Editorial Bits From The Garden City Telegram
Managing Editor John Frazier is out with flu and a hurried day aims to keep daily work on track. Readers debate liquor and TV while weather forecasters draw heat for timing and accuracy. Cecil Smith recalls filling in at the Telegram when Mae Purdy ran the woman's page, noting nickname mischief from plant staff.
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John Frazier
Cecil Smith
Garden City
Sea Story
Telegram
Mae Purdy
Fcons
Mae
Kansas adopts new Senate districts apportionment act
AP dispatch reports Gov. John Anderson signed Kansas new Senate apportionment act creating 21 seats for urban areas Kansas City Topeka Wichita and Johnson County while four areas previously held four seats An appeal remains in state Supreme Court after district court threatened at large elections if reapportionment failed The measure passed amid debate and a counter proposal to cut 29 seats failed in the House In Rocky Ford Colorado Theodore Podell 38 of Leoti Kan died from injuries after a pickup crashed into a bridge support Hane Tomson of Leoti injured but listed as recovering.
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Topeka
Kansas
Senate
John Anderson
Kansas City
Wichita
Johnson County
District Court
State Supreme Court
House
Rocky Ford
Colo
Theodore Podell
Leoti
Kan
Ordway
Hane Tomson
Teachers Honor Bernice Smith At Banquet
Garden City teachers gathered at St Marys Center for their spring banquet honoring Bernice Smith retiring as Kansas State Teachers Assn president. KSTA leaders credited Kansas teachers with national leadership as Smith praised education and responsibilities.
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Bernice Smith
Bernice
Garden City Teachers, Assn
St. Mary’s Center
Kansas State Teachers Assn
Miss Smith
Jones School
Laroy Hood
Garden City
Hood
GCTA
Laura Hughes
Kenneth Henderson
KSTA
Wendell Godwin
Ruth Stout
Louis Koppek
Lewis
C. C. Wright
Leo Eck
Finney County Teachers Assn
Dean Nolte
Marguerite Roth
ESTA
Teach
Syracuse High Students to Present Colorful Musical
Syracuse High School presents Irving Berlin's Annie Get Your Gun at McCoy Auditorium next Thursday and Friday. A 60 member cast and 16 piece orchestra perform the Buffalo Bill era tale with lead roles by Vicki Faller and Bonnie Gale, directed by Bob Harder and produced with help from faculty and local residents. Tickets available at Dougherty's Drug Store Syracuse Drugs or by order through Sandra Braddock and Therese Grilliot at the high school.
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Syracuse
Buffalo Bill
Europe
McCoy Auditorium
Syracuse High School
Irving Berlin
Bob Harder
Direc
Tor Here
Clarence Redman
Jerry Waldrop
Gerald Richards
Annie Oakley
Vicki Faller
Bonnie Gale
Buffalo Bill Abdy
Sitting Bull
Frank Butler
Annie
Pawnee Bill
Bob Steitz
Syracuse High
Bills
Rockne Hughes
Virgil Hecker
Pawney Bill
Terry Cross
Sharon Carter
Bill Royer
Marcia Baker
Gerry Roy
John Behrendt
Joe Gould
Joyce Schmidt
Dougherty’s
Syracuse Drugs
Sandra Braddock
Therese Grilliot
Thief Returns Church Stolen Money After Easter Robbery
Nashville Tennessean reports at 3:30 am a caller told Msgr. Sevier to check the front seat of the rectory car where the Easter robbery money lay. A note said the thieves sought a clear conscience and asked forgiveness for the theft of $180 in cash and $149 in checks, with checks destroyed and only $121 repayable now. The letter requested newspaper publication of the forgiveness plea, while the priest planned to hand the letter to police but urged dropping the case if suspects are found.
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Msgr. Sevier
Michael Ignet
Ignet
St. Henry’s
Prison Colors Brighten Kansas Penitentiary Cells
Warden Sherman Crouse of the Kansas Penitentiary says color changes from gray to pastel pink blue green and brown are being used to repaint a cell house. He notes not all cells are painted yet but the pastel scheme will be extended as repainting occurs and the paint is produced in the penitentiary’s own factory.
