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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1960
Page
1
Prime Minister Castro accused the United States of arming his revolution with a powerful new explosive in a two hour speech at a meeting of the Electrical Workers Union. The address denounced foreign involvement and urged vigilance against external interference.
Amatity Fraginals ousted as leader of the LLDGAL PRODUCE MARKET union amid protests at the Presidential Palace. Castro denounced the dissidents as counterrevolutionaries as unions clash over alleged Communist influence and a planned electric industry shake up amid asylum reports and diplomatic unease.
Market notes from Kansas City show cattle and calves totaling around 2,500 with vealers steady to 25 lower and utility cows in the 11.50 to 15.50 range. Hog prices rise to 25 higher on 2,700 head while sows trend lower. sheep for slaughter remain steady with good lambs at 16.00. Army and college news follow with local graduates and student performances announced.
Garden City Adventists begin the 57th world mission appeal with door to door carols from the church starting tomorrow. Volunteers collect cash gifts, aiming around 91 000 this year, split between local and world needs for welfare and relief work in Kansas. The campaign runs through most of next week according to Rev. John Geley.
U S space effort suffers a sixth straight failure as an Atlas-Able mission to reach the moon explodes shortly after launch. The $40 million program ends with debris scattered offshore and Navy recovery efforts planned as NASA and Air Force assess causes and future timing. Soviet advances already lead in lunar exploration.
Four topographic maps from the Kansas State Geological Survey depict Hugoton and Pahoma gas zones in Grant and Kearny counties. Cartography covers Hickok, Hickok NW, Ulysses, and Ulysses SW quadrangles at 1/24 000 scale with 40-foot contours. The region, dominated by Ogallala water and gas wells, shows communities like Ulysses and Hickok, the Columbian Carbon plant, Magnolia Petroleum gas plant, and major highways plus railroad lines.
AP reports Gov Docking announces Ark City native Frank Groves to the Board of Regents to fill an unexpired term ending March 1982. Also named are Robert Hagen to the Kansas Industrial Development Commission and C. Fowler to the Bank Board. multiple appointments reveal party balance.
Garden City police join the Kansas State Highway Commission in the nationwide safety campaign for the Christmas holidays. Chief Mitch Gessler urged pedestrians to use care at crossings and highways and drivers to keep windshields clear and drive slowly. He noted rising traffic fatalities and urged careful driving near railroad grade crossings and downtown business and residential areas.
In Algiers the Casbah saw Moslems milling and shouting rebel slogans as French riot forces confined activity to the Arab quarter. Troops and police tried to prevent exits from the district while residents faced barbed wire barriers and tightened restrictions amid six days of unrest in the capital.
A morning blaze in New Orleans killed five children and one adult from the Young family and hospitalized two others. Identified victims include Marguirette Young 29 and Charles Young Jr 10 along with three younger siblings. Charles H Young 85 and Vera Mae Young 32 were hospitalized. The fire gutted the house and all victims were Negro. Marguirette is believed to be the mother of the four younger children.
An early morning fire at the Commodore Luxutield hotel in Austin forced 850 guests from their rooms and damaged the third floor, with the Austin Club meeting place for state and national officials among those disrupted. No injuries reported. The blaze began about 8 PM and was contained about an hour later.
Washington AP report that President elect Kennedy may designate Lyndon B. Johnson as a regional troubleshooter to improve U S Latin American relations. The move would mark Johnson as a top aide in hemispheric diplomacy amid ongoing efforts to restore ties with Mexico and other republics. Johnson, a leading Senate figure and close ally of Kennedy, has long engaged with Latin American issues through appropriations oversight.
AP report says 33 year old Ottawa man admitted daylight robbery at a Topeka service station after claiming he needed money. About 126 dollars stolen. suspect used a pistol, bought gas, and fled in a car tied to a Franklin County plate. Police traced the vehicle to the suspect, who faced first degree robbery charges. A witness, Dale Allery, 20, aided the holdup. The suspect owned a 1961 automobile later damaged by police.
Hazel Irene Ochtidt a 17 year old high school student told police she was abducted near Sultan Wednesday by a man who produced a knife and forced her into an old car. She escaped after driving toward Monroe where she phoned her father then alerted authorities. The incident sparked a brief manhunt and an assembly at school.
In Garden City today admissions include Catherine Floyd Fleming, Esther Lowe, Bertha Whitaker, William Swander, Lloyd Davis, Adeline Hernandez, Leo Chalk, and others. Discharges list Mrs Arthur Smith, Stephen Orozco, Bert Flynn, Mrs Pete Hernandez, Mrs Roy Potter, Everett Taylor, and Clifford Schwindt. A birth at St Catherine Hospital names Garold Yardley and his wife having a girl weighing 7 pounds 9 ounces.
Rouger Vaughan, born in Delphos, Kansas, wins the Kansas Centennial music competition. He studies at the University of Southern California and will receive a $500 cash prize, plus a $200 award to a sponsor of his achievement. His piece “Kangaa 1861 1960” portrays frontier life, agriculture, and industry in three movements. The contest was sponsored by the Kansas Centennial Commission with the Wichita Symphony Society. Vaughan played with the Wichita Youth Symphony in high school and holds degrees from the University of Kansas and Wichita.
Denver AP Kennedy era leaders hailed a message from President elect Kennedy signaling openness to a broadly supported new national farm program. He would welcome Farm Bureau help in solving crop surpluses and farm transfers. Bitter President Stutman read the telegram to the convention as it opened a four day session.
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