Fourth of July Activities at Finnup Park Packed Day
A full Fourth of July schedule at Finnup Park features bathing beauty contests for toddlers and 4 to 6 year olds, croquet and horseshoes, swimming and diving contests, sack races, jeep ride drawings every hour, and a 7 p.m. softball double header between Dodge City’s Frank Epp Chevrolet and Garden City’s Southwest Carpet and Tile. A municipal band concert follows at 8:15 p.m. with fireworks at 9 p.m. Lions Club and lifeguards oversee events at the pool, and Explorer Scouts assist in the morning.
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Frank Epp
Chevrolet
Dodge City
Fairgrounds Stadium
Finnup Park
Garden City
Claude Owens
Clifford Hope, Jr
Buffalo Range
Little America
Explorer Scouts of Post 101
St. Thomas Episcopal Church
Telegram
Southwest Carpet and Tile
Carter Frey
Lian Chadd
Carpeters
Garden City Municipal Band
Chamber of Commerce
Rotary and Kiwanis rally to aid program at meeting
A Rotary member Rev Howard Woertendyke helped salvage a Kiwanis program when an out of town speaker could not attend. Early morning golf at Jaycee Links saw two women already teeing off at No 1, with Hutchinson schools hiring John Poe as the first Black high school English teacher, a Garden City native set to teach in Hutchinson after graduating from Emporia State.
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Rotary
Kiwanis
Howard Woertendyke
Woertendyke
Kiwanians
Alvin Komlofske
Jaycee Links
Hutchinson
Garden Citian
John Poe
Samuel Poe
S. 6Th
Emporia State Teachers College
Garden City
Poe
Cleveland
Garden Suess Gus Garden Loan Firm Executive
A quirky line describes a loan firm executive who asks a psychiatrist to lump nagging worries into one big frightening complex. The odd phrasing suggests a satirical lament about stress and finance.
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Gus Garden
House Overrides Eisenhower Veto On Federal Pay Rise
The House voted to override the President's veto of a 4 74 percent pay increase for 14 million federal employees, sending the bill to the Senate where Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas aimed for a quick vote. Johnson predicted Senate backing. Eisenhower called the measure indefensible and discriminatory, while Republicans questioned sustaining the veto in an election year. Separately, the House rejected a higher minimum wage bill for interstate commerce and passed a $1.15 plan covering about 1,400,000 chain store workers without overtime, amid coalition backing and a 211-203 vote.
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Washington
House
Eisenhower
Senate
Lyndan B. Johnson
Texas
Johnson
Congress
Barry Goldwater
R-Ariz
Box Cars Ease Grain Pinch Across Region
Box cars trickle into Garden City providing temporary relief for grain storage. Thirty cars were distributed among five local elevators. Pierceville and Charleston received 11 cars total but filled by mid morning today. Western Terminal Elevator unloaded 10,000 bushels last night and again by mid morning. More cars expected after 10:30 tonight. exact counts uncertain. Culling started late due to moisture, allowing elevatormen to load for the afternoon rush.
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Garden City
Pierceville
Charleston
Lowe
Tennis
Wolfé
Gano
Western Terminal
Gano Eevalori City
Bouition
Wheat Harvest Nears Peak Across Southern Kansas
Cutting nearly finished in southern Kansas from Hutchinson to Johnson with peak activity from Concordia to Tribune. North central and northwestern counties expect full harvest by Monday, while Pratt 80 percent and Stanton 75 percent complete. Clark Ford Hamilton regions around 70 percent done. Stafford Pawnee about 60 percent. Kearny Salina and southern Lane about 50 percent.
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Great Bend
Kansas
Hutchinson
Johnson
Kansas State Employment Services Harvest Labor Control Office
Concordia
Tribune
North Central
Northwestern
Harper
Barber
Kingman
Comanche
Meade
Edwards
Kiowa
Gray
Haskell
South
Grant
Rush
Hodgeman
Ness
Lincoln
Ottawa
Trego
Ellis
Rooks
Gove
Logan
Wallace
Pratt County
Stanton County
Clark
Ford
Hamilton
Stafford
Pawnee
Kearny
Salina
Lane
Four Teens Die in Hays Train Car Crash
A Union Pacific crossing collision in Hays Kansas fatally injures four teens including Edith Ann Sack 17 who died instantly. Four others were hospitalized with injuries as a car carrying ten local children to a drive-in theater collided with a awaiting train.
