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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1971
Page
2
The board of education's building fund levy aims to fund capital improvements and reduce interest costs. If costs exceed the fund, extra borrowing or delays may occur. The writer questions the need given rural school closures and suggests studying city children bused to rural schools as a rural life experience.
Governor Bob Docking forms a Space Shuttle Committee to gauge western Kansans views on NASA space port plans. Citizens are urged to send letters to the Governor’s Space Shuttle Committee in Topeka and copy their town mayor.
A Sept 30 date invites crowds to watch the Red Cross Bloodmobile's next stop. The piece humorously notes public interest in color trends for kitchens while spoofing appliance advertising and declaring white nearly obsolete. The satire also teases a sequel spoof titled Everything You Never Wanted to Know About Sex But I’ll Tell You Anyway.
FBI chief J Edgar Hoover bans long sideburns and hippie hair, threatening 10 days pay. Texas Instruments secures EPA contract to study offshore spills. EPA says TI helps assess harm but potential conflicts arise. Catch 22 enlistees in Vietnam face six months brig without political reading. Pentagon leak: air conditioning sprays water on security staff. Suppression order from 1970 warns against on the record and background comments about Cambodia incursion.
Art Buchwald recounts a humorous tale of a married couple maintaining an exclusive weekly “affair” without arousing suspicion. A husband and wife schedule a discreet midweek rendezvous in town, checking into a motel briefly. They then resume their ordinary lives, pleased with the illusion of romance and normalcy.
In Ottawa Kansas 8 month old Brittany and German short hair dogs explore a tree while Tiger the cat climbs higher to escape Dolly the dog. Dolly pursues up seven feet before giving up as Tiger shows strong tree climbing.
In AP analysis John Cunniff examines the “we agree, but” approach popular with image makers across steel and auto industries. Critics push for free trade and environmental standards, but firms align publicly to soften opposition while steering toward acceptable goals. Executives like Cort and Roche defend dialogue and criticism, arguing coexistence with dissent supports fair competition and understanding.
HAL BOYLE offers a yearly column of unsolicited guidance on living well. He advises laughing at work, reading multiple newspapers, marrying wisely, balancing sports and work, moderating drinking, choosing talented company, delaying bets on astrology, borrowing and lending wisely, praying gratefully, and taking free columnist advice with a grain of salt.
The reader sees a crossword by Eugene Sheffer with clues such as Granda 33 and Artists 35. The grid includes entries for 36 Profound 37 Under world 38 Struck 40 Mast, indicating a partial puzzle segment with numbered hints and partial solutions.
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