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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1962
Page
2
A massive United States cold wave extends across the eastern half of the nation. The unseasonably cold air causes widespread disruptions, property damage, and crop losses especially in Florida, with estimated millions in agriculture and infrastructure impacts.
Weather cuts across Tennessee to Georgia with zero to 14 above readings. Florida sees 14 above in Tallahassee and 23 in Daytona Beach as deaths from cold rise in several states. Midwest and Northeast endure heavy snow, strong winds, and transport hazards.
New York shares moved gradually with modest gains for Big Three automakers. General Motors Ford and Chrysler posted fractional advances while American and Studebaker were nearly unchanged. The AP 60 stock average stood at noon up 1 point to 40.4 with the Dow at 649.13, while rails fell and utilities rose slightly amid mixed bond activity.
U Thant asks U N members to settle Congo debt as the 110 nation budget committee votes 75 to 17 with 14 abstentions to back a World Court opinion on financial obligations. The move could lead to suspending voting rights for late payers, though major powers remain wary.
Aunt Jemima tours Garden City with the Lions Club for Pancake Day at the Civic Center. She will appear at Ply Mell, Jennie Barker, Holcomb, Lincoln, and St. Mary’s schools today and tomorrow, plus a Saturday show at the Civic Center. Lions feed from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday. menu includes Canadian bacon. Proceeds support sight programs, needy children, Junior College nights, a sports banquet, and a new football scoreboard. Tickets sold by Lions and at the door.
The Agriculture Department announced the Philippines will receive an extra 15,000 tons of sugar for 1982. Western Hemisphere countries as a group get 75,000 tons. Domestic sugar beet area is expected to miss 50,000 tons of its 1962 quota. continental United States and Mexico may fall short 40,000 tons.
A Dodge City High School pep club bus carrying students to a Tuesday basketball game returned in poor condition after vandals sprayed soda acid from a fire extinguisher inside and on the exterior, with some liquid reaching the gas tank. The incident sparked school apologies, a safety warning, and concerns about league relations with Garden City.
Washington AP report on Mariner II nearing its critical encounter with Venus. Despite solar-panel issues, the craft will pass about 20 000 miles from Venus to measure radio and heat radiation from clouded Venus, setting a new record for signals from a man-made probe while continuing to reveal solar wind data.
At the Des Moines convention the National Farmers Organization sees critics on all-out holding actions used to push prices. Delegates report waning support at home while leaders defend holding actions as the only legal means to secure fair prices, with over 5,000 delegates attending and a lengthy, delayed program.
At St Catherine Avon to LeRoy Rupp and wife a daughter born December 12 weighing 4 pounds 12 ounces. A son born to Mr and Mrs James Garetson Copeland December 12 at 11 34 AM weighing 7 pounds 17 ounces. Dismissals include Debra Ann Purcell and Joseph Guerrero among others.
Mrs Edda Weir Hulpieu 94 longtime Finney County resident and former Garden City teacher died Wednesday at her daughter’s home in Paso Robles California She and husband homesteaded in Finney County and moved to Garden City in 1903 She was a member of Jehovah Witnesses and Finney County Historical Society Survivors include son John L Finke and daughters Lena Cully and one brother Funeral arrangements to be announced by Phillips White Funeral Home
Kenneth L. Rose 24 formerly of El Dorado and nephew of L. R. Rose of Burnside Drive was killed Saturday in a Paris, France automobile accident while serving in the U. S. Army. Son of Orval G. Rose of Sand Springs and Mrs. Naomi Einhorn of Eureka, funeral arrangements are pending with Dietz-Pittman Funeral Home in El Dorado.
May Hager of Great Bend faces improp er driving charges with a $5 fine. Wayne Orville Bean at 1604 BY parking in a no parking zone fined $1. Darrell Monroe Woods cited for improper mufflers with $10 fine. Eldon Eugene Newberry Jr listed for improper brakes with $10. Bonds forfeited for several named individuals. some not guilty. Traffic accidents include incidents at 1100 block N 7th and 100 block E Chestnut with minor to moderate damage. other incidents noted with ages and addresses.
Federal mediators halted newspaper strike talks in New York to allow more time for negotiation amid a deep impasse. Eight million readers face five more days without the nine major dailies as printers from Local 6 of the International Typographical Union remain idle.
Today’s fun project guides Young Hobby Club members to assemble a three-strip cardboard animal mixer. Create a backboard and three sliding strips for heads bodies and feet to form odd creatures. Tomorrow presents a game using soda bottle caps.
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