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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1971
Page
1
A reader fusses about bindweed and county weed control while noting state limits on 2,4D usage. The piece also covers local chamber leadership, fashion nostalgia from The Telegram archives, and Garden City’s 1971 Kansas map expansion featuring three western cities and Gov. Docking’s photo greeting readers.
Washington AP reports State Department invited former Defense Secretary Clark Clifford to explain why Hanoi may free U S war prisoners quickly if a deadline to pull forces from South Vietnam is set. In Ga a captain faces pretrial hearing as Medina seeks dismissal. Chicago priests censure Cardinal Cody over church leadership.
The New York Times halted publication of material from a secret Pentagon study on Vietnam under a federal restraining order. A hearing was set for Friday while the Times refused to surrender the documents, calling the move censorship and unprecedented.
Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield says a top secret Vietnam war report will be disclosed in hearings even if courts block newspaper publication. He favors hearings by Foreign Relations or Armed Services committees or by himself to lay out the report to the public and Congress.
City files suit in Finney County District Court against J Henry Lafferty over three Garden City properties 412 W Santa Fe 311 W Santa Fe and 301 Inge alleging they are common nuisances and health and fire hazards. The petition says properties are infested with rodents insects and snakes and that such nuisances recur. It also claims all Lafferty properties in the city are maintained as nuisances and health hazards and that he has violated permanent injunctions by leaving items stack and stored on land or inside buildings in open conditions creating hazards. The city seeks permanent restraint against collecting piling or accumulating boxes papers barrels lumber glass building materials furniture or other items that could pose a health or fire hazard.
Topeka Kansas AP records show a traffic death log for hours 4 to 9 am on a Wednesday. The June 19 data compares 1971 totals to a similar 1970 period with 277 versus 275 deaths.
Partly cloudy tonight with a slight thunder shower chance and lows in the low 60s. Thursday will be fair and warm with a high in the low 90s. Sunrise 6 23, Sunset 9 07.
Kansas State University branch experiment station head Andy Erhart says no verification of the corn blight in Kansas. He notes no confirmed reports of the disease in the Sunflower State as sprouting crops begin this season.
Betty Thompson appointed executive secretary of the Santa Fe Trail Chapter of the American Red Cross, replacing Mildred Hope who resigns July 1 after over 30 years with the agency. Thompson, deputy county clerk of Finney County since 1965, and her husband live with their two children in Garden City. The chapter serves Finney plus six neighboring Kansas counties with headquarters at 317 N. 7th.
San Rafael California AP bail was denied to Angela Davis during pretrial in a Marin County courthouse shootout. Judge Richard Armason said he would have allowed release if California law permitted bail in capital cases. Davis, 27, a self proclaimed Communist and former UCLA philosophy instructor, is charged with murder kidnap and conspiracy alongside Rico Magee, 32.
Washington AP reports the Hatfield McGovern amendment to cut off U S funds for fighting in Indochina faced rejection in the Senate for the second time in nine months. A poll showed 54 against, 37 for, with nine undecided. House action loomed, while leaders warned a full withdrawal by year end would be unlikely.
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