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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1968
Page
2
A straw poll by this newspaper and two others suggests a mandate for placing the time boundary at the Kansas Colorado line. It omits daylight saving preference. authors guess western Kansans oppose Mountain DST and favor Central Standard Time year round. Transportation Department will receive poll results.
A humorous country correspondent reports at Renick Drug No 2 on a hot afternoon. A middle aged man asks for Pretty Feet and Loving Care. A New York City apartment quirk shows one 13th floor unit connected only by direct line. editor mentions Weather Bureau and Likely, plus racehorse Keyhole II. A bragging man with amnesia joke closes the note.
Nancy Kantola argues that Mike Friesen, though not a lawyer, can handle estate matters given his Kansas University education in education and psychology. She favors prioritizing youth and supports a separate juvenile court, noting progress moves slowly yet trusts Friesen to fulfill duties without neglecting probate responsibilities.
Drew Pearson traces how Woodrow Wilson helped fuse Czech and Slovak lands into Czechoslovakia in 1918 as part of breaking up Austria Hungary. He recalls interviews with Edvard Benes, notes postwar shifts, Yugoslavia’s independence, Khrushchev’s Belgrade apology, and the later Soviet influence shaping the region through World War II and after.
In a playful column from New York AP writer Joy Stilley, a mother jokes about her daughter Gay’s growing number of shoes and outfits. The piece uses domestic chaos to confide affection and family quirks, with witty commentary on daily life and tidiness in Garden City, Kansas, where the feature ran.
Art Buchwald notes Soviet permission for Pan American and Aeroflot to fly to the United States, praising safety yet lampooning bureaucracy. He recounts visa delays, crowded hotels, and Intourist supervision, with wit about hotel Rossiya and state control. a trip ends with a joke about returning to Moscow and Monte Carlo.
The kingdom of Tonga lies north of New Zealand near Fiji and Samoa. It includes about 150 islands and inlets three main groups: volcanic Vava'u, coral Ha'apai and Tongatapu. There are some 60,000 people.
The Needle column jokes that the Soviet Union opened a government beauty parlor to glamorize women as part of a five year plan. It notes Russians cover faces with snow for a beauty technique but snow melts quickly. mud packs hide faces longer. It jokes about Soviet dames gossiping about tractors instead of other women.
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