Icey Kansas ditch incident highlights crowd concern
Claude and Mary Owens survived an icy skidding near Cimarron after returning from visits to Midwestern zoos. Passersby offered help, boosting their faith in humanity. The tale touches on a $2,000 sale rumor for a hippo, mentions zoo figures Earl Davis and Don Davis, and notes Mary Rundell’s Hawaii trip. A helicopter from Southwestern Bell aided ice‑blocked lines, restoring circuits toward Scott City and surrounding towns. Garden City High School staged its Diet of Dates play at Clifford Hope Auditorium.
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Mary Owens
Kansas
Cimarron
Mary
Lee Richardson Zoo
Owenses
Jackson
Miss
Chicago
Earl Davis
Columbus, Ohio, Municipal Zoo
Don Davis
Colorado Springs
Colo
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co
Here
Colorado Interstate
Lakin
Bob Wright
Scott City
Dighton
Scoti
Tribune
Garden City High School
Clifford Hope Auditorium
Rusk Expected To Slow Rush For Summit
Washington AP reports Dean Rusk named to lead State Department under Kennedy, opposing an immediate summit with Soviet Premier Khrushchev. A cautious diplomat, he favors rare top-level diplomacy and stressed restraint in a Council on Foreign Relations lecture. Rusk has long served in State and led the Rockefeller Foundation.
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Dean Rusk
Khrushchev
Harold Macmillan
Rusk
Council On Foreign Relations
New York
John F. Kennedy
State Department
U. S
Kennedy
Rep. Bowles
Adlai E. Stevenson
U.S
United Nations
Truman
Department
Rockefeller Foundation
Douglas Dillon
Connecticut
Abraham Ribicoff
Health
Education and Welfare
North Carolina
Luther H. Hodges
Commerce Department
Stewart L. Udall
D-Ariz
Interior
Defense
Treasury
Agriculture
Labor
Palm Beach
Fila
Two Added to Toll on Kansas Road Death Log
AP reports a rise in Kansas traffic fatalities over a 24 hour period ending at 9 a.m. December 8. The tally increases to 24 hours total and December figures 472 for 1900 and 551 for 1859 comparatives, including a Sunday death note previously counted.
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Topeka
Kansas
City Dads to Meet Tomorrow
City Commission will convene at 9 a.m. in City Hall to consider allowing nonmanufacturers to locate at Airlinks Industrial Park and set a bid date for the Wheatland plant expansion. Also on the agenda are alley extensions, notes for sidewalk work around the Elks Lodge, and several licenses and bonds for local firms.
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Airlinks
Tomor Pow
Chamber of Commerce
Wheatland
Holmes 3Rd
Hmerson
Eales
Sidwalk
Elks Lodge
Safeway
Higgins, Cobb, McCray and Wheatly
Stevens
Midwest Investment Co
O'Brien
Roy Tabor
H.B. McDonald
Kansan Recipient Honored by Farm Bureau Convention
The American Farm Bureau Federation awarded Dr. Arthur D. Weber of Kansas State University at Manhattan for distinguished service to agriculture. Weber, former dean of agriculture, has advised several foreign countries and received the honor at the federation's annual convention.
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Farm Bureau Cites Service of Kansan
Denver
American Farm Bureau Federation Today
Federation
Arthur D. Weber
Kansas State University
Manhattan
Weber
Kansas State
Scott City Girl Dies from Burns
Six year old Debra Lynne Harp died Monday night from severe burns suffered in the basement of her home. She had been ill and stayed home from school. Her mother and younger brother were present. the child was transported to Scott County Hospital where she died about 8 pm. The family lived at 603 Jackson. Funeral set for 2 pm Wednesday at the Christian Church with burial in Scott County Cemetery.
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Scott City
Debra Lynne Harp
Scott County Hospital
Debra
Otto Harp
Century Refinery
Jackson
Richard
Debra Lynne
Walter Wood
Marienthal
Arkansas
Kenneth Yardley
Shallow Water
Christian Church
J. Allen Wheeler
Scott County
Weinmann
Students Will Present Concert at Clifford Hope Auditorium
About 570 students from junior high, high school, and junior college will perform in the first annual vocal Christmas concert. The program begins at 7 45 p m Tuesday December 20 at Clifford Hope Auditorium. Julius Hultquist directs the three schools and Douglas Overland conducts the string symphony orchestra. The program features a Leroy Anderson suite and lasts about an hour and a half with no admission charge.
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Clifford Hope Auditorium
Julius Hultquist
Douglas Overland
Leroy Anderson
Quiet start as nine children attend Frantz school
Near freezing weather and a muted scene at William Frantz school as federal marshals escort eight white children and one Negro, with no demonstrators seen for the first time since integration began. At McDonogh No. 19, a few spectators watched as three Negro girls attend first grade under marshals. Louisiana lawmakers push to remove the Orleans Parish School Board despite Supreme Court ruling on integration.
