Garden City Weekend Events In Town For Conventions
Several hundred visitors tour Garden City for conventions and conferences. The Abbey School Glee Club performs at Clifford Hope Auditorium Sunday's 8 15 pm following a 6 30 pm art conference banquet at St Mary’s Center. Polio clinics Sunday. open house at Garden National Bank. Mayor’s Prayer Breakfast Monday 7 am at Downing’s. United Fund calendar note.
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Garden City
St. Mary's’ Center
Clifford Hope Auditoam
Abbey School Glee Ub
Atonal Bank
Gideons Begin State Meeting In City Today
The 56th annual Kansas State Convention of The Gideons International opens in Downing's with 250 plus Gideons expected over three days. State president J F Martin presides. speakers include M A Henderson and Carl F Akin. A fellowship dinner is at 6:30 p.m. today. officers to be elected Saturday. banquet at 6 p.m. Saturday. convention ends Sunday with devotions and church assignments.
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Gideons International
Downing's
Gideons
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Chicago
Carl F. Akin
Gideons Iternational
Fort Collins
Colo
Henry Krause
Hutchinson
Mra
Ken Hall
Auxiliary International
Glendale
Calif
Rota
Pioneer
Warren Hotel
Leith
Cross Country Freeway Plan Highlighted by Hodges
Secretary of Commerce Hodges told the National Association of Surety Bond Producers that a New York to Los Angeles freeway could emerge in the not too distant future. He cited the administration’s $41 billion highway program as a record in scope, with private and public construction expected to reach $63.3 billion this year.
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New York
Los Angeles
Luther H. Hodges
Hodges
National Association of Surety
State Honors for 5 Future Farmers of America
Five Garden City area FFA members Gary Greathouse Larry Goss Roger Friesen David Lightner and Jay Sloan of Holcomb will receive the State Farmer degree at the 35th Kansas FFA convention on Monday night at Kansas State University. Each has shown strong farming focus beef cattle hogs crops and active FFA leadership with rising net worth and roles in judging teams choruses sports and community 4-H.
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Telegram
Finney County
Future Farmers of America
Kansas State University
Manhattan
Garden City
FFA
Gary Granthouse
Larry Goss
Roger Friesen
David Lightner
Jay Sloan
Melcomb
Kansas Association of Ffa
Gary Greathouse
Holcomb
C. C. Eustace
Greathouse
Europe
Goss
Friesen
Lightner
Europa
Plymell Sunday School
Finney 4-H Council
Beavers Could Save Brushy Creek Water Supply
LAWSON Missouri AP residents face 45 days of water left as Brushy Creek beavers create a dam raising creek water to 16 to 18 inches behind their barrier. City officials consider tapping the beaver dam or building a pipeline while doubling monthly water rates from 3 to 6 dollars for the first 2 000 gallons to curb consumption. The council hopes rain or a new water source arrives soon.
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Brushy Creek
Missouri
Lawson Reservoir
Morton Holman
Lawson Review
Holman
Gratifying response to marketing agreements for new plant
Officials called yesterday’s meeting at Alta Brown Elementary School gratifying after a good turnout. About 45 producers signed pledge cards for Producers Packing Co. plant, with a 3,000 head minimum required to proceed. Pledges reported at Kansas meetings totaled over 18,000 head, though not binding contracts.
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Producers Packing Co
Alta Brown
George Voth
Garden City Co-op
Voth
Kansas
Mine Explosion Traps 22 Men in West Virginia
Rescue crews recovered three bodies from the Clinchfield Coal Co Compass No. 2 mine where 22 miners were trapped after a methane gas explosion. Five rescue teams worked through the drifted sections toward the trapped men, with hopes fading as the search continued. All victims were local Clarksburg area men. 29 miners escaped.
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W. Va
Clinchfield Coal Co
Compass No
Harry Chapman
Chapman
Leonard Timms
Fairmont
Stephen Canonico
Clinchfield
Rock Falls
Canonica
White House Breaks Jinx in Crisis-Free Reception
President Kennedy hosted a jovial congressional reception at the White House with roughly 1,000 guests. A few teacups shattered as a voice quipped Blame it on the Republicans, but no crisis emerged and lawmakers supported price-helps for feed grains.
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Nedy
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Bay of Pigs
To Test Fire Rocket Booster October 1961 News
Huntsville Ala AP NASA announced the first full scale test firing of the moon bound Saturn V rocket booster for October 1961. Separate engine tests of the five engine booster are planned for August. The booster delivers 7.5 million pounds of thrust and will be launched from a 30 million dollar test stand at the Marshall Space Flight Center.
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Huntsville
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Marsha Space Flight Center
Rotary District Conference Here in Garden City
About 200 Rotarians and wives from 29 clubs in Southwest Kansas and Northwest Oklahoma attend the 1963 Rotary District 569 conference in Garden City. Events run today through Sunday at Clifford Hope Auditorium and Warren Hotel with speeches by G Robert Allison and Stewart Boone, a memorial service, scholarship reports, a banquet featuring John Chancellor, and entertainment by The Pitch Finders.
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Oklahoma
Garden City
Warren Lobby
Morris Jones
Rotary Club
Clifford Hope Auditorium
Rotary International
G. Robert Allison
Fergus Falls
Minn
Stewart Boone
Howard P. Woertendyke
Leo Rycken
Belgium
Howard Feldmann
Winfield
Bob Storbeck
Arkansas City
Husband
William V. Trekell
Charles Vaughn
Warren Hotel
Pioneer Room
The
Garden
City High School
Blue Notes
Hope Auditorium
Ben Evans
Bob French
Eliane van Stichel
St. Mary’s Center
John Chancellor
Ulysses
Chancellor
Jones
Buffalo Preserve
House Passes Grain Bill Enacted by House and Senate to follow
The House approved the Kennedy administration grain bill 208 to 19 sending the measure to the Senate. It extends feed grains price supports and acreage diversion with broad discretion for Secretary Orville Freeman including determining supported acreage and payment levels. Wheat referendum set for May 21, and Republicans warn against politicizing farm policy.
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House
Senate
Congress
Charles B. Hoeven
Arowa
Agriculture Committee
Kennedy
Orville L. Freeman
Freeman
Kansas Traffic Log topeka report 1963 update
Kansas traffic death log records 24 hours ending 9 am Friday noting totals for two days in April 1963. The log lists 29 cases for that period and compares to a similar 1982 range totaling 151. Data reflects regional fatalities across Topeka and surrounding routes.
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Topeka
Kansas
Garden Sass Gas Garden’s Double Barrel Welcome Day
Garden Sass Gas Garden hosts a welcome event as Reme visits Gideous. Local attendees include community members gathering to greet the visitors and celebrate the day with brief remarks and light refreshments.
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Gideous
Finney Readies Stop Polio Sunday Across Finney County
Polio vaccination drive set for Sunday with Type III Sabin vaccine offered 2 to 5 pm at six clinics. Drive-in at National Guard Armory and walk-ins at St Marys Center Gardendale Recreation Hall Pierceville Theoni and Holcomb Schools. Under 21 need a signed consent form. No charge but 25 cent contributions welcomed to cover clinic costs.
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National Guard
St. Mary’s Center
Gardendale Recreation Hall
Pierceville
Theoni School
Holcomb
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Cram
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