Snow removal praise and local notices in brief
A reader praises city snow removal amid limited staff and equipment, noting New York City's struggles with a new melting method as a contrast. A photo on the Telegram front page shows trimmed pines at John Eaton’s yard on Warner Terrace near the Continental Inn. Valentine displays, Christmastide timing, and lighter mail flow are also mentioned with a local, chatty tone.
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New York City
John Eaton
Warner Terrace
Continental Inn
Pablo Casals Honored on 90th Birthday in Puerto Rico
In San Juan Puerto Rico AP Casals the famed cellist celebrates his 90th birthday with a beach walk breakfast with wife Marta Montaner and a piano session. Violinists Isaac Stern and Alexander Schneider fly in from New York for a La Fortaleza concert though Casals plans no performance. He left Spain in protest of Franco and has lived in Puerto Rico since 1957 the year of his marriage to Marta Montaner.
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San Juan
Puerto Rico
World of Music
U.S
Pablo Casals
Johann Sebastian Bach
Casals
Isaac Stern
Alexander Schneider
New York
la Fortaleza
Governor’s Mansion
Spain
Marta
Licenses and Bonds Approved by City Commission
City Commission approved several licenses and permit bonds in regular session. Cereal malt beverage licenses were issued for Owen Heeke's Pizza Garden at Taylor Plaza and Lupe Guillen at Las Palmas, with Guillen’s renewal contingent on an appeal outcome. Other renewals included Betty Flynn, Gary Lucas, Garden City Ice Co., and Tom Cross.
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Owen Heeke
Pizza Garden Op Taylor Plaza
Heeke
Lupe Guillen
Las Palmas
W. Fulton
Guillen
Betty Flynn
Park Inn
Gary Lucas
Garden City Ice Co
Tom Cross
Tom's Tavern
Harold Stickney
Air Control
Stickney
Dodge City
Geyers, Inc
Davy A. Jesiter
Roy Tabor
John Tatro
Carl O’brien
Isabel Frosco
British Jailers Warned to Stop Prison Breaks
LONDON AP British government warned jailers they may be fired unless prison breaks are halted after a rash of escapes. Sir James Mackay head of the Home Office prisons department sent letters to 50 governors demanding end to security slackness as 693 escapes this year left 122 convicts at large. Plans include stronger perimeter walls watch towers and searchlights amid calls for a tougher security program.
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London
James Mackay
Home Office
Mackay
Home
Roy Jenkins
Earl Mountbatten
Britain
Carnegie Course Preview Tonight
The Dale Carnegie course preview meeting is set tonight at the Garden City Co op Center. The session aims to be entertaining and educational and will start promptly at 7 33. The Garden City Telegram sponsors the course as a community service and the event is open to the public at no cost or obligation.
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Bulance
Wiley
Jennie Wilson
N. Center
Focal Car
Walter Motor Co
Vive Points Motor Co
Dale Carnegie
Garden City Co-op Center
Bill Littell
Dale Carnegie Area
Littell
Garden City Telegram
United States urged to use air power in Vietnam conflict
AAP report quotes House and Senate Armed Services chairs advocating overwhelming force against North Vietnam. Rivers and Russell criticize public opinion constraints, call for full air power and harsher punishment until Hanoi negotiates. Morse notes civilian casualties unite Hanoi, while the State Department expands access for some Americans. Nam Dinh target reports disputed by Navy pilot. Also, Italian authorities seize weekly installments of The Works of the Marquis de Sade to shield youths.
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Washington
EL. Mendel Rivers
House
Armed Services Committee
United States
Hanoi
Senate
Richard B. Russell
Rivers
South Carolina
Charleston
D.C
North Vietnam
Russell
Atlanta
Hanol
U.S
U.S. Vietnam
Wayne Morse
Dore
State Department
Harrison EB. Salisbury
New York Times
Louis Lomax
Salisbury
Nam Dinh
Robert C. Mandeville
Navy
Norfolk, Va
Ledger Star
Navy Task Force One Active Off North Vietnam
The U.S. Navy reports Task Force One, three nuclear powered ships led by Enterprise, is in action in the Gulf of Tonkin near North Vietnam. Bainbridge joined Enterprise and Long Beach at Yankee Station as ground fighting softens ahead of a New Year truce. American strength in South Vietnam reaches 376,000 with 109 killed and 574 wounded last week.
