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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1976
Page
2
In Kansas City shopping centers many bellringers for the Salvation Army have been banned this Christmas, cutting vital revenue for the charity. Maj. James Barker said the loss is 5,000 to 10,000 dollars per venue, threatening food and clothing for 1,500 families, contact for 800 shut-ins, and meals for 9,000 people.
The beloved local Santa, I D Trav Travis, served Garden City during and after World War II, visiting schools, clubs, churches, parades, and homes. Now in Denver with his wife Lois in a nursing home, his likeness is displayed at Garden National Bank through the holidays for the community to view.
An ERDA security chief warns in a memo of lax protection for classified material at headquarters. Infractions rose 85 in 1975 and 69 in the first three quarters of 1976, with the memo blaming weak monitoring systems and asserting most incidents involve personal items, not lost data. Internal concerns extend to foreign infiltration risks, while Congress plans a full ERDA report.
A Brooklyn precinct tale follows Officer Eichorn nicknamed Wooden Shoes, who amid retirement tensions pursues a quirky hat clue after six hoodlums loot a BLMT line turnstile. A park bench revelation leads to arrest, a Kings County Court rubber stamp verdict, and a flamboyant posthumous commendation for persistence.
TV listings present a mix of sitcoms, specials, and dramas. CBS features Good Times with J J winning a lottery and danger from a girl gang. ABC offers Christmas fantasy in Disneyland with music and comedy. CBS airs a movie Save the Niger. NBC airs The Practice with Dr Jules Bedford. NBC presents The Quest part one starved by dangers. ABC shows Roaries Prelude to Vengeance about a young mother and a father cop-hating link to a newborn named by a troubled figure.
Channel 7 schedules a 8 pm variety program The Restoration Wits featuring Dryden D Uffey Dorset Rochester and Sedley followed by 11 pm Paths in the Wilderness about Jesuit priest Eusebio Kino living among Southwest Indians for a quarter century.
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