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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1964
Page
2
Editorials reflect the Saturday edition's opinions and commentary from December 12, 1964. The page presents local perspectives on community issues, governance, and public policy, typical of mid‑1960s Oklahoma-Texas regional press.
Observers decry a Mississippi preliminary hearing where a woman judge dismissed charges against 20 men linked to the slaying of three civil rights workers. The piece questions legality and raises national shame while noting Dodge City rainfall and drought areas in Kansas.
Ross Myers longs for school admission at Lincoln School where no kindergarten slots exist. He, aged for kindergarten, asks his brother Craig to take him to school to share his stories. The piece also notes a fourth grader in a Christmas program and offers six free black and white puppies from Mrs Schneider near Eminence Road.
A faded notice from Garden City details subscription terms for Published Deity Except Sunday and five holidays yearly. Rates include $1.65 monthly in Garden City paid to the carrier, $4 per year in Gray and surrounding counties, and $15.88 elsewhere. The ad notes motor carrier delivery rules and carrier service areas.
Air Force and NASA aides assisted Life magazine during a coast to coast five day junket from Edwards Air Force Base to Cape Kennedy. Gen Osmund Riland and NASA chief Jimmy Webb joined the trip aiding briefing briefings for executives and top advertisers. The party used a 720 jet and special arrangements including cars, a bus plan, a Cape Kennedy tent briefing, a Bloody Mary bartender and a souvenir book, with Life avoiding press coverage but planning gifts for attendees. The guest list included William Blakeslee, Donald Kendall, Ted Gamble, John Harper, M. E. Harvington, Peter Peterson, Beland Howell, Raymond Rowland, Edgar Shannon Jr., Robert E. Smith, John H. Thomas, Robert Townsand, Henry Taft, John Bowler, and Gilbert Fitzhugh, accompanied by Hedley Donovan, Jerome Nadry, and Andrew Heiskell. Critics in the Bobby Baker inquiry raised questions about hearings and timelines, while Ellis Island is noted as a future national historic site.
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