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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1968
Page
4
Dear Ann Landers prints reader letters on housework, family, and marriage conflicts from readers. The column features Easy: a reply to a wife overwhelmed by in laws, a mother juggling three children, and a divorce case over wedding gifts, offering blunt, practical counsel.
Two top political candidates faced no surprises as conventions wrap. Chicago demonstrations drew steady crowds while rumors claim GOP film reels of Demos' city fights could surface again. Seasonal changes loom cooler. Lennox systems pitched. Garden notes poke fun at editor's tomato saga. City Sheet Metal advertises heating cooling and plumbing service.
Women 35 or older are urged to apply for a Homemakers Service Demonstration project at Kansas State University. Training is free and may include Manpower Act assistance and welfare incentives. Eight trainees live at Ula Dow House for three weeks with a second week of field training. Upon completion, graduates may seek employment, often with county social welfare departments. Contact Kansas State Employment Service or the Homemaker Service Demonstration Project, Justin Hall, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas 66502.
I express sincere thanks to people friends and relatives for cooperation and help while campaigning for the 1968 Fiesta Queen Sylvia Orosco.
An Associated Press food feature describes a home tested snack called Company Mix. It combines puffed rice and wheat with canned potatoes and French fried onions, butter and seasonings, baked slowly to a crisp, yielding about nine cups.
Tresner and Philip Bertholf were wed in a noon ceremony at St Marys Catholic Church with Rev Edmund Weigel officiating. The bride, a 1968 Garden City High School graduate, wore white taffeta with seed pearl crown and pink rose bouquet. Guests numbered 75 at a reception, with a Colorado honeymoon and a home on Rt. 1. Out of town relatives attended from Kirwin Smith Center and Grand Coulee Washington.
Mrs. R. W. Knight presided at Odd Fellow Hall as the Rebekah Lodge honored the late Mrs. Pearl Luther with the charter draped in memory. Attendees included Lois Riggs Dora Lee Bishop R A Huffmaster Henry Stowers Robert Taylor Roy Barnum and Clayton Ludwig. Forty members joined the Finnup Park picnic and United Nations delegate John Naab spoke on his tour with refreshments served by local members.
Finney County Genealogical Society resumes meetings with a review of German migration from Rhine to Volga to Ellis County Kansas in the 1870s. Mrs. Flossie Guseman leads, book discussion centers on Conquering the Wind by Amy Brungardt Toepfer and Agnes Dreiling.
Garden City Duplicate Bridge Club plans a Winners Game Sunday afternoon and a regular weekly game Monday night at the Civic Center. The club held its monthly master point game Monday night with 26 players using the Mitchell system. North-South winners were Juanita Kinder with Dorothy Bock first, Ada Bentrup with Ellen Oswalt second, Owen Grable with Norman Lindner third. East-West ties for first and second were Jim Crottinger with Vance Van Pelt, and George Meeker with Henry Bentrup. Helen Lee and Luceil Shepp took third.
List of weekly gatherings including Elks Ladies Bridge Club Lincoln Goodwill BHU Happy Homemakers Eastern Star Wheelers BHU Elks Couples Bridge Club Fellowship Guild First Christian Church Euphrades Club and more with times locations and brief activity notes Tomato Talk highlights seasonal tomato quality and pricing guidance to choose ripe fruit.
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