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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1962
Page
1
Kansas State University agriculture experiment station staff recorded one of the calmest Novembers on record with daily wind gauges. Assistant agronomist Norm Nossamon tallies the data each morning at 8 a.m., noting unusually light wind throughout the month.
Eva Bong, former Garden City High exchange student, now teaches English in Rhodes Greece and leads AFL in Rhodes. Christmas shopping tips advise lavish spending and surprises. Choir cake mishap ends well after a damaged cake is replaced at Dillon's. November winds were unusually light with 4.8 mph average, 8.9 inches of snow overall, and moisture totaling .77 inch for the month at the Garden City station. Weather records show a mild November with multiple freezing lows and a late-day fog pattern over the Arkansas Valley.
Finney County Commissioners detailed the general election expenses totaling 3988.67 with Garden City paying 2978.81 and seven townships sharing the rest. They also approved a Civil Defense organization, vacation orders in Walls and Harris Additions, and appointed township and city assessors for 1963 with sessions set for January 2 and 3.
London faced a second day of dense yellow smog as sulphur dioxide levels rose to six times normal. Health officials urged vulnerable groups to stay home while trains, aviation, and shipping faced disruption across the capital and River Thames region.
A white man in a trench coat fired several shots at Teamsters leader James Hoffa in a Nashville federal courtroom. Hoffa was uninjured after knocking the assailant down. Marshals subdued the gunman, who was bleeding, and no one else was hurt as spectators fled the scene during a $1 million conspiracy trial recess.
Garden Sass Gas Garden comments that last month’s weather was uneventful and not worth highlighting the impact.
Washington governors largely held dissent as the Defense Department proposed reorganizing the National Guard and Army Reserve to create more capable units with fewer divisions. The plan would abolish several divisions, migrate personnel into 11 new brigades and six high priority National Guard divisions, while preserving some units at reduced strength. Governors vowed to study and await further briefings before approving peacetime changes, with a special committee to review the matter after Monday’s adjutants general meeting.
Secretary of Defense McNamara's reorganization may affect Guard and Reserve units nationwide, but here no change is known. Captain John F. Walters, commanding Company L, 3rd Battalion, 353rd Regiment of the 89th Division, says the division will likely remain unaffected for now. Units in Scott City, Liberal, and Dodge also report no changes, as do Garden City National Guard Battery A.
The Arkansas Valley’s fog cleared revealing a sharp temperature drop to seasonal lows. At the experiment station the low was 21 degrees, matching a prior 21-degree reading on Nov 8, with airport readings around 22 degrees on several recent dates and 29 degrees late Tuesday night.
A Tuesday about 3 p.m. car jumped the curb and struck the Inez Accessories store at 414 N Main. Mrs Ira Travis helped clean glass and wood debris from the display window while Mrs Roscoe Dale of 1304 E Chestnut drove the car, claiming the heater made it move forward. Damage totaled about 290 dollars to the store and car plus 65 to a parking meter.
Garden City Junior College will receive funds as one of 14 in Kansas. Total state funds amount to 400,489.50 with Washburn University at 60,351.50. Grants to other colleges include Arkansas City 25,465.60, Chanute 14,595, Coffeyville 25,285.50, Dodge City 21,009, El Dorado 18,513, Fort Scott 412,528, Highland 13,686, Hutchinson 67,073.50, Independence 26,542.50, Iola 17,923.50, Kansas City 45,337.50, Parsons 19,233, and Pratt 15,048.
Finney County Clerk Jane Collins announced several personnel changes. Gerald Murry is appointed deputy clerk during Grace Cripe’s illness after about three years in the office. Carol Brown is hired as the new clerk replacing Mrs. Murray. John J. Wilkenson and gas assessor will handle real estate and personal property evaluation following the resignation of Det. 1 John M. Anderson.
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