Press Chief Denies News Management Charges at Pentagon
Pentagon press chief Arthur Sylvester defends information policy before a House subcommittee calling criticisms hogwash and asserting reporters should get truth through government reports. He says editors decide what appears, not officials, and will review an order to disclose all contacts with newsmen. He denies selling out journalism and cites civilian press freedom under threat of nuclear war.
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Washington
Pentagon
Arthur Sylvester
Defense Department
Subcommittee
Defense
Sylvester
Robert J. Manning
State Department
Congress
South
Viet Nam
George Meader
R-Mich
Free Press
Meader
Michigan
Garden City High School Band Delivers Bang Music Night
Roger Stoner plays trumpet despite laryngitis as Garden City High School Band led by Robert Anderson performs a long spring concert before about 600 fans. David Williams and Rob Townsend stage a drum duet for encore while Bandi Wells fights illness to play flutes. An a cappella choir tour stops for lunch with live singing at Flamingo Inn. A Kansas Humane Societies memorandum notes Holsington dog in a school kitchen oven—unclear joke or incident.
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Roger Stoner
Garden City
Robert Anderson
Roger
David Williams
Rob Townsend
Flamingo Inn
McPherson A Capella Choir
Kansas
Colorado
Kansas Federation of Humane Societies, Inc
Leavenworth
Guy P. Miller
Hutchinson
Holsington
Kan
Korea Rejects U.S. Statement on Military Rule
Seoul reports that South Korea’s military regime dismissed a U S state department remark about prolonged rule. A spokesman said the inevitability of extending military rule would be judged by Koreans who know their situation better. Gen Chung Hee Park proposes a plebiscite to extend rule, with elections promised for spring and civilian government in August.
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Seoul
South Korea
U.S
U.S. State Department
Lincoln White
United States
Washington
Chung Hee Park
Excise Tax Bill Recommended by Kansas Senate Panel
The Senate Assessment and Taxation Committee backed a 3 percent excise tax on net income of banks savings and loan associations trusts and consumer loan firms to replace existing taxes on intangibles. Banks would pay about 1.28 million and savings groups about 415000, with projected revenue shifts totaling roughly 355000 for savings institutions and a 290000 cut for banks. A separate bill would impose a 5 percent excise tax on credit unions.
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Topeka
Senate Assessment and Taxation Committee
Frank Hodge
H-Hutchinson
Savings and Loan
Citizens Advisory Committee On
State and Local Public Finance
Kansas
Hodge
Citzen
William Ferguson
Sje General
Warm Weather Will Continue In Kansas Through Wednesday
AP report notes generally fair weather and warming temperatures across Kansas through Wednesday. A cooling period lowered readings by 10 to 20 degrees overnight with brisk winds in eastern Kansas and diminishing strong winds in the west. Eastern highs near 50s and western highs in the 60s, with overnight lows in the 30s. Monday highs ranged 61 to 72, with lows from 25 to 43. Western half sees freezing temperatures.
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Topeka
Kansas
Goodland
Pittsburg
Bidault Leaves West Germany in Mysterious Escape
Former French premier Georges Bidault left Steinebach with a police escort and was flown from Munich to an unknown destination. Bavarian Interior Ministry officials confirmed his departure and that he headed to the airport with a police escort. Police later found Bidault March 10 in the Steinbach villa of Dutch writer Heinz Nouhuys.
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Munich
Germany
Georges Bidault
West Germany
Bavarian
Interior Ministry
Bidault
Charles de Gaulle
Steinebach
Ministry
Steinbach
Heinz Nouhuys
Former Teacher of Castro Seeks to Overthrow Regime
Dr. Carlos Marquez Sterling, a Havana university former teacher who knew Fidel Castro, calls for a united Cuban revolt to oust Castro. He says unity of all factions under one leader is essential and would seek U S recognition if a single movement forms. He has long opposed multiple Cuban regimes and aims for democracy.
