Warm Weather Due Back Again
TOPEKA AP Clear cold weather prevailed over Kansas this morning but the Weather Bureau said a warming trend would begin today and continue through Sunday. Low temperatures this morning ranged from 12 at Hill City and Russell to 22 at Wichita and Pittsburg. Highs Thursday were from 23 at Goodland to 41 at Pittsburg. One to two inches of snow remained in some areas but most of the state reported only patches or none. Skies to remain fair through Saturday with increasing cloudiness expected Sunday from the southwest.
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Topeka
Kansas
Weather Bureau
Hill City
Russell
Wichita
Pitteburg
Goodland
Pittsburg
El Paso Lion Offered to Breed Kenya at Zoo
Claude Owens received a call from El Paso about a 4 year old male lion offered for 150 dollars. The owner kept the animal as a house pet but small quarters prompted sale. If the lion has a black mane and proves suitable, Kenya may be bred in coming months to generate cubs.
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Kenya
Claude Owens
el Paso
Tex
Owenses
Great Bend man dies in overturned car after heart attack
George M. Manson 64 of Great Bend, oil exploration firm superintendent, died when his car left US 83 six miles south of Garden City on December 2. Coroner Dr. Robert Fenton ruled death due to a heart attack before the crash. a cervical fracture was noted but not fatal. The death will not be counted in the 1960 Kansas highway toll.
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Great Bend
Garden City
Robert Fenton
Finney County
George M. Manson
Sandhills
Fenton
Manson
Cuba Arms Surge Alarms NATO Ministers
Secretaries warned the North Atlantic Council that Cuba now has ten times the military equipment it possessed under Batista. He said arms flooded from behind the Iron Curtain, signaling a major shift in regional power.
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Paris
Christian A. Herter
Cuba
Fulgencio Batista
North Atlantic Council of Foreign Ministers
Airliners Collide in Storm Over New York City
Two large jets collided in a snowy sky over New York, killing or injuring many as they crashed in Brooklyn and Staten Island. The TWA Constellation from Ohio and the United DC-8 carrying 88 people collided during approach to Idlewild and LaGuardia, with authorities reporting as many as 126 aboard and seven survivors.
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New York
America
Brooklyn
Statensland
Trans World Airlines Constellation
Dayton
Columbus
Ohio
United Air Lines
Dca
Grand Canyon
TWA
WAL
Flatbush
8Th Avenues
Staten Island
Mitchell
Field Air Feree
Long Island
Millers Field
Coast Guard
Agnes MacDonald
William Noble
Chicago
Idlewild
LaGuardia
New York Harbor
Artillery Fire Rakes Vientiane
In Vientiane the capital of Laos, artillery fire raked the city as Gen. Phoumi Narayan’s forces fought to clear leftist pockets. U.S. informants and diplomats said Russians or North Vietnamese may be supplying the guns. Phoumi claimed progress toward the airport as refugees fled toward Bangkok.
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Bangkok
Thailand
Laos
Vientiane
Phoumi Narayan
Phoumi
U.S. State Department
Prince Boun Oum
Kong ‘le
Savvanakhet
U.S
Kong le
Bell fair value method upheld in Topeka ruling
A Shawnee County District Court referee upheld Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. on 10 of 14 points in a $5.8 million rate increase fight. The ruling supports using fair value to set rate base, a shift that could raise consumer charges, with both the Kansas Corporation Commission and the company expected to appeal. The referee called it the first major utility case since 1924 and noted inflation as a key factor in determining value.
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Topeka
Shawnee County
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co
Kansas Supreme Court
Kansas Corporation Commission
Allen Meyers
ECC
Meyers
Reds Claim Ambassador Leader of Traitors
In Moscow Pravda branded U.S. ambassador Clare H. Timberlake in the Congo as adviser to a gang of traitors led by Col. Joseph Mobutu. The Communist party newspaper said Timberlake helped Mobutu plot to overthrow Patrice Lumumba, with the alleged conspiracy developing in September.
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Moscow
Pravda
Clare H. Timberlake
U.S
Congo
Joseph Mobutu
Communist Party
Timberlake
Mobutu
Patrice Lumumba
Garden Sass Sympathy Offered For Details Says Gus Garden
Gus Garden states that Garden Sass Sympathy is offered to one person in exchange for details. The remark centers on a trade of empathy for information and reflects a pointed social quip by the speaker.
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Gus Garden
Junk Men Receive Presidential Award Recipients Mose and Garrison Siskin
In CHATTPANOOVA, Mose and Garrison Siskin earned a fortune salvaging junk and using proceeds to aid people, receiving the President's Distinguished Service Award for the second time. They are the only individuals to win the award twice for greatest national useful employment of handicapped Americans.
