Garden City Surges Past 16 000 With Big Construction Boom
Garden City, population 16 000 plus, continues rapid growth fueled by major building in Finney County. New facilities include a 4 million junior college campus, a 1 million vocational high school building, a 650 000 expansion, a 500 000 elementary, and a 300 000 Catholic school. The 14 million Sunflower Electric plant near the city limits stands as the era’s largest project. Housing booms with 62 dwellings under construction and several multi unit plans signal a record year ahead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nolan Howell
Garden City
Kansas
Finney County
Garden City Community Junior College
Holcomb
Jennie Wilson
St. Dominic
Sunflower
Wheatland Electric
Com
YMCA
St. Mary’s
Otis Schaffer
Cline Hat
Ditlon Company
Garden Valley Retirement Village
TS. & GG
City Housing Authority
Safeway
Dismissals and missing pilot report from Scott City
Garden City Hospitals list dismissals at St Catherine and other local residents. Scott City man Derald Berndt, 27, remains missing after his plane went down in eastern California near Lake Tahoe as Civil Air Patrol searches and uses infrared gear to locate him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scott City
Derald Berndt
California
Ed Berndt
Berndt
Civil Air Patrol
Nevada
Western Air Lines
San Francisco
Lake Tahoe
CAP
State Civil Rights Commission Invited to Garden City Meeting
The Kansas Commission on Civil Rights was invited to conduct a regular session in Garden City in early 1972. Garden City Human Relations Commission extended the invitation December 18 to Troy Scorgins, state executive director, proposing a February meeting date. The state commission will consider the invitation at its January session and set a date if approved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas Commission On Civil Rights
Garden City
State Commission
30 More Jurors Called as Prospective List Grows
Clerk Rose Murray said the jury selection overhaul reduced expected elims, with 30 more persons drawn as prospective jurors. They must report January 10 to the courthouse. Names include Myrtle Davis, Bob Smith, Karl Litzenberger, James Faulds, Vivian Gough, Harland Graben, Mary Louise Ortiz, Robert Wood, H. E. Opperman Jr, Karen Hickey, Wayne Pickett, Joann Borthwick, and others across Gardendale, Holcomb, and nearby addresses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
District Court
Rose Murray
Myrtle Davis
Pershing
Bob G. Smith
Gardendale
Karl Litzenberger
James R. Faulds
E. Chestnut
Lowell L. Cratig
Wheatridge
Vivian L. Gough
Harland R. Graben
EB. Johnson
Mary Louise Ortiz
Robert C. Wood
E. Price
H. E. Opperman, Jr
Karen Hickey
EH. Hamline
Wayne F. Pickett
Joann Borthwick
Carol K. Zhiri
Mary Lou Clark
Belmont
J. Henry Lanferty
Wallace Bohling
Maxine Marine
George Wilbur Meeker
E. Hackberry
K. O. Powell
Fitz
Phyllis M. Johnston
John W. Dickenson
Center
Willard D. Bodam
Harmon's Sentry Hardware Opens in Garden City
Theron Cy Harmon launches Harmon's Sentry Hardware at 605 Kansas Plaza after 25 years in local business. Harold Evans leads plumbing. services include wallpaper and carpeting. The Harmons, with three children, live at 910 Lyle and belong to area clubs and church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harmon
Theron
Cy) Harmon
Kansas Plaza
Garden City
McAllister-Fitzgerald Lumber Co
Sherwin, Williams Paints
Brammer
Harold Evans
Arkansas City
Hapman
Kansas State University
Sue Ellen
The
Home
Community
Charch
Finney NFO Meeting Set for Monday Evening
The Finney County National Farmers Organization will hold its monthly meeting Monday at 7:30 p.m. in Building No 5, Finney County Fairgrounds. Discussion will focus on feeder and fat cattle contracts. All area farmers are invited. Kansas traffic death log shows 4 deaths in 24 hours to 9 am Friday, 29 in December, 639 for 1971, and 644 for the comparable 1970 period.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Finney County National Farmers Organization
Finney County Fairgrounds
Kansas
Topeka
Kan
Hoffa Freed By Nixon Reunites With Family At Christmas
James R. Hoffa, former Teamsters chief, is released from Lewisburg prison by presidential commutation after serving part of a 12 year sentence for jury tampering and mail fraud. He reunites with wife Josephine in Glendale as she recovers from a heart attack and seizure. Hoffa emphasizes routine nature of the action and cites a broader labor alliance forming with UAW and Teamsters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iunion
Nixon
Josephine Hoffa
Glendale
Lewisburg
Hoffa
Detroit
Teamstens Union
United Auto Workers
Leonard Woodcock
Nix
Deaths of William A Dunn and others in Kansas area
Obituary notices report the deaths of William A cArt Dunn 78 of Syracuse after a long illness with survivors including wife Henrietta Owings two sons Roy and Wyn and two daughters Eileen O Kane and Dorothy Bates plus a large extended family. Other notices include Mrs Jessie Salmans 87 of Wichita and Mrs Valedia Leatherwood 79 of Cimarron with service details, memorials and burial plans.
