plus 25 million affected. Albert Sindlinger warns this could drop the consumer confidence index by ten points.
Ten year look back notes Stanley Husted winning a four county 4 H Broiler Contest, Gary Porter’s bicycle accident with a broken leg near East 23rd Street, EU police removing a flagpole chair with a 1938 flagpole satirical note, plus 1946 cafe fire damages and bank resource milestone.
Church brief notes the verse Psalm 111 10 as the starting point for wisdom and calls on readers to seek sound judgment wise action and compassionate living through prayer and spiritual growth.
Critics argue President Johnson exaggerated in the Wallace interview, suggesting he framed events to flatter his administration. Some observers note his storytelling prowess but question his self-presentation as a historian on television.
The piece traces Woodstock Nation from heralded gentleness to disillusion after Altamont Powder Ridge and McCrea amid heat harm violence and rampant drug use. It cites Timothy Leary John Lennon and a fading cultural myth as New York Times reflections.
Hospital completes restructuring to form a combined services section for general psychiatric care serving a 30 county district. Dr W Walter Menninger named director of the combined section. Dr Thomas McNaught to direct the new special services section uniting alcoholism treatment vocational rehab halfway houses and adolescent young adult units.
Reno County commission questions a state directive to raise its welfare budget by 35000 dollars. Chairman John Sutton argues the state welfare board cannot compel the county to levy higher taxes. The county would accept the aid but not raise local property taxes, noting a 300000 dollar year over year increase.
Washington reports reveal Under Secretary George Ball was intermittent in Vietnam decisions during 1964 1965 and seldom met with Johnson. Ball argued against deeper intervention yet his dissent was largely ignored as policy moved toward escalation.
Editor notes Kansas University graduate Charles Scott Jr. argues Lawrence public schools distort African history, overemphasize European and white American figures, misrepresent reformers, and place Black students in biased classes. He cites Lincoln and Washington as heroes and claims African students receive a skewed education.
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