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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1961
Page
2
The United Furniture Workers Union head attacks President Kennedy over a claim the rocking chair is not union made. He says he wrote to the President weeks ago but received no reply, a move critics call narrow minded and wasteful. A broad call to let the President relax in the rockers without a union label is urged.
A Kansas resident urges Garden City readers to bar offenders from parks and zoos and proposes patrolling the city park by day with a large stick. The writer mocks lenient rules, cites Teddy Roosevelt, and offers to volunteer to enforce discipline.
Hal Boyle laments changes in the weekly calendar, noting Saturday’s loss of magic and Sunday rituals, while Monday remains fixed. The piece contrasts past routines with modern life and ends with the New Mexico Conference appointing Rev. Leonard Tomlinson to a pastorate in House, NM.
Drew Pearson notes Americans self sacrifice in combating communism. He cites Kiwanis and other volunteers like the High Point cargo caravan for Cuban refugees, the National League of Insured Savings Associations, Walter Bazer funding an African student, and Herb Cobey in Ohio aiding Mexican farmers with old farming gear and chicks. Cobey travels to Mexico to boost farming methods and income, facing embassy skepticism but pressing on with a one man drive against communism.
Garden City Telegram details newspaper policy and subscription rates. Includes publisher and staff roles, AP partnership language, rights notice, and mailing and carrier pricing for local and surrounding counties.
Four extra special kittens born at the vet’s join two adult Fosters cats after a Denver trip. Free kittens may require a small token. Two dogs, a puppy and its mother, moved to Brinkmeyers, who have other dogs and an Irish terrier on order. Two male kittens remain free. Alta Brown student Ronnie Leep left track meet due to pink eye. Local mother reports altitude tests on her son’s IQ.
In Oslo NATO foreign ministers voiced resolve to confront Communist expansion and pledged to aid less developed areas. They defended West Berlin but avoided declaring readiness to risk war beyond Europe, leaving uncertainty about direct intervention in Laos, Vietnam, and Southeast Asia.
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