Gardening notes and local oddities in brief
A local garden column Roundup recalls miscues from last week including a Sunday reporting error about a lion cub display and a milk price correction. It notes editorials, a misquote of remuneration, a carved meadowlark gift to Merle Tucker of Albuquerque, and Kiwanis chatter. Weather prophet Elihu Allman predicts a wetter late January with moisture and storms.
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Lee Kemper
Merle Tucker
Albuquerque
N.M
Kiwanis International
Kiwanis
Wichita
Merle
Abe Hubert
Lee
New Mexico
Arizona
Elihu Allman
Milk prices rise in Garden City stores today
Milk prices increased in Garden City with most stores charging two cents more per quart and four cents more per half gallon. Producers received a one cent rise today as dealers, unable to absorb past increases, struggle to maintain profit while local prices lag Dodge City and Libgrel.
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Garden City
Dodge City
Libgrel
Garden City bond votes set for Tuesday
Voters in Finney County will decide on a $2.5 million college bond to buy a site and start a new campus while Unified School District 457 seeks a $1 million bond for remodeling the senior high and adding a vocational technical building. Polls 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Voters in Garden City city precincts must be registered. Returns go to the county clerk for tally. A simple majority will decide both proposals.
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Garden City Senior High School
Community Junior College
Finney County
Finney County Unified
Ve Wers
Garden City
Theoni
Jennie Barker
Friend
Lincoln
Plymell
Pierceville
Finney County Clerk's Office
Viet Cong Kidnap American Official Near Saigon
Viet Cong abducted Douglas Ramsey 28 of Boulder City Nevada assistant province representative for the U S mission in Trung Lap about 25 miles north of Saigon. Ramsey raised his hands in surrender as guerrillas marched him into the jungle after an ambush that wounded his driver lightly. The area had just seen Operation Crimp end a major search and destroy campaign.
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Saigon
Viet Nam
Trung Lap
Douglas Ramsey
Boulder City
Nev
U.S
Cu Chi
Ramsey
School Board Meets Tonight in High School Library
School Board of Unified District 457 meets at 7:30 p.m. in the high school library to review a long agenda. The Teachers Welfare Committee will present recommendations. Supt. Tom Saffell will present contracts for 11 new teachers for the concentrated remedial reading program starting second semester. Board plans include inspecting plans for a new elementary building in the northeast part of the city.
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School Board of Unified District 457
Teachers Welfare Committee
Tom Saffell
78 Hour Tet Cease Fire Ordered In Vietnam War
Gen Westmoreland ordered a 78 hour US cease fire starting Thursday noon in observance of Tet, with South Vietnamese, Korean, Australian, and New Zealand troops observing. Viet Cong offered a four day truce, while clashes erupted near Thu Duc and Trung Lap as US and allied forces conducted operations around Saigon, Quang Ngai, and the Iron Triangle.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
U.S
Viet Nam
William C. Westmoreland
Westmoreland
Alles
Republic
Thu Duc
Trung Lap
Cuba Holds Nine U S Fishermen After Grounding
Nine Tampa shrimp fishermen presumed held by Cuba after the 73 foot Charles Singleton ran aground in Cuban waters. The two sister boats were directed to a Cuban port by Cuban Coast Guard. Names aboard the vessels include Vance Jones Fabian Rothwell Harold Rothwell Kinzer Moore David Rogers Albert Costello William Burkhalter Lewis White and Monroe Gray.
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Miami
Fla
Tampa
U.S. Coast Guard
Charles Singleton
Cuba
Penny Singleton
Mark E. Singleton
Cuban Coast Guard
Nicaragua
Ae Shrimp Co
Coast Guard Search and Rescue Center
State Department
Washington
Havana
United States
Vance Jones
Fabian Rothwell
Harold Rothwell
Kinzer Moore
David Rogers
Albert Costello
William Burkhalter
Lewis White
Monroe Gray
Students Arrested in Police Dope Probes
A widespread probe reports more than 30 students from about a dozen U.S. colleges facing narcotics and lewdness charges. Cases span Ohio, Oklahoma, Michigan, Syracuse, Massachusetts, Washington and Florida. Authorities note professional drug pushers near campuses and a broader campus marijuana problem with multiple nonstudents implicated.
