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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1964
Page
3
A brother editor suggests moving holidays to Mondays to create long weekends. He argues most holidays could shift to the fourth Mondays of November December and May, with limited opposition from habit yet to be considered. The idea aims to smooth midweek holiday issues, though changes to Independence and New Year’s Days are debated.
Opinion urges removing two term limit for Kansas sheriffs arguing elections weaken law enforcement. Authors favor professionalization with appointed sheriffs under civil service, noting current system relies on township politics and annual campaign pressures. They warn real reform requires county government reorganization likely in the 1970s.
A piece by Hal Boyle recalls how President Kennedy's assassination impacted his daughter Tracy Ann and other children. The girl drew a Kennedy death bulletin on her classroom blackboard, questioning mortality and family security in a time of national grief. The column notes children’ s responses to public tragedy and the broader social effect.
A cross section of Americans answer John F Kennedy's plea to serve their country. Charlie Kohen, a Georgetown antique dealer, gave rare Lincoln era items to the Smithsonian and Library of Congress. New York Central Railroad hosted a New Year charity ball for Mental Health at Grand Central. The Reuthers aided freed hostages in Bolivia. Recording for the Blind expanded access to textbooks for blind students. Dan Parker links pen buyers with an international pen-pal network for People-To-People friendship, echoing Kennedy's call for quiet acts of service.
Mrs Komlofske won a weekly Santa Fe Food recipe contest prize of 25 dollars for charity. She gave the prize to The Belles of St Catherine whose Mary is president. Readers can enter by sending a recipe with Santa Fe Foods from Stoners to the Wichita Eagle contest in Wichita Kansas. A weekly winner is announced. The note adds a personal sign off.
A humorously reflective column notes post holiday pressure to discard decorations and resume routines. It mentions crepey chin cream ads signaling end of festive excess, burlesque industry decline, a Kansas City queen retitling to avoid controversy, and a Seventh Street homemaker aiming to begin 1964 unburdened by 1963 ironing obligations.
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