Peerless Plastics to Build Plant in Southwest Kansas
Southwest Kansas welcomes Peerless Plastics, Inc. to erect a plastic pipe plant this fall with 25 initial workers and growth plans. Officials say there is an existing market and solid backing. The community expects steady development without a boom, hoping for long term benefits and local labor supply.
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Peerless Plastics, Inc
Kansas
Peerless
Peerless Plastics
General Motors
Labor Day Reflections From a Life of Work and Loss
In a nostalgic meditation the author recalls labor’s grip in youth and the shift to compassion, noting how work shaped conversations about employment, seeing Labor Day as a time to honor those who work and to remember neighbors facing unemployment. The piece ends with a wish for workers to enjoy a long, lazy holiday.
City Tax Relief Critique Echoes Across Cities
The Needle argues San Leandro California should not keep lowering its tax rate year after year. It labels public fund use as unrealistic and un-American while noting 21 consecutive tax cuts benefit taxpayers. Compare with Garden City where Mayor Reed does not cut taxes despite population growth.
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San Leandro
Calif
Garden City
Reed
Subscription Terms For Garden City Newspaper
Second class postage paid at Garden City Kansas 47846 Terms of subscription By carrier in Garden City monthly 1 76 Payable in advance Local and area college students 8 00 for 9 month school year Telegram motor carrier service requires publication key delivery by mail in cities with local carrier service local carrier rates apply Member of The Associated Press AP exclusive rights to local news and AF dispatches All rights of publication of special dispatches reserved
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Corcier
Telegram Motor Carrier
Adrvice
Associated Press
Fight over Vietnam Plank Could Have Been Avoided
Drew Pearson outlines the 1968 Democratic convention Vietnam plank clash. He attributes blame to LBJ for pressuring Boggs over Muskie and details late night confabs with Westmoreland. The watered-down plank triggered fierce debate, while intelligence warned of orchestrated street protests to disrupt Paris talks.
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Washington
LBJ
Texas
Secret Service
Boggs
Chicago
Charley Murphy
Sorensen
Ginsberg
Johnson
Paris
Donald Hamerquist
Eugene McCarthy
Riots Erupt at Long Binh Prison. One Killed in Clash
Racial incidents sparked a riot at the U S military jail in Long Binh last Friday. Pvt Edward C Haskett of St Petersburg Fla died from head injuries inflicted by other prisoners. 59 were injured, including 10 prisoners and 4 guards. Two suspects identified. most injuries caused by prisoners fighting among themselves. 14 hospitalized.
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Saigon
U.S
Long Binh
Edward C. Haskett
St. Petersburg
Fla
Dems and cattle at Chicago convention stockyards satire
Art Buchwald mocks the Democratic National Convention held in Chicago by imagining fattened Democrats being butchered as stockyard cattle. Heifer dialogues warn of branding bulls, television trucks filming the slaughter, and a final tally of leftovers, delivered in sharp satirical style.
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Chicago
Gas masks may be needed as pollution worsens
AP column cites Dr Wilfrid Bach of the University of Cincinnati estimating 142 million tons of annual pollution creates a $12 billion economic loss and could be cut by $4 billion annually to avert a need for gas masks. The piece also bundles trivia from science to culture and urging college enrollment amid high demand.
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U.S
Wilfrid Bach
University of Cincinnati
Mary Queen of Scots
Harriet van Horne
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