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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1964
Page
1
AP dispatch from Kansas City notes cattle run of 500 head with calves not tested for price. Hogs up to 40 higher with barrows and gilts mostly 27.50 to 18.00 per 100 pounds, sow prices strong while sheep were insufficient for market testing. Local wagon prices list vegetable and grain quotes including eggs and wheat futures.
New York AP. Chrysler and General Motors led a broad stock market rise as auto strike fears eased after the union postponed the deadline to September 9 from August 31. Aerospace shares rallied on talk of higher defense spending. The AP average rose 1.0 to 314.8, industrials up 1.9, Dow up 3.18 at noon. GM remained strongest, Chrysler fluctuated, Ford slipped slightly, American Motors and Studebaker held steady.
In Kansas City a two vehicle crash on Banister Road left one woman dead and two men injured. The deceased is Barbara Turner, 17, passenger in Gary Smith's car. Smith and Eugene Bradford, 25, of Lee's Summit, were hurt.
Don Pierce of Elkhart captured all round cowhand honors at the Garden City Roping Club rodeo part of Finney County Free Fair activities. He earned two belt buckles including the Brahma bull riding title as the sole rider to complete a ride and, with no other bulls ridden, the ground money was split among the competitors.
Democratic delegates from Kansas wrap up their National Convention business in Atlantic City, with speeches by President Johnson and Sen. Humphrey. They plan to depart by chartered planes after tribute to retiring committeewoman Mrs. Georgia Neese Gray, long Kansas member of the National Committee. The Kansas delegation hopes Humphrey visits Kansas by Sept. 16 and the president may speak in Wichita. Event coverage also details rodeo results with multiple buckle winners in steer wrestling, calf roping, bareback bronc, saddle bronc, barrel racing, and bull dogging, plus names of towns, ranches, and participants.
In Garden City today a roster of hospital names and residents appears with births and marriages noted. Names include Ay 51 Catherine Lewis Donley Rice and Mrs Richard Lee, plus Holcomb and Lakin households, and a birth at St Catherine for Asonta and Richard Bennett. Deeds, licenses, divorces, and a county court docket follow with transfers, marriages, and traffic fines listed.
Kansas traffic death log for 24 hours ending 9 am Friday lists 0 deaths on August 5 1966 and 1965 with 405 comparable to 379 the previous year 1963 figures show 379 deaths while 1964 data provided.
A Southwest Kansas visitor from Argentina arrived Wednesday afternoon. Dencil Primo of Rio Cuarto Cordoba is production manager for Panoja an Argentine seed firm affiliated with Frontier Hybrids. He will spend about two weeks in the area observing production techniques and discussing new hybrids with growers and officials in Scott City and other Southwest Kansas locales. He is hosted by Kenneth Goertzen Scott City director of research and foundation seed division for Frontier.
The Village Barbers at 713 Kansas Plaza opens with Ronald Howell 22 a Kansas School of Barbering graduate from Burdett High. Howell will be joined by Charles Malone of Macksville in two weeks. Shop runs 8 to 6 Tue-Sat offers vest facials built in sterilizers and semi appointment system. Howell a member of the Associated Master Barbers of Garden City.
Station KGLD TV Garden City channel 11 receives approval from the Federal Communications Commission to raise output from 49.3 kilowatts to 200 kilowatts. Station Manager Mack Ling announced the change following the commission action.
An undetermined amount of change was reported stolen from the cigarette machine and juke box at the Up Pass Cafe. Sheriff Wendle Meier said the break in occurred Thursday during the night. Northern Ireland with its two main cities Belfast and Londonderry is a self governing country within the United Kingdom.
Vision and the Aging Worker will be the topic of a lecture to Kansas optometrists next Tuesday at the Wheat Lands Motel. Dr Edmund Richardson of Hollywood California, director of study groups for the optometric program, will address the group and discuss how optometrists can keep mature workers visually efficient and demonstrate the role in maintaining high visual skills.
Jack H. Devolid of Hutchinson District will attend Prudential Insurance Co.'s national business conference in New York City at the Waldorf Astoria Sun through Wednesday. He is among 370 company sales leaders invited from 25,000 district agencies. The gathering aims to provide instruction on business and estate insurance topics.
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