Air Force enlistment hopes rise in 12 year old’s news
The Telegram recounts local happenings including Ray Dean Gillespie, 12, announcing a future Air Force enlistment in response to a front page Dateline note dated Dec 21 1965. City Manager Deane Wiley responds to an airport worker injury as Mitch Geisler notes a tire bulge on a city car. Telegram staff note Christmas publishing changes with early Saturday delivery and open weekend hours for calls.
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Ray Dean Gillespie
Dewey Gillespie
Burnside Drive
Air Force
Ray
Telegram
City Newsboy
Air Death Toll Rises to 134
A 50 year old unemployed transient Rollin Alva Bailey was found dead in Garden City with autopsy set to determine cause. He stayed at the Daniel Hotel and had been in town two months. The finder was Larry Eugene Shelton, a Hugoton sailor. Bailey’s presumed residence was Neodesha.
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Rollin Alva Bailey
Main St
Santa Fe
Robert Fenton
Finney County
Bailey
Daniel Hotel
Garden City
Larry
Eugene Shelton
Hugoton
Neodesha
Garden City Jrs Face Rating Drop Over Poor Facilities
Garden City's junior high building from 1910 1917 fails to meet new state accreditation standards. Cramped classrooms poor ventilation and dangerous corridors cited. Recommendations include adding a full time guidance counselor expanding the library and surveying sites for a junior high. The senior high praised for facilities but lacks adequate physical education space. Bond issue for a new junior high and PE addition failed by 37 votes, plans to refile in spring.
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Garden City
State Department of Public Instruction
Cafe Operator Robbed in Home Garden City
Garden City police investigate a home invasion robbery at 1806 A street where Sev er's Drive-In Cafe owner George Morgan was tied and blindfolded by a knife wielding intruder. About $400 in cash was taken from Morgan's billfold and money sack. The incident occurred between 10:40 and 11 p.m. Morgan described the robber as a young man wearing a mask and using his own neckties to bind him. The light bulbs in the living room had been loosened. Morgan had just visited his son before returning home from 10:30 to 10:35 p.m. The front door was not locked. The bandit left with both the sack and the billfold. no other items were disturbed. The motive and identity remain under investigation.
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Garden City
George Morgan
Sever
Morgan
Dan Morgan
Summit
Billfeld
Sports Fan Dies Of Heart Attack In Garden City Game
Chester Chut Holmes a 52 year old oil firm representative from Center died of a heart attack Wednesday night during Garden City Junior College versus Hutchinson JC at Ben Grimsley Gym. Holmes was seated in the west stands and was removed by ambulance after the attack occurred around 8 45 p.m. The crowd observed the league contest stop while emergency efforts were made. Holmes was a lifelong resident, born in Ply mell Community, and enjoyed watching all sports despite prior heart trouble.
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Chester
Chut Holmes
Garden City Junior College
Hutchinson JC
Holmes
Oil Firm
Plymell
Ben Grimsley Gym
Garden City
FBI Chief Warns of National Youth Movement By Communists
FBI chief J Edgar Hoover warned of a planned Chicago conference starting December 31 to organize a national youth group by the Communist party USA He cited Moscow ties Cuba and other allies and said a new youth publication New Horizons for Youth would be published under Daniel Rubin Hoover linked coast demonstrations to Communist influence and urged vigilance against Soviet espionage amid 1960 tensions with several arrests and expulsions of diplomats one in October another in November and two Soviet embassy staff declared persona non grata
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Washington
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Chicago
Hoover
Communist Party
Gus Hall
U. S. Communist Party
Soviet Union
Cuba
U.S
New Horizons For Youth
Daniel Rubin
New York
West Coast
Committee of Congress
Sn Francisco
House Committee On
Francis £. Walter
D-Pa
Albert A. Axelrod
Axelrod
Rogers
America
PBI
Cuban diplomat accuses U S of harboring criminals
Washington AP report says Carlos M. Lechuga, Cuban ambassador to the OAS, denounces the United States for admitting Cuban refugees as harboring criminals and traitors. He criticizes a million dollar Eisenhower refugee aid fund as being used to wage psychological warfare and incite Cubans to flee.
