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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1969
Page
2
The Lawrence Daily Journal World—edited by W. C. Simons—published daily except Sunday by The World Company. Address at Sixth and New Hampshire Streets, Lawrence Kansas. Subscription rates listed for carrier and mail. AP and ABC memberships noted.
Lawrence Jaycees present an outstanding fireworks display at KU Memorial Stadium Friday evening. If weather cooperates, thousands will attend and local residents are asked to turn on porch lights to aid visibility for those leaving the stadium. Police will direct traffic and porch light illumination may prevent trips on sidewalks and curbs.
The piece traces the shift from large city meat packing to rural one story plants near feedlots in Emporia Rockport Denison West Point Lubbock and others. It notes reduced market share for Swift Armour Cudahy Wilson and others and highlights union pressure and labor clashes like the Omaha Cudahy plant strike.
Last month rains kept law mowers busy and made lawns bloom in Lawrence. Merchants along New Hampshire Massachusetts Vermont Streets and Nineteenth to North Third Streets are urged to tidy sidewalks and curb areas by pulling weeds and trimming tall grass to boost local appearance.
A New York AP survey outlines dramatic shifts by 2000 including $2.4 trillion annual output, 85 percent urban population, and 7.50 dollar average hourly wages. It projects 33 million women in the workforce by 1975, rising to more government and white collar employment, with inflation continuing at about 2.6 percent annually. The piece notes potential nostalgia for the 1960s.
The article notes Ted Williams made the American League All Star team for the 15th time, selected by Casey Stengel. It also mentions the 48 star flag ending 47 years of use and statehood dates for New Mexico, Arizona, and Alaska, plus Kansas University term start and tax figures.
A devotional note cites I Samuel 16 7 about God valuing the heart over outward appearances. It offers a brief prayer thanking God for eternal values and requesting a responsive heart to His goodness love and mercy today and always Amen.
A reflected critique notes Nixon opponents in New York Times circles preparing bold actions. Gen Reston and Col Wicker lead the push with sharp language about Nixon and his advisors. Critics deride foreign moves and appointments while forecasting political maneuvering and old fears renewed.
Letter from Journal-World readers lauds Jim Ryun as a premier miler, citing past records and peak potential. It urges a break from training to rekindle desire and critiques university discipline and disclosure practices amid ROTC controversy.
A Kansas University taxpayer commends the Board of Regents for directing KU to release the names of students who disrupted the ROTC review. He criticizes the administration as weak and argues such actions deter further leftist disruption of college procedures.
This day marks Washington taking command at Cambridge in 1775, Champlain founding Quebec in 1608, Gettysburg ending in 1863, Idaho statehood in 1890, the Santiago harbor defeat in 1898, Korean War clashes in 1950, Algerian independence in 1962, and civil rights progress in the 1960s. Recent notes include Italy’s atomic submarine plan, civil rights tests, and Westmoreland becoming Army Chief of Staff.
Great Bend Kansas Jaycees sent a flag to Apollo 11 commander Neil Armstrong. In a letter Armstrong says regulations prohibit depositing any item on the lunar surface except those specially procured by a high level committee.
Kansas traffic death log records 315 fatalities in 1969 through 9 a.m. Thursday as compared with 316 for the 1968 period. The report notes three previously unreported deaths included in the 1969 figure.
A detailed account of the Knowles affair shows turmoil and indecision in the Nixon White House. President Nixon’s ultimatum to HEW Secretary Robert Finch accelerated a rapid, controversial search for a replacement, with Dr. Roger Egeberg finally chosen amid political maneuvering.
Washington grapples with when President Nixon shifted to oppose Dr. John H. Knowles for a Health, Education and Welfare post. A backstage dialog via the closet scene shows the New Nixon pressured by the Old Nixon to consider politics and party loyalty over his image.
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