Dusty winds and spring fires signal seasonal cautions
Not Our Dust weekend notes blowdust concerns across Southwest Kansas as moisture lingers, with southern Texas Panhandle fields already dusty. Residents are urged to avoid burning, use ashtrays, and monitor wind conditions. The Telegram promotes a Pioneer Village tour to Minden, Nebraska, highlighting Kansas sights enroute.
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Eekend
Kansas
Texas Panhandle
Nk the Telegram
Minden
Neb
Distaff Side notes and Topeka trip wrap up civic fringe
The Marching Distaff Side column notes open breezes and a busy Topeka trip with garden city youths at the reapportionment session. High schoolers Leo Smith John Elsey Patti and Mary Lewis Mary Catherine Murray join the pilgrimage for essay awards. Puppet production by Hazel Gardiner paused due to a broken arm. Belles of St Catherine dues push renewal toward a nursing career fund. A home-seeking tan and brown dog at Security Oil Co. and a white gray kitten for Rona Eichenauer are listed with contact details.
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Hazel Gardiner
Reflection on February in Southwest Kansas history
Barbara Oringe surveys how February has puzzled early journalists from 1664 to 1966, noting February’s fickle mood, famous quotes about its length and events, from hanging months to leap year parties and birthdays of Lincoln and Sherman. The piece ends with a personal view that February’s charm fades as winter wanes.
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Barbara Oringe
Great Bend Tribune
Detroit Free Press
The
Cimarron Jacksonian
Washington
Lincoln
William T. Sherman
Ohio
Jane Bauman
Hutchinson News
Jane
House
Small Business Committee
John Dingell
D-Mich
America
Dingell
Federal Power Commission
Interstate Commerce Commission
Federal Communications Commission
House Interstate Commerce Committee
Harley Staggers
D-W. Va
Rep
House probes network squeeze of TV producers
Congressional inquiry into TV networks showing bias and gatekeeping. Dingell asks producers about 51 percent control for networks and accusations of blocking independent shows. The piece notes NBC CBS airways influence and cites David Wolper, Let My People Go, Race for Space, and political program making. It mentions irregular TV spots and a Secret Service incident involving Viet Nam protester James Peck at the Waldorf.
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Dingell
Don McGuire
Beverly Hills
Hennessey
Public Airways
McGuire
Joan Davis
The
Nets
David Wolper
CBS
NBC
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Gneresten
Secret Service
James Peck
Viet Nam
LBJ
Waldord
Herman Wiseman
Peck
Free Haircuts End At Hutchinson Reform School
Hutchinson Kan AP inmates at the state reformatory will no longer provide free haircuts and laundry to police officers teachers and ministers. Superintendent Nora Stucker says the institution must run as a penal facility not a public service. Barber training continues and inmates may clip hair for inmates and guards only.
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Hutchinson
Kan.ap
State Reformatory
Reformatory
Nora Stucker
Stucker
Telegram Want Ads Offer Buying or Selling Help
Classified notice highlights use of Telegram for buying and selling items. Mentions general guidance for posting, viewing, and contacting sellers. No specific items, dates, or local details provided.
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