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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1967
Page
2
The piece notes Americans honor the dead but many die on highways as well. It laments the low news coverage of highway fatalities, urges drivers to act, and contrasts Vietnam war deaths with daily road tolls, urging broader concern and action locally.
The piece lists relatives visiting Lyons and nearby towns over the weekend including Patrick Gilcrease, Quent Finney, and family groups. It notes graduations and pursuits of students and staff, such as Linda and Tom Saffell helping seniors, Susan Mayo earning a diploma at Hays High, and Ray Calihan planning summer in Colorado.
The Needle notes Alcatraz, the former prison, proposed as a United Nations monument. It mentions scant life in the USN and jokes about a peace pact on the moon, and recalls Arthur who faced the labor movement, then the UN and Supreme Court.
Terms of subscription list monthly carrier price for Garden City at 1.55 dollars and 30 cents per week for other carriers. Mail rates show 17.00 per year in Finney Lene Scott Wichita Grealey Hamilton Keerny Grant Haskell Gray counties and 15.00 per year elsewhere.
Drew Pearson surveys Edith Green as a pivotal yet divisive figure in the education bill battle. He notes her party defection with Dixiecrats and Republicans, internal rivalries, and the shift of floor management from senior committee members to Brademas, undermining her influence. The column also flags antitrust questions around the Colonial Pipeline, pending actions, and Ram sey Clark’s potential role.
Hal Boyle catalogs a string of patient comebacks and nurse banter in a New York AP column critiquing hospital remarks. The vivid bits lampoon care routines, dietary jibes, bedpan jokes, wakeup calls, smoking temptations, and the grim payoff of a lengthy bill.
President Johnson proposes government subsidies to cover major presidential campaign costs including broadcasts, advertising, literature, and travel. Joseph Barr opens the Senate Finance Committee hearing as the administration seeks direct appropriations. A prior tax earmarking measure remains tied to a rider affecting the seven percent investment tax credit, with final House action pending.
Albuquerque lawyer Benigno C. Hernandez, with no diplomatic experience and no trips to South America, is nominated by President Johnson to be ambassador to Paraguay. The 49 year old faces Senate confirmation. He learned of the nomination two weeks ago from the State Department and will meet State Department officials in Washington. Hernandez has served on New Mexico boards and taught as a Navy aviation instructor in World War II. He sits on HEW rehabilitation and OEO poverty committees.
Washington AP reports defense expert John S Foster Jr says the United States planned deterrent missile force would overwhelm Soviet antimissile defenses. The strategy aims to exhaust the enemy defense and retain missiles for assured destruction, Foster told a House subcommittee. A separate Capitol Hill testimony noted the USSR leads in germ and chemical weapons research, Lt Gen Betts said the US should pursue such weapons.
David Minnick, 15, followed a school edict to get a haircut and was briefly mistaken for a burglar after a barber gave him a regular cut. Neighbors alerted four police cars to a Munich home, but the boy identified himself and was released once the error was realized.
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