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U.S
Akron
Columbus
Ohio
Ohio State
Kent State
Mexico
Norman
Okls
University of Oklahoma
Oklahoma University
University of Michigan
Syracuse University
University of Massachusetts
Washington
American University
University of Miami
Miami
Jamaica
University of Washington
Seattle
Seattle Times
Mercury Takes An Icy Plunge in Garden City Cold Snap
Garden City posted the season’s coldest readings with 3 below at the airport as clear skies and light winds gave way to a rapid climb into the 20s by noon. Snow fell lightly in some areas, with two inches here and up to six inches reported in Atwood. Clouds return tomorrow with warmer temperatures. tonight’s low around 10 above zero.
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Dodge City
Trace Garden
Trace Goodland Trace
Hill City
Trace Russell
Trace Baling
Trace Wichti
Garden City
Goodland
Atwood
DSA Banquet Set Wednesday in Garden City
The Annual Distinguished Service Award banquet hosted by the Garden City Jaycees happens Wednesday at Downing's starting at 7 p.m. The event includes presenting the DSA to a young local contributor, two top Garden City High School students, and an outstanding young educator, with reservations via John Miller at Miller Insurance by tomorrow night.
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Garden City
Garden City High School
John Miller
The
Miller Insurance Agency
Voting Rights Act challenged before Supreme Court
The Supreme Court hears an eight hour session on the 1985 Voting Rights Act with South Carolina leading a coalition of southern states arguing federal authority over voter qualifications. Attorneys discuss constitutional power under the 15th Amendment and the act’s enforcement provisions amid dispersed support and opposition from state and federal officials.
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South
Supreme Court
David W. Robinson I
South Carolina
Nial
Lamp Ip
Federe
Alabama
Louisiana
Mississippi
Georgia
Virginia
North Carolina
High Court
David W. Robinson
Congress
Katzenbach
Two Killed on Kansas Roads
Two traffic deaths reported in Kansas over the weekend. Carl Bodensteiner 84 of Quivira Park Kan became Johnson County's first traffic fatality of the year after a collision in Merriam. His wife Pearl 57 and the other driver Bonnie Lou Arnold 27 were injured. Nixon County's David Richardson 17 of Waverly was killed in a gravel road crash south of Quenemo. A companion Michael Dawson 17 of Waverly survived with leg fractures. A Missouri trio also died in weekend crashes.
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Associated Press
Kansas
Carl Bodensteiner
Quverland Park
Kan
Johnson County
Merriam
Bondensteiner
Pearl
Bonnie Lou Arnold
Kansas City
Bodensteiner
Westside Machine Works
David Richardson
Waverly
Quenermo
Michael Dawson
Topeka
Osage County
Missouri
Student Council Offers Voters Rides
Garden City Community Junior College student council offers rides to the polls tomorrow. Call 6-7611 or 6-309 to request pickup or for more details.
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Student Council
Garden City Community Junior College
Kansas legislators set to tackle appropriations and reapportionment
Kansas lawmakers returned to session to begin tackling both appropriation and reapportionment matters. Governor Avery expects a 570 million dollar budget, with up to 10 million drawn from reserves, and proposes selling surplus lands from state facilities to raise revenue. Land sales could exceed one million, targeting farm lands at Larned State Hospital Winfield Hospital and the Veterans Home at Dodge City. A port of entry reform may be included in an appropriation bill. The House met in the morning and the Senate in the afternoon.
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William H. Avery
Ways and Means Committee
House
Avery
Larned State Hospital
Winfield Hospital and Training Center
Veterans Home
Dodge City
Senate
Soil Conservation Meeting Tuesday Nears Finney County Dinner
More than 400 people are expected at the Finney County Soil Conservation annual dinner and meeting at Fellowship Hall Methodist Church tomorrow night. L. L. Red Males will speak, a Washita River valley banker and adviser to the secretary of agriculture. Awards for soil conservation will be announced, and an officer for the Smember district board will be elected. Music by Garden City High School Madrigals. The event starts at 6:30 p.m.
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Finney County Seil Conservati N Thct
Fellowship Hall of the Methodist Church
L. L
Secretary of Agriculture
Cheyenne
Okla
Washita River
Washita
Delbert Campbell
Garden City High School
Madrigalians
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