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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1964
Page
1
A garbled grocery market list shows eggs in sizes extra large large and medium with a misread entry A'' Small and odd words. Wheat price listed as $1.44 down 2 with other figures $1.90 and 0.87 unchanged. Batley J uncig appears as a stray name in the jittery OCR text.
Kansas City livestock prices reported by Goffe & Carkener show calves and hogs varied, with barrows and gilts mostly 1 to 2 higher, sows steady to 25 higher, hogs 190-240 pounds at 14.75 to 14.00, 280-350 pounds at 14.00 to 14.75, 400-500 pounds 11.50 to 12.50, 600-625 pounds 11.00 to 11.50, and no sheep on offer.
Sheryl Etling of Garden City and Janice Kepley of Ulysses earned notable placements in the Iowa State invitational debate tournament. Etling’s varsity team finished fourth while Kepley’s novice team posted a 4-1 prelim record before losing in finals.
Brom D. Hixson, a prominent Trego County farmer, died Sunday at Wakeeney Hospital. He was brother to Mrs. Earl Richardson, formerly of Garden City and now of East Lansing, Michigan. Richardson's husband was a former editor of the Telegram. Funeral and burial were in Wakeeney on Wednesday.
Lions Club hosts Aunt Jemima Pancake Day at the Civic Center with serving from 6:30 a.m. Tickets sold by Lions members or at the Center. Ralph Perkins and Dan High chair the event. menu includes pancakes, Canadian bacon, coffee, milk, butter, and syrup.
A hospital notices page lists admissions at St. Catherine and nearby facilities including D. Brown Emma Sell Joseph Garner Walter Mai Haupt Berry Swords Manne Maltbie Brown Towns Murray, and Goodwill Nursing Home discharges. Birth announced at St. Catherine a son to Ed Roth and spouse in Deerfield on December 10 at 7:24 am weighing pounds 3% ounces.
Warranty deeds record transfers from John Mark Sweangen to Eldon Sisney and Eugene Deaver to Emil Salyer, plus a corporation deed in Holmes Third Addition. Fines and sentences include Bobby Fetters for speeding, James Ryman for an insufficent fund check, and Leroy Marler for forgery with concurrent 25 year terms. Local accidents report minor damage in Fowler and Denver area, with a Park Avenue incident noted.
Postmaster Lester Harp announced extended hours starting tomorrow with 8 30 am to 5 pm on Saturdays for December 19. From December 13 to 22 windows will run 8 am to 5 30 pm, with regular hours returning December 23 from 8 30 am to 5 pm weekdays and 8 30 am to noon Saturdays. He notes ZIP Code 67846 speeds mail delivery and urges including it on return addresses while predicting a record Christmas mail volume.
The Gardiner Dairy and Ice Cream Co. completed its reorganization this week with Ralph Gardiner as president, Bob Gardiner as vice president and secretary, and Bill Gardiner as treasurer and assistant secretary. Stockholders include Mrs. Gilbert Kemper and others, who purchased a majority stake. The firm, started in 1906 by Frank Gardiner and once owned by C. J. Gardiner, serves a 7000 square mile area across Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas with 58 employees and a payroll of 385000 last year, and purchases over 750000 in milk from Southwest Kansas farmers.
W. W. Wright, manager of the National Biscuit Company's sales branches in Safiia and Garden City, attended the firm's annual sales conference in Mi-
Gene Henderson a longtime employee with more than 20 years service at the Kansas Nebraska Natural Gas Co has been named safely director. He has served as district manager at Norton and as division manager at Scott City before transferring to Hastings Nebr his new appointment effective December 1. He began with the firm in March 1944 at Phillipsburg. Use Telegram Want Ads.
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