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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1961
Page
2
The community joins in a relief effort for seven children living in squalor without parental care. Offers to care for them have come from Spanish American and other families and more residents express concern for their welfare. Calls come for education, stricter sanitation enforcement, and landlord action to improve conditions, with law enforcement ready to help.
A reader laments parental attitudes toward school attendance and illness, noting children are sent to school for education or to avoid home duties while excuses mask illnesses. The letter questions what’s wrong with parents and how such behavior endangers others, ending with “What’s wrong with our parents?” and the writer's anonymity.
In a Garden City interview Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt recalls December 7, 1941 from the White House luncheon to the president’s calm plans. She discusses her schedule, public work, grandchildren, philosophy, and gratitude for an active life and learning.
Washington report says Maj Gen Edwin Walker violated the Hatch Act and a parallel criminal statute, with Gen Robert McCaw’s confidential opinion urging court action. The piece notes Army leadership chose restraint and a transfer rather than a court martial, while Sen Thurmond’s office presses for Walker’s day in court and Alf Landon arrives with calls for tariff reform and European integration.
Roy W. Hunt a 47 year old CPA from San Carlos was convicted of willful failure to file his 1958 tax return. The government said he owed taxes on 48239 dollars of gross income for three years. Judge Albert C. Wollenberg set January 3 for sentencing.
Finney County Treasurer Bonnie Zirkel reports about 2,400 of the 3,000 Centennial license tags shipped last year remain unsold. Boxes of 200 tags sit unopened while notices were posted but sales lag far behind state averages. State records show 590 Centennial tags sold locally with a total cost of 63,470 dollars and net proceeds of 25,886.20. Garden City was preferred by many buyers. In Springfield Missouri, Mrs. Harry Billen toured the Medical Center for federal prisoners with her son in law, a former El Dorado officer.
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