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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1963
Page
2
Local market data show eggs and grains with steady to unchanged prices and detailed cattle hog and calf figures. Kansas City AP livestock numbers indicate steady to higher prices for slaughter and feeder stock, with hogs up and cows steady to higher.
Garden City plus 13 area schools join the western division drama festival at Hays on Friday and Saturday. About 500 students from 127 high schools expected. events mostly in Pickren Hall and Memorial Union. 37 one act plays staged at Marian High, Lincoln Grade, and Hays High. Fourteen judges to award medals to top winners.
Two hospitals report admissions at St Catherine on Saturday including Mrs Harry Becker of 208 North 6th, Noah Tabor of 1208 North Main, Mrs James E Sims of 1607 Ey Fulton, Mrs Alta Rhoads of Imperial Route, and Mrs Henry Wright of 710 North Main.
Listings from Garden City show births at St Catherine and Eminence Rt births for Carl Brown Scott City and John McCracken Eminence with weights. Dismissals include numerous residents from Scott City Leopold Copeland and local addresses. Court and police notes cover fines, bounced checks, fines for driving violations, and district court actions. Traffic accidents and vehicle incidents are listed with names ages and locations.
Fergus Falls Minnesota Rotary official G Robert Allison will attend the District Rotary Conference April 26 28 as representative of Rotary International president He heads a local insurance real estate and mortgage firm and serves as district governor He leads community groups and helped establish a junior college An estimated 300 Rotarians are expected with NBC News John Chancellor as banquet speaker at St Marys Center Tickets are sold by Ross Blackford
Garden City and two area students are among 126 Kansas Future Farmers of America members recommended to receive the State Farmer degree at the 35th Kansas FFA meeting at Kansas State University in Manhattan April 29 and 30. Garden City FFA picks are Roger Friesen, Larry Goss, Gary Greathouse and David Lightner, with area students Jay Sloan of Holcomb and Lavern Stevenson of Tribune among nominees. Final action on recommendations will be by the FFA House of Delegates April 29, and the boys will receive awards that evening.
Garden City volunteer firefighters responded to a morning fire that burned a hole in a plastic gas pipe allowing gas to escape. They were called at 10 22 a m and found men burning weeds on Bryant Garnand property, 144 miles north of the V F W, with no damage noted.
Mail carrier Noel Volz aged 32 climbed into City Hall and opened firehoses flooding four floors. He smashed windows overturned displays stripped trees from City Hall Plaza and hurled branches into the fountain. He told reporters he chose Easter to flush out City Hall and was booked on burglary resisting arrest assaulting an officer and malicious mischief charges.
On Tuesday presidents of Kansas private colleges part of The Kansas Foundation for Private Colleges will meet with business leaders in Garden City. The foundation, formed in 1952, supports 18 member colleges with operating aid and aims to boost annual gifts to 50 dollars per student for the roughly 10,000 students across Kansas. Members include Baker University, Bethany College, Bethel College, Central College, Friends University, Hesston College, Ottawa University, Saint Mary College, Southwestern College, Sterling College, and Tabor College among others.
The report notes fewer than twenty thousand Bighem sheep are spread from western Canada to Mexico. It highlights continuing herding patterns across the region and suggests potential shifts in stock numbers amid grazing pressures and market demand.
C A Schoot chairman of the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation County Committee told farmers that there will be no acreage restrictions on the 1964 sugar beet crop. He noted a large beet sugar stockpile and projected production for 1962 and 1963, promising room for plant expansion and modernization while warning restrictions may resume if production exceeds marketings.
In Key West a 17 year old Georgia boy admitted stabbing charter boat captain Douglas Trevor and his son Edward overboard aboard the Dream Girl. He refused to see his parents, was remanded after arraignment, with a preliminary hearing planned and possible death penalty pending. Police reported a burglary at the Horn and Hoof Cafe yielding $49 in change and several checks.
Harold Vulgamore 51 of 1248 Old Manor died unexpectedly Saturday night at St. Catherina Hospital. Born April 20 1911 at Lookout Okla he lived in Holcomb then Garden City. He was a trucker and with Jade Case. Survived by parents Jesa W. and ?, three brothers Ross Robert and Devil of Pueblo Colo a sister Mrs Leland Graves Syracuse and Mrs Alice Hamsher. Funeral Tuesday 1030 a.m. Phillipa White Funeral Home with Rev J J Krimmer Assembly of God officiating. Burial Valley View Cemetery. Friends may call until service time.
Ten month old Terry LyDean Wedel son of Delton and (Mrs) Wedel of Copeland died Sunday morning at Leopold Hospital in Garden City. Born July 2 1962 in Garden City, he is survived by maternal grandparents Sam and (Mrs) Unruh of Copeland and paternal grandparents Orlan and (Mrs) Wedel of Copeland. Funeral Tuesday at 2 p.m. at Salem Mennonite Church with Revs Nightengale and Wedel officiating. Burial in Salem Cemetery. Funeral home Phillips White of San Jose Costa Rica in charge.
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