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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1961
Page
9
The Garden City-Finney County Metropolitan Planning Commission recommended rezoning the northwest corner of 7th and Spruce for a state employment service building. The state seeks a purchase option from Gervais F. Reed, with a request for preliminary site and floor plans before final action by the City Commission.
The Metropolitan Planning Commission granted Southwestern Bell a temporary permit for two lots at the former Inge property at 7th and Pine for parking and leveling. The south lot serves Bell employees while the north lot becomes public parking until July 1 1962.
A man staged a plane drop of a toilet tissue roll over Garden City yesterday around 3 30 p m. The event appeared casual with a single roll drifting southeast. City Manager Deane Wiley prepared forms and planned to go to Kansas City to bid on government surplus property, aiming to move the public library to the 7th and Chestnut building if secured.
President Kennedy prioritizes drafting the State of the Union with Orville Freeman in sessions while the 1963 budget is labeled balanced and near 92 billion dollars. He relaxes at the seaside White House as his ailing 73 year old father is housed nearby. Treasury Secretary Dillon joins the talks as Dr. Preston Wade reports the president’s back improving though months of rest remain needed.
In Augusta Kansas a man and his wife were shot at a service station and restaurant. The couple identified as E L Bohannon and his wife died from their wounds. Frank Hoover about 50 confessed to the shooting after an argument. Mrs Bohannon worked at the restaurant and Hoover ran the service station.
Air Force investigators review reports of alleged purchasing irregularities at Vandenberg Air Force Base California. A spokesman said the probe began Wednesday and that liabilities, if proven, are not expected to exceed 2500 dollars.
Garden Sass Gas introduces a simple fix for a canine problem. It suggests a postman bag room to carry dog food and a few old bones.
A northwest Garden City fire gutted a three room stucco house at 1120 Mildred, destroying nearly all furniture and clothing for Ralph Farr his wife Mildred Ann and Mrs Lillian Barber. No injuries reported. Farr notes insurance had expired and the family may stay with his mother at 1309 A St.
Bonnie Zirkle says many tags are reserved and counter sales start at 8 a.m. with numbers in the 40s. Residents must show IBM State card and tax receipt proving at least half taxes paid. Deadline Feb 15 with a 50 cent penalty after.
The Atomic Energy Commission approved exporting 60 microcuries of carbon 14 labeled steroids to the Soviet Union for medical research. The Worcester Foundation will ship to Dr. Nicolai A. Yudaev of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences in Moscow, with no military value asserted.
Six Katanga deputies sat in the Congo Parliament aiming to revise the provisional constitution to ease central control. Tshombe warned U.N. forces and claimed the U.S. ambassador backs a renewed attack if Katanga’s assembly does not meet by January 3.
A hearing examiner recommended the International Union of Mine Mill and Smelter Workers be declared Communist infiltrated potentially barring bargaining under the NLRA. The board heard 150 witnesses over four years. union membership was listed as 100000 in 1959 but later claimed 50000 to 60000.
Elsie Stone, 56, confessed to embezzling about $200,000 from West Plains First National Bank. She said $100,000 funded insufficient fund checks for a Howell County builder, the rest covering living expenses. Stone, a longtime bank employee turned retiree, said the builder was secure and the scheme started nine years ago during her husband’s medical bills. She waived preliminary hearing in Springfield federal court and voiced remorse.
Washington AP reports the Post Office Department plans to enforce a new policy on dog attacks effective January 13. Citizens submit varied ideas from cats to ammonia water pistols and even dog bite proof gear, while one carrier suggests friendly biscuits and another proposes training dogs to attack attacking dogs.
A chartered bus and a car collided head on three miles east of Pacific on U S 66. The car driver Joseph F McNamee 23 of Pacific died en route to hospital. Thirty-one bus passengers were injured 10 seriously.
Two anonymous calls prompted bomb searches on TWA planes in Kansas City and St Louis. FBI and police found no bombs on either plane, one a Boeing 707 due 8 20 a m in KC from St Louis, with 63 passengers and eight crew aboard. The St Louis flight was cleared and departed for Kansas City at 8 30 a m.
Northwesterly winds hold cold air over Kansas with no warmup expected before Friday. The Weather Bureau reports highs of 20 to 25 in northeast Kansas and 30s in the southwest, with lows ranging from 5 at Lawrence to 21 at Wichita. A few snow flurries possible in northern and northeastern sections as highs reach 30 at several towns and 42 at Pittsburg.
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