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Castro
Andrew Meisels
NEW York
Fidel Castro
Havana University
Carlos Marquez Sterling
Marquez Streling
Cuba
Marquez Sterling
Gerardo Machado
Fulgencio Batista
Fidel
Manhattan
Mexico
Ereips
United States
House of Representatives
Butts Files $10 Million Libel Suit Against Post
ATLANTA AP Investigation into the alleged rigging of a college football game continued after Wallace Butts filed a $10 million libel suit against the Saturday Evening Post. He claims the Post damaged his 35 year coaching career by publishing a libelous article alleging he fixed the Alabama Georgia game with coach Bear Bryant for financial gain. The suit seeks $5 million in punitive and $5 million in general damages.
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Atlanta
Wallace Butts
Georgia Athletic
Curtis Publishing Co
Saturday Evening Post
Butts
Post
George Burnett
Surance
Paul
Bear) Bryant
Alabama
Burnett
Georgia
Bryant
Johnny Griffith
Mitchell WerBell
Leonard Martin Dies of Injuries
Leonard Earl Martin 53 of Star Route 5 Finney County died at St. Catherine Hospital from injuries last Tuesday night when a camping trailer being pulled by a pickup struck him on US 83, 142 miles south of town. He was a Garden City resident for 10 years, survived by a widow, three sons, a daughter, his mother and eight grandchildren, with arrangements by Phillips White Funeral Home. He was interred as Finney County's fourth highway fatality of 1963.
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St. Catherine Hospital
Leonard Earl Martin
Star Rt
Finney County
US 83
Martin
Ron O'Dell
Rt. 1
Hazelton
Garden City
Wallace County
Methodist Church
Zella Man Counteman
Raton
N.M
Earl
Cupertino
Calif
Albert
Amarillo
Tex
A. Richard
Charleston
S.C
Rita J. Zellner
Wichita
Rose Martin
Sharon Springs
Berard
Chase
Arthur
Colby
Chester Rose
Eminence Rt
Elsie DeMint
Phillips-White Funeral Home
Garden Sass Signs of Spring Amid Sidewalk Scribbles
Spring arrives with playful scrawls on sidewalks as neighbors embrace lighter moods. Children and adults join in, leaving chalked marks that echo community warmth and garden pride in the new season.
Why I Give Blood Veterans Share Their Motives
A Red Cross article highlights 255 veteran donors from a community, noting 195 have given a gallon, 50 two gallons, nine three gallons, and one four gallons. It lists personal reasons from 24 donors, including duty, family need, community service, and gratitude, with a March 28 Bloodmobile visit at First Presbyterian church and calls for new donors.
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Red Cross
Red Cross Bloodmobile
First Presbyterian Church
Walter Buell
Elmer Bartlet
Deve Williams
Pershing
Jaco
Dave Rintoul
Gerald Reifschneider
Gene Quakenbush
W. Haze
Donna Sinclair
Soing
Rudy Perez
W. Santa Fe
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Bandi Wells
Russell Wells
Bandi
Korea
Rufus Mujica
Garden City Country Club
Rufus
Telegram
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City
City Commission
City Hall
Finnip Park
On & Chestnut
Finnup Park
The
Recreation Commission
B. J. Kirkwood
A. C. Kirkwood and Associates
Planning Commission
8Th and
Elm
Chamber of Commerce
Clifford Hope Auditorium
Concert Association
Bullet
Wan Aln
Peer
Dodge City
Alden
Jerry Ul
Rusavle
Salina
Teyreka Wichit
Edward L. Quinn
Jacksonville
Fila
Georgia Atty
Eugene Cook
Cook
Maj
Barney Ragsdale
Georgia Bureau of Investigation
American Academy of Polygraph Examinations
Leonard Martin
Knight
Rockefeller Office
Los Angeles
California
Goodwin J. Knight
Rockefeller
Murray H. Chotiner
Richard M. Nixon
Nixon
Nel
A. Rockefeller
Fits Garden
Maurice Lindner
Susan
Leo J.) Wilson
St. John
E. M Foreman
Holcomb
W. R. Mathews
Dale Marine
D. R
David Unruh
Northern Natural Gas Company
John Wells
Chesterfield
Marie
Hadley) Kauffman
Jerry Collier
Evans
Walter Meyer
E. Hack
Curtis Smith
E. Chestnut
Merrill Rowe
Bob Townsend
Jim Keller
Chesternetd
Mie
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