Open House at Telegram Office Sparks Local Chats and Near Mishap
Today’s remodeled Telegram office hosted a busy open house with coffee and donuts as guests chatted freely. A Christmas tree nearly toppled when a coat snagged its branches, quickly saved by Advertising Manager Marvin Smith. City Planner John Stansel advised delaying pamphlet mailings until after Christmas due to holiday mail volumes. Al Thies suffered a minor eye injury while demonstrating fire-starting to Boy Scouts Troop 144, treated by an eye surgeon in Dodge City. A correction: Harold Ensley’s Missouri ties clarified Healy as his boyhood home in Dighton.
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Telegram
Chamber of Commerce
Marvin Smith
al Thies
Dodge City
Democrats May Get Debt Paid
Hollywood promoter Peter Lawford says advance ticket sales for a Washington DC benefit on January 19 will likely cover the Democratic Party deficit from the 1960 campaign, totaling about $2 million. He expects gross receipts near $1.9 million with top box seats at $10,000 and bottom-dollar tickets at $100. Lawford is Frank Sinatra’s ally and John F. Kennedy’s brother-in-law.
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Hollywood
Peter Lawford
Lawford
Frank Sinatra
Washington, D. C
John F. Kennedy
Garden Sass Gas Garden Ends Shopping Run
Garden Sass Gas Garden has finished shopping after spending down to a broke state, unable to purchase any further items. No additional details about location or individuals are provided in the fragment.
Street Bonds Sold At Low Interest In Garden City
Garden City sold 119 483 58 in street improvement bonds last night with an average rate of 2 7345196 percent on 13 bidders. Small and Company Wichita won the bid, earning 20 756 45 in total interest. Highest bid was 2 945 percent. City Manager Deane Wiley and Commissioners expressed satisfaction with the sale which funds curb gutter and paving projects begun since 1957. Also approved a lease for a mental health clinic at Gardendale and signed a storm sewer contract with Percy Dale. The commission discussed the airport and new administration building use.
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Small and Company
Wichita
Deane Wiley
Harold Pansler
Jim Sloan
Chet Cleaver
Finney County
Joint Board of Health
Gardendale
Percy Dale
Pershing
Belmont
Board of Health
Dale
City Hads
Discoverer XVIII launches spy satellite for Arctic orbit
A Discoverer XVIII satellite roared into polar orbit from Vandenberg on a souped up booster. The 300 pound capsule carries human tissue and bone marrow to study radiation effects, plus algae, blood cells, spores, and cameras for the Midas and Samos programs. The mission aims to test higher thrust and maneuvering for data on sunlit space near Earth. In Washington, Dean Rusk emerged as a leading candidate for secretary of state under President-elect Kennedy, with several other names in contention including Fulbright, McCloy, Bruce, and Bowles. Rusk’s career spans government service, the UN, and the Korean War policy role.
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Samos Sattellite
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Truman
John F. Kennedy
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New York
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Adlai Stevenson
Will Stevenson
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Sen
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D-Ark
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Germany
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D-Conn
India
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Dean Acheson
United States
China
Douglas MacArthur
Castro Cleans Up Insurgents in Cuba Army says band wiped out
HAVANA AP The government says it destroyed an insurgent band at Cabanas 32 miles west of Havana capturing 11 men led by Capt Clodomiro Miranda Mendieta who was wounded and reports say his brother was killed An army officer died and four were wounded in the clash Two hundred deserters reportedly joined the insurgents and a militia force of about 2000 pursued them with other bands still active in the west aspecto of weapons bound for Soviet bloc nations reportedly vanished from a depot and may have fallen to insurgents
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Pinar del Rio
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Soviet Union
Czechoslovakia
Iron Curtain
Anderson says barring graduates from college unconstitutional
Gov elect John Anderson objects to legislation that could bar some high school graduates from entering college saying such action would be unconstitutional. He calls overcrowding a problem to be solved through admissions policy rather than law.
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Topeka
John Anderson
Anderson
Saeatzeto
Cold unsettled weather across Kansas with light snow
AP weather forecast for Kansas predicts partly cloudy skies and cold conditions. Snow will be limited to flurries in the extreme northeast this afternoon and occasional light falls in the extreme west tonight and Friday. Lows range from near 20 in the northeast to the 30s in the southwest, with highs Friday in the 30s northeast to near 40 in the west and south.
