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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1963
Page
2
An article reflects on yearly return to school, the mixed emotions of youth toward learning, and the value of ongoing education for adults. It notes that while formal adult education expands, many who need it fail to pursue it, emphasizing learning as a continuous progress.
A newspaper executive favors pretrial conferences between judges lawyers and reporters to curb juror prejudice from crime coverage. He notes constitutional tension between free press and fair trial, questions press influence, and warns against pretrial censorship while defending reporting as public information.
Hal Boyle notes Americans eat more red meat than their body weight yearly, with 1968 average near 160 pounds. He plugs a wealth of miscellany from global vehicle shares to quirky statistics and cultural quips, including food trends, inflation musings, and a Somerset Maugham quote on American wives.
NASA announced that the first of several Little Joe 11 launches will occur this week at the White Sands missile range in New Mexico. The test will use Apollo program techniques identical to those used in Project Mercury.
Fire officials say a raging forest fire in the rugged Cinnhibar Basin within Yellowstone National Park burned about 700 acres of heavy timber. Smoke jumpers were dispatched by air from Missoula to Indian firefighters from Billings joined the effort and bulldozers were moved in to build fire lines.
James Marlow notes that Wednesday's Washington march of about 100000 people echoes a long arc of civil disobedience. The piece traces nonviolent resistance from Adam and Eve through Socrates, Antigone, Prometheus, Jesus, and early martyrs to Quakers, Emerson, Thoreau, Tolstoy, Gandhi, and Gandhi's Hindu influences. It recalls Coxey's 1884 march for jobs and the 1932 veteran bonuses clash, framing modern protest within a deep historical tradition.
Drew Pearson notes Washington has endured two historic marches this century the Klan parade of August 8 1925 and the Bonus Army march of 1932. He recalls details of crowds, confrontations and military response, contrasting past violence fears with the modern civil rights march.
The Country Gentlemen of Maryville, Missouri, won first place in the combo division of the National Fiddlers and Country music contest in Brownsville Nebraska. Dean Thompson led the individual pickers, Don Beasley topped the singers, while Dwight Lamb of Onawa Iowa and Byron Berline of Caldwell Kansas finished first and second among fiddlers.
Garden City Telegram published daily except Sunday and five holidays yearly by The Telegraph Publishing Company at 117 East Chestnut. Rates: $1.65 per month by carrier in Garden City, 30 cents per week in other cities, $4.00 per year by mail to select counties, else $15.00 per year. Associated Press rights noted.
In late August, Mrs. R. K. McGaugh promotes a community-wide used clothing bank after five years running a similar program for Beacon Light HDU. She seeks city or county support for space and staff, noting rising needs with back to school. Also sought are second grade books from Mrs. Lee Timmons and a Chihuahua Terrier pair up for adoption at 1005 Evins.
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