Garden City Telegram (Newspaper) - June 17, 1970, Garden City, Kansas garden with the editor the Southwest Daily Times at Liberal is lamenting the end of the wooden sewing thread These spools are now being made of which not only will keep the price of thread but will help con serve the nations wood But the Times asks Can you notch a plastic spool to make a de cent Halloween thats the type of editorial which shouldnt bring any guff from and should leave the silent majority satisfied and com such editorials in the editor is on Speaking of vacation In the few weeks between jobs in I plan to take Im looking for a place without tele without organized activi without motorized traffic of any without clocks and day light savings and without the noise of Now to find out when the next ship sails for Last nights Moonlight Mad ness sale in downtown Garden City was the best merchants who participated said this When I I thought theI Fall Festival had been 11 hadnt seen such crowds on streets since the weekend before To those merchants whose doors were closed last I say You should be In yesterdays some gal softball players wrote a letter to the editor complaining about being charged admission to a tour in which they Some facts should be stated They were charged admission to I the night in which they f did not Their team was dej in the afternoon their team sponsor did not pay a tourney entry The span sor paid a league fee for the enj tire Softball officials point out that many of the spectators were mem bers of teams not playing at that particular NBC newsman Welles f who spoke in Garden City in may be alive and well in I Its been reported by the driver of his who Hangen and two others were taken prisoner and were being kept in house not far from where The capture of Hangen brought the Cambodian action home to J many here who him speak at the annual chamber The softspoken gen impressed those who met himI and talked with News Digest AP Kenf neth Gibson has been elected the first Negro mayor of a major Northeastern defeating incumbent Mayor Hughs Addonizio who is standing trial in federal court on charges ming from alleged kickbacks city WASHINGTON AP The House has tentatively rejected a postal boost package backed by President Nixon and the postal unions in favor of its more limited Advo cates of the ed say they will attempt to amend the House version to bring it closer to the defeated WASHNGTON AP Selec tive Service Director Curtis Tarr says relatively few persons will be able to escape the draft un der the Supreme Courts less restrictive definition of He said applicants for status must be oppose war in all forms and have thoughts stemming from some sys tem of belief and resulting from some rigorous kind of PHNOM PENH AP Cambodian Command reports that Communist troops have taken overt provincial capital of Kompong and ambushed a Cambo dian force trying to reopen the vi tal highway between Phnom Penh and the only petroleum garden sass New wrinkles are popular Gus Garden except Garden City Telegram 41 GARDEN JUNE 1970 lOc Copy 16 Pages 190 Price Controls Nixon Erects Governmental Wall Against Soaring Inflation Telegram Fathers Day approaches and students at Jennie Wilson School are busy making their dads ft present We wont divulge Tricia Lymans secret her father will be surprised She is the daughter of and Lewis Circle Tribune Couple Killed on Reunion Trip in Nebraska reunion trip to a Nebraska childrens where they bad served a num ber of years as social ended for an elderly Tribune Killed when their car collid ed almost headon with that of a Colorado woman were amid William Coup Janice driver of the second also died in the The Nebraska Highway Pa trol said the collision occurred about five miles east of on near the smal village of Miss Ruder and drivers of the two died in the died of her injuries at in Phelps County Troopers said they believed the oar was west bound and the Colorado car and Mrs Coupland were graduates of the University of He was born March 1888 at and she was bom at Dor Residents of Tribune since they bad both served a number of yearns as social workers in the Mother Jewels Children a Methodist fa at Prior to that be was postmaster at El served as Tribune police judge for a number of years more had assisted his Elmer and in their County farming opera The bad left Tribune Saturday to attend an anniversary dinner at the Mather Jewels Children White in they bad with friends and relatives and were due back home The Tribune couple had cele their 50th wedding anni on Tour Spaces Still Available Showdown Nears On Vote Measure WASHINGTON AP A designed to lower the voting age to 18 and continue legislation protecting voters in the South beaded toward final House action today with Democratic leaders confi dent of there was strong op position from Republicans to the Sen which also pro vides a nationwide ban on liter acy tests and establishment of a uniform residency requirement lor presidential election The opposition was led by GOP Leader Gerald who sought to send the measure back to a encie where he hoped the voting age which he said was could be The possibility of a veto has been hinted at by some nents of the but most Dem regard it as The the right to vote to all persons 18 years old or older fa elections after It provides for a prompt Supreme Court test to decide ito At only four states permit voting by persons under and where the age limit 18 Alas where it is and where it fe In the last five 20 other have re efforts to lower the vot ing The voting rights section of the continues until The act has been bailed as the most successful civil rights ever Its key provisions ex pire in Aimed primarily at Southern states where there had been widespread evidence of discrim against Negro voters in the the 1965 Voting Rights Act led to vastly increased voter participation by blacks and the election of scores of lo cal black There are seats on the North Central tour offered by the Telegram through Sunflower The 14day trip is scheduled to leave July from the Telegram and will conclude July Points of interest in South Wis Man North and Wy will be visited during the Among the places to be visited are the Wisconsin Mackinac Island in Lake Mich Soo Lake Winni peg and Lake Inter national Peace Gar rison Black Devils Ouster State and Badlands National Tour price is per person with accommoda A single room is Reservations can be made at the Telegram or with Nor man Tour 1608 A minimum num ber of passengers have made so the tour will be The Weather Fair and cooler Light northerly Lows in lower Thursday fair and Highs near Northerly winds Sunrise WASHINGTON AP Presi dent Nixon announced today the erection of a threeway govern mental barrier to spiralling in while promising I will not take this nation down the road of wage and price Nixon thus gave way to in creasing pressure for a policy of voluntary restraint on wages and In a nationwide broadcast on economic he lectured business and labor on their responsibility to refrain from excessive price markups and wage The fight against inflation is everybodys the President He announced these actions to pull the reins tighter on infla tion A National Commission