Garden Grain Co to Open New Plant Thursday
Garden Grain and Seed Co formerly the Swift plant will host a grand opening Thursday at Eleventh and Fulton. Tours run 1 to 8 p.m. with balloons, orchids, favors, coffee and doughnuts. A pony drawing for under 14s at 7 p.m. and a 7 p.m. livestock talk by Phil Ivans will greet visitors. Representatives from major seed and milling firms will attend as the remodeled store showcases seed shelves and a parakeet welcome.
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Garden Grain and Seed Co
Swift
Wayne Marteney
Eleventh
Fulton
Kansas
Colorado
Oklahoma
Texas Panhandle
Phil Ivans
Kansas City
Staley Milling Co
Schreiber Mills
Carey Salt Co
Swift and Co
Barteldes Seed Co
TA. Kelly Co
Three Large Sites Recommended for New High School
Garden City civic clubs hear Architect Joe Radotinsky outline three high school site options. Voters favor a 40 acre site east of Collingwood home, with near equal support for the second option. A 22 acre site north of Kansas and east of Seventh street drew little support. Everett Miller, BOE president, cautions against rushing a decision on a million dollars.
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Garden City
Joe Radotinsky
Kansas
Seventh Street
Radotinsky
Civic
Hope Slated For Chairman of House GOPers
Congressman Cliff Ford R Hope is reportedly unopposed for the House Republican conference chairman post for the 82nd Congress. Roy O Woodruff of Michigan, starting his 17th term, announced he will not serve again. Garden City’s Roy Woodruff is the Kansas delegation’s dean as the party caucus elects leaders.
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Clifford R. Hope
Cliff Stratton
Topeka
Tiny Jimmie Douglas Wins Telegram Baby Derby 1951
Tiny James Carel Douglas born Jan 1 at 8 08 pm in St Catherine s hospital Garden City weighs 3 pounds 11 ounces. He is healthy and in an incubator with parents Darrell V Douglas and wife doing fine. As Derby winner he receives 18 gifts from advertisers including blankets highchair milk food shoes wallpaper theater tickets and more. The Douglas family has lived in Garden City for many years.
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Tiny James Carel Douglas
St. Catherine’s Hospital
Garden City
James
Jimmie
Darrell V. Douglas
E. Hazel
Darrell
Derby
Douglases
Siren Signals Start of Porch Light Drive for Polio
About 280 women from the BPW Club plan a one hour canvass in Garden City to close the 1951 infantile paralysis drive. The Siren will sound at 7 pm and residents are urged to light porches or place a candle or flashlight outside. Funds raised stay split for local needs and national foundation.
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Garden City
BPW
Susan Hadley
Amvets
Finney County
National Foundation For Infantile Paralysis
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Mildred
Garden Grain and Seed
CM. Henderson
Farwell
Tex
Marteney and Henderson
Pierceville
Garden Grain and Seed Company
Eleventh and Fulton
Robinson Furniture
City Civic Clubbers
Hope
House Gopers
Finney County Historical Museum
The
Telegram
Historical Museum
Tiny Jimmy Douglas
Garden City Air Base
United States Air Force
Robert C. Goodwin
Maj. Goodwin
Air Force
Goodwin
War Assets Administration
Finney County Public Library
Walnut Garden City
Fineylibrary.org
Nblic Library
American State Bank & Trust Company
FDIC
Americanstatebankna.com
Great Bend
Larned
Macksville
St. John
Holcomb
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