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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1962
Page
2
Local produce items listed with varied grades and sizes. Market wagon prices show grains Wheat at 2.04, Mile 1.55, Rye 0.80, Barley 1.65-unchanged. Co op Wheat 2.03, Rye 0.45, Barley 1.60. Kansas City cattle and hogs reported with limited tests. steer prices 28.00, hogs steady with 190-240 lb at 16.25-17.00, 275-450 lb sows 13.50-14.50, lambs 19.50.
Prices mixed on the tired market ahead of a four day Christmas weekend with the AP average slipping 0.1 to 241.5 as industrials fell and rails and utilities rose. The Dow at noon stood 1.80 lower at 646.75 while the American Stock Exchange showed moderate trading gains. Bond markets were irregularly higher, with U.S. government bonds steady to higher. Honolulu canceled a tidal wave alert after a 45 minute scare as Midway Island remained unaffected following an Aleutian earthquake.
Dr. Gust Nelson and Dr. James W. Neumann begin practice in a new professional building at the southwest corner of 6th and Spruce, after leaving Dr. Maxfield's McAllister building. Dr. R. M. Fenton will join Dr. Maxfield after January 1, relocating from Main above Norris Drug Store. The Garden City Cooperative Equity Exchange paid the first half of 1962 personal property taxes totaling 22,370.71 to Finney County and 3,686.19 to Gray County, part of roughly 52,000 for the county's fifth largest taxpayer.
Garden City readers publish letters to Santa Claus with requests for dolls toy trains and play sets. Children from Jo Ann and Susan at Lakin Steven Galliart Carolyn Leopold Alan Dean Becker Ronnie Ray Becker Chucke Becker Debby Pelnar Kathy Schereth and others ask for Ken dolls Barbie gear Mighty Mo toys farm toys a Walt Disney Theatre a Chatty Baby and more. Cookies and milk are mentioned.
Jerry Finley of Imperial Rt was convicted on two counts for shooting rabbits at night and shooting game animals from a car. He received $10 fines on each count and posted a $1,000 bond on appeal. Robert Finley and Art Brinkmeyer were found innocent of the same charges.
Two registered Milking Shorthorns were purchased from Louis Lobmeyer and Sons in Garden City. Marvin D. Cronin of Pierceville bought a bull calf and Brenda Joe Snodgrass of Garden City bought a heifer calf. Transfers recorded by the American Milking Shorthorn Society in Springfield, Missouri.
The U S government has dismissed a civil anti trust case involving Safeway Stores Inc tied to San Diego proceedings since December 31, 1959. The action accompanied indictments against local grocers and the San Diego Grocers Assn, which led to acquittal. Safeway reported four week sales of 193 million dollars, up 2 5 percent.
Cities Service Gas Co installs a 2000 horsepower natural gas compressor engine east of Ulysses at Hugoton station. The $500,000 project adds a 10 cylinder unit beside a 1100 horsepower engine to boost gas pumping. Maurice Weckering supervised the two stations, J E Carlson Construction Co built the unit, shipped 170,000 pound engine by rail and trucked from Hickok to the site, with a ten week installation.
Kansas traffic death log reports 570 fatalities in December through 9 a.m. Friday for 1962, compared with 536 in the same period of 1961. Data covers 24 hours ending Friday 9 a.m., Topeka AP.
Graveside services were held this afternoon at Valley View Cemetery for the stillborn infant son of Mr and Mrs Mitchel F Geisler of 517 Chesterfield The Rev Clement Goubeaux of St Marys Church officiated Phillipa White Funeral Home was in charge Survivors include three brothers James John and Jerold all at home a sister Julie at home maternal grandmother Mrs Frances Bristow of Waverly Missouri and paternal grandfather Mitchel Geisler of Redondo Beach California.