on Productivity will be named with representatives from government and the pub Its duty will be to find ways ef increasing output per worker bringing a balance between cost and productivity to assure more stable Nixon directed the Council ef Economic Advisers to pre pare a periodic inflation to spotlight significant wage and price bulges and ana their inflationary This inflation alert will call attention to outstanding oases of price or wage increases and will be made public by the National Commission on Nixon A Regulations and Purchas ing Review Board is being set to review federal purchasing procedures to assure that they do not drive up costs and prices and to review import policy to see whether supplies can be increased to meet rising consumer demand without loss of This by its has set the example in this past year we believe we have now earned the credentials to call for similar restraint from business and la bor to slow down Nixon Nixon assured the nation that a peacetime economy is clear ly on the He promised Our scheduled withdrawal of forces from Cambodia on June 30 will be Our scheduled transition from a wartime economy to a peacetime consumer economy will be kept as While our economy adapts to the reordering of our national priorities and we are undergoing a second great We are trying to do something that has never been done before to avoid a reces sion while we bring a major in to an Now is the time Nixon for business at every level to take price actions more consist ent with a stable cost of and now is the time for labor to structure its wage demands to better achieve a new stability of Just before the President went on the Wright released a let ter from Nixon saying he will use standby credit control au voted him by Congress if it appears to me that the na tions economic objectives would be served by so Patman is chairman of the House Banking The chairman had written Nixon that many members of the committee are deeply con cerned by the apparent inaction on the part of the federal gov in the face of a mount ing economic Nixon replied I am pleased that you use the word appar There are people who con fuse talk with action and gim with a fundamental at tack on problems The coun try does not face a mounting economic We are going through a period of difficulty as was inevitable once the 196568 inflation was allowed to devel Administration officials told reporters that Caspar Weinber retiring chairman of the Federal Trade will be chairman of the new Regula tions and Purchasing Review Budget Director Robert Mayo will lend a strong help ing hand in its the sources Weinberger has been named deputy director of the new Of fice of Management and Budget in the White House Mayo is be coming a presidential Officials said the new deci sions will not alter the busic economic policy of the adminis but will emphasize that the decline in national produc is the central force con tributing to The productivity group will in clude the Secretaries of Treas Commerce and the chairman of the Council of Eco nomic the director of the Office of Management and and six members each from management and the The chairman will be a government House Likes Own Postal Reform Plan WASHINGTON AP A postal boost pack age backed by President Nixon and Khe postal unions been tentatively rejected by the House in favor of its own more limited The House Tuesday on a 219139 vote to substitute the package nego tiated by the Nixon administra tion and most postal unions for one forged by the House Post Office But the House also tut heavy revision and there is cloakroom talk of pass ing an 8 per cent pay raise for mailmen without postal reform ait the risk of presidential Morris contended the House was unacceptable and urged the House to take up the package negotiated by the administra tion and in the wake of the nations first mail strike last H you vote no on Udatt youre voting against President George the AFLCIO unions and the President of the United States and saying you shouldnt have a vote on your A key difference in the com Ml would make the pay boost for mailmen retroactive to April while the administra tion package called for the raises to be effective upon pas the committee ver sion provides for easier congres vetoes of future postal rate The would turn the mails by Congress for 181 to an Postal Service with corpo rate powers to put them on a basis by The postal service would set its own mail rates subject to congressional negotiate pay and working conditions with postal unions and sell bonds to finance modernization and con The 8 per cent pay boost is ex to cost million for the fuM fiscal year starting July 1 plus million for fee ret pay to April Udal Edward who sored the served notice they will now try to amend the to concur with the rejected Nixon union Hail Slants Topeka Area TOPEKA of isolated and thunder moved across Kansas Tuesday night and this No large of tation were but the vicinity bad bail this morning of to in humid to cover the and these con ditions are likely to produce more thunderstorms by This thunderstorm should continue into the wail be fairly general ov er the the Weather Bu reau With the slackening of heavy the bureau riven and streams in the state are re The Smoky Hill which crested Tuesday at Ells worth more than two feet above flood had dropped about 10 feet this morning and posed no more flooding The Black re mained slightly Above flood stage at A new cold front which this morning lay on a line from Mon tana to North Dakota is ted to move reach ing Kansas Thursday or Thurs day night Two to In Now Motor PROJECT HERE COULD BE REALITY Housing for Elderly Is Goal of Action Dodge City 94 91 omr 95 90 Sonnet 70 71 61 57 A turnkey hous ing project for the elderly could be a reality federally The Garden City Local Hous ing Authority this week voted to submit application for a turnkey project which would provide 150 living units for elderly persons of low Authority at this favor a multistory apart ment complex rather than in dividual housing In a turnkey a shortened form of the expression turn over the the de velopment is planned and built by a private developer and then turned over to the housing au upon At this the authority has not entered into any agree ment with a The application has been sub mitted to the Housing and Ur ban Development office at Fort If the authority may enter into a pre liminary loan contract based on per These funds will be used to purchase the prepare make sur veys and hire an executive di The authority would not ad minister the until the builder turns over the If the project is its hoped to locate it near com parks and medical After the con struction cost would be paid through the tale of federally backed municipal which would be amortized over a 40 year In lieu of munici pal the project would pay up to 10 per cent of the rent to the city for Assistant City Man ager Alan Morris is serving secretary of the housing author and handling the paper Before the authority can enter into a contract with a private it must have the approval of the City Com the city govern ing body must approve the hir ing of any executive Walter Wolf is chairman of the find members eorge and
