Garden City Production Credit Association elects new board
Stockholders gathered to hear the association’s status, elect new board members, and enjoy a prime rib meal. Speakers included Kenneth M. Lyon, vice-president of the Federal Intermediate Credit Bank of Wichita, and Bill Bork, public relations representative of the Farmers Coop of Hutchinson. A larger harvest was noted as well.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Garden City
Humber
Kenneth M. Lyon
Federal Intétmediate Crédit Bank
Wichita
Bill
Bork
Farmer's’ Co Sp
Hutchinson
Chemistry lab worker dies in factory incident
A routine chemistry experiment led to a fatal incident at a Parati plant as investigators review safety procedures. The manager confirmed the accident and officers are on scene. No further details were released pending a full inquiry.
Rocket fueled blast at high school injures seven
A Texas high school chemistry experiment exploded injuring seven students and killing teacher Garland Foster 40 a former Atomic Energy Commission worker from Los Alamos. Students Keith Hollums 18 and Jerry Crawford 17 were seriously hurt while others sustained minor injuries. Dennis Whitill an 18 year old witness described the setup carbon potassium chlorate and sulfur inside a one foot pipe rocket on a roller skate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tex
Garland Foster
Atomic.’ Energy Commission Research Center
Los Alamos
M.M
Keith Hollums
Jerry Crawford
Hollums
Crawford
Lubbock
Dennis Whitill
Atomic Energy. Commission Research Center
Walkout Halts Tire Plant Production in Miami Oklahoma
In Miami Oklahoma 1100 workers walked out at the Goodrich Rubber Co plant with no immediate explanation. Bob Long president United Rubber Workers Local 318 said the walkout began spontaneously yesterday morning and spread to 600 day workers. About 500 more did not report for the evening shift. The union leader indicated the primary goal is getting workers back to their jobs while addressing complaints and grievances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miami
Okla
Goodri 'l Rubber Co
Tive
Bob Long
United Rubber
Gular Griev
Reckless Driving Case Before Los Angeles Judge
Municipal Judge Thomas L. Griffith Jr. hears police report of Ramon Butler, 23, charged with driving 93 mph, fleeing officers, and a mile long chase. Butler says he could not stop because he had no brakes. Judge imposes five days and a $30 fine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Thomas L. Griffith Jr
Ramon Butler
Five Unions Under the Gun at AFL-CIO Convention
Delegates opened sessions in Atlantic City amid expulsion moves targeting five unions including the Teamsters, Bakery, Laundry, Distillery, and United Textile Workers. UTW was suspended. Hoffa could resign to allow monitoring. Meany and council pressed for expulsion as investigations continue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic City
N.J
Afl-Cio
Teamsters Union
United Textile Workers
George Meany
Federation
Teamsters
James R. Hoffa
Ths
Aflcio High Command
Hoffa
Central Statea Teamsters
Meany
New York
Hotta
Senate
Aflcio Executive Council
UTW
Services for Harland M Conyers in Garden City
Harland M. Conyers long time Garden City resident died at a local nursing home after a lingering illness. Services will be held tomorrow at 2 p.m. in the Garland chapel with Rev. James O. Pearce in charge. Burial will be in Valley View Cemetery. Donald Alden Dotts, of Garden City, was picked up by Great Bend officers late last night and returned today to face a traffic violation charge. Dotts allegedly left the scene of an accident and failed to report it after hitting a parked car owned by Simpson Clark on Elm Street in Garden City last Oct 14.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harland M. Conyers
Garand Chapel
James 0. Pearce
Conyers
Garden City
Kansas
Donald Alden Dotts
Valley View City
Great Bend
Dotts
Simpson Clark
Duke Back In Circle at British Social Function
London society circles welcomed the former King Edward VII as guest of honor at a dinner after his abdication in 1908. In New York NATO aid talks drew headlines with Adlai E. Stevenson urging a general political alignment in the Middle East while the Duke met old friends and discussed current silence on military shipments.
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London
Duke ‘of Windsor
Britain
Dulles
NATO
Middle ‘East
New York Times
Ingtoh
Eratic
Middle East
Grain futures and livestock markets mix at Kansas City
Market report shows Kansas City wheat prices and eggs easing amid weather and crop outlooks. Corn futures firm on cash market support while oats and soybeans fluctuate. livestock bids steady to mixed as crews mobilize for Fort Bragg exercise with 17,000 Army troops and 3,000 opposing forces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Goffe & Carkener, Inc
Kansas City
Lindh Produce Co
Cevenee MeDec
Csecesecreee
Chicago
Garden City
Hutchinson
Wichita
Omaha
Enid
Salina
Mixed picture for grain futures in late trading
In New York the market backed down from highs and mixed waves ended with varied activity. Shipbuilding stocks rose while tobaccos stayed strong. aircraft missiles slipped. News of Russia’s atomic powered surface ship spurred defense demand as prices for wheat corn oats soybeans and other grains appeared in Kansas City quotes with mixed gains and losses across grades.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
New
York Shipbuilding
Bath Iron
Newport News
Jehom ‘Steel
Russid’s
Defense’ Department
U. S
Russia
Defection disclosure by CMDR Webster shocks Bristol Club
CMDR Harvey C Webster revealed in a Bristol Rotary talk that two senior Soviet naval officers defected and are now in Washington. The disclosure was made publicly but he urged keeping the information confidential. A second item notes Honeymoon the grand champion steer sold for a record $30 per pound at the Chicago International Livestock Exposition. The buyer was Arthur Godfrey, with the sale televised on his CBS show. Another short item reports a state warrant for Ida Hebert, 22, of Hays and McPherson, who escaped from a county jail by crawling through bars. A gasoline tax hike proposal of one cent is urged by Kansas Chamber to fund highways. Firefighters in New Orleans contained a gasoline blaze at an Ingram refinery, with over a million gallons burned and one worker missing. In Wichita, Illinois man Davis Phelps died in a collision with a gasoline transport truck at a busy intersection. driver James Lermon survived.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cmdr
Harvey C. Webster
Lattice
Chief of Naval Operations
Webster
Bristol Rotary Club
Sue Secondino
Chicago
Arthur Godfrey
CBS
Secondino
Orleans
Ingram Oil and Refining Co
St. Bernard Parish
County
Wichita
Illinois
Davis’ Anderson Phelps
Eldorado
Ill
James E. Lermon
Greensburg
Kas
Phelps
U.S
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Crook
Garden City Reduction’ ‘Credit Association
Kenneth Lyon
Garden Citian and Aker
C. W. Dickhut
PCA
Scott City
D. Earl Jones
S. Leota
Shemistry
T Parati
Lence
Ed Hughe
ge-Hcense
Edward L
Meaifiel
Cant
Dana
Wyte
Rusell
T. ‘Smith
Sublet Smith
Olive
ehael'Ap Dyer
Dighton
Gale Lee Towns
Sublette
John LaGesse
St. Catherine
Ed Brown
Star
Whitfill
Gardenden City
Duke
Adlairas
The
Js, Dillon’ & Sons, Stores Co., Inc
Goplas
Afay
Ice
Tae, Beétroft
Cole & Co
Rat Securities Company, Inc
Dee Jan
Dee Mar J May
Rge
Kansas City Livestock
USDA
FT. Bragg
N.C
Artmay
Chester B. Déegayre
North Carolina
Russell County Sheriff's Office
Ida, Hiébert
Hays
McPherson
Highway Council
Kansas Chamber of Commerce
Francis .Jacobs
Phillipsburg
Armour Star
Campbells Tomato Soup
Nellew
Babo Cleanser
Fenty
Stee
Medlam Sige
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