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Washington
United States
Fidel Castro
Carlos M. Lechuga
Council of the Organization of American States
Lechuga
OAS
Eisenhower
Cuba
Record Cold Grips Northwest Kansas This Morning
Temperatures plunged below zero across western Kansas with readings from 5 below at Hill City to 13 below at Wichita. Highs reached 14 to 27 across the region as a warmup was forecast to be slow. Snow showers left 1 to 2 inches in Russell and Hill City, with Goodland reporting about an inch.
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Hill City
Wichita
Concordia
Goodland
Weather Bureau
Kansas
Russell
Burn Victim in City Airport Electrical Accident
Kenneth Newell a 29 year old city electrical worker was reported in good condition today at Catherine Hospital after suffering severe burns yesterday when he fell onto a 7 20 volt power line atop a utility pole at the municipal airport. He was revived by coworker John Stogsdill who performed mouth to mouth resuscitation and used his foot to push Newell off the hot wire.
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Kenneth Newell
In &T Catherine Hospital
Newall
Newell
John Stogsdill
Stogsdill
Deane Wiley
Harvey Plunkett
Garden Sass Gas Garden Thought He Had Completed His Christmas Shopping
A fragmented note recalls Garden Sass Gas Garden believing his Christmas shopping finished before he remembered Aunt Nellie, hinting at a family holiday mix up.
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Gas Garden
Nellie
Eight rescued from Pine Ridge tanker wreck
NORFOLK AP helicopters from the Navy Valley Forge plucked eight crewmen from the stern section of the tattered Pine Ridge after its breakup 100 miles east of Cape Hatteras. Twenty other survivors were reported safe. Rescue operations continued with four men earlier picked up and an injured crewman among them.
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Norfolk, Va
Valley Forge
Cape Hatteras
N.C
Navy of Washington
Atlantic Leet
Pine Ridge
Everett Bell
Jacksonville
Fla
Navy
Bell
Bonneville Pratt
New York City
James C. Lewis
Nav Department
Jets Crash On Staten Island After Deadly Midair Collision
Tapes from La Guardia radar show United Air Lines Flight 826 strayed off course before a collision with TWA Flight 266 over Brooklyn and Staten Island. Controllers warned of an emergency and scrambled to locate the missing Constellation from Chicago while Idlewild prepared to guide the inbound aircraft.
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New York
United Air Lines
Staten Island
Federal Aviation Agency
la Guardia
TWA
United
Brooklyn
Washington
FAA
E. R. Quesada
Preston
Idlewild
Quesada
Aircraf
Minbush
Joe
Walt
Chicago
Constellation
Dayton
Columbus
Ohio
No Golf Photos To Feature Kennedy Until Inauguration
Palm Beach Florida AP reports no photographs of President elect John F Kennedy golfing will be allowed until after his inauguration. Pierre Salinger says the ban is to avoid intrusion on leisure time. Kennedy has been seen golfing during Christmas holidays but photographers are restricted on the grounds. Salinger adds that pictures of him playing golf may appear someday after the election coverage noted Kennedy shoots in the low eighties for 18 holes.
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Palm Bdhach
Fla
John F. Kennedy
Kennedy
Pierre Salinger
Eisenhower
Salinger
Palm Beach
Galf
Suliiver
West German Upper House Extends Sympathy for Air Disaster Victims
The West German Bundesrat expressed heartfelt sympathy to the families of victims from the New York and Munich air disasters last week and the fire on the U.S. ship Constellation. House President Franz Meyer announced the gesture during a parliamentary session.
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Bonn
Germany
New York
Munich
U.S
House
Franz Meyer
Three Area Coeds Hurt in One Car Mishap
CIMARRON three area women Fort Hays State College students returning home for Christmas were injured in a one car crash west of town on US50. Driver Marilyn Moler 22 of between Pierceville and Garden City lost a tooth and suffered mouth and gum cuts while two passengers Nancy Goddard 19 of Ingalls head and knee injuries Mada Cronin 19 of Pierceville nose lacerations requiring stitches. All escaped hospitalization. Car damaged front end extensively.
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Cimarron
Fort Hays State College
Marilyn K. Moler
Pierceville
Garden City
John V. Moler
Gray County
Maurice Johnson
Chris Steinkuchler
Steinkuchler
Miss Mohler
Nancy Goddard
Ingalls
Mada Cronin
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Seare
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Raell
Sittin
Topeka
Forthwest
Norfolk
Corpus Christi
Tex
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Flatbush
Pinkey Snd United
Darrell Morrow
United Way
Finney County United Fund
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Doug Dew
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