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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1966
Page
2
In Kansas Tuesday high costs and low turnout frame a weak electorate. Half-hearted engagement fuels incumbents like Frank Sullivan who won a solid majority for insurance commissioner, a post he has held since 1946. Sullivan, in his mid 70s, faces debates about merit, health, and tenure.
A note on curfew as an old French term and modern use amid turbulence and juvenile delinquency. Nearby, a windstorm cleanup boosts rake sales as Marshall Finney surveys yard debris along a shade-heavy street. A payroll hiccup delays a raise, editor and paymaster adjust to the new rate.
Hal Boyle argues ownership traps modern man in bondage and freedom lies in renting rather than owning. He contrasts burdens of owning homes cars and possessions with renters who can move, swap cars, and rent items like jewelry, suggesting owning diminishes liberty and satisfaction.
Washington column reports a second letter by Frances Knight head of the passport office alleging collaboration with FBI Director J Edgar Hoover on surveillance of Americans abroad. The missive to Hoover claims urgent evidence of policy against surveillance practices and cites prior Hatch Act concerns, tying Knight to alleged unilateral actions within the State Department under Dean Rusk.
AP analyzes a tough path for an enhanced firearms control bill as crime data and high profile shootings fuel debate. FBI figures show 96 percent of officers killed since 1960 and 57 percent of homicides in 1964 linked to firearms, while Attorney General Katzenbach urged federal sale controls citing crime patterns and past presidential assassinations.
The piece cites Chicago police records showing youths as young as 13 involved in gun murders, and details 4 069 gun buyers from California firms with numerous arrests. It notes a Senate subcommittee approving mild controls and President Johnson urging stronger federal gun laws amid congressional action.
A mercy network of ham radio operators relays eye bank requests between cities. An urgent need for a pair of eyes was relayed from Kansas City to Omaha, and the transplant proceeded with medical sanction. Donors provide eyes after death to the banks.
In Thousand Oaks California AP Roy Lane helped his wife deliver their third child at home a planned birth. The boy Patrick Scott Lane weighed 7 pounds 6 ounces at birth adding to the Lane family with their new son born recently in a home setting.
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