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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1963
Page
4
Editorial argues Kansas City’s municipal finances are starved by outdated property taxation. It notes ceilings on tax rates, frozen assessments, and the mismatch between building size and tax burden, urging local income or sales taxes as fairer funding.
The piece reflects on the surge of dramatic books about accidental nuclear war and the fragile safeguards against it. It notes the unlikely but plausible hot line between Washington and Moscow, warns that errors or faulty intelligence could trigger catastrophe, and contrasts Kennedy and Khrushchev’s unprecedented powers with civilization hanging by a thread.
Hal Boyle surveys quirky stats from mid century life noting a working mother with an infant averages up to 981 hours weekly and a crying baby about 113 minutes daily. It lists traffic tickets, car theft trends, costs of groceries, and world population projections to 1980.
Local and college students face a 330c weekly carrier service in Garden City with annual rates of 7.89 and 15m per year. Publication rights note The Associated Press dispatches, with local news reserved for reproduction by The Republican Press in Garden City and related areas across Finney and nearby counties.
Drew Pearson reports concerns over peacetime nuclear power safety near major cities driven by recent reactor incidents. Noting Savannah, Indian Point, and Laguna Beach mishaps, he cites criticism of AEC secrecy and calls for public input in siting, contrasting private utility decisions with federal oversight and insurer risk.
AP wire report from Wichita states two women Clara Gresham of Oklahoma City and Leota Hammer of Wichita were arrested on warrants for concealing fugitive James Lewis Otney and aiding his escape. Otney, who lodged with Hammer, was later driven to Arkansas City then Oklahoma City before capture. He faces federal charges for transporting a stolen car across state lines.
The column notes the discovery of a lost sprinkling bottle after six days, found on a shelf of canned goods. It also lists local event notices and community announcements including a Glee Club concert benefit, spring scholarship coffee for speech correction, a polio vaccine clinic, and a playful item about elm seed availability and household chaos from the Carter family in Atlanta.
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