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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1963
Page
1
Billy Stone found a 30 inch rattlesnake with seven buttons on his porch after sunrise. The city politics scene followed as Mayor Jim Sloan stayed in office after a motion for a new chairman passed, despite his objections.
More than 200 employees of the State Highway Commission Sixth Division attended the annual maintenance meeting in Garden City. C O Baker led the event with Topeka officials W S McDaniel LaRue Delp E Priest Tom Morgan Jim Burton Wilbur Heer J Francis Barclay Harold Pellegrind Walter McDaniel Charles Schaefer John Gehr and local leaders John Hineman Joe DuBraya and Trooper Gerald Pulwider among speakers. The program covered highway maintenance programs procedures equipment and safety topics for division staff.
Garden City commissioners approved a 325000 Main Street improvement program under old business. The plan funds storm drains resurfacing curbs and gutters and widening from Spruce to Kansas with 80 percent city at large and 20 percent benefit district financing. Work may begin mid to late summer while one traffic lane each way is maintained.
Mayor Jim Sloan will continue as chairman and serve a second 4-year term after the city commission reorganization. Morris Jones takes a 2-year term, with City Clerk Charles Peebles administering the oaths. Harold Fansler departs after six years, praised for service, while Jim Cowgill will stay on for two more years.
President Kennedy's youth employment bill runs into firm Republican opposition in the Senate as Democrats vow to press for action. Leader Mike Mansfield calls colleagues to a possible night session to push the measure ahead before Easter recess. The plan would fund a federal youth conservation corps and a hometown public service corps amid unemployment concerns for ages 16 to 21.
DETROIT AP Nuns and priests evacuated 265 school children during a Holy Week Mass as a flash fire gutted the 53 year old Our Lady of Sorrows Roman Catholic church and damaged the unused Briggs Manufacturing Co plant. No injuries were reported. Firemen, equipment and police rushed to the scene at Mack and Benson avenues.
In Topeka AP report the House approves a conference committee bill to reorganize Kansas school districts reducing 1900 districts to about 400 500 over 3 4 years. Planning boards in 105 counties will craft unified district plans with enrollment and territory thresholds set for approval by the state superintendent.
C D Calhoon manager of the University of Kansas Southwest Center was elected new president of the Garden City Lions Club. He will take over in June, succeeding Joe Tennissen, with Charles Burch as first vice president and Ken Minter as second vice president. New officers include treasurer Gene Holloway, secretary Richard Bortz, tail-twisters Gary Salyer and Dick Fankhauser, and new directors Duane Hays and John Nanninga. Installation planned for early June ahead of Lions International in Miami.
A barn fire on Art Gribben farm northeast of Leoti last month earned Mabel Barr a 25 prize as winner of the Telegram KIAL news tip contest. Other winners included Mrs. John Mohler who reported a fatal collision near the airport on US 50, with three $5 prizes awarded for separate tips.
State and county authorities search for 34 year old James L Olney near the Sedgwick Butler county line after a motorist reports a man seen along US 54. A workman in a field is identified and no trace of Olney found as a statewide hunt ends. Wichita police probe the disappearance of two automatic pistols from Olney’s basement apartment after his escape from a Wichita officer on a Fort Worth warrant.
Finney County headed Kansas sorghum production with 4,401,400 bushels marking the fourth straight year atop the state. State totals reached 128,760,000 bushels, a 15 percent rise from 1961 and a record crop.
The Supreme Court is asked to decide if Mississippi Governor Barnett may be tried by jury in criminal contempt for attempts to block Negro enrollment at Ole Miss. The 5th Circuit, in a 4-4 split, sent the question to the high court, with Judge Jones urging that the jury trial be denied.
Secretary of State Rusk and four European colleagues met in Paris for NATO defense talks focused on a multinational nuclear force under NATO command. French Foreign Minister Couve de Murville attended, signaling possible interest but no reversal of President de Gaulle’s opposition. The Soviet note denounced the plan as provoking a new arms race, while McNamara traveled to London for talks and the U.S. pressed for a fleet of Polaris armed merchant ships with multinational crews.
Hugh Hill, a ranch employee on the Alexander ranch 19 miles southwest of here, was severely injured Saturday when his wrist was caught in a hydraulic lift while greasing a tractor. The hand was almost completely severed. Hill had a prior hand injury in the service.
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