Courage Ignites Hope in Dighton Hero Gary Bartlett
Gary Bartlett, a Dighton youth and former Dighton High School football star who lost both legs and severe injuries to his hands and arms serving in South Vietnam, returns to Fitzsimmons Hospital for more surgery and re training. Supported by his parents and fiancée Judy Steinle, he plans marriage after release. His courage inspires while critics of deferment are noted.
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Gary Les Bartlett
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Fitzsimmons General Hospital
Denver
Army
Vietnam
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Gary
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Gary E Bartlett
The Distaff Side Holiday Reflections and Household Quips
The column muses on post Christmas ads for half price cards and wrapping, remaining cards with destinations unresolved, hospital wreaths from last year’s cards, the joy of new typewriter ribbon, and a New Year’s clothespin bag wish. It humorously laments slovenly habits and frozen routines.
Red Hot Economy Defies Cooling Efforts in 1968
New York AP reports the 1968 economy remained buoyant despite tax hikes and planned spending cuts. Consumers kept buying, retail sales rebounded, and investment rose, pushing Gross National Product higher than forecasters anticipated.
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Commerce Department
New Interior Secretary Pick Ties to Big Oil
Senate scrutiny grows over Nixon nominee Gov. Walter Hickel a friend of oil interests and his Alaska record. The piece details Hickel’s 1967 Eskimo cooperative clash at Kusko kwin, his use of state forces to block a Japanese ship, and a 1966 1967 pattern of actions against Eskimo fishers. It notes broader implications for Native Alaska welfare funds and the Interior Department’s future role.
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Washington
Robert O. Anderson
Atlantic- Richfield Oil
Richard Nixon
Nixon
Walter Hickel
Interior
The
USA
Govenor Hickel
Kuskokwin
Hickel
State Department
Jet Cargo Plane Crashes at Elmendorf Air Base Alaska
ANCHORAGE Alaska AP A Pan-American World Airways 707 cargo plane crashed on takeoff at Elmen dorf Air Force Base early Thursday. The four engine jet carried a crew of three. The plane broke into flames half a mile from the runway with no nearby buildings. Authorities said there were no survivors seen exiting the burning wreckage an hour after the crash.
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Anchorage, Alaska
Pan-American World Airways
Elmendorf Air Force Base
Far East
E. Howell
Subscription Rates And Policies At Local Newspaper
Second class postage paid at Garden City Kansas 67846. Subscription terms include carrier rates in Garden City 1.75 per month 9 month school year for students 4.00. Telegram motor carrier service requires day delivery by mail in cities with local carrier service. Out of town carrier 300 per week remail to areas in Finney Lane Scott Wichita Greeley Milton Kearny Grant Haskell and Gray counties 12.00 per year elsewhere 15.00. The Associated Press rights reserved for reproduction of all local news and AP dispatches.
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Kenses
Mf Telegram
Finney, Lane, Scott
Wichita
Greeley
Milton
Kearny
Grant
Haskell
Gray
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Associated
Things Said in 1968 That Shouldn't Have Been
Art Buchwald reflects on statements made in 1968 by public figures and officials that would later be seen as ill advised or out of touch. The piece recalls remarks directed at de Gaulle Lindsay Kennedy Nixon Daley Rostow and others, highlighting the gap between intention and outcome. The column uses satirical tone to catalog these famed misfires and their ironic consequences.
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Washington
Charles de Gaulle
Nanterre
Monsieur le
John Lindsay
Ocean Hill
Brooklyn
Jacqueline Kennedy
Jackie
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Richard Nixon
Spiro T. Agnew
Nelson Rockefeller
Miami
Humphrey
Daley
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Heidi
AFL
Supreme Court
Abe Fortas
Abe
American University
Pope Paul
Sargent Shriver
United Nations
George Wallace
Curtis LeMay
the Treasury
David Kennedy
Hand
Reds Renew Arms Offer to Jordan in Cairo talks
AMMAN Jordan AP The Soviet Union renewed its offer to supply arms to Jordan and to assist it politically economically and militarily The semi official Ad Dustour said Jordanian ambassador to Egypt Mohammed Adib Al Ameri and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko met in Cairo early this week Ameri said he told Gromyko of talks and Gromyko voiced readiness to back Jordan on political economic and military lines The two discussed possible steps if Israel rejects Security Council Resolution 242 calling for withdrawal from territories occupied in 1967.
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Soviet Union
ad-Dustour
Egypt
Mohammed Adib al Ameri
Andrei Gromyko
Cairo
Ameri
Gromyko
Russia
Security Council
Israel
More Attention For Sunflowers In Southwest West
The Agriculture Department will fund a long study with a $42,930 grant to research controlling the sunflower moth in the Southwest and West. Officials say sunflowers have excellent potential as a cash crop where cotton and grain sorghum dominate, with a 24 year program to assess new methods.
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Washington
Agricultura Department
December 26: The Day After Christmas of Quiet Victory
Hal Boyle observes December 26 as one of the finest days, a relief after Christmas stress. The piece blends humor and reflection on holiday burdens, office party tensions, Christmas cards, and the postholiday calm that follows, noting the return to normal life and the sense of quiet victory.
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New York
Santa Claus
Morning after the great feast finds no one famished
A cryptic cross puzzle by Eugene Sheffer and a cryptogram from MORNING AFTER THE GREAT FEAST yield clues and wordplay. The fragment mentions GMLOBH AVVE and CO 268 under King Fuaturas Syndicale, with a cryptic vibe and puzzle in a newspaper page segment.
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CO 268
Fuaturas
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