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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1961
Page
2
A Purdue University nutrition specialist reports that while retail food costs rose, wages rose faster, making food cheaper relative to income than 12 years ago. Meat prices rose less than other goods. in 1950 consumers spent 6.6 percent of disposable income on red meats and got 145 pounds per person, while last year they spent 4.6 percent for 160 pounds.
A Syracuse reader recalls praying for help to give her son a Christmas. Two women brought gifts from their son Jimmy, who had bought presents but later died in a Colorado mine cave-in. She honors his memory and urges prayers for unsung Jimmies and angels in disguise.
Dan Spencer fell ill with a rash and symptoms leading to a doctor’s visit. Diagnosed as an allergy to fir trees, the Spencer Christmas tree was relocated from the living room to the front porch with decorations intact.
Washington turmoil centers on Senator Tom Dodd of Connecticut as he attacks the Kennedy administration policy on Congo. Dodd, once a Guatemala foreign agent, urged positions contrary to State Department line, aided Katanga interests, and drew responses from Ambassador Gullion and President Tshombe. The episode unfolds as Hoover weighs in and Capitol Hill debates administration strategy.
The piece reports Attorney General Robert Kennedy leading a broad crackdown on gambling, with a task force sent to Pittsburgh to target the Mannarino mob in New Kensington and efforts extending to Miami Beach. Senate rackets chair John McClellan subpoenas cabaret owners from Chicago and Baltimore amid probes into gambling, white slavery, narcotics, and related rackets. It notes Hot Springs, Arkansas, as a center of gambling flourishing under little interference.
A 27 year old Butler Missouri housewife tried on purple capri pants in a Kansas City department store and could not remove them. After 15 minutes her aunt helped with tugging and squeezing. The pants cost 3 98 and she left the store. At her mother’s home in Hickman Mills the daughter was freed with a razor blade. Penguins molt annually and stand immobile until new plumage appears and they swim again.
Anthropologist Margaret Mead at the 128th AAAS meeting urged bomb proof shelters for newlyweds to preserve human survival after nuclear war. She proposed an internationally financed system where each country shelters all marriages within a two week period, with couples spending two weeks after marriage in shelter.
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