Pleasure to Drive Through Modern Highways
Editorial notes that easy long-distance driving on smooth 4 lane highways from Garden City to Kansas City reduces trip time to under seven hours with few stops. Credits costly highway construction and fuel taxes, warns that modern comforts may lull drivers into overconfidence, but celebrates safer, faster travel and the open road’s appeal.
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Garden City
Kansas City
Great Bend
Salina
South Turnpike
Topeka
Homegrown puns and a carp wallet tale amuse readers
Readers share pun lines and jokes sparked by a contest and a game phrase. A retailer lampoon shares a carp to tarp walleting tale, and a mumps remedy clipping circulates with a butcher shop hog jaw suggestion.
Are You Afraid of Retiring Say Hal Boyle
Hal Boyle muses on retirement age and life after work in a provocative column. He contrasts youth's eagerness to quit early with elders fearing forced retirement, proposing a staged system of longer vacations and shorter weeks to sustain purpose and social function into old age.
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New York
Curbstone
Stiream
Vitzenry
Sarnoff urges private regulation for satellite system
Gen. David Sarnoff, RCA chairman, voices deep doubts about the Satellite Corporation project. He proposes a unified private regulation to operate all cables and radio and satellite links, arguing for an enlarged Satellite Corporation under government oversight with a private enterprise status.
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Washington
David Sarnoff
RCA
USA
Communications Satellite Corporation
Leo Welch
Corporation
U.S
Sarnoff
Senate
Satellite Corporation
Kennedy
Igaite
Welch
Gen. Sarnoff
Fred Kappel
At&t
James E. Dingman
North Atlantic
Afteas
Dingman
Rand
American Satellite Corporation
International Telephone Sud
U. S
British General Post Office
Guest's Name Causes Concern in Kiowa County Jail
The Kiowa County sheriff's office seeks to identify a mystery guest at the county jail with many aliases. A man nicknamed Charlie was picked up May 16 near Haviland by Deputy Harold Cilette. He holds various ID cards under different names and is about 37 years old, per Sheriff Bill Hogan.
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Greensburg
Kan
Kiowa County
Kansas Bureau of Investigation
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Charlie
Harold Cilette
Haviland
Bill Hogan
Garden City Telegram publication details and rates
Garden City Telegram published daily except Sunday and five days yearly by The Telegram Publishing Company at 177 East Chestnut. Brown and Editor Marvin Smith. Advertising Manager. Associated Press member. Subscription rates: by carrier in Garden City 2.55 monthly in advance, 0.30 weekly in other cities, 7.40 yearly by rail to Finney and nearby counties, 15.00 elsewhere. Postage paid at Garden City Kan. Telegram motor carrier service requires local delivery day by mail where carrier service exists.
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Garden City Telegram
Telegram Publishing Company
East Chestnut
Ban Brown
Marvin Smith
Associated Pres
Associated Press
Garden City
Finney
Lane
Scott
Wichita
Greeley
Hamilton
Kearny
Grant
Haskell
Gray Counties
Warden City
Kansea
Tf Telegram
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Aristotle
Buster
Boyfoot Bear
Benny
Deater
Hal Boyle
Geriatricians
Drew Pearson
Satellite Communications Corporation
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Pepsi-Cola
Pepsi-Cola Bottling Company
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