Welfare official speaks out on welfare abuses and housing
Mrs Bernice Abruegel, Finney County Welfare Director, writes to defend welfare recipients and call out misperceptions. She disputes claims that aid dominates welfare funds, notes data from Kansas in September, and argues illegitimacy and fraud are not the norm. She urges reform without condemning all recipients.
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Welfare Department
Garden City
Garden City Telegram
Kansas
Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare
Berniece Abruegel
Finney County
Travel costs fall and cards go religious in era
Hal Boyle notes travel becomes cheaper through modern transport while a 1950s Christmas card firm reports 35 percent of 3 billion cards will feature religious imagery, up from under 5 percent fifteen years earlier. He adds quips about celebrities, a Kennedys reference, dog-buying cautions, and a local Garden City Telegram publication note.
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Hal Boyle
New York
van Johnson
Bill Bendix
Fredric March
Marlon Branda
JFK Moscow visit feeler sparks Atlantic rift
Drew Pearson reports a cautious Moscow feeler about Kennedy visiting the Soviet Union next June through the American Embassy. The piece outlines allied and inside administration splits over engaging Moscow, notes De Gaulle’s reaction, and recalls Eisenhower Khrushchev era lessons and budget tensions on Berlin.
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Washington
Moscow
Kennedy
Soviet Union
Berlin
Khrushchev
Black Sea
Kennnedy
Cardinal Mindszenty
United States
Menshikov
National Press Club
de Gaulle
Macmillan
NATO
France
Distaff Side Curiosities and Historical Snippets
A collage of light anecdotes from public jokes to stamps and fashion. Notes on the first Kansas sunflower stamp from 1941 beer tax issues, a Swiss sunflower 10 centimes stamp, and a quip about a department store Santa. Also mentions inflation era humor and a 1873 Kansas bustles column. Buy TB Christmas seals and donate blood. Christmas shopping in Garden City.
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Kansas
Kangas
Switzerland
The
Kansas Historical Quarterly
Dee
Garden City
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bin Brown
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Trey
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Joy Dirksen
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