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William
Art) Dunn
Syracuse
William AcArt) Dunn
Hamilton County
Butler County
Henrietta Owings
Tio
First Presbyterian Church
Roy
Riverton
Wyn
Robert
Eileen O'Kane
Dorothy Bates
Los Alamos
N.M
Faye Swords
Deerfield
Earl
Meiadden
Donohne
Jessie Salmans
Woodlawn
Wichita
Seneca
Garden City
Larned
Charles Augusta Salmans
Rozel
Marion K
F Red
San Diego
Calif
Lulu Durst
Maude Burch
Verna Means
Great Bend
First United Methodist Church
Jon W
Valley View Cemetery
Phillips-White Funeral Home
Cimarron
Valedia Il Leatherwood
Belpre
Carl Leatherwood
Leatherwood
United Methodist Church
CES
American Legion Auxiliary
Methodist Guild
Three Day Juco Seminar on Agriculture and Mechanics
A five day winter seminar at Garden City Community Junior College covers feedlot navigation and agricultural mechanics. Open to farmers, feedlot staff, irrigators, and agri business personnel in Western Kansas. Sessions run January 3-7 from 10 am to 3 pm with lectures and shop work. fee is $10.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Garden City
Kansas
Garden City Community Junior College
Garden Olty
Garden City Man Joins Five-Gallon Donor Club
Leonard C. Franz of Old Manor donated his 40th pint at the Red Cross Bloodmobile on November 30 to qualify as a Five Gallon Giver. New gallon club members include Mrs. G. C. Chotelka, Mrs. Mel Krebs, Norman Larsen, and Dan Fankhauser. In 1971, fifteen donors became gallon givers during Red Cross visits in Lakin and Dighton, with participants from Lakin Deerfield Ulysses and Shields.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leonard CG
Franz
Old Manor
Red Cross
Lawrence Dawson
George Cruz
Ronnald Denton
Paul Delgado
Lawrence Barlow
Melvin Paget
Mahel Daughterty
Robin A. Burnett
G. C. Chotelka
Mel Krebs
Norman Larsen
Dan Fankhauser
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Ranch Wholesale Supply Co
Greeley, Cole
Ure
St. Catherine
James Bacon
Gary Anthony Batchelder
Ross Bryan
Philip Chavez
Fred R. Deal
Elizabeth Engelmann
Janice
John Garcia
New York
Andrew Gillock
Michael G. Gimple
Old Manor Warren
R. Goodman
Evans Joseph Michael Guillen
William Lewis
Fleming
Melinda. Teems
N. Tally
Ralph P. Teetzen
Parkwood Allen Unruh
Bancroft
John van Campen
Steven E. Wright
Scott Cillan
Garden City High School
Donna Lance
Masonic Lodge
Donna
Samuel Lance
Briar Hill
Burl Dowell
Horace J. Good
Unified School District 457
Leroy Vannaman
Telegram
Garden City Telegram
Air Midwest
Salina
Safima
Kansas City
Ed Rutter
Heinemann
Kansas Association of Independent Insurance Agents
Kansas Insurance Department
Ray Salyer
Wheat Lands Motor Inn
East Fulton
Rene van Riper
van Riper
Judy
Wheatlands Juvenile Service Agency
Finney Nfo
Merry Christmas
Jimmy Hofta
Louis
James R. Hoffa
Teamsters
Jimmy Hoffa
Prism
UAW
Alliance For Labor Action
St. Louis
Morris Shenker
Robert Crancer
Dewoit
James
Mewsmen
Crancer
Tree Man
John
Mrs
Leo
Ars
Tanthe McCaghren
Houston
Tex
Julia Belle Leatherwood
United Methodist
Clyde E. Ackley
Ulysses
Clyde Emmet Ackley
Uys. Aes
Cherokee
Oklo
Mr. Ackley
Bob Wilson Memorial
Jet
Okla
Sarah Whitehead
Medicine Lodge
Modern Woodmen
Okie
Bil
Ruth Ann Kirby
Hutchinson
Irma Elliott
Oklahoma City
Edward
Nash
Jesse
Walsh
Cole
Ammy Page
Wilma Talley
Bentonville
Ark
Lakin
Harry Claar
Glen Jenks
Frank Sills
Phyllis McNitt
Harold Martin
Thomas G. Watkins
Don Shaw
Lester Mouse
Rex Puckett
Della Ann Enslow
Vivien Coerber
Norman Heironiamus
Lawrence Graham
Tommy Cole
Delbert Miller
Briar Hill Manor
Specious
Robert R. Unruh
Stella Rojas
R.N
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