Weekend Return From Indiana and Kentucky Camping Notes
Editor and family report a homecoming in Kansas after a two week vacation spent in Indiana and Kentucky. They praise Kentucky scenery and TVA lakes while noting poor highway quality outside main routes. Food and housing prices were cheaper, with chuck roasts at 25 cents a pound and a three bedroom brick home for 9800 dollars. They offer camping advice, critique modern trailer campers versus old tents, mention Cumberland Lake campsite rules, and recount hosting exchange students from South Africa and Thailand. They observe mosquitoes, entertainments at Finnup Park, and local tennis enthusiasts trying to shed or gain weight.
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Kansas
Indiana
Kentucky
Kentucky Woods
TVA
Kentucky Turnpike
Cumberland Lake
AFS Students Depart Today In Two Buses
Two bus loads of foreign exchange students leave after a weekend in Garden City with 45 local host families. The 79 students from 27 countries enjoyed a picnic at Finnup Park, songs and dances, a Coke party, and tours of local sites before heading to the West Coast.
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Finnup Park
Brazil
Cecilia Linhares-Fiuza
Jane Porto
Regina Jobin
AFS
Afsers
Los Angeles
J.D. Raynesford
Garden City Co-op
Masonry Products
Windsor Hotel
Brookover Feed Yards
State Buffalo Preserve
Great Plains Wheat Office
Civic Center
Big Municipal
J. D. Raynesford
J. Merion Kadyk
Raynesford
Fiesta Queen Entries Sought for 1963 Mexican Fiesta
Candidates for queen of the 1963 Mexican Fiesta are being sought. The event usually occurs mid September. exact date is not set. Telegram area girls aged 14 to 21 may apply by calling Louis Guillén at Bridge 6982. An organizational meeting for the fiesta committee is next Sunday at 2 p.m. at Louis' Cash Grocery rear on W Fulton. Bring a parent to the meeting.
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Telegram
Louis Guillen
Louis’ Cash Grocery
W. Fulton
Tragic Tractor Accident Near Goodland Claims Teen
Wir wit Duell aged 17 was crushed to death when a tractor overturned northwest of Goodland on Sunday. Parents are Mr and Mrs Eugene Duell who live near Ruletan.
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Goodland, Kan
Wirwit Duell
Goodland
Eugene Duell
Ruletan
Garden Sass Weekend AFS Visit Boosts Gus’s Attitude
The weekend stay of the AFS students gave Gus the right attitude to tackle the heat wave. The exchange left him motivated to endure rising temperatures and enjoy local warmth.
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AFS
Gus
Fireworks Rules Listed for Fourth in Garden City
Garden City enforces local and state fireworks rules with fines from five to twenty five dollars for sale or discharge within city limits. State law allows sale from June 27 to July 5, with fire marshal guidance defining fireworks and safety precautions. Finney County posts the 1963 Kansas Fireworks Regulations listing approved items for the state.
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Garden City
State Fire Marshall Department
Topeka
Kansas
Finney County
Wendle Meier
Solons Plan Inspection Tour Across Parks and Dams
A Senate Interior Public Lands subcommittee will depart for a five day aerial inspection tour of proposed park and shore recreation areas across the Midwest and West. The delegation includes Senators Bible Gruening Moss Jensen and Simpson Burdick among others, visiting Sleeping Bear Dunes Picture Rocks Yellowstone Dam Sawtooth Range Coos Bay Oregon Dunes Whiskeytown Lake Mead Point Reyes Channel Islands Canyonlands Turtle Creek and Missouri Ozarks.
