Time folds shift in Kansas calls for unity
Sen James Pearson warned that Washington ignores Southwest Kansas while the Department of Transportation abdicates standard time. Local opts create chaos as Colby and Garden City observe different hours. The writer, upset by the move toward local control, proposes western Kansas unite to exempt daylight savings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Pearson
Washington
Kansas
Department of Transportation
Garden City
Transportation Department
Interstate Commerce Commission
We Distaff Side Wedding Gift Toaster Goes On Off
A playful column notes our 19 year old automatic toaster still toasts well yet sabotages breakfasts rarely. The piece spoofs domestic tech quirks and neighborhood small talk amid quirky local anecdotes and name drops.
Americans Tempted by Expense Accounts and Echoes of Old Slang
In a satirical column from New York, Boyle lampoons expense account culture, bagels, and modern prosperity while skewering intellectuals and stock market antics. The piece notes teens reverting to old slang like hsob, critiques material wealth, and contrasts $15 000 versus $6 000 incomes, ending with local publication details from Garden City Telegram.
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New York
Manhattan
Dullsville
New York Stock Exchange
Johnsons use of carpenters spurs secrecy row
Drew Pearson outlines government carpentry across states, detailing the Secret Service role in protecting the President and ex-presidents. Carpenters and an electrician were sent from Washington to Austin to work on Luci Nugent's home, with others dispatched to Gettysburg for Eisenhower. The piece also critiques Nation's Business on the Job Corps and lists business leaders supporting the program.
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Washington
Johnson
Texas
Luci Nugent
Gettysburg
Eisenhower
Secret Service
United States
Harry Truman
Independence
Missouri
Austin
General Services Maintenance Force
Nugent
General Services Administration
Gonzales
Jaime
IBM
Burroughs Adding Machine
RCA
Xerox
Litton Industries
Westinghouse
Montgomery Ward
International Tel & Tel
Robert FE. Brooker
Charles B. Thornton
G. L. Phillippe
General Electric
Donald Dougas
Douglas Aircraft
Edgar F. Kaiser
Kaiser Industries
Gardner Symonds
Tennessee Gas
Thomas J. Watson, Jr
Roger B. Sonnabend
Hotel Corporation of America
Today in History highlights milestones across centuries
On June 2 1967 and earlier, events across nations are noted, including Queen Elizabeth II coronation in 1953, Maine's 1851 prohibition law, the first night baseball game in 1883, Grover Cleveland's White House wedding in 1886, and U S Congress granting citizenship to all American Indians in 1924.
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Britain
Elizabeth I
Maine
Fort Wayne
Ind
Grover Cleveland
Frances Folsom
White House
U.S. Congress
Hermann Goering
John F. Kennedy
Paris
Nikita Khrushchev
America
Khrushchev
Soviet Union
Joaquin Balaguer
Dominican Republic
Juan Bosch
Why chimps scratch may signal grooming requests
Ethologist Jane Van Lawick Goodall explains that chimps scratch not only from itch but to show others the body part they want groomed. The behavior serves as a social cue for grooming within the troop.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jane van Lawick-Goodall
Art Buchwald Satirizes LBJ and Intellectuals Dinner
Washington humorist sketches President Johnson’s attempt to woo intellectuals. A luncheon with aides, spoofed plans include books, poetry, beard growing, painters and Leonard Bernstein, ending with Johnson arguing authenticity matters more than clever disguises.
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Jim Bishop
William S. White
Plato
St. Thoma
Aquinas
Shakespeare
Tolstoy
Kafka
Camus
Allen Ginsbert
Robert Lowell
Leonard Bernstein
Martha Raye
Wal
Dolly
Needlef spinning in poverty war text rots into noise
Fragmentary OCR reads like a chaotic editorial about the war on poverty, mentioning hawks and doves, escalations, financial strain on households, joint accounts, overdraft fears, and pejorative cultural snippets. It mixes political metaphor with scattered phrases about debt and bystanders.
Texas' Tower Backed by Citizens Committee
A citizens' committee led by TV star James Drury supports Texas Senator John G Tower for the Republican presidential nomination. Drury said the group is neither blessed nor frowned upon by Tower and that Tower is aware of the committee's activities. He called Tower a progressive conservative who could beat President Johnson again after last year's victory over Waggoner Carr.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
AIP
John G. Tower
Texas
Citizens’ Committee
James Drury
Virginian
Drury
Tower
Johnson
Waggoner Carr
John Connally
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Kei
Red Cross
Betrade
Electric Prunes
Boyle
Garden City Telegram
Telegram Publishing Company
Bill Brown
Marvis Smith
John Frazier
Barden City
Bansss
Associated Press
Finney
Lane
Scott
Wichita
Greeley
Hamilton
Kearny
Grant
Haskell
Gray Counties
Drew Pearson
Eeee
Carpenter
Lucis
U. S. Chamber of Commerce
U.s.chambers of Commerce
GOP
Pat Goldman
Congress
Jim Gonzales
Jim
Art Buchwald
LBJ
Ali
T.S. Eliot
Lady Bird
Jackson Pollack
Paul Klee
Andy Warhol
Marvin
The
Washington Post Co
Los Angeles Times
Landbank
Land Bank
Ae Lees
Federal Land Bank Association
Wayne
Casey" Foster Manager
Garden City, Kansas
Texas’ Tower
Volkswagen
Johnson Motor Co., Inc
W. Wyatt Earp Blvd
Dodge City
V.F.W
Gay Smithe
Africa
Sunset Strip
the Wild Angels
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