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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1964
Page
3
The Garden City Telegram's Page 4 for Monday May 11 1964 presents editorials weighing local governance and plans for growth. Contributors discuss taxation, public services, land use, and civic responsibility. The discussion reflects era concerns about modernization and community development.
President and Governor proclaim May as Senior Citizens Month to counter age discrimination. The text urges equal employment policies to help older Americans gain meaningful work, dignity, and social participation, noting the economic and personal losses from age restrictions and premature retirement.
Garden City reader NHubert Ud. Biehn questions if teen driver premiums should rise, arguing education types do not ensure safer driving. He advocates a unified liability law, license-based insurance, confiscation for driving without license and insurance, and better accident investigations by law enforcement.
Hal Boyle notes that only 19 percent of mid-Manhattan workers live outside the city yet hold 36 percent of top executive and professional roles. He also riffs on quirky history and folklore, contrasting urban life with cultural trivia and noting girls and women driving cross country in 1909.
Allen Hib bard of Medicine Lodge is the new president of the Kansas Board of Pharmacy. Dana Creitz of Parsons was elected vice president and Warren Lorenz of Abilene secretary at a meeting Sunday, Woodrow Anderson of Dodge City and Terry Jacquith of Topeka were elected to the board.
In Wichita, the Eagle gains monopoly control by acquiring the Beacon, formerly owned by Sen. Henry Allen. Internal Revenue probes target two Eagle executives, Jack Speer and Britt Brown, for trading advertising as unreported income. Marcellus Murdock loses editorial power, remains board chairman, as Brown, Speer, and allies move to tighten control.
Ottawa Kansas AP reports Joan Wilkens 18 Ottawa University sophomore won Miss Ottawa and will compete at Miss Kansas in Pratt June 10 13. She earned a 100 scholarship. Runners up were Elizabeth Hinton 20 Ottawa University junior and Merrie Leah Crawford of Baker University.
Local Chamber of Commerce women under Georgia Brown plan a June week of tours luncheons banquets speeches meetings and mixers for the Mid West conference. The melodrama will be home grown not Shakespearean. Also noted are FinNup Park Hospitality House activity and new snack service equipment at the county museum.
Kansas City council approves a charter amendment to place Daylight Saving Time on the August primary ballot. Opponents circulate referendum petitions to suspend a prior daylight saving trial plan, potentially delaying the trial period if enough signatures are gathered.
Publication details for The Telegram Publishing Company based in Wichita Kansas list subscription and delivery terms with carrier and mail prices. It notes AP association and local news representation, with regional mailing areas and annual rates for various districts.
Lawrence High School Kansas students Erik Olin Wright and Philip Y Paden placed among the top 14 at the National Science Fair. Both supervised by Mrs. Margaret McReynolds, the pair tied to odds of one in 18 million for two winners from the same classroom. Wright won for his analysis of twists from cutting a Möbius band. Paden earned for stimulus induced changes in the synaptic complex. Awards were given at a banquet concluding the event.
Evangelist Billy Graham urged husbands to show their wives love and give their lives to Christ to rekindle their marriage. Speaking to about 23,000 at Balboa Stadium in San Diego he called divorce and broken homes the No 1 social problem in America and urged men to be lovers.
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