Independent candidate Fierro targets diverse coalition for Kansas governor
Manuel Fierro, director of the Kansas Human Needs Corporation from Garden City, announces as an independent candidate for governor. He vows to unite Mexican Americans, Blacks, Indians, welfare recipients, women’s lib voters and students, saying Republicans and Democrats are irrelevant. Fierro predicts a tumultuous 1972, amid a fragmented GOP and a lone undecided Democrat.
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Kansas
Manuel Fierro
Kansas Human Needs Corporation
Garden City
Fierro
U.S. Senate
Kansas towns cheer as firms expand with bonds
Five Kansas communities announce expansions or new firms aided by industrial revenue bonds totaling over 1.8 million. Pittsburg expands a plastic pipe plant with 600,000 bonds, Emporia adds mobile homes and diesel engine work, Parsons starts a 100,000 square-foot steel tank plant with 1 million bonds, Arkansas City plans a September aluminum window building, Neodesha issues 200,000 in bonds for concrete forms. More than 300 new jobs result, signaling growth alongside a record wheat harvest.
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Emporia
Parsons
Arkansas City
Neodesha
Kansas
Cryosurgery for Prostate Treated in Letter to Doctor
A reader seeks information on cryosurgery or cryotherapy as a treatment for prostate trouble. The letter explains the method: tissue destruction by freezing with liquid nitrogen via a probe, avoiding scalpel removal. The writer requests names of doctors or hospitals performing the procedure.
Cryosurgery debates and medical Q A notes
The letter discusses cryosurgery as not a simple alternative to surgery, its selective use by urologists, and the need for experienced surgeons. It covers diabetes urine sugar tests, the limits of urine sugar as a blood sugar indicator, and advice against unproven fingernail growth remedies. It ends with a biblical proverb and a prayer for youth understanding.
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Thosteson
R.T
R.D.B
Remakes Rise as Studios Dust Off Classics
Hollywood producers weigh remakes of public domain hits as studios hunt for proven properties. American-International backs Wuthering Heights revival and other titles like House of Seven Gables Camille A Tale of Two Cities Les Miserables and The Scarlet Letter. MGM plans remakes Trader Horn and Tom Sawyer while Ross Hunter previews Lost Horizon musical. Remakes sometimes succeed such as Romeo and Juliet and A Place in the Sun.
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American-International
Wuthering Heights
Laurence Olivier
Merle Qberon
David Niven
American International
England
MGM
Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain
Jack Pickford
Jackie Cooga
Tommy Kelly
Ross Hunter
Frank Capra
Hoover cites FBI rise in Communist China activity threat
Washington AP Hoover told a closed Senate hearing the FBI will intensify actions against Communist Chinese intelligence gathering and revolution in the United States. He said Peking views the U.S. as its chief enemy while Congress debated FBI funding ahead of Nixon’s China trip and U.N. representation debates. Senate leaders urged restraint and cautioned against secret deals.
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J. Edgar Hoover
Congress
FBI
United States
Peking
Senate
Nixon
People’s Republic of China
Hoover
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
U.S
China
John G. Tower
R-Tex
United Nations
Jacob K. Javits
R-N.y
People’s Republic of
Mansfield
Scott
Americans cut buying and pay bills in 1970s economic shift
The article notes consumer actions to curb spending as inflation rises with 8.85 billion owed on charge accounts in 1970, later dropping below 8 billion and to 7.2 billion by March. Personal bankruptcies rise again, unemployment stays high, and stock brokers warn of higher commission fears as buyers resist higher charges.
Pierson builds Maverick type show for Garner in Nichols
Hollywood AP reports writer Frank Pierson pitched a pilot for James Garner's NBC series. Garner would quit the Army to become the laid back sheriff of Nichols, Arizona, a Mexican border town. Pierson stresses writer involvement and multiple rewrites.
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Hollywood
Frank Pierson
James Garner
Nichols
Garner
Maverick
Pierson
NBC
Ariz
Mailbag musings from Hal Boyle on fashion and health
A compact New York AP column notes questions about fitness in America while citing 16 million cases of athlete's foot annually. It humorously questions vision health, traces 1890s bathing suit sizes, camel tax barter in Morocco, and fashion tie width rules, ending with a quotable about freedom and stagnation.
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New York
Desert
Morocco
National Geographic Society
Television Log A Day Full Of Classic Syndicated Shows
A dense schedule lists daytime and evening airings including The Munsters Dick Van Dyke Show and Beverly Hillbillies among many others with news weather sports game shows and feature films sprinkled throughout the day. The matrix includes frequent mentions of game shows soap operas and a variety of 1960s era programs across channels and time slots.
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Dick van Dyke
Kansas
Guiding Light
Doctors
Bay City
General Hospital
One Life To Live
Somerset
Gomer Pyle
Mike Douglas
Lucille Ball
Big Valley
Munsters
Petticoat Junction
Shiloh
Eddie
Room 222
Smith Family
Rome
Ottawa Herald subscription rates and policy note
Ottawa Herald lists daily publication details and editor Robert B. Wellington. It includes subscription prices for trade area and outside trade area, with monthly, quarterly, half yearly, and yearly rates, plus a note on sales tax and AP news use.
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Ottawa
Kansas
Robert B. Wellington
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