Snow geese misidentified and local notes mix up
Western Kansas column humorously corrects a crane sighting misreport while noting new county agent Nancy Bergdall and local quips. It highlights safety essay winners Gary Skibbe Janice McClaren and Berta Jaeger, Hugoton Jaycee BB gun safety work, and Syracuse warden Homer Burkhart reporting few fishing licenses issued.
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Southwest Kansas
Traffic and Safety Department of
State Highway Commission
Gary Skibbe
Janice McClaren
Lakin
Berta Jaeger
Leati
Hutchinson
Pinewood Derby Highlights Cub Pack 99 Meeting
Boy Scout Cub Pack 99 of Community Church held a Pinewood Derby with winners in speed and divisions. Courtney Jones topped the speed race, followed by Mark Daly and Mike Holt. Pokey division winners were Kenny Chmelka, Earl Fine, and Jack Fine. Beauty division winners were Rodney Pierce, Craig Shaefer, and Jamey Russell. Race officials included Lyle Phipps and the Goldsberries. Webelos members led the Pledge of Allegiance and color presentation. Additional awards went to Jim Pinegar and Craig Jones for wolf badge arrows, Jack Fine and Craig Jones for denner stripes, Wendell Mobler asst denner stripes, and Lyndell Maddox introduced new bobcats.
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Community Church
Courtney Jones
Mark Daly
Mike Holt
Kenny Chmelka
Earl Fine
Jack Fine
Rodney Pierce
Craig Shaefer
Jamey Russell
Lyle Phipps
Max Goldsberry
Webelos den
Jim Pinégar
Craig Jones
Denner
Wendell Mobler
Lyndell Maddox
Ag We New Bobcats
Garden City High Students Earn Eight Top Ratings at State
Garden City High School students scored eight No 1 ratings at the state speech and drama festival in Hays, the most top ratings by local students to date. Winners included Lou Yeadon and Steve Floyd in duet acting, Larry Watkins in original and extemporaneous speech, David Heinemann in original oration, Linda Smith in reading, Beverly Gardiner in extemporaneous speaking, Cheryl Bentley in poetry reading, and Gayle Thompson in formative speech. Roxie Smith and Sharon Kells earned No 2 ratings in reading, Sharon VanVleet No 3 in poetry reading.
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Garden City
Hays
Dean Nolte
Larry Fowler
Change of Face For Richard Nixon
Former Vice President Richard M. Nixon, who quit press conferences last November, prepared to answer questions from 500 newspaper editors at the American Society of Newspaper Editors meeting in Washington. Nixon would deliver a 20 minute speech and take questions, following Kennedy defense of Cuba policies. Nixon had vowed to quit public life after California governor bid failure but returned to campaigning in 1964. The editors planned to install a new president at tonight’s banquet and hear Robert S. McNamara speak.
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Washington
Richard M. Nixon
Nixon
Robert S. McNamara
American Society of Newspaper Editors
Kennedy
Cuba
Goodby
California
Chicago
Jack Paar
NBC
Dwight D. Eisenhower
McNamara
ASNE
Lee Hills
Detroit
Knight Newspapers, Inc
Herbert Brucker
Hartford
Grassland Fire 18th in 19 Days Reported
Garden City volunteers responded to a grass fire four acres in size half a mile south on US 33 at 11 23 a.m. City Manager Deane Wiley noted this was the 18th fire in 19 days with several caused by weed burning and wind. Five fires occurred within city limits.
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US 33
Garden City
Deane Wiley
Wiley
Bathyscaphe Trieste Could Explain Thresher Sinking
Navy notes the Trieste may provide visual and photographic data to help understand why the nuclear submarine Thresher sank in 8000 plus feet of Atlantic water with 129 aboard. The search for Thresher's wreck is uncertain and could take weeks or months.
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Washington
Trieste
Atlantic
Rea Adm
John S. McCain
Navy Information
Donald L. Keach
Boston
Navy
Auguste Piccard
Jacques
Office of Naval Research
Garden City Hospital Admissions and Dismissals Report
Admissions list for St Catherine includes Janet Johnston and several others with addresses on N 3rd and nearby streets. Dismissals note multiple patients leaving St Catherine and related facilities, with names and rough street references. We include births from Raynesford Clinic and share details of local traffic incidents and a county accident report with vehicle descriptions and minor damage notes.
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St. Catherine
Charles Hermle
O. D. Siebert
Sublette
Dean
Claude Kerr
Ard
Nettie Hicks
Fulton
James Murdock
Coward
Henry Wright
Main
Carl Brown
Scott City
Vicki J. Thomas
Dighton
Alta Rhoads
Imperial
Timothy Underwood
F. A. Dickerson
Ingalls
Raynesford Clinic
Sterling Smith
Stevens
Rotary Event Open to Public
Reservations are open for the Rotary District Conference banquet next Saturday night at St Marys Center. NBC News anchor John Chancellor will headline while Morris Jones notes 200 public tickets are sold at The Squire Clothing Store and Ross Blackford 133 Stevens Ave. Delegates from 29 Rotary Clubs in Southwest Kansas and Northeast Oklahoma are expected as the conference runs from Friday through Sunday.
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Rotary District
John Chancellor
NBC News
Morris Jones
Garden City
Rotary Club
St. Mary’s Center
Squire Clothing Store
Ross Blackford
Stevens Ave
Rotary
Kansas
Oklahoma
Bobcat Bagged Near Curtis Ramsay Farm
A 35 pound bobcat was killed last Saturday evening near the Curtis Ramsay home northeast of here. Jim Wallace, employed at the Ramsay farm, shot the animal with a shotgun after tracks were seen along irrigation ditches for days. Wallace plans to make a rug from the bobcat.
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Johnson
Kansas
Curtis Ramsay
Here
Jim Wallace
Ramsay
Wallace
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LeRoy Allman
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Hugoton
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Cub Pack
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Belles of
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