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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1979
Page
4
An editorial describes how the elderly living alone face peril after a fall and details the start of Operation Carrier Alert. Involving the post office, the mail carriers union, and the Council on Aging, the program lets seniors register their names so carriers can check on them.
Garden City hosts an active senior citizens group and may already run a welfare program for elderly living alone. The council considers adopting a California model to improve outreach, learning from other communities and applying best practices to protect registered seniors.
The piece argues the SALT II arms control pact is in the US and world’s best interest, slows the arms race, and should be judged on merits. It urges the Senate to set partisan politics aside and perform its constitutional role, noting the Founders limited executive treaty power for good reason. The editor says debate is healthy and essential, and the Senate’s response will prove its wisdom.
Eleven women from Garden City’s GCHS class of 1961 returned after 18 years to relive old times. The group, once neighbors in a five block area, traveled from Kansas City Topeka Phoenix Atlanta Tucson Houston and Santa Fe for the reunion. Attendance was 100 percent as mothers and friends joined in planning a weekend of reminiscences and a slumber party.
In a Europe report from Athens, Stuart Awbrey notes The Times of London halted publication seven months ago due to printing union resistance to modernization. Other papers like The Guardian and The Telegraph failed to replace it, revealing a stubborn British class struggle within the press as unions resist computerized changes.
A critique of global ownership of major British papers including The Sun The News of the World The Observer The Daily Mail and The Times. It argues labor disputes silence the press and that readers lose a broad range of opinion and access to information when papers are controlled abroad or suppressed.
Art Buchwald critiques how press coverage of a looming gas shortage triggered panic buying. He recalls readers’ reactions, radio and TV amplification, and compares to wartime behavior while recalling community memories in Forest Hills and Queens Boulevard.
In Forest Hills during wartime shortages, Nat the grocer secretly rationed scarce items. A 20 percent mustard allotment cut spurred covert handoffs to my father who hid jars in the closet. As shortages spread, Nat saved staples for loyal customers, later trading rhubarb runs for nostalgia and respect from the family.
A CIA secret report portrays President Park Chung Hee pressuring the United States to keep its nuclear umbrella and even exploring reprocessing facilities. Officials say Seoul could maintain covert aims while denying an arsenal, with reactors planned through 1983 and possible future purchases from the US, France, and Germany.
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