Garden City Chamber Marks 75th Anniversary Banquet
Garden City Chamber of Commerce will celebrate its 75th anniversary at the annual banquet held tomorrow night at St Marys Center. Charles D Brennen FBI special agent will speak on espionage and intelligence activities of the Communist Party and how Americans can counter the threat.
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Chamber of Commerce
St. Mary's Center
Chamber
Garten City Industrial Club
Penton
Rocky Ford
Hap
Charles D. Brennen
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Communist Party
Brennen
Elk Lodge
Garden National Bank
St. Mary’s Center
Garden City records weekend crowds and bicycle trek
Garden City drew crowds for many activities over the weekend. Two Syracuse teens, Jimmy Zahnter and Bobby Cantrell, biked 51 miles east to Garden City at 12 mph, returning after lunch against a strengthening west wind. A Hollywood producer eyes Garden City for a film titled Bengon City 1300, seeking a Main Street with a clock tower church and hillside cemetery. Garden City could supply the cemetery site and a high school band.
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Syracuse
Jimmy Zahnter
Bobby Cantrell
Garden City
Jimmy
Jim Zahnter
Deerfield
Jules Maitland
Samuel Goldwyn Studios
Bengon City
Main
Maitland
Gold Medals For Holcomb Musicians at State Festival
Holcomb High School musicians returned from the state music festival in Dodge City with seven first division ratings and two second division ratings, earning a total of gold medals. Top ratings went to Madrigal Singers, girls triple trio, boys ensemble, brass quartet, and soloists Karen Earle trumpet Kenny Birch voice and Melva Turner voice. No. 2 ratings were Lynn Martin bass clarinet and Melva Turner trombone.
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Holcomb High
Dodge City
Byron Mitchell
Halcomb
Madrigal Singers
Karen Earle
Kenny Birch
Melva Turner
Lynn Martin
Tornado Hits Farm Near Frankfort Sunday
A tornado struck the Oscar Nelson farm seven miles northeast of Frankfort, damaging the house barn and smaller outbuildings. Eight residents reached a storm cellar in time, escaping injury as the twister carved a 50 yard wide path over about a half mile.
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Frankfort
Kan
Oscar Nelson
Kansas
Nelson Place
Blazes Strike Garden City Area Over Weekend
Three fires caused several thousand dollars in damage in Garden City over the weekend. Plastics at Kansas Plastic Pipe Co. suffered about 15000 in losses, a warehouse behind the building burned, and a parsonage kitchen and roof were heavily smoke damaged. An oil storage tank fire 4 miles west on US3 caused no injuries. Fire officials have not determined causes for the church or plastics blazes.
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Garden City
Kansas Plastic Pipe Co
1632 Terminal
St. James Lutheran Church
Melanie Lane
New Lutheran Church
Kansas Association of Bank Agricultural Representatives
KABAR
Brookover
Marine joins Four Gallon Club with blood donations
Dale Marine, a junior high school teacher and coach, becomes a Four Gallon Club member after qualifying last month as a donor at the Red Cross Bloodmobile for the 32nd time. Mrs. Susan Hadley Wilson enters the Three Gallons Club. Two women and two men join the Two Gallons Club while three new members reach One Gallon after eight pints donated.
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Dale Marine
Red Crosse Bloodmobile
Susan Hadley Wilson
John Collins
Claude Robinson
Russell Tremain
Joe Tennessen
Rueben Heruty
Harold Stucker
Norman L. Stucker
CAP finds missing plane in Kansas exercise
The Kansas Civil Air Patrol located a simulated downed aircraft during a weekend search drill. About 200 members searched from Goodland to Independence, locating the target south of Neodesha at 9 45 a.m. Sunday after a start at 7 30 a.m. Saturday.
Kansas Traffic Death Log for Week of April 1963
AP report from IOPEKA shows Kansas traffic fatalities over a 24 hour period ending 9 am Monday. The log covers the week in April 1963 and compares figures with the previous year 1962, noting 4 deaths for the period and 126 for the comparable span, against 160 in 1962.
