Record of Lawrence Journal World staff and rates
The manuscript lists the Lawrence Journal World staff including Dolph Simons as President and Editor and Bill Mayor as Vice President Publisher, with Ernest Pontius as News Editor and Leo Eller Advertising Manager. It notes established 1854, published daily except Sunday, and gives subscription rates for carrier and mail in Douglas County and elsewhere. It is dated Friday June 23 1967.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dolph Simons
Dolph C. Simons JR
Bill Mayor
Jack Zimmerman
Reccces
Ernest Pontius
Leo Eller
Douglas
United States
Wilkins urges five goals to prevent riots this summer
NAACP executive director Roy Wilkins calls chapters to work with officials and communities to prevent unrest. He lists five goals including jobs for youth, recreation projects, anti poverty efforts, police restraint, and passage of the 1967 Civil Rights Act.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roy Wilkins
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
NAACP
Wilkins
Congress
Talk Is Cheap A Public Pool Debate In Kansas
Melville W Gray former assistant director of environmental health warns Kansas pools lack state standards and become community bath tubs as ear eye and nose infections rise. Lawrence and Kansas City lack public pools despite hot summers and criticism of bond issues. People talk but few vote yes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Melville W. Gray
Kansas Board of Health
Kansas
Gray
State Board of Health
Federal Water Quality Control Administration
Lawrence
Kansas City
Lady Bird Johnson Adjusting To Grandmother Role
Lady Bird Johnson expresses joy over her new grandson Patrick Lyndon and notes a shy reluctance about the grandmother title. She looks forward to this new life role with anticipation, despite minor slips in phrasing.
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Lyndon Johnson
Patrick Lyndon
Lady Bird
Justice Marshall's historic Supreme Court nomination questioned
The piece notes Thurgood Marshall as the first Black justice candidate and discusses whether a woman will ever be named to the high court, acknowledging jokes but stressing the seriousness of achieving qualified representation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thurgood Marshall
U. S. Supreme Court
Johnson
Appointment of Marshall to Supreme Court Likely Accelerates Change
The discussion notes that pressure to name a Negro has shifted to pressuring for a woman appointee. It argues a female jurist could join the Supreme Court eventually, with Marshall’s nomination speeding that day, citing women lawyers rising to high positions and distinguished Federal bench service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supreme Court
Marshall
Power groups troubled by rising electricity shortages
The AP reports utilities blame labor, suppliers, conservationists, and even the Vietnam War for peak demand shortages. Delays from labor and GE and Westinghouse slow plants, while transmission rights issues and aesthetic concerns hinder projects, despite forecasts showing an assured market.
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New York
General Electric
Westinghouse
United States
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Maryland - Delaware
East
Texas
Idaho
Utah
Montana
Pacific Northwest
St. Louis
Federal Power Commission
Tornado hits Boy Scout Camp Naish while Lawrence youths present
A small tornado struck Boy Scout Camp Naish with Lawrence boys in attendance. Tents collapsed but there was no panic and no injuries. Other notes recall the 1957 death of Clara Poehler Smithmeyer, founder related ties to Poehler Mercantile Co, plus recent scholar Janet Jackson winning LaSertoma International scholarship.
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Naish
Lawrence
Clara Poehler Smithmeyer
Poehler Mercantile Co
Janet Jackson
War Department
U. S
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Kansas
Tom Freeman
John Sullivant
Milton Allen
David Prager
Donald Widner
Edwin Westerhaus
Malcolm Black
Harry Akers
Harold Wilden
Harry Waite
Jack Wayman
Kansas City
Bible Message and Prayer Exhort Believers to Boldness in Grace
A devotional note presents Hebrews 4 16 urging believers to approach God's throne boldly to obtain mercy and grace in time of need. It offers a brief prayer thanking God for His Word and the Lord's Prayer as guidance.
Freberg Promotes Fear Openly in Pacific Airlines Ads
Humorist Freberg hired by Pacific Airlines to revamp promotions uses a blunt approach admitting pilots and passengers are white knuckled during flight. Some executives condemn the tactic while others fear effects on crew morale and passenger calm, hoping crews stay free of such ads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stan Freberg
Pacific Airlines
Jack
Pacific
Freberg
Hal Boyle On Jumping To Conclusions And Daily Ironies
A Hal Boyle column uses witty observations on insomnia, success costs, diaries, promotions, preachers and choir women, doctors lovers, subway flowers, and bachelor life to lampoon everyday human foibles. It blends humor with social quirks in New York.
Premier Ky urged to raise U S troops in Vietnam to six hundred thousand
Ardith Hinshaw argues in a Letter to the Journal World that increasing U S forces to 600000, despite bombing shifts, cannot win a war in Vietnam. She notes heavy casualties, argues for international control and negotiation, and calls for UN involvement.
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U.S
Vietnam
North Vietnam
Europe
United Nations
Middle East
Southeast Asia
Ardith Hinshaw
Oxford Rd
Dear Dr Molner and the false pregnancy discussion
In letters to Dr Molner readers ask about a cured syphilis test result false pregnancy and smoking aids. Dr Molner explains negative blood tests do not prove cure false pregnancy stems from emotional factors near menopause and subjective abdominal fullness with period regularity. He cautions that motivation and behavior change matter more than pills though some tricks can help in quitting smoking.
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Dr. Molner
Morale Crisis Strikes Viet Cong Leadership and Structure
Washington reports a morale crisis within the Viet Cong as core cadres face decentralization and mass redeployments from hamlets to higher echelons. The shift, triggered by 1965 misjudgments and U S escalation, weakened village networks, hampered tax and rice output, and sparked fears of a total collapse, while top leaders sustain a prolonged war strategy.
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Washington
South Vietnam
U. S
Hanoi
National Liberation Front
South
Saigon
Com
Manny the Torch Acriminal arsonist paid to set fires
New York AP profile of a professional arsonist nicknamed Manny the Torch. The piece cites Brendan Battle of the American Insurance Association on the scale of insurance fraud fires, with figures from 1960 to 1965 and notes that arson remains a persistent industry problem.
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New York
Manny
Brendan P. Battle
American Insurance Association
Battle
Battles
Dissenting Democrats Mobilize Against Johnson Visit
A UCLA led group headed by Robert Vaughn forms Dissenting Democrats to oppose Vietnam policy and places a two page Los Angeles Times ad during President Johnsons LA visit. The petition reached 6500 signatures signaling disassociation from Johnsons policy. The broadside warns of confrontation with Red China and the Soviet Union and pledges funds energies and votes to antiwar candidates.
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Los Angeles
UCLA
Robert Vaughn
Johnson
Vaughn
Thrush
Napoleon Solo
Democrats
Vietnam
Los Angeles Times
Red
China
Soviet Union
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W. C. Simons
the World Company
Sixth
New Hampshire
Lawrence, Raw
Ran
Audit Bureau of Circulation
The
Associated Press
Willard Wirtz
John Cunniff
Edison Electric Institute
Old Home Town
Margaret McGunnaghan
Topeka
J. R. Holmes
Jimmy” Green
KU Law School
Tenn
Martha Quinlan
Holmes
Airlines
Stan
By Jack Zimmerman
Freyberg
Nasser
Hal Boyle
NW York
U.N
Iiditor, Journal-World
Joseph Molner
By Rowland Evans
Robert Novak
By Phil Thomas
Bob Vaughn
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