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Saigon
South Vietnam
U.S. Navy
Gulf of Tonkin
North Vietnam
Bainbridge
Enterprise
Long Beach
Yankee Station
6Th Fleet
Mediterranean
7Th Fleet
Viet
Mekong
U.S
Nam Dinh
Haiphong
Americans Leave Cuba in Mexico Airlift to U.S.
An airlift to move 880 Americans and 1,820 relatives from Cuba to the United States was under way via Mexico. The first group of 89 arrived in Merida on a Mexican DC6 and were to fly to New Orleans, with two more planeloads from Havana expected. Most evacuees are long-time Cuban residents of Latin descent who chose to leave after Castro took power. Negotiations, delays, and vetoes delayed departures despite earlier Swiss mediation.
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Merida
Mexico
Cuba
United States
New Orleans
Havana
Fidel Castro
Castro
U.S
Johnson
Gustavo Diza Ordaz
Fernando Pamanes Escobedo
Beginning Next Week Uncle Sam to Take A Bigger Tax Bite
Washington AP reports the federal government will collect a larger Social Security tax starting next week to fund higher benefits, notably elderly medical care. The 1967 maximum rises to 290.40 dollars with 33 dollars allocated to Medicare, impacting workers and employers. The increase funds Medicare and regular Social Security, with further boosts anticipated through 1987 and potential future benefit increases. President Johnson supports broader benefit improvements next year, backed by both parties.
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Washington
Congress
Johnson
Hints of hydrogen bomb speculation after China blast
Japanese experts weighed implications of China's fifth nuclear test, arguing it could be a hydrogen device or highly boosted nuclear weapon. Analysts cited yields of several hundred kilotons, debates on whether the test signaled real production, and concerns over atmospheric fallout with New Year weather forecasts in Japan.
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John Roderick
Tokyo
Red
China
Japan
Sankei
Japanese Defense Agency
U.S
Asahi
United States
Nevada
Mainichi
Opment
Japanese Meteorological Agency
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
Mercury Dips To Zero In Kansas As Cold Snap Hits
Clear and cold conditions spread across Kansas with readings from 5 above to 5 below. Abilene reported 5 below while Pittsburg reached 13. Snow squalls appeared in the northeast, leaving a foot of snow in Salina and Concordia. Forecasters predicted another two days of below normal temperatures with gradual moderation ahead.
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Topeka
Kansas
Abilene
Pittsburg
Othr
Hutchinson
Russell
Garden City
Wamego
Chanute
Salina
Concordia
Jury Call Date Changed for Finney County Term
Prospective jurors for the January term of Finney County District Court need not report until 10 Jam. Feb. 15. Judge Bert J. Vance announced a civil trial set for opening day, Jan. 9, has been postponed. Four civil cases will be tried by jury, mostly from motor vehicle accidents, with one involving a property settlement.
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Finney County District Court
Bert J. Vance
Vance
Hope Troupe Performs for Vietnam Wounded at Clark Air Base
American comic Bob Hope and his traveling troupe entertained 28 Vietnam war wounded at Clark Airbase near Manila. An audience of over 16,000 servicemen and families watched an almost all–wounded crowd, including patients in hospital beds and wheelchairs, respond with cheers and applause throughout the outdoor show.
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Manila
Bob Hope
Clark Airbase
U.S
Hope
Garden Sass on marriage and dancing with a babe
Gus Garden quips that a married man or a bachelor differs in how they pace the floor. A bachelor dances with a babe while a married man keeps steady. The remark captures light social humor on home life and courtship.
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Gus Garden
Whee
Bachelor
Babe
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