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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1969
Page
2
Garden City faces growth in the 70s driven by cattle, water, and space, demanding housing, power, parking, traffic flow, and convention facilities. The piece argues growth is inevitable but requires proactive community planning and caution about public shaming minor traffic offenders. It warns a daily paper’s policy on listing minor offenses may miscast crimes and pose safety risks.
A reader recalls church gifts to children, stockings filled with gum and treats, and ongoing parish acts of charity. The letter praises church support, shares personal nostalgia, and thanks congregants for generosity that aids needy villages through St. Thomas Episcopal and Bishop Gordon of Alaska.
A letter from M R and MRS WILBUR LALA of Kirwin Kansas urges rural Americans to oppose federal regulations they claim favor large corporations over local locker plants. The writers call for a New Year push to contact congressmen and state legislators and threaten to oust officials who back “big interests” over rural livelihoods. They cite plans to curb small high schools and push for easements to aid rural areas.
Washington based GOP chairman Rogers Morton serves as a director of Atlas Chemical Industries Wilmington Del a major explosives maker involved in military contracts including a 168 million Volunteer Ammunition Plant project in Chattanooga Tenn and an 18 million remaining under a 1965 fixed fee contract He earns annual payments of 3000 to 3600 while on the board Morton says constituents knew of his Atlas ties and aides are told not to seek Atlas help Morton sits on the Ways and Means Committee which shapes tax policy affecting Atlas and its defense related business He left Atlas board recently after a surge of duties but would not quit until May Atlas also owns Stuart Pharmaceuticals and produces nitroglycerin and dynamite among other products All facts connect to government regulation and defense contracts
Barbara Oringderf highlights a Cimarron Jacksonian 1904 feature listing guidance for young people. The piece quotes long lists of "Don't" actions for both men and women, urging restraint, honesty, kindness, and personal integrity as a New Year sentiment.
The column argues John Lindsay, though a Republican, should lead the Democratic Party in New York. It surveys his career from mayoral runs to 1969 results, and suggests a path where Lindsay shifts to the Democrats to reform both parties and push for a more progressive state government.
Christmas homecoming draws a clash of generations as antiwar and peace group talk fills a local gathering place. A father worried how holiday discussions would go with his two sons soon to receive doctorates, while many residents travel or host relatives over the season visiting family across the country and abroad.
Garden City Telegram publishes daily except Sunday and six holidays year round. Rates include $1.75 monthly by carrier in Garden City and $8.00 for a 9 month school year for local area students. Delivery terms specify payment in advance and publication day delivery by mail where needed.
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