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Dodge C
Porial Goodland
Lamar Hill City
Rungell
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Topeka
Wichita
Kangas
Weather Bureau
Wamego
Goodland
Hill City
Emporia
Indiana banker chosen to head national church council
San Francisco AP report says J. Irwin Miller, 51, Columbus Indiana financier and leader in the Christian Churches, is expected to be elected president of the National Council of Churches. Miller, a Yale graduate and WWII Navy veteran, heads multiple firms including Cummins Diesel engines, Irwin Bank and Union Starch Refining, and is noted as a major donor and scholar. He would be the first layman to hold the post in the council which unites 33 denominations and 40 million members.
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J. Irwin Miller
National Council of Churches
James E. Wagner
Philadelphia
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Laire
Convention of Christian Churches
Disciples of Christ
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Ind
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Yale
Oxford
Pacific
Irwin Bank and Trust Co
Union Starch & Refining Co
Granite City
Plan Rebirth of Colony House in Scandia Kansas
In Scandia Kansas republic County residents work to restore the Colony House built nearly a century ago by twenty Swedish settlers of the Swedish-American Agricultural Society. The project credits descendants with lending original furniture and notes restoration of the town store and an old saloon during the Centennial year.
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Scandia
Kas
Republic County
Alice Boyles
White Student Numbers Drop at Frantz School
In New Orleans the Frantz School saw white enrollment fall to 14 as police guarded the first grade and a single Negro girl attended. Earlier, 23 whites had enrolled after integration, with 19 the next day. Voter relief and funding tensions shadowed ongoing school desegregation efforts.
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New Orleans
William Frantz
McDonogh
Kennedy offers post to Denver attorney Whizzer White
President elect Kennedy offered a post in his administration to Byron White a Denver attorney and former Colorado football star known as Whizzer White White told reporters he would answer with a yes in a few days He and Kennedy spoke at the Georgetown doorway and White plans to return to Denver before replying Kefauver discussed potential attorney general picks and anti trust chief Kennedy and Kefauver also visited Georgetown University Hospital to see Mrs Kennedy and John Jr with the baptism planned for the afternoon Adlai Stevenson joined in later talks
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Byron Leslie
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England
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London
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D-Tenn
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Antitrust Division
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Stevenson
Bloodmobile Overfills Quota By 44 Pints At Local Drive
The Red Cross Bloodmobile exceeded its 160 pint goal by 44 pints, collecting 204 pints at the Presbyterian Church yesterday. Sixty two drop-ins joined scheduled donors, offsetting 46 no-shows and 14 cancellations from the 216 booked. Replacement donations came from out-of-county residents replacing gifts to hospital patients.
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Presbyterian Church
Navy Ships Withdrawn From Caribbean Patrol
Washington reports US Navy ships on patrol off Guatemala and Nicaragua have been withdrawn after both governments said the danger of Cuban backed revolts had passed. President Eisenhower ordered the patrol last month. Shangri La and four destroyers began duty in November with Wasp later replacing it. The Navy said Wasp would unload planes at Mayport before returning to Boston.
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Nicaragua
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Caribbean
Navy
Mayport
Fla
Boston
HAYSVILLE MAN FOUND DEAD IN GARAGE
Richard G. Lamb, 31, of Haysville, was found dead in his car in his garage. Policeman Gerald Shields said Lamb died of carbon monoxide poisoning.
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Kas
Richard G. Lamb
Gerald Shields
Lamb
Grade Schooler Presents Mixed Thanksgiving Paper
A Pittsburgh fourth grader submitted a class Thanksgiving piece noting gratitude for family and food while including a political jab about Kennedy as president. The paragraph mentions grandmother visits, a list of relatives, and a remark on the Kennedy presidency.
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Pittsburg
Pittsburgh
Shopple
Anderson
Kennedy
Warns Against Taking Troops From Congo
United Nations secretary-general Dag Hammarskjold warns that a rapid withdrawal of U.N. forces from the Congo would cause “everything to crumble” amid ongoing strife. Yugoslavia, Ceylon, and the United Arab Republic reportedly move to pull small contingents as debate in the Security Council over Lumumba’s arrest and Mobutu’s army continues.
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Dag Uammarskjold
Congo
U.N
Security Council
Yugoslavia
Valerian Zorin
U.N. Congo
Hammarskjold
Patrice Lumumba
United Nations
Lumumba
U. N
Josseph Mobutu
Congo blockade by Congo authorities hits UN transport
UN forces face a major test as Congo authorities ban UN surface transport. Brig. Indarjit Rikhye says moves could paralyze UN Congo operations, with a ship slated to sail Tuesday up the Congo River. Victor Nendaka backs the ban, citing Congo needs and traffic control. The clash follows Mobutu's provisional government and Lumumba’s ouster.
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Indarjit Rikhye
India
Congo River
Victor Nendaka
Otraco
Col
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Mobutu
Patrice Lumumba
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