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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1965
Page
2
A survey of nearly 3,500 American high school students shows a majority favor U S involvement in Vietnam and believe fighting could end in about three years with a stalemate. Many worry about outcomes but trust President Johnson’s handling while preferring a United Nations role.
A quirky collage of small town vignettes includes a four year old learning to smile in a bathroom mirror and claiming a gray eye draws attention. Ira Travis seeks a white beard but ends with black after Maudie Darner’s salon. A teen writes Santa asking for a 17 year old girl birthdate next to a rough description. A Main Street store sign asks for early opening before Christmas and local music teachers compare sounds to a guinea farm and ruptured turtles.
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Drew Pearson reports Jim Quigley Assistant Secretary of HEW who cut 32 million dollars in Chicago school funding and then reversed, resigning likely to run for Pennsylvania governor. The piece outlines a broader debate with Negro leaders and civil rights figures over withholding federal funds from segregated schools and hospitals, the potential impact on the 1968 Negro vote, and calls for more registrars in the South.
Hal Boyle surveys oddities from mail bag items and notes reindeer both bucks and does have antlers. He recalls 1851 ice cream prices, French water drinking habits, rock and roll spending, and firearms safety. He also shares language notes, animal trivia, and brief biographical details about Louis Untermeyer, J. Paul Getty, and presidents’ estates.
The Italian Movie Producers Association reports 221 films completed in the first 11 months of 1964, 21 more than the same period last year with 77 financed wholly or partly by foreign capital.
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