Familiar Faces Owston Leaves Farming for City Life
Cliff Owston, a former farmer turned insurance agent, reflects on farming youth, school consolidation in USD 457, and the impact of unification on Garden City area students. He chairs the USD 457 school board, supports bused rural attendees, and runs a home woodworking business with his wife Mariella and two children.
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Cliff Owston
Owston
Finney County
Keller-Leopold Agency
Plymell
Garden City
USD 457
Elks Lodge
the Masons
Garden City Insurance Board
Mariella
Chris
Janelle
Oklahoma
Garden Sass Predicts Winter's Official Entrance
Gus Garden expects winter to formally arrive in ten days and hopes normalcy returns after.
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Gus Garden
Dole Steps Aside as GOP Chairman for Bush Ally
GOP chairman Dole agrees to stay advisory for a month or two to aid George Bush in moving to the White House post. Ziegler says Bush remains U.S. ambassador to the United Nations through the session. Dole notes broad support for Bush and references Dallas lawyer Robert Strauss as a Democratic challenger.
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Bassador
United Nations
U.N General Assembly
Dole
Bush
George Bush
Dallas
Robert Strauss
Democratic Party
Camp David
Nixon to Seek Extension of Wage Price Controls and Pay Freeze
President Nixon will seek an extension of the economic stabilization law and maintain wage price controls. Treasury Secretary George Shultz said the administration orders a freeze on executive pay and a halt to new hiring and promotions through 1973, with federal spending held at 250 billion dollars for the fiscal year.
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Washington
Nixon
Congress
Treasury
George Shultz
Shultz
White House
Truman in serious condition after heart rhythm irregularities
Kansas City AP report notes former President Truman, 88, showed persistent irregularities in heart rhythm but said he felt all right after a restful night. Doctors warned of ongoing serious condition while supplying stable vitals and continued tube feeding as weather details and city forecasts accompany the bulletin.
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Kansas City
Harry S. Truman
Truman
Research Hospital and Medical Center
John Dreves
Dreves
Garden City URA aims to finish started renewal work
Garden City Urban Renewal Agency plans to complete projects it began including the east side 8th Street parking lot barring a HUD ruling. URA executive director Marsha Adams said no new projects will start and they will proceed cautiously awaiting HUD guidance on legality of prior expenditures and slum and blight findings.
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Department of Housing and Urban Development
Miss Adams
Benedict Cruise
8Th
9Th
Chestnut
Duane West
HUD
Reagan says farmers suffer most from inflation at farm bureau meet
In Los Angeles, Governor Reagan told about 10 000 convention delegates that farmers are the biggest victims of inflation facing cost price squeezes. He cited rising food prices and urged farm labor relations legislation to curb strikes and boycotts.
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Los Angeles
Ronald Reagan
American Farm Bureau Federation
America
Reagan
Federation
Los Angeles Convention Center
William J. Kubfuss
Stage Band in Concert Tonight at Garden City High
Tonight's Stage Band concert at Garden City High School features 15 selections arranged by students. The performance begins at 7 30 in Clifford Hope Auditorium under Bob Brook's direction. Admission is 1 for adults and 50 cents for students.
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Garden City High School
Clifford Hope Auditorium
Bob Brook
Yale Concert Wednesday Night at Abe Hubert Junior High
Yale will host a Christmas concert Wednesday at 7 30 p m in the junior high gym. The Mixed Chorus opens with Joy to the World, followed by Do You Hear What I Hear Now Sing We Neel Who Is This in Manger Sleeping and Oh Come All Ye Faithful by Girls Glee Club two small ensembles and a mixed ensemble. Pentland Hills opens the band portion with Early American March conducted by band director Bob Brock and vocal instructor Mrs Sandy Shofner.
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Abe Hubert
Girls Glee Club
Pentland Hills
Sandy Shofner
Bob Brock
Apollo Duo Heads For Moon Landing
SPACE CENTER Houston AP American explorers Eugene A Cerna and Harri son H Schmitt pull away from the Apollo 17 command ship in a lander Challenger for a lunar touchdown planned at 2 55 p m EST They will explore Taurus Littrow valley for three days driving and walking over 20 miles while Ronald E B Evans remains in lunar orbit aboard America searching for rocks soils and secrets of moon history
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Corman
Schmitt
Challenger
Evans
Hinat
Moon
Taurus-Littrow
She Uth
Western Music store fire blacks out nearby cafes
Two fires struck overnight and Sunday morning, the worst at 5 33 p m Sunday in the Western Music company store on West Fulton. Flames caused heavy smoke damage to the store and nearby El Zarape Cafe and Las Palmas tavern, with an electrical short cited as the likely cause and losses listed at 500 for the building and 1000 for contents. No injuries were reported. A second fire at 1016 a m today damaged a mobile home at H and H Trailer Village, Doyle Lewis’s residence, primarily the rear bedroom mattress, with moderate damage and undetermined cause. Power outages affected adjacent businesses until wiring repairs.
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West Fulton
Western Music Company
Music Company
el Zarape
Las Palmas
Tommy Thomas
Thomas
Godfrey Dresling
Western Music
Busi
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Hill City
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