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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1960
Page
13
Southwest Kansas faced hazardous travel as ice coated roads and frozen fog lingered. Motorists were urged to exercise caution while crews cleared snow, and telephone circuits failed in several communities though no lines were broken. A helicopter may assist with ice removal. temperatures hovered around 24 degrees with overnight lows near 21 to 27 degrees.
A brutal prewinter snowstorm shut down transportation and plants across the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic, delaying the New York and Philadelphia stock exchanges and closing government offices in Washington. Thousands stayed home as roads iced, airports and ferries operated with skeleton crews, and public services paused. At least 15 deaths were attributed to the storm, with heavy snow ranging from 11 to 15 inches in many areas.
The Garden City physician Dr Frank Eichhorn is practicing part time in Dighton and plans to locate there soon. He currently holds afternoon hours Monday through Saturday and lives with his mother Mrs Sarah Eichhorn. The Lane County Hospital Board allows him to use the emergency room until his office is ready. His psychiatrist sister may join the area, and his sister Dr Mary Eichhorn is returning from Boston for Christmas. Frank and Mary are KU graduates with Frank completing residency in Colorado Springs.
Tonight, partly cloudy with fog redeveloping and light intermittent freezing drizzle. Light easterly winds. temperatures fall to the upper teens and low 20s. Tuesday will be partly cloudy and slightly warmer with highs around 40 and light southeasterly winds. Sunrise at 7:50.
Garden City's Christmas mail rush is nearing peak as post office staff and National Guard vehicles assist. Postmaster Lester Harp thanks patrons for cooperation in the mail early campaign and urges first class mailing with return addresses to ensure delivery by Christmas Eve.
Garden City High School sent eight teams to tournaments at Hutchinson and Cimarron. Vicki Mercer and Larry Ward earned a third at Hutchinson tying with Topeka, while Larry Meeker and Cheryl Bentley won third at Cimarron with a 5-0 record. Mercer and Ward led with a 6-0 run to semis and top speaker points before losing in the Hutchinson semifinals to a Pittsburg College High team.
Garden National Bank becomes locally owned as President Leo Van Dittie and his wife acquire all Garden National Bank stock. They purchased holdings from W O Stevens Jr of Scottfield Arizona and R H Fulton of Lubbock Texas. Van Dittie became president in June after moving from Denver and settling his family in Garden City. He pledges the bank will aid community growth with its resources.
A Fairmont Foods semi and trailer overturned into a ditch eight miles east of town near the airport access road. The driver Billy Wilson of Dodge City escaped injury. The crash damaged the dairy cargo. another Fairmont truck was sent from Dodge City to reload. Kansas Highway Patrol investigated.
Finney County's United Fund collects 278 over the weekend but remains $4,427.50 short of the $46,711 target. The current total stands at 42,284.50 with 20,868 in advance gifts, 2,635 professional contributions, 9,935 from employees, 5,363.50 residential drive, and 3,483 rural gifts.
Fire early Sunday evening scorched wiring in a 1953 model car owned by Phil Sterling. The vehicle was parked at 619 North 9th. Firemen answered the alarm at 5 10 p.m. Cause unknown but may be a backfire in the carburetor.
Three people died in Kansas highway accidents over the weekend. Alfred James Lindahl 31 of Akron Colorado was killed and eight others injured Saturday near Beloit when his car sideswiped a truck and struck two oncoming cars. John Erhardt 31 of Concordia died after a car skidded on ice on the Republican River bridge near Norway. Neva C Pailette 53 of Concordia died Sunday from injuries from a two car collision near Minneapolis at U S 81 and K106.
Police investigate a break-in at Hurd's Phillips 66 Service Station at 5th and Kansas. Owner Gene Hurd says about $300 was taken from a money sack after a window was broken Saturday night.
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