1963 Dry Year Records in Garden City Area
The Southwest Kansas year 1963 posted four dry periods with overall low moisture. Norman Nossaman at Garden City Experiment Station recorded 15.88 inches of precipitation, 2.11 below the 55 year norm of 17.99. Early and late months drove the dryness, with January through April totaling only 1.14 inches.
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Kansas
Norman Nossaman
Garden City Experiment Station
Trash Haulers Has No Takers for Guarantee
GREAT BEND, Kan AP Clifford Bieberle runs a trash hauling service with the slogan Satisfaction guaranteed or double your trash back. Weather data show a dry year with only 0.01 inches in Oct-Nov, July wettest at 4.58 inches, and 1963 temps near normal but with multiple dry months. Record highs and lows are noted from 1908 and 1918 respectively.
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Great Bend, Kan
Clifford Bieberle
Bieberle
Garden Sass Extravagance Sparks Commentary
Gus Garden calls Garden Sass Extravagance the model of wasteful spending, critiquing others for their lavish purchases while defending his own frugal habits in a pointed public remark.
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Gus Garden
Cash Wheat Sale To Soviet Faces Freight Subsidy Debate
The 37 million bushel Soviet sale, about $78.5 million, is cash but not simple. About $26 million in government subsidies may indirectly cover ocean freight, raising questions if subsidies include transport costs. Continental Grain Co and the Agriculture Department disclosed the deal, with $90 million value at U.S. ports and $68.5 million paid by the Soviet Union.
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Ovid A. Martin
Associated Press
Washington
U.S
Soviet Union
Sam
Agriculture Department
Continental Grain Co
New York
John F. Kennedy
Hugoton Field Test Procedures Recommended
Kansas gas wells in the Hugoton field should mirror Oklahoma testing rules. Lester Wilkenson testified before the Kansas Corporation Commission about annual testing for new and reworked wells for three years, then alternate-year tests, aiming to cut costs for producers, buyers, and the commission. The hearing, tied to a state Supreme Court ruling on production rates, began December 18 and was recessed after one day.
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Lester Wilkenson
Wichita
Hugoton
Kansas
Wilkenson
Oklahoma Corporation Commission
Oklahoma
Wilkinson
Supreme Court
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