Weather swings and bears cubs mark Garden City notes
In Western Kansas a rapid weather shift from clear to snow whipped through by 8:30 a.m. forecast errors annoyed locals and school bells briefly rang with the fire alarm. Lee Richardson Zoo reported two new brown bear cubs while polar bears remained absent. A visitor from Kansas City weighed living in Garden City over Dodge City, praising wide streets and debating local economy.
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Kansas City
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DSA Banquet Set Tomorrow Speaker Joe Tennessen
A former Distinguished Service Award winner, Joe Tennessen, will speak at tomorrow nights DSA banquet at 7 30 p m at Downings. Tennessen, KIUL advertising manager and Garden City Jaycees past officer, helped sponsor the DSA award and will see the Paul Kersey award presented. The event also honors a representative young teacher and Outstanding Student awards for a Garden City High School boy and girl.
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DSA
Tennessen
KIUL
Garden City Jaycees
Downing’s
Paul Kersey
Jaycees
Garden City High School
Commissioners Meet Tomorrow for Routine City Agenda
City Commission set to meet tomorrow with routine business on the agenda. Planning commission will present a rezoning petition by Patsy A. Hapes for lot 10, block 4, Teitelbaum Addition, with sufficient signatures and recommended rezoning of the lot and surrounding area. An ordinance from a previous rezoning hearing near the Courthouse between 9th and 10th will be submitted for passage. Garden City Calf Roping Club asks waiving permit fees for a Fairgrounds carnival in May. Meeting starts at am in City Hall.
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Teitelbaum
Garden City
Fairgrounds
Arctic Cold Front Drops Southwest Kansas Temperatures
An Arctic cold front swept across Southwest Kansas this morning, pushing overnight lows to 10 degrees below zero and bringing an inch of snow. Northerly winds 20 to 40 mph with blowing snow reduced visibility at times. Garden City felt the front at 8:30 am, with temps falling from 28 to 21 to 16 then 11 by noon. Monday had a rare warm spell with 57 degrees and a 69 degree day earlier in January.
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Kansas
Garden City
Kansas Budget Weighs Five Pounds in State Report
Gov. John Anderson's annual budget report, delivered to the Legislature, weighs five pounds with a 84 by 14 inch paper-bound version and 522 pages. Jean Neibarger said about 50 state printers worked on the report, delivered within seven days. The 21,595 sheets weighed 3,140 pounds and 708 copies cost $4,171.01.
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John Anderson
Anderson
Jean Neibarger
Final Inspection Planned for New Garden City Gym
Garden City High School basketball players may see the new gym today with final inspection at 2 p.m. The school board announced the inspection and a tentative dedicatory ceremony for Friday between reserve and Varsity games with Garden City and Liberal. Supt. Hood noted minor details remain and an open house is planned for residents to view the gym.
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Garden City
Liberal
Leroy Hood
Garden City Eyes Junior College Tournament Return
Garden City board discussions advance plans for a winter junior college basketball tourney to be hosted in the new high school gym. Quarterbacks boosters Bryce Roderick and Acy Hall secured approval to promote the event, aiming for the final Thursday through Saturday of November with 12 games across eight teams.
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Penrose Stadium
Little Theater
Bob Cobb
Garden City
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Acy Hall
Roderick
Gov Anderson proposes 25.6 million for state hospitals
Gov John Anderson recommends operating budgets totaling 23.4 million for state hospitals and 2.2 million in capital improvements, with overall hospital spending 25.6 million, below the current year's 28 million. He also proposes 5.63 million for state penal institutions as part of the state budgets.
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John Anderson
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Powers Launch New Effort for Nuclear Pact
Washington reports a renewed push by the United States Great Britain and the Soviet Union to reach a nuclear test ban. U S and Soviet gaps over on site inspections loom large as Moscow signals limits while France is urged to join. Delegations led by Fedorenko Tsarapkin and Gore meet in the State Department after a Khrushchev Kennedy letters exchange.
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Ice Forces Plane Down In Iowa
A twin engine plane carrying Salina Kansas woman to a Minnesota hospital forced landing Monday due to icing causing engine failure. Pilot Chuck Lemaster of Ottawa steered eastward after weather, carburetor iced, landed in a field near Oskaloosa. Woman, Mrs George Elliott of Salina, was taken to a Rochester hospital by ambulance. husband aboard.
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Lemaster
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Here
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Rochester
Weather Summary of Cold Wave and Snow
The region faces a cold wave and near blizzard conditions with light snow and strong northerly winds tonight. Temperatures drop to zero to 10 below by Wednesday morning as winds shift from 20 to 40 mph, reducing visibility. Snow diminishes to flurries by Wednesday morning, with continued very cold conditions and highs of zero to 10 above. Expected snow accumulation about one inch.
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le Junta
Dodge City
Banporia
Garden C
Goodland Tl City
Anderson's Budget At $399.4 Million No Major Tax Hike
Gov. John Anderson proposed a $399.4 million Kansas state budget for the next fiscal year, with changes to avoid major tax increases. Total operations rise by $4.5 million, while capital improvements fall, including bringing Wichita University into the state system and creating new departments and programs.
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Topeka
John Anderson
Kansas
Wichita University
Department of Economic Development
Kansas Industrial Development Commission
Office of Economic Analysis
Atchison
Kansas Neurological Institute
Garden City Man Hurt Falling From Steel Building
A Garden City man, Bill Goodnight, 36, of 111 N. 4th, was seriously injured Monday near Kalvesta when he fell from atop a 40 foot steel barn while painting it aluminum. He suffered a fractured left wrist and left heel. His condition was listed as satisfactory at St Catherine Hospital.
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Kalvesta
St. Catherine Hospital
Bill Goodnight
Goodnight
Douglass Roofing Co
Clarence Dugger
Merrill Barry
Lloyd Brim
Kansas Weather Reigns with Sudden Shifts in Forecast
A witty observation highlights how Kansas weather outpaces a striptease act in rapid changes, with forecasts flipping from sun to storm in short spans. Local meteorologists caution residents to prepare for unpredictable conditions and shifting temperatures.
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Kansas
Garden City Telegram KIUL announce bridge tournament plans
The Garden City Telegram and KIUL announce the annual bridge tournament with Telegram as headquarters. Entries must be in pairs, doubles, and partners are the entrants' responsibility. Games occur weekly at contestants homes, starting the week of February 4. Entry deadline January 31 with a $4 per couple fee covering a closing dinner.
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KIUL
Telegram
Kansas
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