Card dialing: rare automatic phone on desk in Kansas
In Garden City a Southwestern Bell official showed a new automatic card dialing phone, one of only two in the state. The device will be tested briefly and demonstrates modern dialing beyond operator-assisted calls. Also notes Stop Polio clinic info line and PTA treasurer debate over charity split, plus a blizzard warning for Northwest Kansas and weather contrasts.
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Southwestern Bell Telephone Co
Kansay Hag
Garden City Telegram
Southwestern Bell
Bob Wright
Bob
Southwest
Kansas
Northwest Kansas
Parking Facilities Sought North of Laurel by Area Merchants
A 24-signature petition read to the City Commission requests off street parking north of Laurel Street and west of Main Street to serve Main Street businesses and the Courthouse. The commission took no action beyond accepting the petition for study as merchants urge equal facilities to replace existing, allegedly unfair and hazardous parking.
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Laurel
Majin
City Commission
Laurel Street
Main Street
7Th and Chestnut
County
City Accepts Low Bid for 1963 Plymouth Police Car
City Commission accepted Walters Motor Co. bid of 1495 dollars with trade in for a new police car, a 1963 Plymouth to replace the 1962 Ford traded in after a Walnut and 8th collision. Other bids were 1668 and 1645 dollars.
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City Commission
Walters Motor Co
Plymouth
Ford
Walnut
8Th
Burtis Motor Co
Nolan Motor Co
Metropolitan Commission
Jones 1St Addition
9Th
Weather tonight and Thursday outlook with cold snap
Partly cloudy and mild tonight with lows around 30. Thursday brings increasing clouds and a sharp drop in temperature with northerly winds 25 to 35 mph and light snow or flurries by evening, highs near the 50s. Sunrise 8:00. Local temps include Akron 30 La Junta 26 Dodge City 43 Garden 22 Goodland 24 Hill City 28 Lamar 22 Russell 28.
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Sunger
Akron
la Junta
Dodge
Rules Committee Proposal To Be First Legislative Fight
The 88th Congress opens amid a clash over Kennedy's agenda with the House set to vote on Rules Committee makeup. Kennedy aims to outvote conservatives and push major measures, while Senate liberals back a fast track on civil rights like filibuster reform. Weather notes show a mild 1962 in Garden City with record freeze free period and low wind, rainfall near average but June–July damp.
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Garden City
Kansas State University Agriculture Experiment Station
Town
Norm Nossaman
City
Ssaman
Washington
Congress
Kennedy
White House
House
Senate
John W. McCormack
D-Mass
Charles A. Halleck
Indiana
Rules Committee
Senate Democrats
Hatcher family keeps a vast multi-language Bible collection
Henry and Lorie Hatcher maintain a 108 book Bible collection near Satanta valued over $3,000. The set includes Spanish, Chinese, Hebrew, Turkish, French, Latin, German, Austrian and Cherokee editions plus a 1629 German Bible from the Hitler era. They also own a Braille Bible and a 1690 Latin Bible bought in Rome.
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Henry
Lorie Hatcher
Haskell County
Beth Lilley
Satanta
Henry Hatcher
Hatcher
Denver
Colo
Europe
Holy Land
Rome
London
Hitler
America
Austria
Kansas New Senators Assigned to Committees
Kansas opens the second day of the legislative session with four new senators on committee assignments. Sen. Keith G. Sebelius leads Welfare and others, Sen. Theo D. Saar Jr. covers Banking and more, Sen. H. J. Barr handles Water Resources and others, Sen. J Harm Vess chairs Engross Bills and more. In the House, Reps. Robert Cram and Charles McCall become the first two committee chairs, with Rep. Bill Fribley named Rules vice chairman.
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Topeka
Kansas
House
Keith G. Sebelius
R-Norton
Welfare
Theo D. Saar Jr
D-Pittsburg
H. J. Barr
R-Scot
Harm Vess
Robert Cram
R. St. Francis
Charles McCall
Osage City
Cram
McCall
Charles Arthur
Bill Fribley
Crestline
Boy suffers minor injuries in bike-car crash
An eight year old Garden City boy Michael Duane Sroufe, of 1003 North First, received minor injuries when his bicycle was struck by a car at the Center and Howard intersection on Tuesday at 4 14 p m The car was driven by Mrs R N Harrington aged 28 of 302 Hamline Michael is the son of Mr and Mrs Phil Sroufe He was treated for bruises to his knee and ankle at a physician's office.
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Garden City
Michael Duane Sroufe
Howard
Mra. R. N. Harrington
Hamline
Michael
Phil Sroufe
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SPS
Willard Leopold
Hutchison
PTA
Red Cross
Salvaton Army
H. E. Chance
Jennie
Telegram
Alton Garnand
Bryant Garnand
Homer D. Campbell
F. E. Cooper
Elson E. Clark
Emma Leah LaGesse
R. L. Jackson
J. RK. Cleaver
Tony Geier
John Throckmorton
Ashby F. Shaff
Raymond H. Palmer
Don Linenberger
William Nuss
Charles Rees
J. A. Rome
Inez A. Durin
al Regan
Raymond 0. Baird
Peter F. Dreynick
Jack J. Marshall
Robert E. Schreiber
Jim Sloan
Robert Jones
Andhhe Planning Commission
Ralph Jameson
Jameson
Kenneth Newell
Electrical Department
Commisson
Belmont
P. L. Dale Construction Co
Finney County Plumbing, Inc
Texas County Plumbing of
Hooker, Okla
Jerome J. Conrady
The
Humane Society
Fairgrounds
Polity
Northside
Blowers
KC Board of Trade
Kansas City
John Blowers
Southcentral
Archer-Daniels-Midland Grain, Co
Kansas City Board of Trade
Charles Hoeven
Iowa
Gerald Forg
Michigan
Mike Mansfield
Montana
George A. Smathers
Florida
Mansfield
Senate Republicans
Phalanx
Coalition
Gia Garden
Veteran's Administration
Trinidad
Hatchers
Hig c
In Satanta Methodist Church
Lorie
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