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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1966
Page
2
The author argues Kanal law barring minors under 21 from buying cigarettes is unenforceable due to widespread access via vending machines and small towns. They note teens smoking near schools, health concerns, and the illogical gap with beer age limits. The piece calls to abolish or revise the statute.
A hometown column reflects on gossip and aging, with Susie Curtis of Garden City now in a Pampa Texas nursing home and a Christmas mood framing small, humorous observations. A local man blunders through a five-and-dime, buying six dollars of items he didn’t need while everyday meals challenge holiday baking, and a quip about a humbug pre Christmas echoes lighthearted local life. The piece ends with a look at a school Christmas program wings problem for angels and improvised costumes.
Hal Boyle notes Jefferson paid 75 cents for a Christmas turkey, ducks sold for 30 cents, and Roosevelt once banned then allowed a Christmas tree. He also riffs on cherophobia and cermaphobia, holiday spending, marriage odds, and assorted quips, folklore, and anecdotes reflecting mid century popular wisdom.
Drew Pearson reports on Rep. Adam Clayton Powell's expanding staff costs after taking chair of the House Education and Labor Committee. The payroll rose from 18 to 76 with several members earning over twenty thousand dollars, amid travel junkets by Powell aides. The piece notes investigations by Rep. Wayne Hays and references Powell's Bandung Conference stance and earlier Indiana sand dunes park naming debates.
In North St. Louis a car crash left 17 year old Edward Cissell with his left leg severed below the knee. Surgeons reattached the limb after the accident Sunday night. Driver Theodore Adams, 17, sustained multiple head and body injuries and was listed in critical condition.
Washington asks what kind of President Johnson will be in the last two years of his first full term. Once vigorous and campaigning, he now appears withdrawn and less visible, touring Asia but offering few aid efforts to his party after the November losses. The piece weighs the Vietnam war, public support, and personal health as factors shaping his public stance and future actions.
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