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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1992
Page
2
Voters weigh the price of adding a Martin Luther King Jr holiday to the next school calendar as Kansas districts adjust to a new state funding formula. Leaders debate fiscal impact, scrutiny of expenditures, and whether tax dollars support such decisions amid budget upheaval and bond ambitions.
About 40 residents attended a Lawrence city commission budget hearing where most favored maintaining or cutting levies. After an eight hour bargaining session teachers and the district agreed to a 10.16 percent pay raise for the coming year, the largest in 12 years. Police talks appeared near impasse before June 1. Steve Langhofer received the Citizenship Award at Lawrence High. Kansas University freshman was arrested for possession and sale of LSD as commencement nears June 3 to 5. Joe Robb won the Frank Olney Scholarship at Lawrence High. Betty Cobb honored for violin and piano. Local rent board chairman was banker George Docking with members George Starkey and others. An 1892 fashion nugget noted women wearing men’s suspenders.
The piece argues that Ross Perot functions as a national Rorschach test exposing cognitive dissonance in American voters. It links Perot to a Wilsonian ideal of a strong leader who interprets mass opinion, railing against plebiscitary democracy and electronic town meetings. It notes Tim Wirth criticizing Bush and claims the public demands genius in the chief executive, reflecting Wilson’s influence.
A lively column debunks fax machines as ruinous for civilization arguing they speed information and culture to chaos. It predicts techno telepathy in offices, warns of overhyped efficiency, and notes ecological concerns and imagined social slips like unintended thoughts.
The AP and Dallas Morning News reveal Ross Perot sought a hardship discharge in 1955 using his father's political influence. He entered the Naval Academy in 1949, pledged four years, and later faced transfers and changing explanations for leaving service. Critics call for full disclosure of fitness reports and deck logs to assess his past.
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