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Iopeka
Kansas
Mayor's Prayer Breakfast Draws Garden Citians
More than 125 Garden Citians gathered for the second annual Mayor's Prayer Breakfast at Downing's. Willis Jones, Billings city attorney, spoke on personal witnessing for Jesus Christ, while James Johnson Jr. of Denver Public Schools explained the International Christian Leadership movement. Ray Calihan Jr. led the event as chair, with invocation by Dr. John Riggs and readings by Russell Elliott and Paul Olson. A quartet sang as Mayor Jim Sloan and commissioners James Cowgill and Morris Jones were introduced. The benediction was given by Rev. Robert Rusk.
John Chancellor Sees Europe As Equal Power With U S And USSR
NBC anchor John Chancellor told a Rotary District Conference banquet that Europe has reached parity with the United States and Soviet Union in size and wealth and will become a major power within years. He noted Western Europe’s labor force, reserves, and market potential and predicted future political unification and self sufficiency in agriculture by 1980. He also warned that enlarging the Common Market too much could backfire and discussed Khrushchev’s position and Soviet media as a starting point for understanding Russia.
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United States
Soviet Union
West Europe
U.S
Russia
Rotary
St. Mary’s Center
Brussels
NBC News
Europe
de Gaulle
Britain
Chancellor
Francis Gary Powers
Gagarin
Ag Representatives on Tour at Country Club Convention
By noon today 55 members had registered for the convention as Ag Representatives plan tours of farming and industrial operations tonight and tomorrow morning. A concluding business session is set for tomorrow afternoon.
Garden City High School earns top ratings at state music festival
Sixteen top ratings plus six No 2 and two No 3 awards were earned by Garden City High School musicians at the state festival in Dodge City. The achievements covered band orchestra and vocal students led by Robert Anderson Larry Harris and Julius Hultquist, with No 1 ratings earned by many soloists and ensembles.
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Garden City
Dodge City
Robert Anderson
Larry Harris
Julius Hultquist
Tom Wilson
Randi Wells
Dave Williams
Roger Stoner
Rosemary Selover
Terry Carmichael
Max Hett
Carla Hooper
David Heinemann
Becky Rogers
Jo Ellen Wampler
Bob Cooper
Wynn Brandes
Sandra Neeley
Dan Laughlin
Brass
Rosie Smith
Fidel and Khrushchev Open Talks in Kremlin
Soviet Premier Khrushchev and Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro began talks in Moscow aimed at strengthening Communist ties. They discussed growing Soviet military and economic aid and noted past missile withdrawals amid cautious public warmth. Castro praised Soviet support while both leaders framed unity against the United States as the key goal.
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Khrushchev
Fidel Castro
Kremlin
Soviet Union
Cuba
Castro
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Khirushchev
Lenin
Vnukova
Arctic
Murmansk
Khrushenev
U.N. General Assembly
New York
Man Arrested In Death of Integrationist
GADSDEN Alabama AP a rural storekeeper Floyd Simpson held without bond for the roadside slaying of Baltimore integrationist William L. Moore. A first degree murder charge to be lodged as state warrant signed. Simpson, 40, father of six, aims to post bond. Moore, 35, postman, died from two bullet wounds en route to Jackson Mississippi to discuss integration with Gov Ross Barnett. Sheriff Dewey Colvard noted no new details and said others questioned are cleared. Collbran residents expressed hostility. Porter described Simpson as a good hard working man. Mrs Simpson and six children attended church services.
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Gadsden
Ala
Floyd Simpson
Baltimore
William L. Moore
Dewey Colvard
Simpson
William M. Beck Sr
Fort Payne
Moore
Jackson
Miss
Ross
Barnett
Garden Sass Gus at Mayor's Prayer Breakfast
Garden Sass Gus attended the Mayor's Prayer Breakfast this morning and recalled the saying Shoemaker, stick to your last as the editor attempted a song.
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Gus Garden
Clash Threatens Caribbean Island
In Hispaniola a border crisis escalates as Dominican Republic demands Haiti withdraw troops from around the Santo Domingo embassy in Port au Prince. Haiti breaks relations while the OAS organizes a five nation factfinding mission to assess the tense standoff.
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Dominican Republic
Hispaniola
Haiti
Juan Bosch
Francois Duvalier
Port Au Prince
Duvalier
Bosch
Dominican Armed Forces
Victor Elvis Vinas Roman
Organization of American States
Coun
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