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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1963
Page
2
Local produce and livestock figures show varied prices. Hogs and cattle activity at Kansas City reflect steady to weak cows and strong barrows with vealers firm. Lambs and sheep offerings limited, prices with limited test data. Prime beef and dairy items listed alongside grain prices from local co op and markets.
Police log notes several incidents including a $25 to $30 theft from a coin machine at Speed Wash Laundry, a window break at Walker's Tavern with no entry, the theft of an electric pipe threader from a construction site on Kansas Plaza, and theft of children’s clothing from Gardendale. Explorer Post 101 welcomes new members Kent Williams, T. Clare, Pat Vaughn, and Johnny Wheeler. meeting discussed hobo party plans Logopedics project church attendance and spring formal dinner dance.
Firemen answered an alarm at 8 20 a m today. Cardboard boxes were burned at the Hume Fry plant on USSC east of town. Sparks set grass afire in a nearby field.
Washington AP report notes a seven point interim recommendation by President Kennedy s advisory commission on narcotics and drug abuse. It calls for a national narcotics research program a joint US Mexico anti smuggling commission tougher laws and a mobile Justice Department unit to attack big time drug dealers. The president welcomed the report saying it opens understanding about drug users and law abusers and anticipates a final report due November first. The seven member commission is chaired by E Barrett Prettyman former chief judge of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.
Admissions and dismissals listed for St. Catherine and Leopold Dallas E, with patients including Walter M. Snell Victoria Katz Debra Johnson and Virgil Schauermen. other names cover Scott City Sublette Satanta and Deerfield areas. Legal notices list deeds and warranty deeds for parcels in Holmes Third and Harris Additions and various owners.
Delinquent income tax cases in Be Andrew Borreson and Floyd Proberts suit with Bert's Renta. County fines for overload and speeding, with amounts and costs. Police bonds posted for improper driving and speeding, plus muffler and suspended license fines. Bonds forfeited for several individuals. Local names include Helen M Lee Tony Schreibvogel and others.
James C. Bronston a 27 year old sixth grade teacher at a Kansas suburb elementary school signed a statement admitting he took two typewriters and an adding machine valued at $800 after drinking beer. He was arrested near the old residence of a friend. Bronston faces second degree burglary and stealing charges and is free on $2,000 bond awaiting a preliminary hearing set for April 8.
At 5 p.m. in the 600 block of North 4th a car driven by Merle Francis Brown of 606 North 7th suffered extensive damage after a collision. Earlier, at 12:20 p.m., two cars were damaged moderately and lightly in separate incidents on Stevens and Pine Streets driven by Donald Ray Allen of 507 East Pine and Leland Ralph Mead of Route 1, with lesser damage reported.
Eldon D. Mil ner a Sublette volunteer and Charles M. Scott of Lakin will be sent to Denver for induction next Monday by the Finney Kearny Haskell Selective Service Board. Eighty contestants registered for Finney County Spelling Contest with rural schools and St. Marys represented. Pencils provided by Garden City Co op and Campbell Abstract Co for written tests at Lincoln School in morning. oral contest at Courthouse in afternoon. Linda VenJohn daughter of Mr and Mrs Paul VenJohn recently graduated from Central Business College Denver and qualified for advance secretarial office machines and bookkeeping diploma.
Wall Street cautiously welcomed the SECs five volume report urging public protections and new regulation. NYSE President Funston supported self regulation plus existing laws, while AMEX and other exchange leaders signaled careful study. Prices rose to near year highs with strong volume and the AP index advancing.
Senate Investigations Subcommittee questions four military witnesses on the TFX contract award to General Dynamics. Mundt says testimony reveals gaps in McNamara defense of the decision while Muskie notes holes in military testimony. The panel seeks why Boeing lost a cheaper, better rival design after evaluations.
Charles Potucek Jr resigns as director of project and marketing services at Great Plains Wheat Inc to become export sales manager for Balgor and other wheat products with Farmers Cooperative Commission Co headquartered in Hutchinson. He took effect Monday. A Kansas native, he has been active in state agriculture for a decade and earned a Kansas State University agricultural economics degree in 1950. He was a county agent in Greeley County for five years and later a commodity field man for Consumers Cooperative Assen in Kansas City. Prior to joining GPW in August 1961 he ran a beverage firm in Dodge City.
Wind whipped flames destroyed two buildings at the Valley Growers Packing Co. on the outskirts of Kansas City. Operators estimate the loss at 100000 dollars. Origin of the fire started in an open deck building remains undetermined. Some machinery and stores were destroyed in the blaze.
Santa Fe Trail Council executive board unanimously refused a capital campaign to develop the Hodgeman Boy Scout camp and abandoned prior expansion plans. President A M Fleming cited rapid Boy Scout growth in Kansas with 1963 season full. The council will use Hodgeman camp wilderness for part of 1984 season and keep Lake George in Colorado for others. a water well project was approved. If membership trend continues, over 1,000 boys may attend 1964 camps. 800+ registered for 1963, with 874 last year.
General Curtis LeMay says the United States could build an antisatellite to strike a hostile satellite, but Air Force officials call the idea only in the study stage. Testimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee discussed Soviet rendezvous satellites and potential space warfare implications. Dr. Harold Brown weighs the unlikely but conceivable prospect of space combat and ground-based countermeasures.
An elderly Californian died and five others were injured when two cars collided one mile east of Colby Kansas on US 24. Victim Colby identified 79 year old Cloverdale resident Suppas. Survivors include Michael Hahn 68 of Goodland and Darrell Steadman 47 Neale Shuler 47 Ruth Steadman 55 Leah Shuler 57 all of Cloverdale. Hahn was en route to visit his wife at St Thomas hospital in Colby.
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