Christmas shopping lights up streets with late hours
Shoppers filled the streets for the first weekday late shopping session as stores stay open until 8 tonight and Saturday closing hours resume tomorrow. Parking meters not yet installed. city opens new off street lot at 8th and Chestnut. Warren Hotel Manager Tom Mahdr first to enter, lot fills quickly with Christmas shoppers. Telegram staff take Christmas holiday Monday. First Methodist Church pageant adds live lambs and angel costumes. a girl comments it is cold in heaven.
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8Th and
Chestnut
Warren
Tom Mahdr
Tom
Siepeng
Judge Grants Television Bid
Judge Delmas C. Hill approved Wichita Television Corp purchase of Wedell Inc holdings including 93 percent of KGLD-TV Garden City. The 250000 dollar deal would give Wichita station a Kansas network. transfer requires FCC and stockholder approval. KARD TV offered cash but was not deemed full value. ownership would include KOMC Oberlin station and other interests.
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Wichita
Wedell, Inc
Great Bend
Kgld-Tv
Garden City
Delmas C. Hill
Piurciager
Wedell
Kardtv
Kansas
Federal Communications Commission
Wichita Television Corp, Inc
Central Kansas Television Corp
Daniel M. Moyer
KARD
Robert Martin
KOMC
McCook
Neb
Obertin
Kan
George Brown
W. J. Moyer
Sudden Snow Storm Paralyzes Kansas City Streets
A fast moving storm dumped up to eight inches of snow in the Kansas City area causing widespread travel disruption. City officials deployed sand and salt crews as emergency rules limited downtown traffic and required snow tires. The blizzard stretched across northern Missouri and parts of Kansas, Iowa and Nebraska with Arctic air driving 30 to 60 mph winds.
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Kansas City
Missouri
Iowa
Kansas
Nebraska
Dakotas
Robert P. Weatherford
Garden City debates library site in post office building
City Commission and Board of Education favor using the present post office building as Garden City public library. Board endorses the city application by five votes. Superintendent Hood warns that the move does not erase educational space needs and that the library could still serve school requirements. The post office is slated to move to 6th and Pine in February, with acquisition tasks remaining.
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Garden City
City Commission
Board of Education
Leroy Hood
Qour
Helen Dale
Library Board
Jim Sloan
6Th and Pine
Snow Falls in Eastern Kansas Brings Snow Across the State
An unexpected northeast Kansas snowstorm moved in from Missouri, may accumulate four inches or more by tonight, with light snow in Central Kansas. Reports include Frankfurt five inches, Blaine four inches, Manhattan one and a half inches with sleet. Temperatures will drop as a new Nebraska front arrives, with highs in the 40s and 30s and lows 15 to 20 degrees.
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Topeka
Kansas
Missouri
Nebraska
Frankfurt
Blaine
Manhattan
Kansas City
Kennedy Macmillan Agree on Berlin Crisis Steps
Kennedy and Macmillan, in Hamilton Bermuda, report complete accord on Berlin crisis handling and the Congo situation. They plan further talks in Paris and Moscow, weighing possible foreign ministers or summit meetings, while seeking to persuade De Gaulle to ease tensions.
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Whitney Shoemaker
Hamilton
Bermuda
Kennedy
Macmillan
Berlin
Congo
Western Alliance
Kennnedy
Palm Beach
Fla
White House
Pierre Salinger
West
Moscow
Charles de Gaulle
de Gaulle
Adoula Sets Deadline on Katanga Pact
Premier Adoula says next Wednesday is the deadline for Katanga to honor Moise Tshombe s unity commitment and warns of trouble if not. Tshombe returns to Elisabethville saying ratification by his Cabinet and Assembly will take at least 10 days while UN enforcement is anticipated to ensure the eight point accord is respected.
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Leopoldville
the Congo
Cyrille
Adoula
Katanga
Moise Tshombe
Congo
Tshomibe
Elisabethville
U. N
Tshombe
United Nations
Joseph Teo
Tleo
U.N
Kitona
Ralph’ Bunche
Joseph Kasavubu
Elisabeth-ville
Garden Sass What to get for the woman who has everything
Gus Garden recommends penicillin as a cheeky tip in a humorous guidance column. The piece plays on gift ideas and satirically names a medical treatment, reflecting a playful contrarian tone without endorsing unsafe behavior.
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Gus Garden
Garden City Optometrist Dr. L A Baugh Retires After 55 Years
Dr L A Baugh longtime Garden City optometrist and pharmacist retires Tuesday after selling his office equipment to modern opticals Dr John Odgen and Dr Robert Speckman. He began in 1908 and built a landmark business on Main Street later moving to 315 N Main. He plans to move to Topeka with wife Mrs Baugh to manage a 24 unit apartment house.
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Beth Lilley
Garden City
Main Street
Dr. L. A
Baugh
John Odgen
Robert Speckman
Modern Opticals
Dr. Baugh
Renick Drug Co
N. Main
Warren Hotel
George Pearl
L. A. Baugh Warg
New Legal Move for Hickock, Smith
Topeka AP report states the next step in the Hickock and Smith case may be a writ of habeas corpus. Attorneys say this is the only official way to bring before the court questions raised about the 1959 Clutter killings and the trial handling. Russell Shultz, new counsel for the pair, has questions on venue change and proper representation.
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Topeka
Richard Eugene Hickock
Perry Edward Smith
Hickock
Smith
Herbert Clutter
Garden City
Kansas Supreme Court
Russell Shultz
Shultz
Kansas Bar Association
Patrolman Nabs Hospital Inmate in St Louis
ST LOUIS AP Authorities in St Louis hold for return to Oklahoma a man who escaped from the maximum security section of the Eastern State Hospital at Winita Oklahoma Kenneth Ray Calloway 21 was serving an armed robbery sentence Calloway was arrested by a patrolman who recognized him from Oklahoma police description He said he stole a car in Oklahoma abandoned it in Kansas and hitched to St Louis
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ST. Louis
Oklahoma
Lrom
Eastern State Hospital
Winita
Okla
Kenneth Ray Calloway
Calloway
Kansas
Christmas Mail Volume Shows Big Increase in Garden City
Garden City residents mailed 14 657 more Christmas cards and letters than last year. Postmaster Lester Harp reported an nine percent rise in letter mail for December 13 through 20, with 179 101 pieces processed versus 164 444 in 1960. The peak week ran December 13 to midweek, as earlier parcel post and early sorting boosted total volume. The post office will stay open until 5 pm tomorrow for last minute mail and pickups, with limited Christmas Day delivery for perishable and special delivery items. Heavy mailflow delayed some trains, but all mail arriving the same day was delivered on time when possible.
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Garden City
Lester Harp
Harp
Kansas Traffic Log Topeka Fatalities Decline Report
Kansas traffic death log for 24 hours ending Sunday reports 37 fatalities in December with a comparable 1960 period at 52 incidents and a 434 count for the year. The Topeka AP dispatch notes the 1961 figures reflect a 1960 baseline, highlighting shifts in fatalities across the state during the period.
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Topeka
Kansas
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