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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1975
Page
2
Local page notes sports, society, and briefs from Garden City dated December 3 1975. Items include community notices, brief sports results, and upcoming event reminders from area organizations.
The piece cautions that while garbage grain and livestock manure hold potential, they are not now economically feasible as energy sources. It notes alcohol as a fuel is less efficient and costly, with ethanol from wheat or corn at about 1.18 per gallon and corn ethanol around 0.94, before processing and transport costs. It urges cautious evaluation, warns against energy losses in production, and urges continued fossil fuel use, conservation, and exploration of new fossil fuel sources.
On December 1 1975 a plastic Christmas tree in a 12th Street window is shown as a modern tradition. A supermarket flyer warns that Christmas is near while memories of Thanksgiving linger. A Nebraska trip recalls turkey fare and subdued football talk as discussions of fur fashions and a bold Australian kangaroo coat pop up in a local shopper snapshot.
In the 1970s district attorneys appointed by President Nixon probed Democratic governors nationwide. Governors like Wendell Ford Edwin Edwards Marvin Mandel David Hall and Milton Shapp faced federal scrutiny while Arch Moore escaped. Mandel alleged FBI and IRS political targeting. Thornberg faced leakage claims. The piece notes Henderson and Hoover era tensions and GOP favoritism in prosecutions.
Jim Bishop responds to a personal letter from President Ford, declining money and criticizing inflation and policy. He argues the administration has failed to deliver results, cites veto use, and questions party politics while praising moments of leadership.
Yesterday's puzzle filled with an article-activity cryptogram and a prompt that Y equals U. The page presents the crosswords and a preface noting a commercial intruding on a radio hour, attributed to King Features Syndicate in 1976.
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