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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1975
Page
2
City dwellers admire green fields and livestock but overlook farm realities. Weather, pests, equipment failures, and market swings press growers daily while planning and work continue year round. The piece contrasts romantic rural life with hard farming, urging resilience and realism.
Mail carriers consider walking out as averages rise above twelve thousand dollars yearly while the public laments deteriorating service. The piece argues management failures and rising rates fuel public discontent and fear of an unpopular strike.
The piece argues against overregulation by consumer protection groups on children’s camps. It urges parents to ensure camps have medical facilities, sanitation, supervision, and accreditation, but warns against overbearing do s and don ts that could stifle learning, adventure, and harmless rites like snipe hunts.
A.P. reports U.S. productivity lags with output per man hour falling 2.7 percent last year and just 1 percent in early this year. From 1966 to 1974 the rise was 1.9 percent annually, far below trend, sparking concern across government, management and labor. It cites insufficient capital investment and shrinking R&D as factors, contrasting with higher spends in Japan, France and Germany.
A political column bemoans the Federal Metal and Non-Metallic Mines Safety Board of Review for never reviewing cases while costing $60,000 a year. It questions agency bloat, cites HEW room remodel costs, and lampoons endless federal directives and expanding payrolls.
Gerald Ford names Army Secretary Howard Callaway as campaign chief in a bid to blunt Ronald Reagan and forge a disciplined, insider driven team. Laird and Burch backed Callaway after long discussions with veteran Republicans shaping a coordinated 1976 effort. Callaway’s past GOP race record is offset by a high percentage of Black volunteers in Ford’s workforce, seen as a strategic asset.
Readers challenge editorial claims on World War causes arguing multiple powers and events, including the Hitler Stalin pact and Franz Ferdinand. They also praise local rodeo efforts in Douglas County led by community volunteers and Steve Ford's national spotlight.
Security chief E P Mooman urges precautions amid a rash of KU campus office break ins. The city prepares for summer music and art camps as Girls State visitors depart and wheat harvest proceeds under dry cool weather. A flood control study panel is named by Chamber of Commerce head C B Russell.
The note lists Dolph Simons Sr and Jr along with Bill Mayer Ralph Gage Jack Starkey and Leo Eller in editor and management positions. It assigns roles such as Editor President Publisher Executive Editor Managing Editor Advertising Manager and Controller.
A satirical piece argues that partisan gridlock in Washington prevents policy action on imagined national massage parlors. It sketches a back and forth where the President and Congress clash over taxation, regulation, and subsidies, ending with mutual blame and no resolution. The piece invokes Hamlet as narrator.
On this date milestones include New Hampshire ratifying the U.S. Constitution in 1788, Cyrus McCormick patenting the reaping machine in 1834, U S troops landing in Cuba in 1898, Scapa Flow scuttling in 1919, Tobruk falls with 30,000 British prisoners in 1942, and Okinawa surrender in 1945.
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