Butz and Pearson shift on farm secretary confirmation
The piece notes Earl Butz’s confirmation as secretary of agriculture and Sen. James Pearson’s unexpected vote change after a Dear Dick letter. It suggests White House arm twisting and wonders if Pearson will seek favors for reelection while hoping Butz improves farm prices, with emphasis on farmer interests and accountability.
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Earl Butz
James Pearson
Pearson
Butz
Buzz
White House
The Distant Side Hints of Home and Local Notes
A neighbor asks about Halloween decor while a new baby, Bradley Brandes, arrives weighing 9 pounds 4 ounces. December shifts a ten year old’s Christmas list and a June 14 birth day dinner. A cat Placement Bureau focuses on animal jobs not produce. A neighbor’s huge turnip crop is unloaded. Local musicians seek string players for Handel and Brahms performances led by Martha Lobmeyer at 6 2132.
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Brahm
Martha
David) Lobmeyer
The Needle by Harold Coffin
The piece humorously urges researchers to consult women instead of rats and jokes about aging, life span, and the nature of trouble. It contrasts personal choices with governmental and domestic trouble, highlighting playful observations on age and mischief.
Garden City Telegram Masthead and Rates Notice
Garden City Telegram publishes daily except Sunday and six holidays. Rates: by carrier in Garden City $1.94 monthly plus tax, 9 month college rate $12.36, servicemen $15 yearly, other cities $1.50 monthly, by mail $18.54 yearly. Associated Press rights noted.
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Telegram Publishing Company
7Th Garden City
Kansas
Garden City
Cooper’s
Anders
Textile lobby paid for Nixon Humphrey textile quotes
Jack Anderson reports a direct link between campaign donations and textile import limits. He cites six figure offers to Humphrey and Nixon, backstage lobbying by mills like Deering Milliken and J.P. Stevens, and a Commission finding no need for protection. The piece closes with a Psalm quote and churchlike testimony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Nixon
Japan
John Gardner
Roger Milliken
Deering Milliken
Bob Stevens
J.P
Humphrey
Tavilff
Next to Impossible to Understand the Germans
Jim Bishop surveys postwar Germany split by the Soviets with East Berlin’s ghostly grandeur and West Berlin’s modern growth. He notes the harsh repression of independent thought, the lingering Nazi shadows, and a curious mix of thrifty German habits and surprising public access to services while contrasting Berlin sectors and a restless youth neo Nazi force.
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Berlin
East Berlin
Warsaw
West Berlin
Adolph Schalk
Germany
Schalk
Hausfbanen
Hamburg
Adolf Hitler
Unter den Linden
Farmer Backbone Of Nation Urged To Understand Agriculture
A Kansas Cow Belles letter from Mrs George W Thompson urges readers during National Farm City Week to recognize farmers as the nation’s backbone. It contrasts food cost trends with medical, service, and transport expenses, cites farming’s economic impact, tax contributions, export leadership, and subsidies. It promotes agriculture as vital to world peace and warns against misinformation.
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U.S
Baltimore
Chicago
Boston
Detroit
Washington, D. C
Kangac
Nebraska
North Dakota
Kansas Livestock Association
Kansas Cow- Belles
Fillmore
Topeka
Kansas
George W. Thompson
Grumpy hatcheck girls and other irritable bits
Hal Boyle riffs on trivial irritations from grumpy hatcheck attendants to mothers dressing alike after 50 and 25 daughters. he skewers tasteless decorators garlic heavy cuisine croissant vanity and the perils of philistinism in social life, noting the absurdity of faux fame and tasteless modern customs.
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Hal Boyle
Yook
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Sandra
Robert Brandes
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Roy Allman
John Frazier
Associated Press
Jack Anderson
HHH
Sen
Strom Thurmond
R-S.c
Richard Nixon
Strom Thursmond
Greensboro
N.C
The
Journal of Commerce
Bible Thought
God
Jim Bishop
Public Pulse
Farmer
Eugene Sheffer
Ice
Cryptoquips
King Features Syndicate, Inc
Internal Revenue Service
Keokuk Tomtoms
Graceless
Bearpail Thumpers
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