Editorial The Lesser Evil and Public Right to Know
The piece debates between embarrassment from open critique versus government secrecy on missile progress. It argues secrecy harms liberty, cites Vanguard failure and emergency shifts, and urges transparency even amid defense needs, labeling secrecy as the lesser of two evils.
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Earth
Sputnik
Armed Forces’ Missile Test Center
Florida
Vanguard
Fon
Bravda
Wish We Had Said It Budget Session Debate
The Parsons Sun notes Kansas plans for a biennial state legislature with a separate annual budget session restricted to fiscal matters. Proponents argue for precise one year budgeting, while critics say extra session time burdens legislators and delays lawmaking. A constitutional amendment would be needed to return to biennial sessions. The piece questions the future of the budget session amid election-year attention and fiscal concerns.
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Parsons Sun
Kansas
Senators Grill White House Over Missile Duplications
Drew Pearson reports a White House briefing with Senator Clinton Anderson grilling Defense Secretary Neil McElroy over the Navaho project and multiple similar missiles. Anderson cites duplications among Little John Honest John Sergeant Corporal Pit an Atlas Snark Pluto Rover and asks why five 5000 mile systems exist. Eisenhower interjects noting experts and infallibility.
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Washington
Florida
White House
Clinton Anderson
N. Mexico
Neil McElroy
North American Aviation
North American
Donald Quarles
New Mexico
Army
Emerson Flectric
Douglas
Hercules
Tme
Defense Department
Pluto
Rover
Eisenhower
Distaff Side Snippet Mixes Stage, Flora, and Family Notes
A collage from a small town column combines a Bowman Service Cost truck delivery and an OLD program note from the Fine Arts Association for Ten Little Indians, with offhand remarks on a shot actor, a florist sign gag, and weekend family observations.
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The
Fine Arts Association
Joe Tennessen
Prison inmates form bird watching society in Dartmoore
Officials at Dartmoore Prison reported a group of inmates have formed a bird watching society. They chose the jackdaw, dubbed the world’s No 1 thief, as their object of study in Princeton town, England.
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Princetown
England
Dartmoore Prison
Prayer and Dublin society news wrap
The Upper Room prayer expresses faith in Jesus as the door to salvation and asks for vision and a desire to help others enter in. Dublin former mayor Robert Briscoe was elected president of the Ireland-America Society last night, with U.S. Ambassador Scott McLeod named its first patron. Telegram Want-Ads notes appear in the column.
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Jesus
Dublin
Robert Briscoe
Ireland
Briscoe
United States
U.S
Scott McLeod
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Uncle Joe
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Gwen Ramsey
Dean
Hart
Clara
Dan) Banman
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Pajama
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Garden City Telegram
Telegram Publishing Company
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Robert Wells
Paul Murphy
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Wane
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Wichita
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Kearny
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