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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1967
Page
2
English millers voiced concern over dirty hard winter wheat from the United States and urged cleaner shipments for export. Great Plains Wheat, Inc. has worked to improve grade standards, but more effort is needed to maintain a positive image in foreign markets.
In suburban Lakin Waldrum displays two Peter Hurd watercolors including the Johnson portrait that displeased him least. At his grandparents’ Sunday dinner Billy Rooney reports dessert as strawberry sandwiches. A boy campaigns door to door to sell a kitten his mother won’t let him keep. The column laments faulty microphones and suggests megaphones as a simpler public address solution.
A Washington opinion column accuses oil lobbyists of draining up to six billion yearly from the Treasury via tax loopholes and pressuring policy, cites a GAO Vietnam oil shipments study as flawed, and notes Florida Governor Claude Kirk's finances and business ties. It also brushes cigarette dangers, airline smoking tactics, Vietnam war humor, and mail carrier time losses costing taxpayers.
Hal Boyle lists several modern excesses to abolish from a well ordered world. He mocks credit cards for wives, public muggers, fashion quirks, ice cream that must thaw, and showy motels. He jokes about garden talk, expensive garages, buzzers on wrists, secretary perks, and space race hype.
A reader from Holcomb expresses outraged sympathy with farmers and argues Harold Coffin’s The Needle column mocks rural intelligence. The letter defends farmers, notes agricultural college programs, and calls for more farm voices to be heard.
Rates are set for carrier and mail subscriptions across several counties. City carriers cost 1.55 dollars monthly prepaid, other cities 0.20 per week, mail 12 dollars yearly in Finney and nearby counties, 15 dollars elsewhere. student rate 5 dollars for nine months. AP rights noted.
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