Elmer C Wolfe, 69, longtime Sutton Community resident in Lane County, died Thursday evening at Kansas University Medical Center in Kansas City. Survived by widow, son Jim W at 415 Davis, daughter Mrs Carl Mumma of Dighton, mother Mrs Sarah Wolfe of Dighton, sister Mrs C D Martin of Dighton, brother Joe Wolfe of 1112 N 11th, five grandchildren and one great grandchild. Funeral arrangements by Niles Funeral Home in Dighton.
Allan Wray Coiner 68 a former Garden City resident died Dec 7 in Oakdale California Burial was Dec 10 at Oakdale He moved to California in 1936 and was a World War I veteran member of the Odd Fellows Lodge and Veterans of Foreign Wars Surviving are three daughters five sons five brothers five sisters and 19 grandchildren nearly all in California Also obituary of Mrs F N Shelton age 85 who died in Great Bend hospital and Graveside service set for Saturday at Valley View Cemetery officiated by Rev Henry Wright Garland Funeral Home in charge of arrangements Farmers spend an estimated 125 to 130 million annually for equipment and goods to produce crops and another gis! million for consumer goods for family living
Dismissals at St Catherine de George include Mrs Wilbur Claycamp Rt 1 Mrs Richard Campbell Ulys 8e8 and Miss Thecia Anne Taylor 405 Magnolia. Other named residents listed at various addresses in the city.
Sedgwick County Coroner Robert Jones closed the Dec. 8 death of Mindi Mar Nossaman with a ruling of death by own action. A State Board of Health report identified thorazine in her stomach and in her purse. Police noted prior suicide attempts and found missing pills. no evidence linked Dr. Wayne Hird to the death.
Births listed for Dec 20 21 at St Catherine and other local hospitals. A daughter to Mr and Mrs George Hayzlett Scott City Dec 20 10 56 am seven pounds four ounces. A son to Mr and Mrs Law rence Horvick Dec 20 5 43 pm eight pounds twelve ounces. Axon to Mr and Mrs Leslie Russell Dec 21 1 33 am eight pounds three ounces. Property transfers include First Methodist Church to Gardiner Dairy and Ice Cream Co Inc lots 8 and 9 block 7 original plat Garden City. Cash and Carry Lumber Co Inc to Harrison C Bennett et ux south 32 ft of lot 2 and north 30 ft of lot 9 block 1 Parkwood Second Addition. Percival Insurance Agency Inc to Lawrence C Halbleib et ux all of lot 24 and 5 of lot 23 block 5 Crown Heights Addition. Warranty Deeds Trustees of First Methodist Church to Gardiner Dairy and Ice Cream Co Inc lots 8 and 9 block 7 original plat Garden City Ed Shrimplin et al to Holcomb Community Center Inc lots 9 10 11 block 3 Holcomb.
A district court session lists fines for several defendants including Alfred Becker two counts overload totaling 20 dollars, Benito Perez for overwriting a vehicle with a 10 dollar fine, and Pete Witman Jr ordered to abate. William Barber faced 23.42 in charges with no account checks. Civil case Melvin Edwards versus F H Gordonier seeks damages from a vehicle steer accident. Divorces granted Diane D Leiker from James A Leiker and Dorothy S Kelley from Harley F Kelley for extreme cruelty.
Nashville AP report says the James R. Hoffa conspiracy trial goes to the jury after a long 9 week case. Court adjourned after an overtime session with press barred. The government accuses Hoffa of conspiring to violate the Taft Hartley Act by taking concealed payoffs via Commercial Carriers and Test Fleet Corp to secure labor peace. Half the stock in Test Fleet was linked to Mrs Hoffa in her maiden name.
Three Garden City men were arrested and charged with disorderly conduct after a dispute at Las Palmas Tavern Thursday night. Named defendants are John Emanuel Herrera 710 Taylor Aniseto Bernard Herrera 209 Taylor and Reynaldo Garza Rowland 401 W Maple. They posted $25 bonds and were released early this morning.
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