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Lansing
Sherman Crouse
Kansas Penitentiary
Crouse
Keating challenges Kennedy on Cuban troop withdrawals
Senator Kenneth B. Keating charged that there has been no substantial reduction of Soviet forces in Cuba since mid November. He cited new arrivals matching departures and said there were about 17,000 personnel, with no functional units withdrawn. He claimed naval ships are not searched, undermining any evidence of subversion and pressed against easing pressure on the Soviets.
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Washington
Kennedy
Kenneth B. Keating
Cuba
Keating
New York
American Society of Newspaper Editors
U.S
Cuban
Caribbean
Working Women Start Robust Men Worrying
Washington AP reports men fear women entering the workforce may push men onto unemployment rolls. Labor Department studies deny ground for fears. About 4.5 million unemployed. a third of married women hold paid jobs. women’s work rising with industrial change. Secretary Wirtz says jobs should go to capable workers, not by sex.
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Washington
Labor Department
W. Willard Wirtz
Wirtz
Associated Press
Pay raises approved for Kansas district judges and officials
Gov. John Anderson signed into law a measure increasing district judge salaries to 12 500 per year from January 1965, boosting lieutenant governor to 6000, and raising the state superintendent of public instruction to 12 000. Additional raises apply to highway director, revenue director, grain inspection director, state architect, fire marshal, livestock sanitary commissioner, agriculture secretary, administration director, and other posts. The package also authorizes area vocational schools, raises workers compensation to 42 weekly, requires motor vehicle liability insurance for state agencies, and designates Interstate 34 as the 35th Infantry Division Memorial Highway.
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Topeka
John Anderson
Board of Agriculture
State Board of Vocational Education
Rain Delays Noted as Kansas Sees Scattered Storms
Thunderstorms spread across eastern Kansas with the heaviest rain reported as 1.4 inches in Lawrence. Western Kansas remained dry amid warm highs in the 70s and 80s, with 40s to 50s tonight. The Santa Fe Trail Council, Boy Scouts of America, was named Region Eight’s No. 1 council for membership gains, announced by Preston Burtis Jr. and noted ahead of the regional meeting in Denver. Local attendees listed include James Williams, Dodge City. Frank Schulman, A. M. Fleming, Duane West, Russell Wells, Burtis Jr., C. W. Maylender, Garden City. E. W. McNeill, Syracuse. Marlin Kelly and Herb Etrick, Liberal.
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Topeka
Kansas
Lawrence
Packing Plant Meeting Set
A public meeting at the Alta Brown School auditorium next Thursday discusses a proposed cooperative beef packing plant for southwest Kansas. Producers Packing Co has filed incorporation papers and a state charter, aiming to market 50,000 cattle annually. Consumers Cooperative Assn of Kansas City plans to participate if the target is met. The April 25 meeting starts at 1 30 p.m.
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Alta Brown School
Southwest
Kansas
Producers Packing Co
State of
Board of Directors
Consumers Cooperative Assn
Kansas City
CCA
Southwest Kansas Livestock Men
Meredith Seeks Apartment at Ole Miss Vacant Quarters
James H Meredith has applied for married student housing for the summer term at the University of Mississippi. He paid a $25 deposit for living quarters in the veterans village unit on campus. Assignment to summer quarters will be decided by May 1. Meredith, 29, plans to graduate in August and has lived in a staff room while soldiers and marshals guard him.
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Oxford, Miss
James H. Meredith
University of Mississippi
Meredith
Ole Miss
Veterans Village
Jackson State College
Mement
Weather Tonight and Friday Forecast Summary
Fair and cooler tonight with southerly to northwesterly winds. Lows in the upper 40s. Friday will be mild with northwesterly winds 10 to 35 mph and highs in the 70s. Sunrise 5:08, sunset in the evening.
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Fredy
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