Lawrence Journal-World staff and publication details
Lawrence Journal World weekly page from September 9 1964 lists staff positions including president editor Dolph C Simons Jr managing editor Jack Zimmerman and editor Ernest Pontius. It notes circulation rates and locations served by the World Company with AP affiliation.
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Simons
Dolph C. Simons JR
Bill Mayer
Uucueee
Jack Zimmerman
Douglas
United States
Lawrence
Kaw
Audit Bureau of Circulations
Associated Press
Unification vote on Douglas County schools delayed to 1965 Legislature
Voters outside Lawrence again rejected a unified district plan, while Lawrence supported it. Turnout was 4,792 as opponents feared higher taxes and loss of local control. The outcome leaves unification decisions to the 1965 state session, with questions about education quality and governance pending.
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Douglas County
Lawrence
Campaign Tactics and Fair Campaign Practices on Goldwater
The Fair Campaign Practices Committee says Goldwater has not inflamed racial issues to date, despite claims. It notes some see a wink to racists, but maintains no record of him appealing to racial blocs. The group, led by Charles P. Taft, marks its tenth anniversary and cites past contrasts with the Catholic issue of 1960.
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Barry Goldwater
Fair Campaign Practices Committees
Washington
Fair Comment
Eisenhower
Truman
Charles P. Taft
Cincinnati
Goldwater
Goldwater-Johnson
Fair Campaign Practices Committee
Shipping woes curb aid in Calcutta port
A reporter finds dozens of ships loaded with American wheat and rice unable to unload in Calcutta due to insufficient unloading machinery. The piece notes humanitarian efforts frequently fail to reach those in need, urging appreciation for gains made in aid.
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India
Calcutta
Jury awards damages for kiss amid perfume incident in Los Angeles
A Los Angeles jury ruled against Gaylord Richards in a case where a perfume scented kiss drew a $35,000 damages claim. Separately, a 1962 incident at an aerospace plant led another worker to seek $35,000 for physical and mental suffering.
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Gaylord Richards
Los Angeles
Noted Plant Guard Faces Suit Over Kiss Allegation
Rich ards a plant guard is accused in a trial where Mrs Looney seeks $35,000 for alleged physical and mental torture. Richards claims the kiss was brief and the perfume described was irresistible. His wife defends casual kisses to other women as friendly.
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Richards
Integration In Houston House Sign Campaign Highlights Desegregation Efforts
In Houston's South MacGregor estates a bayou apart two neighborhoods once whites only are now integrated yet culturally divided. White residents promote stability by urging tenants to stay, calm fears, and encourage further white home purchases to balance racial mix as civil rights leaders praise their approach.
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Houston
Times-Post
Bray’s Bayou
Charles Kelly
Council On Human Relations
South MacGregor Estates
River Oaks
A.C. Ingersoll TI
Ingersoll
South MacGregor Promotion Committee
South MacGregor
Kansas Weekly Herald a Democratic and pro slavery paper
A nostalgic feature recalls the 1854 Kansas Weekly Herald published in Leavenworth, noting its Democratic and pro slavery stance. It also mentions KU Fieldhouse construction, a $214 million project, and plans to host basketball that year.
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Kansas Weekly Herald
Leavenworth
Daily Bible Message Prayer Reflection
A devotional note encourages steadfast good works, citing Galatians 6 9 and urging Christians to persevere in service. It offers a prayer thanking God for the chance to help others and asks for sanctification to honor and glorify the Son. Amen.
Jack's Straws Finding a Friend Like a Real Medic
A humor piece recounts Jack Zimmerman visiting a friend in a Kansas City hospital. He adopts a pretend doctor persona, wandering floors, asking for Doctor X, and improvising with medical jargon to reach the patient. The misadventure ends with a boost to his ego from the charade.
Beneath Surface of Unity Lies Pennsylvania Trouble
Joseph Alsop analyzes Pennsylvania politics as Governor Scranton faces a deep split between progressive and conservative Republicans. He notes party unity is only surface deep in Harrisburg while internal campaigns run independently and ticket splitting could threaten a Johnson victory in a close national race.
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Unity
Pennsylvania Trouble
Harrisburg
William Scranton
San Francisco
Hershey
Scranton
Barry Goldwater
Hugh Scott
Goldwater
Pennsylvania
Republican Party
Grundy-Penrose
New York
Sen
Kenneth Keating
Sen. Scott
Gov. Rockefeller
Gov. Scranton
Winters ships dieting pact for a diamond bracelet
Shelley Winters hopes to portray Jean Harlow's mother in a film biography. Joe Levine promised her a diamond bracelet if she loses 30 pounds. Miss Winters, star of A House is Not a Home, has begun dieting to win the bracelet. It’s a fair exchange, she says, for every pound she loses she’ll gain a carat. Vincent Price will narrate Taboo, a documentary on forbidden practices. He says he was repelled by some footage until a Tokyo sequence showed a nude with a back tattoo of a classic painting, his favorite Goya.
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Shelley Winters
Jean Harlow
Joe Levine
Miss Winters
Vincent Price
Tokyo
Price
Sulfa and penicillin allergy guidance from Dr Mother
Dear Dr Mother answers readers on sulfa drug reactions and the use of penicillin in children. It notes that sulfa reactions show as nausea and headache, penicillin reactions can be severe, and allergy testing may help if reactions occur. It also explains that penicillin sensitivity varies by individual and offers alternative antibiotics if allergy exists.
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Dr. Mother
I.P
E.A.H
Signs of middle age a humorous look by Hal Boyle
Hal Boyle surveys middle age with sharp social quips about habits, heat waves, aging parents, teens, work routines, TV comedy, romance, garden plans, drinks, road manners, and neighborly paranoia. The piece ends noting these traits reveal middle age in others, not oneself.
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By Bill Porterfield
Washington Post News Service
Old Home Town
Europe
Dorothy Blue
Sweden
Kansas City Blues
Little Yankees
Cordley
Pinckney
Lincoln
McAllister
Quincy
Woodlawn
Finch
Kansas University
Jack
By Jack Zimmerman
Kansas City
Doctor X
Edward Annis
Joseph Alsop
Scott
Johnson
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Connecticut
Franklin
Woodford
FDR
Lyons’ den
Leonard Lyons
OR. Joseph Molner
C.R.H
Hal Boyle
Interlandi
Hubert Horatio Humphrey
Tex
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