Mental Health Week in Kansas Reflects Progress
Editorial notes Kansas gains in mental health care and signals potential for further reform. It highlights the state’s progress, cites statistics about use of services, and urges continued public action and vigilance against littering as a civic duty. Letters from readers invited, with names withheld on request.
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State Social Welfare Department
Kansas
Kandane
America
Garden City
Four Dads sing moods in Dodge City barbershop lore
A quirky local note reports Four Fellows from Dodge City plus members from Ensign and Montezuma forming the Four Dads, performing backroom barbershop melodies at a district American Legion convention. Miz Slim Pickens asked to pass a message to Bob Wells about indoor plumbing.
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Dodge City
Ensign
Montezuma
District American Legion
Elvis
Miz Slim Pickens
Bob Wells
Justice Department accused of political bias in prosecutions
Drew Pearson reports Senate Democrats pressed Attorney General Rogers over uneven enforcement, noting Powell grand jury setbacks and multiple grand jury moves. The piece catalogs cases from Galveston grain losses to AT&T and Superior Oil, alleging avoided prosecutions and conflicts of interest within the Eisenhower era DOJ.
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Washington
Justice Department
Capitol Hill
Sen
Albert Gore
Tennessee
Jack Brooks
Texas
Pearson
William P. Rogers
Rogers
Nixon
Adam Clayton Powell
Eisenhower
Powell
U.S
Thomas Bolan
Bolan
Powell Grand Jury
New York
Mr. Bolan
Senator Gore
Representative Brooks
Supreme Court
Lamar Caudle
Matt Connelly
Truman Administration
Omaha
Kansas City
St. Louis
Truman
Caudle and Connelly
Ruby Hulen
Senate Judiciary Committee
Galveston
E. H. Thornton
Bunge. Corporation
Alan Shivers
Ike
Thornton
Shivers
American Telephone and Telegraph Co
Brownell
White Sulphur Springs
Edward Foote
Warren Petroleum
Gulf Oil
Congress
FBI
Dixon-Yates
Kefauver
Senate
There’s Pay Day and Then Other Days
Hal Boyle reflects on moments of loss and the office’s quiet deaths that reveal character and shared humanity. He notes how a coworker’s death shifts the office from routine to a sheltering, communal memory, then contrasts with a Calabrian landslide that buries a family and neighbors, killing twelve.
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Hal Boyle
New York
Cox
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Topeka
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Chamber of Commerce
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Vern Grimsley
Garden City Telegram
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Robert Walls
Gener Maanger
Anl
Murphy In
Anoithese Choistoge Iter
Marvin ‘Ulthe
Genoa
Sbllockk Srpoy Post Ta
Drew Pearson
Superior Oil Company
Elmer Patman
John Neff
Senator Case
South Dakota
Joseph McGarraghy
Howard Keck
Superior Oil
John
Jesus Christ
Reggio Calabria
Italy
Pasquale Fedele
Calanna
Her’s
Pasquale
California
St. Ph
Modern Radio
Alcoa
Prow
CROWN
Standard
Gasiaf
Pete's Standard Service
Stevens and
Pine
Garden City, Kansas
Lucas & Son Standard Service
N. Meiin
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