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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1962
Page
2
Kansas City AP reports calves were steady at the weekly replacement cattle sale with 2,000 receipts. Hereford calves topped at 34.30 for 50 head averaging 447 pounds. Most calves sold 26.40 to 30, yearlings 25.20 to 27.10, and feeders 24.80 to 27. Prices across vegetables and grains also listed with modest changes.
New York AP report shows a moderate midday stock retreat as trading slows. The AP average of 60 stocks stood at 241.4, down about a point, with industrials and rails easing while utilities rose. Major declines appeared in steels, rails, aerospace, tobaccos, building materials, and oils, with Ford modestly off and GM and Chrysler slightly up.
Garden City High School Principal Tom Saffell and counselor George Bauer join the Principal Counselor Freshman conference at Kansas University. They planned to meet local freshmen and faculty. Carolyn Hood was not listed among Finney County students. Henry Avila of Garden City helps Haydn oratorio at St Mary of the Plains College in Dodge City next Wednesday. The Dropsie College alumni meeting in Garden City tonight is postponed due to low reservations.
Garden City student John Roper, clarinetist and freshman, is a member of the University of Kansas Concert Band entering its second year with eight musicians. The band plans two afternoon concerts on February 17 and May 12 and a spring tour with the University Symphony visiting Kansas and Oklahoma cities.
Historian Campbell notes ongoing changes in Garden City with a look back at a once two story frame house east of the Telegram building. The former D Plankenhorn home housed a boardinghouse run by Mrs Lizzie Plankenhorn, known for large dinners at low prices. Later Bryant Garnand owned the site as a store and undertaking parlor before a fire left only a studio garage, torn down this month.
A historical survey recalls the Telegram building once housed a car agency run by Jim Burns and Ernie Goulding, later extended with a press wing on land bought from Garland. The site now hosts an unfinished parking lot while the adjacent meat processing plant and cold storage served Smith Packing Co. A Walls store stands where a church once did, with unions of several congregations forming today’s Foursquare Gospel Church. The block's old homes were removed for the post office and federal building amid a series of fires and bank renovations reshaping Grant Avenue and the hotel area.
The Garden City Production Credit Association will hold its 20th annual stockholders meeting next Wednesday at the State Theater. Registration starts at 10 a.m. and President C W Dickhut will call the meeting to order. Dr Ronald Meredith of Wichita will speak after returning from New York and a U S mission briefing with Adlai Stevenson. Lunch will be arranged by members at Garden City restaurants. an open house follows at the PCA office building at 9th and Miller. About 1 070 farmers and stockmen are members with an estimated 650 couples expected to attend. Charles H Korff is secretary COSDAEPA of the association.
A Garden City student Barbara J. Maglaras appears among Fort Hays State College seniors listed in the 1963 Who's Who Among Students in American Colleges and Universities. Four area residents are noted, selected from 79 seniors with a B average or higher. Wetlands act as natural sponges absorbing flood water and helping sustain the water table.
A list from St Catherine shows admissions including Jay W Bean and Jeraldine Kitch, along with several others at various addresses. Dismissals include Rodney Adams and Thecla Taylor. A birth is recorded for a Stevenson couple on December 6 at 7:21 am weighing 4 pounds 8 ounces. Also noted are multiple legal notices of Warranty Deeds involving Midwest Investment Company.
Pope John XXIII authorized new recess rules to speed the Ecumenical Council. During the nine month break the commissions will meet to redraft more than 70 theses into about 20 projects for examination. The move aims to shorten the council’s lengthy pace while maintaining work.
Young hobby club demonstrates a clown crafted from four balloons. The head uses a small round balloon with eyes nose and mouth added in crepe paper. Arms and legs use long balloons. Hair is yellow crepe paper. Clothing uses tissue or light fabric. A balloon race across a line finishes with the first clown crossing.
President Kennedy declares full backing for Adlai Stevenson as UN ambassador and says Stevenson will stay in his role. The White House released Kennedy’s Dear Adlai letter amid Cuban crisis fallout, asserting Stevenson’s continued service and Kennedy’s confidence in his counsel.
A feature outlines fresh approaches to turning acorns into wearable art with simple tools and common materials. It previews techniques for carving, drilling, and finishing, inviting readers to explore nature inspired jewelry crafts.
In Garden City Allister's First Broad Acres Ad dition Irene Wheeler Crouch et ux to Al Woods Jr et ux. Sylvester A Goscha et ux to Al Woods Jr et ux north 22.5 ft of lot 24 and south 28.5 ft of lot 25 block 1 Horde's Addition. Mounty fined for license issues and improper passing. released checks. Howard E Murney intoxicated driving sentenced. police bonds posted for improper driving and no license. additional fines for running stop sign and no license. bonds forfeited for James Donald Biggs Jesse Earl Murdock Mrs Gerald Sheaks and Terry Allan Hafich.
A Wednesday 12 15 PM crash at Stevens Avenue and Spruce Street involved a pickup driven by Leland Ralph Mead 15 Imperial Route and a car driven by Frances Dixie Chappel 18 2011 North 6th. Minor damage reported to both vehicles.
Havana Radio reported a northern ship attacked Las Villas Province along the northeastern coast of Cuba. The alleged pirates, said to be Cuban counter-revolutionaries, fired on San Francisco beach near Caibarién with cannon and machine guns, with no reported deaths or injuries. Exile sources in New York attributed the raid to Alpha 66 and the Escambray National Front, asserting U.S. refuge for the attackers.
Belgium born engineer Karel Bossart watched from atop a missile hangar as the Atlas ICBM roared from its pad. The 135 ton rocket aimed for a 5000 mile Atlantic tracing range completing the program that began 5 1/2 years earlier. Today Atlas is operational with 12 squadrons and has flown in over 30 American space launches including orbital missions.
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