Snowy Kansas trip and Chamber breakfast report
A Kansas morning recounts missing last month’s Chamber of Commerce breakfast while noting a door prize gimmick at the prior meeting. Travelers from the west to Topeka report snow and moisture benefiting wheat, with Topeka residents pleased by rain despite chilly weather. A special La Junta coordinated train will carry thousands to the Kansas Co op convention in Kansas City.
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Chamber of Commerce
George Purnell
Kansas
Topeka
Santa Fe
Northwest
City
la Junta
Colo
Colorado
John A. Love
Burch
Bureh
National Committee
Chicago
Garden City board weighs $1 million school bond plan
The Garden City Board of Education authorized filing an application for a bond election with the Kansas State Superintendent to pursue a $1,000,000 referendum. The plan envisions a new elementary building and a second grade site, plus a high school addition to add classrooms, with focuses on northwest or northeast site options as districts seek space for enrollment growth points. Enrollment this fall surpassed 800, with projected increases next year, and preliminary bond split allocates 450,000 for the grade school and 550,000 for high school work.
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Garden City Board of Education
Supt
Leroy Hood
Kansas State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Kansas
Center
Tom Saffell
Donna Sasse
Paula Lohmeier
Jones
Ben Grimsley Gymnasium
Juco Future Is Object of Study
Garden City Board of Education and the Juco Board of Regents approve a study to plan a permanent site for Garden City Junior College and housing for students. They call for a permanent committee, possible educational consultants, and a joint session with Pratt Colby and Dodge City junior colleges to discuss the state system.
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Garden City Junior College
Board of Education
Pratt
Colby
Dodge City
Rees Hughes
Chamber of Commerce
Finney Fund Tops $45,000
Finney County United Fund drive tops the $45 000 mark and heads toward the final stretch. Volunteers are asked to finish cleanup by Friday with a bell ringing campaign planned Saturday in downtown to push the total toward the $48 008 goal. Betty Long said eight bells are lent, and about a dozen bells and six kettles are still needed. Contact 67961 or 63447 for pickup and return. London AP Britain seeks NATO backing for economy cuts in the 51000 non Rhine army in West Germany amid cost concerns.
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Finney County
United Fund
Betty Long
London
Britain
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
West Germany
Gorden Sass Gas Garden Save Urged by Wife
A terse note urges gratitude if a wife treats a man well. The fragment hints at domestic dynamics and personal sentiment without clear chronology or context. Named individuals, dates, or organizations are not clearly identified in the readable text.
Juco Chamber Hears Plans On Permanent Committee
The Chamber of Commerce breakfast session heard proposals from Juco regents and school board for a permanent committee to guide future college development. A site decision was left to Chamber directors, with enrollment projections suggesting a 1000 student junior college here within years if space is found.
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Chamber of Commerce
Jim Keller
Juco Regents
Chamber
Wallace
Kansas
Lowell Craig
Ernie Wonsetler
Jerry Huggins
Warren Hotel
Kansans Pride Film Showcased State Beauty
A 26 minute documentary “Any Number Can Play” aims to make Kansans proud of Kansas and draw outsiders. Produced by KDED and Centron, it features Water recreation, wheat fields, and industry in Topeka Wichita Dodge City and western plains with narration by John Cameron Swayze. Governors and newsmen called it well done and appealing.
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Bill Brown
Topeka
Kansas
Sunflower State
John Anderson
Kansas Department of Economic Development
Centron Corp
Lawrence
High Plains
Turtle Creek
Dodge City
Front
Wichita
John Cameron Swayze
University of Kansas
KDED
Anderson
New Blood Donors Needed at Bloodmobile Drive
The October Bloodmobile drew 150 donors with 38 first timers. Red Cross chair Mrs. Everett Miller urged ongoing recruitment as donors age, move, or face other life changes. Plans target December 23 to attract new and varied citizens, noting 11 women and 27 men among first-time donors and listing the October volunteers by name.
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Red Cross
Everett Miller
Mines
Jim Abbey
A. A. Behrmann
Robert Crossland
Virgil Hands
Harry Johnson
Hellen M. McInnis
Michael Merrill
Perry Moore
Sandra Rosler
Soviet Working Women Ask for Shorter Hours
Soviet working women seek shorter hours and more time for household chores. Trud, the labor paper, urged that they should have their way, suggesting access to better home equipment so women can spend less time at work and more at home.
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Moscow
Trud
City to Open Bids on Trucks and Packer
City Commission will open bids at 9 a.m. tomorrow in City Hall for five trucks and a refuse packer in a regular session. An ordinance authorizing airport improvements with additional hangars will be considered, along with Y hangar status, district boundary plans for a benefit district in Anderson from Pat's Drive to Kansas, and the water expansion program.
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Anderson
Pat
Kansas
Latin Club Sets Program of Annual Christmas Event
Garden City High School Latin Club will present a Christmas program at 6 30 a m Thursday in the Little Theater with only Latin spoken. Printed programs aid audience comprehension as members have arrived early for weeks of practice. Sponsor Bernadine Sitts notes growing attendance over eight to ten years and hopes for a larger turnout. a breakfast will follow.
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Garden City High School
Bernadine Sit
Rome Sparrow crackdown nets 59 charged in city sweep
Rome officials declared Operazione Passero a success after a month long crackdown on sparrow snipers. Police seized nine hunting rifles with telescopic sights and 28 air rifles along with a gas gun and 1 450 sling shots used allegedly for bird hunting. The operation involved the Society for Protection of Animals and resulted in 59 suspects facing various charges.
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Rome
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Idaho
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Hap" Hahn
VFW
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