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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1969
Page
6
Local wagon prices list grain values and livestock receipts with Friday market declines and strength in feeder cattle. Kansas City figures show cattle, hogs, and sheep trading with high choice to prime ranges and a broad, active demand for slaughter and feeder classes across weight brackets.
Twenty six youths from Haskell County organized a Sunday bread sale to raise 148.56 for the March of Dimes. Participants from Satanta and Sublette included Connie Geist Debbie Geist Cindy Wachs Becky Scott Gary Keeze Pat Johnston Helen Gomez Susie Shields Mike Anton and others. Nora Anton directed the TAP program and noted funds aid birth defects research with over 100 Birth Defects Centers nationwide. regional center is Kansas City.
The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials at 1 p.m. was down 3.89 points to 808.41, with price quotes furnished to Telegram by Goffe & Carkener Inc, 276-3244.
James R. Walker, 19, was injured when his car left US 50 east of Pierceville and overturned. The victim, en route back to Dodge City from Garden City, sustained a broken back and was hospitalized in Dodge City. The crash occurred at 1 30 p.m. Thursday as Kansas Highway Patrol investigated.
YMCA events calendar lists daily activities including noon fitness sessions, women's basketball, archery, ceramics classes, and social gatherings at Ben Grimsley Gym and Y Hall. The week features Men and Women programs, adult ceramics, and local clubs with times ranging from morning to evening.
Names of visitors and patients appear for St. Catherine hospital events on a Saturday and Sunday. Listed are Mrs. Joe Bajer Lakin Mrs. William Boles 710 N 2nd Mrs. Samuel Brock 1106 Hamline Mary K Murray 511 Eugene Barbara L Smith 9114 E Fair Mrs. Robert Arnold and baby daughter 601 Conkling Patricia L Brumley 417 Davis Albert Carder 1501 E Laurel Mabel Danford 507 N 8th Ramona Delgado Rt 2 Mrs Luis Garcia 507 E Santa Fe Everett L Goodwin Kinsley Darcy Rollings 506 W Kansas Scott Allan Snyder 1208 E Laurel Mayme L Williamson 706 Pats Dr
A sequence of vehicle collisions and a pedestrian injury reported over Saturday and Sunday. Incidents include several at 100 block E Wolmes and Main Street with damage ranging from minor to extensive, involving drivers Charles Dean Lancaster Elrita Rae Reule Dennis Dreiling and others, plus a pedestrian injury on E Pine. Monday notes moderate damage to two drivers at Hattie and Teitlebaum involving Joyce McGaughey and Bernie Dreitz.
Two area coeds Ava Joss of Holcomb and Tania McCalmont of Sublette pledged Sigma Sigma Sigma during rush week at Fort Hays Kansas State College, joining 62 others. Ava Joss and Weston Hardy are members of the college choir, which will perform in six central Kansas high schools this week, starting Thursday with stops in Russell Wilson Ellsworth Lincoln Beloit and Osborne.
A two car crash on US160 near Argonia Saturday night killed Floyd D. Petersile 47 and his wife Zelma also killed was Herbert D. Ray 41 of Argonia. Petersile was a Garden City area resident and father to a Lakin woman and brother to Ory Petersile of Rt. 1. Funeral services for Mr and Mrs Petersile are pending with services to be held in Ness City.
Keith Sebelius and a 12 member screening board will interview First District Kansas residents for service academy appointments. The meeting starts 8:30 a.m. in Fort Hays Kansas State College Sheridan Coliseum with 9:15 a.m. interviews. Dr. Richard Burnett chairs, military advisors assist. Lunch sponsored by local groups. nominations announced in January.
In Detroit AP reports a proposal to abolish the present National Council of Churches and form a General Ecumenical Council in the United States. The plan aims to include many denominations, retain self determined programs, and enlist nonmember groups while expanding evangelism and social action. Proponents push for broader inclusion, with a five day assembly featuring 800 voting delegates and 2000 church experts.
Three Fort Hays Kansas State College seniors and 24 total recipients were chosen for Who's Who in American Colleges 1959-70. Susan Bowen John Dailey and Catherine Merrill from Garden City College were selected by a panel of honor fraternities sororities and campus groups.
Capt. Redrey L. Sigle, son of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Herron of Lakin, received two Army Air Medals with V devices for heroic actions in Vietnam. A Garden City JC graduate, he boosted to captain after May arrival, earning first medal July 14 as co-pilot on an AN 16 during a mission west of Currahee. On Aug. 10 he flew an AH 1G in Battery B 4th Battalion 77th Artillery when his team was confronted after a helicopter was shot down, and he directed fire and shielded downed crew.
The Native Sons and Daughters of Kansas sponsor a contest for factual pioneer stories in Kansas. Prizes of 25, 15, and 10 will be awarded for first through third places. Entries must be factual, unpublished, under 750 words, postmarked by December 25, 1969, and mailed to Mrs. Frank W. Boyd, Contest Chairman, Mankato, Kansas 98956.
Funeral services for Frederick Scheuchzer, 61, of 622 North 10th died Saturday at home. White Funeral Home handled arrangements with burial at Valley View Cemetery. Alba W. Ferrell, 89, died yesterday at Kearny County Hospital after an 18 month illness. born Green City Missouri, resident of Lakin since 1923, survived by widow Yvonne Florentin and a large family. services at St Anthony's Catholic Church, Lakin, with rosary tonight and viewing tomorrow at Davis Funeral Home.
Two Garden City soldiers receive the Army Combat Infantryman badge for service near Pleiku in South Vietnam. Pe. William J. Coerber, scout observer with Company I, 1st Battalion, 4th Infantry Division, 35th Infantry, and Plc. Larry D. Pierce, rifleman in Company A, 2nd Battalion, 25th Infantry, 4th Infantry Division, 3rd Brigade, earned the honor for sustained ground contact. Coerber, 20, a 1949 Garden City High School graduate, arrived in Vietnam last July after Fort Lewis posting. Pierce, 22, a 1966 graduate, arrived in August and lives with his wife Shawanna at 605 N. 6th. Presentations occurred near Pleiku on dates in October.
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