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Washington
Midwest
Senate Interior Public Lands
Pictured Rocks
Michigan
Theodore Roosevelt Parkway
North Dakota
Yellowtury Dam
Montana
Sawtooh Range
Idaho
Coos Bay
Oregon Dunes
Oregon
Whiskeytown - Shasta Trinity Reservoir
Lake Mead
Point Reyes
Channel Islands
California
Canyon
Lands
Utah
Turtle Creek Reservoir
Kansas
Missouri Ozark
Alan Bible
D-Nev
Ernest Gruening
Alaska
Frank FE
Moss
Len B. Jucdan
K Idaho
Milward J. Simpson
H- Wyo
Quen N. Burdick
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Kennedy in Conference With Italian Leaders
President Kennedy arrived in Rome for talks with Italian leaders to bolster the U S alliance in Europe. He planned meetings with Pope Paul VI and NATO talks after a short, hot reception and a restrained crowd compared with Germany and Ireland.
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Rome
Kennedy
United States
Pape Paul VI
Natal
Federal Courts Hit Virginia's Racial Laws
Two federal courts ruled Virginia racial segregation laws unconstitutional or invalid. A three judge court voided segregated seating. The 4th U.S. Circuit barred Powhatan officials from closing schools to dodge integration and struck down parts of Lynchburg desegregation plans. The cases stem from measures enforcing public theater seat separation and penalties for noncompliance.
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Richmond, Va
Virginia
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Powhatan County
Lynchburg
Powhatan
U.S. District Court
John D. Butzner Jr
Richmond
Butzner
Appeals Cout
County Board of Supervisors
Imake
Prince Edward
Alexandria
Jefferson Theater
Fairfax County
Arlington
Soviet Leaders End Berlin Meeting After Weekend Talks
Soviet satellite chiefs returned from Berlin where Premier Khrushchev urged unity in the international Communist movement amid alleged splits with China. Hungarian leader Janos Kadar, Poland's Gomulka, and others flew home as Albania and others aligned with Beijing. Khrushchev addressed East German crowds and warned against nuclear war while Berlin's gloom masked deeper frictions.
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Preston Grover Berlin
Whrushchev
China
Janos Kadar
Hungary
Jay
Budapest
Wladyslaw Gomulka
Poland
Warsaw
Romania
Red
Georghe Gheorghiu-Dej
Khrushchev
East Berlin
East Gersman
Communist Movement
Albania
Communist Chine
Soviet Union
Erhanchev
Red Chinese
Moscow
Red China
Adit
Ulbricht
International Communist Movement
No Agreement On Laos Pact
LONDON AP British government disclosed collapse of Laos peace efforts with the Soviet Union over the Geneva settlement. Foreign Secretary Lord Home said they could not agree and asked signatories of the Geneva agreement and public opinion to judge. Document transmission to all parties followed a June 25 Russian proposal for a joint British Soviet message. A separate item notes Garden City fire department responding to a blaze in an alley on Chesterfield.
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Lonton
Soviet Union
Laos
Geneva
Britain
Foreign Office
Salt
Ander A. Gromyko
Home
Gromyko
Ue Plame
United States
Southeast Asian ‘Treaty Organization
Garden City
Chesterfield
School Board Meeting Agenda Review Tonight
The Garden City Board of Education will review requisitions for equipment across elementary, junior college, and senior high. Items range from dictionaries to an adding machine for the business department. Also on the agenda are the junior high building report, extracurricular budgets, contracts for new teachers, and business manager selection.
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Garden City Board of Education
Eighteen Freight Cars Derail Near Bucyrus
Eighteen cars of a 100 car Missouri Pacific freight train derailed near Bucyrus in Miami County causing no injuries. Railroad officials blamed warped track. Knylear Sherman, brakeman Robert Land, and another crew member were shaken but unharmed. Several empty tri level auto carriers and lumber loads were involved.
Sweltering Heat Draws Record Crowd to Pool
Garden Citys Finnup Park pool drew a crowd near 3000 on Sunday in 1904, possibly a second largest single day total. Visitors included 120 foreign students from 27 nations with free towels and baskets. Temperatures hit 100 degrees for three days, water use reached 6 to 7 million gallons, and all 10 wells were in operation.
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Heathera
Garden City
Finnup Park
Mary Owens
Yang
Mercury
Kansas State University Agriculture Experiment Station
Airport
Town
Walt Baker
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