Editorial Saturday Notebook Vacation debate and Father’s Day musings
The writer muses on vacation choices fishing in Wisconsin or swimming in California and jokes about gifting a world atlas for Father’s Day. They note Father’s Day origins in 1910 Spokane and the challenge of quiet, while reflecting on summer TV, a newspaper colleague’s vacation idea, and the upcoming July 4 holiday with fears of drownings and traffic incidents.
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Wisconsin
California
Lawrence
Spokane
Wash
Ottawa
Hair pulling in children and thyroid myths feature in column
Dear Dr Mother discusses hair-pulling as a nervous habit in children, with tips like cutting hair short. It covers risks of swallowing hair, thyroid weight questions, and ring use for fallen bladder, plus notes on ulcers and past local items.
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Dr Mother
Mrs. P. K
Mother
F.N
Television Grid Shows Full Day of Classic Programs
A dense schedule lists movies, sports, and varied series across Saturday and into Sunday, with time blocks for TV favorites such as Riverboat, Dallas, Gunsmoke, Bonanza, The Rifleman, Perry Mason, and The Fugitive. Numerous game shows, news, weather, and special CBS and NBC segments fill the day, including music and church programming, with late-night movie slots and a steady stream of commercials.
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West
Bugs Bunny
the Capitol
Dick Powell
Hollywood
Viet Nam Weekly Review
Sportsman’s Holiday
Twentieth Century
Snead
Stingray
Ed Sullivan
FBI
Search For Tomorrow
Guiding Light
Whizzo’s Playhouse
Bette Hayes
Merv Griffin
Arlene Dahl
Mike Douglas
Mara
Three Stooges
Leave It To Beaver
Huckleberry Hound
Rifleman
Texan
Hullabaloo
John Forsythe
Lucille Ball
Jesse James
Dr. Kildare
Andy Griffith
John Davidson
Hazel
Peyton Place
Avengers
Talent Souls
Johnny Carson
Hollywood Palace
Trails West
D.A
Faith For Our Times
General Hospital
Morning Star
Dick van Dyke
Paradise Bay
Donna Reed
Password
Woody Woodpecker
Sportsman's Friend
Daktari
Smothers Brothers
Red Skelton
McHale’s Navy
F. Troop
Petticoat Junction
Eye On Kansas City
CBS News
Perry Mason
M Squad
Tangier
Ursinus College honors posthumous degree for Twain
A reader laments Ursinus College of Collegeville Pennsylvania awarding a posthumous honorary degree to Samuel L. Clemens. The letter jokes about other possible honorees and questions the ceremony details while praising the idea for broader recognition of notable deceased figures.
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Ursinus College
Collegeville
Donald L. Hefferich
Ursinus
Socrates
Today In History: June 18 1966 highlights
On this date in 1812 Congress declared war on Great Britain over interference with American ships. Napoleon defeated at Waterloo in 1815. Great Northern Railroad opened in 1895. Hitler and Mussolini met in 1940 to draft a French armistice. Churchill arrived in the U S in 1942 for talks with Roosevelt. Truman authorized veterans medical care improvements in 1946. Other notes include Soviet loan talks with Nasser in 1956, a Strasbourg to Paris derailment in 1960, and a Titan 3 rocket launch in 1966.
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Congress
Great Britain
Napurleon
Waterloo
Great Northern
Adolf Hitler
Benito Mussolini
Munich
Winston Churchill
United States
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Harry. Truman
May Toll Soars In Kansas With Sixty One Deaths
Topeka AP reports Kansas recorded 61 traffic fatalities in May, up from 46 in May 1965, marking one of the worst Mays on record. Safety director Claud R. McCamment said 32 deaths occurred on weekends and 35 resulted from vehicle collisions.
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Topeka
Kansas
Safety Department of the
Kansas Highway Commission
Claud R. McCamment
Commission
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