Short Ballot Proposal For Kansas Reform
The Second Commission recommends a short ballot with voters choosing governor lieutenant governor and attorney general while the legislature appoints a comptroller general. Governor would serve one four year term, elected jointly with the lieutenant governor, who would appoint a cabinet. The piece argues this mirrors federal structure and could streamline state government, urging Kansans to embrace the change despite expected opposition.
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Distaff Side A MEAL and Red Cross bet on pints
Distaff Side A MEAL describes a light repast after a polieRelLie icebox raid and before the after meal snack. Red Cross chairman Lew Lyman bet Nel Lindner a dollar more than 200 pints would be collected at the December Bloodmobile visit. 212 units were donated. Donor prize was a silver dollar presented at the latest Red Cross meeting. Edward E. Bill of Garden City writes Why Not Take Time to Smile a new poetry book from Pageant Press New York. The pace is varied and features unsentimental, vivid evocations of a passing world. A local young mother, busy with three children and home drapery work, has read little since Christmas except Spock on chicken pox and a decorating booklet. Copies of How I Made $2,000,000 in the Stock Market by Nicholas Darvas, published at 4.95, are available at 57 cents. Bachelors again head cedar chest buyers as they prepare for engagements. In Topeka an ambulance driver delivered a baby, his fifth career delivery at age 23.
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Senate probes 62 million General Dynamics fighter deal
Senate Arms Committee leader John McClellan probes a 62 million fighter contract won by General Dynamics after a turbulent review. The Navy and Air Force faced a top-level reversal of an 18 month evaluation, with Crown political influence cited as shaping the final award and potential future contracts worth billions.
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Presidents Emerge From Large Families, Says Hal Boyle
Hal Boyle argues presidents are bred from big families. Based on 34 presidents, nineteen had five or more siblings, sixteen were firstborn sons, and no president was an only child.
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Variety Column Bits From The Times
A collage of light trivia and quotes on ice cream sales, bees honey output, decorative lamp heads from old car headlights, affordable hairpieces in Los Angeles, a Miami floating bar, Miss Fat Stock Show of 1950, Johnson on marriage, pencils usage, and nerve speed. Garden City Telegram publishing notes and subscription rates appear in the footer.
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Kennedy Faces Conservative Congress in State of the Union
President Kennedy confronts a calm, cautious Congress as he enters another budget cycle. The economy shows steady improvement with calls for tax cuts to spur spending and investment, while key programs like medical care and education face uncertain fate. A Scotland case shows a burglar jailed after a thread of evidence leads detectives.
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