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Hays, Kan
Hays
Union Pacific
Edith Ann Sack
Colin Parker
Tom Parker
Lois Klaus
Nick J. Klaus
Steve Burkhart
Ted Burkhart
David Sack
Sack
Mary Jane
Ricky
Albert Klaus
Charles Klaus
Craig Parker
Yes We Will Print Monday For Memorial Day Delivery
Garden City Telegram announces Monday publication with early morning delivery for Memorial Day. If subscribers do not receive by 10 a.m., call 6-3232. Classified ads deadline is 1 p.m. Saturday. Society news deadline is 6 p.m. Sunday. Monday issue will feature ads for dollar day next Wednesday.
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Garden City Telegram
Telegram
Society News
Ada
Stevenson Won't Object To Nomination At Democratic Convention
Stevenson refuses to object to placing his name in nomination for the Democratic presidential race as reporters press him after a Washington fundraiser. Lyndon Johnson defends his Senate leadership amid attacks on tactics, while Paul Butler disputes rumors of rigging and grants Draft Stevenson space at convention HQ. Truman contemplates reasons for not attending and possible critique of Butler.
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Associated Press
Stevenson
Washington
Angeles
James E. Doyle
Lyndon B. Johnson
Texas
Senate
Paul Butler
Los Angeles
John F. Kennedy
Massachusetts
Buller
Harry S. Truman
Truman
Kennedy
Butler
New York Post
No Fireworks Within City
Garden City residents heard from Chief of Police Mitch Geisler that the city ordinance bans explosives and firecrackers within city limits, with sparklers and non explosive night displays allowed, while Roman candles are restricted. arrests will be made for exploding firecrackers this year.
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Mitch Geisler
Garden City
Geisler
Young Harvest Worker Run Over by Combine
A farm accident near Frank Stillwell farm seven miles west of the Tennis Elevator left Bobby Freeman of Chickasha Oklahoma injured after a combine ran over him. Freeman was reportedly under the machine when an operator started it, not realizing the youth was beneath it.
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Frank Stillwell
St. Catherine Hospital
Bobby Freeman
Chickasha
Okla
Castro Seizes Cuban Oil Installations and Refineries
Fidel Castro ordered seizure of Esso Standard and Shell Oil installations and refineries unless they refine token shipments of state crude. Texaco property, including the Santiago refinery, was seized earlier. Cuba plans to process Soviet crude at seized plants, arguing it can supply 60,000 barrels daily, despite potential shortages.
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Havana
Fidel Castro
Soive
Esso Standard
Shell
Cuba
Esso
Castro
Texaco Oil Co
Santiago
Texaco
Easo’s
Venezuela
Man Hurt in Auto Accident North of Garden City
Scottsbluff man Manuel Gonzales suffered cuts and bruises when his 1953 model car left Highway 88 four miles north of Garden City. The car struck a cement culvert after traveling 368 feet along a ditch, and Gonzales was treated at St. Catherine hospital and released. Damage was estimated at 600 to 700 dollars. He told officers he could not remember the incident, and investigators say he apparently fell asleep at the wheel. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. AP The George Washington, first Polaris submarine, arrives to ready for underwater missile launchings.
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Scottsbluff
Neb
Garden City
Manuel Gonzales
Sheriif
St. Catherine Hospital
Gonzales
New Mail Service Set Between Oakley and Garden City
A new north south mail route from Oakley to Garden City begins tonight at 6 30 PM with a mail truck leaving Oakley. The service extends the Scott City Oakley line and links with Santa Fe and Missouri Pacific trains, promising faster deliveries and better north south mail connections.
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Oakley
Garden City
Scott City
Fred Danford
Danford
Scott
Postel
Colby
Lester Harp
Santa Fe
Missouri Pacific
Union Pacific
Hunger Strike by Smith Reconciled with Milk Mixture
LANSING Kan AP Perry Edward Smith, awaiting execution for the Clutter killings, has resumed eating after prison attendants persuaded him the Lord directs him not to starve. He now drinks four glasses daily of a milk and egg mixture while an attendant holds him. Smith’s weight fell from 163 to 126 pounds during a 35 day hunger strike.
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Lansing
Kan
Perry Edward Smith
Tracy A. Hand
Lordae
Smith
Richard Eugene Hickock
Herbert W. Clutter
Clutter
Garden City
State Supreme Court
Hr, H. Moore
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Darrel] Morrow
Sherry Stone
Arthur Stone
Garden City High School
Hospitality House
Fairgrounds
Garden Suess
Enson
Doyle
la Junta
Hin
Pra
Enmporla
Igarden
Goodland
Jaling Po
Topeka
Wichita
Combine
Polaris Sub
Cape Canaveral
Fla
George Washington
Scott and
Lord
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