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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1973
Page
2
The piece discusses a petition by hundreds of Alaskans for independence under United Nations oversight. It imagines a gold standard with Alaska setting gold at $150 an ounce, mining expanding, and currency backed by gold, while noting potential immigration and practicality concerns in a separate nation.
Television newsman Bill Mason of WGN Chicago tells Senate and House subcommittees that farmers and consumers are not enemies. He warns that portraying them as adversaries risks weakening the agricultural system and harming the nation and world as inflation bites. The real enemy, he says, is inflation.
A Wichita Eagle reader column previews TV crime show Crimewatch on ABC at 10 30 p m with Truman Capote interviewing and Al Dewey featured. It mentions a March of Dimes Walk-a-thon sponsor failure and comments on middle age from Charles Pearson, noting a lighter tone about aging.
Jack Anderson reports that Watergate leaders used forged CIA credentials during spying and sabotage. McCord and Liddy allegedly flashed aliases like George Russell while CIA papers authenticated the false identity. Internal memos and ex-CIA links surface, suggesting possible CIA involvement or input, with Haldeman era notes and White House liaison ties mentioned.
In a provocative interview Art Buchwald quotes a Justice Department official outlining contingency plans for mass arrests tied to the Watergate case. The official mentions detentions at JFK Stadium and the Coliseum, transport by chartered buses and planes, and thousands of lawyers on standby across major cities. The dialogue suggests a sweeping, though contested, strategy to process potentially up to 15,000 detainees while preserving rights and limiting detentions to under a week where possible.
A reflective note cites Genesis 13 12 about Abraham and Lot dwelling in Canaan and Sodom and asks how our own life choices direct our path. The piece presents a moral question about direction and destiny with a mythic reference to a silent hunter.
Commentary argues unions wield monopoly influence driving inflation and displacing market discipline. It cites right to work laws, antitrust needs, and violence incidents to claim unions threaten individual freedom and workers’ rights while urging sweeping political action and state and federal reforms.
Joy Stilley recalls siblings Bret and Gay who drafted elaborate wills and trade agreements as children. The piece highlights their formal contracts for TV viewing, stores trips, and shared ownership of treasured items, ending with a humorous note on potential legal futures.
Eugene Sheffer style puzzle hints a cryptoquip with the line T equals It and references yesterday and today clues. The garbled text includes GLUMBLES and GRAND SLAM hints alongside cryptic letter strings, indicating a themed wordplay puzzle note from the syndicate.
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