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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1968
Page
2
At a editors meeting a female panelist urged readers to look beyond headlines and photos she argued that papers distort less than readers imagine. She cited a police brutality photo used to overplay conduct and urged focus on constructive local news, noting newspapers emphasize good deeds of youth more than the misdeeds.
ULYSSES columnist Jay Baugh recalls memories of Bonnie and Clyde in the 1930 to 1984 span. He mentions a Hugoton cafe in 1980 and a South Dodge car hop, a bank robbery in Iowa, a Meade park incident, and a fatal Texas Rangers ambush in Louisiana. He questions the film’s portrayal and invites local recollections.
Hal Boyle notes marriage customs on Malekula where a bride’s two front teeth are knocked out in a traditional ceremony after paying with pigs and yams. The column riffs on old threshold ideas, then pivots to curious facts about Columbus, skiing in Japan, how Russians answer phones, and a Pearl Buck quote.
Local and Eres College students are set to pay five dollars for a month of the school year. Telegram motor carrier service must publish by mail in cities that require carrier service, with local carrier rates applying.
Washington reports the real estate lobby secured a crucial 8 to 7 vote delay in the House Rules Committee to kill the open housing provision of the civil rights bill after eight weeks of debate. Key GOP figures like Rep. David Martin and H. Allen Smith backed the delay, while Rep. James Delaney's decisive vote kept the bill from passage, amid pressure from Nixon Rockefeller and civil rights leaders.
In a Paris letter, Art Buchwald jokes that French gold hoarding turns beds into lumps and teeth into gold as cafes serve bullion soup. He notes protests, bizarre trends, and even a plan to turn gold into usable metal while France faces economic strain alongside De Gaulle. The piece ends with a formal note about the Inter-American Geodetic Survey, a US military initiative involving 17 Latin American nations since 1946.
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