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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1964
Page
4
A hearing was announced today on a highway bypass around Garden City with construction starting in 1966 and expected completion within five years. The plan contemplates limited access and right of way for four lanes where needed, aiming to reduce truck traffic and congestion while boosting city aesthetics and future car traffic.
James Marlow reflects on New Year’s Eve 1964 as a calm year passes without great disasters. The piece contrasts inner doubt about life’s purpose with a public world of campaigns, taxes, and distant conflicts. A bus ride home frames ordinary Americans watching time slip away.
In St Joseph Missouri Pearl Sullivan 74 perished when a chair in her television watching chair caught fire and suffocated her. Upstairs tenant Franklin Sheen broke through a glass door and smothered the flames with a rug. His wife called firefighters. Sullivan died before they arrived. Investigators suspect smoking and clothing catching fire from air helped start the blaze.
A heated Leadership Conference for Civil Rights session split moderates and leftists over seating Mississippi Congressmen. NAACP figures clashed with SNCC allies while debate weighed legality, precedent, and the party’s role. The majority urged opposing the seated Mississippi delegation but rejected substituting Democratic Party representatives.
Hal Boyle mocks New Year hangovers and science, joking about a lengthy treatise on hangovers by Dr. Benjamin Karpman and a bizarre native remedy involving crocodile and hippopotamus sandwiches to cure a hangover and curb hunger.
A reader recounts a tale of two couples dancing together and swapping partners for another living arrangement, while another writes of parental abuse at a grocery store. A third asks if an elderly mother-in-law is unsafe at home, and Ann Landers warns a husband overreacting to his mother’s actions.
Karen Lee Scooby and David Clark Bailey married at Baker Chapel of the First Christian Church in a 2 pm ceremony. Reverend Alvin Houser officiated the double ring service. Attendants included Joyce Huff maid of honor and Bob Sooby best man. The couple resides at 202 E 7th Scott City following a reception for 20.
Recipe blends chopped cranberries and banana with sugar, paired with a vanilla wafer crust. Buttercream egg layer, cranberry mix, and whipped cream top, then chill several hours or overnight. Yields 9 to 12 servings. submission by Margaret Weiser invites reader recipes with a $1 prize.
Thirty eight persons played master point duplicate bridge Monday evening in the Pioneer Room of the Warren Hotel. The Skip Mitchel system was used. North south team winners were Norman Lindner, Mrs. Bill Galloway first, Bobby L. McKain, Mrs. P. Goddard second, Mrs. Les Cline, Mrs. Ed Rutter third, and Bob Collins, Gordon Lee fourth. East west team winners were Mrs. Charles Falconer, Mrs. Jack Bryant first, Dr. and Mrs. John Turner second, Owen Grable and George Meeker third, and Mrs. K. L. Bourne, Dorothy Bock fourth. Director Fred Dickerson appointed Mrs. Bobby D. McKain treasurer for the coming year.
An art display at the Civic Center will showcase about 20 artists including students of John Dillon and Mrs Herman Beringer. Works span paintings and drawings from September to present with Mrs Beringer's design class contributing pieces. The event runs Sunday 1 to 5 p.m. and the public is invited.
A long list of Christmas visits and meals is recorded with numerous households in the area. Families from Fort Dodge to Colorado Springs, including Ralph Curl, Arvie Teague, Jim Knight, Connie Gibson, Mia Mendenhall, and Jack Mendenhall, shared gatherings. Guests from Craig Colorado arrived to celebrate and pick up Roxana, who had been visiting since November. Others noted are Lula Borgman, Gene Webb, Dale Borgman, Lena Horton, A. A. Thomas, Earnest Davis, Joe Horton, Kay Allen, and Arthur Erker with extended relatives visiting through the holiday period. Afternoon visits included Ivan Thomas and family from Logan.
A timed dessert guide for a New Year daiquiri mold. Ingredients include gelatin sugar salt eggs water lime juice rum and cream. Instructions cover dissolving gelatin over low heat, folding into whipped egg whites and cream, then chilling in a shallow 10 cup mold to form a clock face.
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