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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1968
Page
7
Weather disaster sweeps Southwest Kansas from late May through June with heavy rain flooding, damaging hail and tornadoes. Storms strike from Southeast Colorado to central Kansas, causing fires, downed power lines, and widespread crop damage totaling tens of thousands of dollars.
Kandee Klein of Tribune crowned Miss Garden City at the June 10 Jaycee pageant, then named first runnerup at the Miss Kansas Pageant in Pratt in July. She later held the Miss Kansas crown as the incumbent Miss America went on to Atlantic City. The year also saw filming activity by Columbia Pictures in the Garden City area for In Cold Blood, with John Forsythe and Jack Simmons among the cast, plus a wave of severe weather and tornadoes that battered Finney County and nearby towns, causing deaths, injuries, and millions in damages.
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