Lawrence Journal-World Staff Roster and Publication Details
The Lawrence Journal-World lists editor and publisher Dolph C. Simons Jr and associates including Bill Mayer Jack Zimmerman Nest Pontius and Leo Eller. It notes the paper is published daily except Sunday by World Company in Lawrence Kansas with pricing for local and mail subscriptions and AP and ABC memberships.
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Dolph Simons
Dolph C. Simons Jr
Bill Mayer
Jack Zimmerman
Nest Pontius Con
Leo Eller
W. C. Simons
Lawrence
Douglas
Adjaining
Claewhers
United States
Audit Bureau of Circulations
Associated Press
Mystery of Lawrence Christmas lights discussed by Chamber group
Lawrence leaders debated holiday decorations at a Retail Merchants Bureau meeting this week, noting insufficient funding and uneven participation by local merchants. They urged more businesses to contribute so downtown Lawrence can improve its Christmas displays beyond recent years.
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Lawrence
Retail Merchants Bureau
Chamber of Commerce
Kansas City Plaza
New York
Kansas Voters to Decide Three Constitutional Amendments
Kansas voters will vote November 8 on three amendments. Continuity of government would expand legislative powers during and after enemy attack, with automatic lines of succession and must conform to the state constitution. Home rule would grant cities broader powers. the third amendment concerns legislative salaries and raises to $15 per day, with caps per session.
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Kansas
Journal-World
Civil Defense Division
State Adjutant General's Office
Legislative pay rise debated for attracting lawmakers
The proposal would raise the daily expense allowance to 15 dollars while the 18 cent mile travel rate remains. Proponents argue higher pay could draw better legislators, though critics warn it increases tax burdens.
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Ment
Pay TV Outlook Tied to Hayward Involvement
Leland Hayward strikes a deal with Teco Inc to supply programming for a three year Hartford Connecticut pay television test using Zenith Phonevision pending FCC approval. He expects pay TV to open new entertainment opportunities while maintaining free TV, and predicts many showmen will join the system.
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Leland Hayward
Teco, Inc
Linois Corporation
Zenith Radio Corporation
Zenith
Phonevision
Mr. Hayward
Teco
Hartford
Conn
Federal Communications Commission
Hayward
FCC
CBS
Jackie Gleason
Lawrence High Falls To Shawnee Mission 27 to 6
In a 1950 game Lawrence High School lost to Shawnee Mission 27 to 6. Homecoming Queen Carolyn Zimmerman with attendants Linda Connor and Joan Leonhart, plus Haskell Day drew 4,500 attendees after a 2H victory over Wamego.
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Lawrence High
Shawnee Mission
Carolyn Zimmerman
LHS
Linda Connor
Joan Leonhart
Arkanass
Haskell
Wamego High School
Bible message and prayer excerpt
A devotional card presents a Bible verse Psalm 117:2 with a prayer praising God. The text requests gratitude and continued thanksgiving in daily life through a Christian invocation ending in Amen.
Letters on Sen SchoeppeI Upper Colorado project critique
Dr John Ise and the Committee for an Effective Kansas Senator respond to Sen Andrew Schoeppel about the Upper Colorado Project. They argue the plan would cost over 3 billion, add 17 to 25 dams, waste water, hurt Dinosaur National Monument and Lake Mead, and yield little Kansas benefit. They cite a 1955 vote in favor and urge accountability.
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Upper Colorado
Kansas
Andrew F. Schoeppel
Sen. Schoeppel
Upper
Colorado
Hoover Dam
Dinosaur National Monument
Canyon
West
Lake Mead
Rainbow Bridge National Monument
John Ise
Senator, Inc
Adam's apple size and aging neck stiffness explained
Dr Molner notes the Adam's apple is thyroid cartilage, larger in men, not a glandular issue, and usually not adjustable except by weight gain. He adds that neck pain in an 87 year old often stems from degenerative arthritis, diagnosed via neck X ray and treated by a physician after evaluation.
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T.G
Things Certainly Have Changed Autos and Our Young Folks
Robert Ruark reflects on how car ownership shaped college life in earlier decades. He recalls student cars at Carolina and Duke, hitchhiking with a mix of humor and nostalgia, noting that widespread auto access altered social life and math class punctuality without claiming a clear moral.
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Deke
Phi Kaps
George
Duke
Almer Mater
Ilf
Phi Kap
Carolina
New U N Glimpses and Broadway Buzz Weaves Into News
Khrushchev studies Picasso and quips he could imitate it at the U N. Doris Day in disguise visits Broadway. California Governor Brown attacks Rockefeller Nixon support while Judy Holliday illness disrupts Gypsy film. Broadway notes cover plays, divorces, meetings, and TV plans with many celebrity cameos.
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Eqnard
Khrushchev
Dag Hammarskjold
U.N
Museum of Modern Art
Doris Knight
Doris Day
Pat Brown
California
Rockefeller
Nixon
Gov. Brown
Gov, Rockefeller
Judy Holliday
Laurette
Warner
Fred Brisson
Rosalind Russell
White House
Denmark
You Can Tell a Man by His Library Says Hal Boyle
Hal Boyle reflects on library habits and reading goals noting many shelves hold unread volumes. He argues a literate mind rests on a few core works like the dictionary the Bible and Shakespeare and that postponed reading reveals a person’s ambitions and age.
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New York
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Lawrence Club
Higwatha
Topeka
Arthur Leonard
Ralph Messer
Ralph Houk
Walter Thome
Bradford Powell
American Royal
Phog Allen
Convocation
Christ
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Schoeppel
Editor
Joseph C. Molner
M. D
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Knowledge Works
Norwalk
Law Agin High
Little Red Fact Foundry
Raark
E. Scott Miles
New Jersey
Scotty
Durham
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Lyons den
Khrushy
Picasso
William Inge
Frank Corsaro
Shelley Winters
Tony Franciosa
Inge
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Pablo Casals
David Rockefeller
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Congo
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Red China
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Frank Stanton
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Elaine May
Kostelanetz
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U.S
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Marstin van Buren
Ernest Hemingway
Florida
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Los Angeles
Washington
Contemporary Affairs Society
Arthur Schwartz
Dorothy Fields
Brooklyn
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Clare Boothe Luce
el Morocco
Miss Gabor
Moss Hart
Horst Buchholz
Cleveland
Bob Feller
Yankees
Feller
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Robert Morley
Wilton
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Morley
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Detroit
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