Garden City senior play charms with Charley's Aunt
Garden City High School presents Charley's Aunt with Lanry Fowler leading a strong cast. Critics praised the production for its professional handling despite scheduling conflicts and the open date. Local figures Truman Capote and Nell Harper visited, while notes mention a Garden City woman inheriting a large estate misaddressed to a Great Bend resident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Garden City High School
Dean Nolte
Lanry Fowler
Garden City High School Speech and Dramatics
Bryce Roderick
Roger Stoner
Bill Collier
Larry Shea
Lou Yeadon
Sharon Kells
Carlos Green
Kenny Bauer
Shere’ Shaw
Linda Russell
Charley
Truman Capote
Nell Harper
Truman Gas
Perry Edward Smith
Richard Eugene Hickock
Clutters
Aes
Mise Harper
British Jab At Communists
London reports Britain's Foreign Office accuses Communist forces of stirring trouble in Laos and blocking Geneva peace machinery. It says a Chinese accusation of American interference is a smokescreen while Britain as geochairman pushes Geneva control commission investigations that are being prevented.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Laos
United States
Foreign Office
Britain
Control Commission
Pathet Lao
One of Southwest's Most Historic Landmarks Is Gone
A Kansas river island once near Lakin vanished due to farming, dam building, and shifting waters. Chouteau's Island, tied to Auguste P. Chouteau and early frontier figures, left only sandbars and a state marker on U S 50. The site hosted Pawnee battles, treasure legends, and picnics before erosion ended it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Billy Stone
Southwest
Lakin
Chouteau’s Island
Arkansas River
Kearny County
U.S. 50
Auguste P. Chouteau
St. Louis
Zebulon Pike
Colorado
Kit Carson
John Charles Fremont
Stephen Watts Kearny
New Mexico
California
Bennett Riley
Santa Fe
Maj. Riley
Chouteau
Ulysses Voters Approve Bonds for Sewage Facility
Ulysses in Grant County Kansas approved a 201,355.53 bond issue for a new sewage treatment and work facility with an interceptor and outfall sewer main and stabilization ponds east of town. Voters 156 to 68 in a special election, turnout 232 of 931 registered. Construction planned to start this summer. bond covers facility not individual property sewer lines.
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Ulysses
Grant County
Kansas
Dorothy Jones
Warm Weather Continues Across Kansas Amid Fading Rain Hopes
AP reports sustained warm temperatures across Kansas with highs near 70s to mid 80s and overnight lows from the 30s to 60s. Gulf moisture skirted the state, dampening rain chances as fronts delayed showers. Tuesday highs ranged from 71 in Goodland to 89 at Russell. lows from 33 in Goodland to 70 in Pittsburg.
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Topeka
Kansas
Gulf
Cgoodland
Russell
Goodland
Pittsburg
Garden Sass Gus Garden's Neighbor Quips About Dandelions
A neighbor of Garden Sass Gus notes that the only thing his teenage son avoids digging is dandelions, a light local remark capturing a suburban exchange about youth and yard work.
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Gus Garden
Kansas Governor Signs Sunday Closing Law Amid Doubts
Gov. John Anderson signed Kansas Sunday closing legislation today with reservations about constitutionality. Attorney General Ferguson questioned vagueness and exemptions, noting possible arbitrary classifications. Amendments aimed to protect farmers during harvest could let some farm supply outlets operate Sundays. Meeker and Jacquart, who pushed the amendments, say the exemption applies only during grain harvest and not as a broad loophole.
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Kansas
John Anderson
George W. Meeker
Finney County
Ben Jacquart
Haskell County
Meeker
Topeka
Kan
Anderson
Ferguson
United States
Kansas Supreme Court
House
Senate
Wave of steel price hikes hits major firms
New York AP reports a wave of steel price increases spreading to Bethlehem Steel Co and National Steel Corp as the ninth and tenth firms to announce hikes on selected products. U.S. Steel posted the smallest rise, about 4.85 per ton, with big firms citing higher labor costs since 1958 and a need to return to price parity with earlier years. President Kennedy remained silent but watched developments closely as the industry faced pressure from workers and markets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Bethlehem Steel Co
National Steel Corp
Bethlehem
U.S. Steel Corp
Kennedy
Wheeling
Steelworkers
U.S. Steel
Leslie B. Worthington
Worthington
Juco Choir Band Concert Is Friday Night
Garden City Junior College presents a Friday 8 p m concert in Clifford Hope Auditorium by the 72 voice Juco Choir and 18 piece Band after a four day Southwest Kansas school tour yielding 16 shows. Conductor Julius Hultquist leads the choir with soloist Gregory Bailey. Rueford Roper directs the band.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Garden City
Clifford Hope
Southwest Kansas
Julius Hultquist
Rueford Roper
New Council In Crystal City Texas Crowned
Crystal City Texas elected and sworn in its first Mexican American City Council on April 2. Juan Cornejo, 33, was chosen mayor as the council kept James Dill as City Manager. The. voto rs backed the five Mexican American members after joint voter education efforts.
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Crystal City
Tex
Texas
James Dill
Juan Cornejo
Dill
Political Association
Teamster’s Union
Britain commissions first atomic submarine Dreadnought
Britain commissioned its first atomic powered submarine the Dreadnought as a hunter killer of enemy submarines. Its nuclear reactor is of American design and built for Royal Navy use at Barrow in Furness England.
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Barrow-In-Furness
England
Britain
Wheat Referendum on Kennedy Plan Faces Side Issues
Washington AP By Odia Martin the May 21 grower referendum on the Kennedy administration wheat plan for 1964 stirs side issues. Voters decide on a 10 percent planting reduction, land-diversion payments, and a dual price system with 2.00 per bushel for domestic use and most exports and 1.30 for crop beyond a farm’s share. Two thirds approval needed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
OVIDA. MARTIN / WASHINGTON
Kennedy
National Farmers Union
Farm Bureau
Congress
Escape at Larned State Hospital Security Unit
Three patients escaped the security unit of Larned State Hospital after sawing a window bar Tuesday night. Named are Albert Fetty 30 transferred from Kansas Penitentiary at Lansing Colorado native. Charles Chandler 45 and Leo Pittman 27, both committed by district court at Wichita. Hospital official Ralph C. Arnold said unknown person or persons likely smuggled hacksaw blades to the patients.
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Larned, Kan
Larned State Hospital
Albert Fetty
Kansas Penitentiary
Lansing
Colorado
Charles Chandler
Leo Pittman
Wichita
Ralph C. Arnold
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Great Bend
Garden City Elks Lodge
the Elks
Mike Etrick
Telegram
Nail
Dale Koster
August Koster
Koster
Mike Ward
Ulysse S
Boon
William M. Ferguson
Akron
Emporia
Dodge City
Tilt City
LuJanta
Salina
Jones and Laughlin Steel Corp
Armco “Steel Corp
Inland Steel Co
Armco
Inland
Big Steel
Juco Choir
Benedictus
Hosanna
Gregory
Bailey
Vicki Schroeder
Gregory Bailey
Lee Schroeder
Delores Summers
Leona Dater
Beth Wilson
New Council
Texas City
Orville L. Freeman
American Farm Bureau Federation
Aig
Bux
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