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William Frantz
McDonogh No. 19
U.S. Supreme Court
Baton Rouge
Orleans Parish
Frantz and
McDonogh No
Frantz
McDonogh
Garden City's zookeepers seek mates but fail to find male lions
Garden City's head zookeepers Claude and Mrs. Owens return from a 10 day swap and shop tour visiting zoos in Kansas City St. Joseph Peoria Chicago St. Louis Memphis Jackson and Fort Worth. They found two African lion cubs South American tapirs and a red kangaroo plus a promise of blackbuck antelope muntjac deer and other animals later but could not secure a mature mate for Kenya the African lioness. A hippo offered for 2000 was not affordable.
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Garden City
Claude Owens
Lee Beharavon Zoo
Kansas
Owenses
Owens
Kenya
Kimberly
Swope Park
Kansas City
St. Joseph
Flinchpaugh
Claude
Peoria
Glen Oak Zoo
Mrs. Owens
Peoria Zoo
Chicago
Brookfield Zoo
Robert Bean
Milwaukee
Penny
St. Louis Zoological Garden
Overton Park Zoo
Memphis
Livingston Park Zoo
Jackson
Miss
Fort Worth
Tex
Zero Temperatures Follow Snowstorm
The Associated Press reports a major pre winter blizzard across the Northeast causing widespread travel disruption, with near 150 deaths from heart attacks and exposure. Temperatures plunged, airports struggled, schools closed, and drifts up to ten feet snarled roads from New Jersey to Ontario. A missing hunter in New Jersey and a laboring woman delivering in Trenton highlight emergency struggles as relief hopes rise midweek.
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Associated Press
Kennedy Busy With Meetings
President-elect John F Kennedy began a busy round of cabinet talks at Georgetown, meeting AFL-CIO leader George Meany unannounced in 11 degree weather. He weighed secretary of labor and discussions with Ralph Bradley and Rep. Harald Cooley on agriculture, while names for defense, treasury, and other posts circulated.
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John F. Kennedy
George Meany
Afl-Cio
Kennedy
Georgetown
Meany
Secretary of Labor
Pierre Salinger
Defense
George 5. McGovern
D-S.d
Fred V. Heinkel
Missouri Farmers Association
Secretary of Defense
Robert §. McNamara
Ford Motor Co
Patt
H. Nitze
State Department
Truman
Roswell Gilpatric
Air Force
Baby Wins Big Pool Jackpot in English Pool
In Oxford England AP reports an 18 month old baby won 43283 pounds 121102 dollars in a British soccer pool. Entry listed under the baby's mother Jacquline Cox who said Good heavens the baby did it. The child made eight stabs with a colored pencil and each stab matched a drawn game, yielding a jackpot claimed as a world record for a farthing bet.
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Oxford
England
Baby Paul
Jacqueline Cox
Weather Tonight and Wednesday Snow Forecast
Thickening clouds and light intermittent snow or freezing drizzle expected tonight with lows in the lower 20s. Wednesday features cloudy skies with more light snow or freezing drizzle and highs around 30. Winds mainly southerly tonight and easterly on Wednesday. multiple city references noted without clear regional certainty.
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Vreo
Akron
la Dun
Trace Emporia Ag
Garden City
Trace Goodland
Will City
Lamar
Russell
Salina
Readings Dip To Season Low Across Kansas
Temperatures fell to the season's lows with Topeka reporting zero and Manhattan and Lawrence at five degrees. Readings ranged from 12 to 22 across the southeast and northwest, with highs from 24 at Dodge City to 38 at Goodland. Snow cover lay two to four inches over a wide area as thick fog lingered in the southwest. Expect clearing by daybreak with partly cloudy skies in the west and mostly clear in the east.
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Topeka
Manhattan
Lawrence
Garden City
Dodge City
Goodland
South Western
Kansas
More Bombs Scare Castro In Havana
Three bombs exploded in Havana on Monday night injuring seven people and signaling rising opposition to Fidel Castro. A cafe rear room, a downtown tunnel area, and a noisy blast site sparked alarms as labor groups rallied against rebel electricians Amaury Fraginals and Fidel Iglesias, accused by the confederation of treason.
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Havana
Fidel Castro
Vedado District
Almendares River
Labor Confederation
Electrical Workers Union
Castro
Amaury Fraginals
Electricians
Russia
Fraginals
Osvaldo Corticas
Fidel Iglesias
Electrical Workers
Garden Sass Gus Garden Lodge Group Faces Appointments
Garden Sass Gus Garden lodge has a group of members appointed and disappointed as changes ripple through the local club.
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Garden Sass Gus Garden
AFS Campaign Surpasses Goal At Garden City High
Garden City high school students boosted the American Field Service drive with 1628.88 dollars raised topping a 1000 dollar goal. Senior class won a half day vacation by raising 644.13 while juniors lead with 490.15 and sophomores 485.60. Prospects include costs of hosting and sending students plus January meeting to set next year’s officers and screening committee.
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Garden City
American Field Service
Bob Jones
AFS
AFL
New York
Ora Martin
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