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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1961
Page
3
A Coffeyville county attorney charges six welfare recipients with lewd conduct tied to illegitimate children. The piece argues welfare programs are being exploited, especially Aid to Dependent Children, and urges tightening rules and vigilant oversight by workers to prevent abuses while ensuring children still receive necessary support.
The Topeka Daily Capital notes Enos the space chimp is alive and well after orbiting Earth from Cape Canaveral. It recalls Ham Miss Able and Goliath in earlier space tests, and highlights Enos reaching about 17,500 mph as a successful but imperfect step toward a manned mission.
New York AP summary notes that a young executive commonly moves 12 times before settling in a home office. The column entertains quirky facts on daily life, fashion, and names, including shoe wear, records in a Swedish shop, and celebrity trivia.
Washington health officials warn of another influenza year amid rising school absences linked to stomach ailments and flu trends on the West Coast. Public health teams stress preparedness and preventive care to avert a repeat of the 1957-58 death toll.
The narrator recalls 1930s backcountry beauty rituals in Topeka area life. High school girls gathered with bobby pins and nail polish to craft intricate pincurls, undoing them the next morning. The piece contrasts frugal recreation with today’s faster styles and notes family hair histories and mixed success with pin, roller, and clamp routines.
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