Santa Gets Mail From Youngsters In Annual List
Letters to Santa arrive at the Telegram with youngsters from Garden City Sublette and Abbeys. Larry Hooper asks for a ditun digger tools hooded sweatshirt red sweater and games plus a note for his brother in Mawaii. Ricky seeks a football truck rifle and Merry Christmas. Shelley Abbey wants a doll buggy leotards. Scotty the dog writes through Ricky asking for a ball. Brenda Pippitt requests a doll with diapers a bicycle a blanket a suitcase and a doll for her sister Jeanie plus a harness for Cinder. Sterling signs as a Sublette fan asking white football shirt red neck trim white football pants and two red stripe pants and a big bag of tinker toys for Geneen.
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Santa Claus
North Pole
Larry Hooper
Garden City
Larry
Santa
Mawaii
Shelley Abbey
Scotty
Ricky
Jeanie
Brenda
Cinder
Sublette
Sterling
Geneen
Freeman Picked For Farm Post
President elect John F Kennedy announced the appointment of C Douglas Dillon a Republican to be secretary of the treasury in his administration Minnesota governor Orville Freeman was named secretary of agriculture and AFL CIO lawyer Arthur J Goldberg named secretary of labor Robert Kennedy was speculated to be named attorney general The cabinet picks were announced at Kennedy's Georgetown home and followed by discussions with Governor Foster Furcolo on a Senate replacement for Kennedy and with Eugene R Black on the financial situation
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Washington
John F. Kennedy
C. Douglas Dillon
Secretary of the Treasury
Minnesota
Orville L. Freeman
John I. Kennedy
Agriculture
AFL. Cio
Arthur J. Goldberg
Labor
Robert
Palm Beach
Fia
Kennedy
Foster Furculo
Massachusetts
Wman
Senate
Furculo
Freeman
Formf
Agriculture Department
Goldberg
Afl-Clo
Tichor
Georgetown
McGovern
Treasy
Eugene R. Black
World Bank
Black
Man Is Found Iron Load In Stomach After Surgery
Surgeons in Chicago report a Brooklyn patient had 258 objects removed from his stomach during a medical checkup for swollen ankles. Items included keys nails rosary beads religious medals coins and an oxidized mix described as an amorphous mass weighing over three pounds. The operation by Drs Kane Ginn and Mora Jr followed diagnosis of moderate anemia likely from iron deficiency.
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Chicago
Journal of the American Medical Association
Brooklyn, N.Y
Alan A. Kane
Benjamin Ginn
Bernardo A. Mora Jr
Military order slackened to ease dependents overseas
Washington AP reports the Defense Department eased Eisenhower’s order limiting military dependents abroad by adding exemptions. About 60,000 more dependents may be allowed to stay overseas, raising total to 484,000. Monthly reductions are slowed as each service sets its own quotas, likely keeping families overseas in early 1961. Deputy Secretary James H. Douglas issued the memorandum in Gates absence.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Department of Defense
United States
Defense Department
Defense
James H. Douglas
Thomass. Gates
Industrial Park Policy Holds For Airlinks Park
The Chamber of Commerce Industry Committee backed keeping the Airlinks Industrial Park policy as is after the City Commission sent a restudy request to the chamber and Metropolitan Planning Commission. The committee proposed limits favoring direct manufacturers actively producing a product and addressed a non manufacturer seeking park space, awaiting City Commission action.
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Chamber of Commerce Industry Committee
City Commission
Chamberls Industry Group
Metropolitan Planning Commission
Wetcome
United Drive Nears Close as Fund Drive Funds Lag
Finney County 1960 United Fund drive stands at 42799.45 pledged or given, $3712 short of its 46711 goal with closing date expected next week. Advance collections total 21291.70, professionals pledged 2635, employees 9955, residential 6363.50, rural residents 3554.25. A 2 PM Monday directors meeting at the Chamber of Commerce will set the closing date.
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United Fund
Finney County
Chamber of Commerce
School Choirs to Perform Christmas Program in Garden City
High School students present the annual Christus program directed by Julius Hultequist at 8 p.m. Monday in Clifford Hope Auditorium. choirs from junior high to senior high perform a sequence of carols and Christmas numbers culminating with The First Noel and Silent Night as the community’s Christmas gift.
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Garden City High School
Doug Birkla
Wilma Hunt
Sharolyn Doubrava
Schyool Girls
Juco
Edith Nusser
Jesus
Bobby Hopkins
Silver Dollars Welcome Penny Not Gold in Pittsburg
Pittsburg AP report notes Mr and Mrs Dollar welcomed a daughter named Penny born last week The couple considered naming her Gold but rejected it due to inflation and the gold market Penny joins siblings Linda 16 and Silver 14 in the Dollar family with two other children in the mix
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Pittsburg
Dollar
Linda
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