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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1963
Page
2
The Kansas City livestock and produce market update shows cattle steady to higher, with high choice steers around 24.25 and cows 14.23 to 16.00. Hogs remain steady to 25 cents lower, with 1 3 190 to 250 pound barrows at 18.02 to 18.50, lambs 21.50 to 21.50, ewes 4.25 to 5.75. Grain and coop prices list multiple commodities with fluctuating bids and discounts.
New York. A brisk session pushed prices up early in the afternoon with the Dow near the 700 level as motors rails and airlines led gains. The Associated Press average rose 0.9 to 270.2. industrials up 1.4, rails 0.8, utilities 0.4. Xerox and Polaroid posted solid advances, while General Motors and U.S. Smelting recovered from Monday losses.
James Van Dittie, formerly vice-president of Garden National Bank, is named president. Leo Van Dittie announces other new titles for bank staff, with John C. Smith and Andrew J. Ott as vice-presidents and Mary Hope, Duane W. Mays, Val Rome, and Maxine Hates as assistants. Leo Van Dittie also becomes vice-president of American National Bank & Trust Co. of Chicago and will represent loans in several states while remaining Garden National Bank chair and Dalton State Bank president.
In Salina Kansas four major farm groups met but failed to outline a 1964 government wheat program. They backed raising the minimum price for stored grain to 115 percent of the support price and supported options to renew conservation contracts, while split on the Antuso amendment and land conservation details. Leaders Anson Horning James Swanersen Waller Peirce Martin Byrne attended, with Farm Bureau opposing the plan while the others favored it.
Today local records list admissions at St Catherine and Holcomb including Linda Kay and Leann Flynn plus several Mrs. and Mr. patients. Dismissals at St Catherine include Orville Patterson and others. a birth is recorded for Mr. and Mrs Franklin Blagi a boy born July 2 at 2:27 am. The section also lists warranty deeds and quitclaim deeds for multiple properties involving Catholic Diocese of Dodge City and local buyers.
Administrators deed transfers and district court divorce filing appear among notices. Drivers license suspensions reported for Clarence Matsel Walker of Garden City, with fines and abatement actions listed. Police bonds posted for multiple individuals for license and registration violations, speeding, and muffler issues. City accidents mention several collisions on 8th and 9th streets with moderate to extensive damage and specific driver names and addresses.
Gettysburg Pennsylvania hosts a three day commemoration of the Civil War turning 100 years since Lee's retreat. Governors from 27 states attend the Eternal Light memorial service as Postmaster General Day dedicates a commemorative stamp. Vignettes of History, reenactments, and a Eisenhower speech draw thousands to the town with visitors in period dress and a busy main street.
London AP reports a security uproar hits Prime Minister Harold Macmillan after disclosures that diplomat Harold Philby, once exonerated, was a Soviet agent. Laborites forge attacks over Philby's 1951 tip to Burgess and Maclean, and Macmillan’s 1955 clearance statement. A separate line notes a butterfly lays up to 400 jade green eggs on milkweed leaves in spring.
Duane West of the Santa Fe Trail Council Boy Scouts of America attends a commissioners conference at Philmont Scout Ranch near Cimarron New Mexico. The session began last Wednesday and ends today with his wife and son present.
Former president Dwight D. Eisenhower plans a quiet two day stay in his boyhood home Abilene arriving by private railcar near the Eisenhower Library and family house. City officials expect crowds and sightseers but no formal program is planned according to archivist Robert Bolton.
A Kansas district judge will hear a petition seeking an injunction against enforcing the new Sunday trading law. Wichita grocers argue the measure violates state and federal constitutions and due process, claiming it was signed after adjournment and would affect many products sold. The case could test the validity of other post adjournment laws.
In Kansas 356 laws took effect, among them a Sunday sales measure facing court challenges. The legislature passed 886 bills, enacting 500. 62 take effect July 1 and 264 upon publication. The Sunday law targets many items but carves out groceries and farm machinery parts. Authorities question validity due to signing after adjournment. Economic aims drive new state research foundation and an office of economic analysis to coordinate grants and research.
Visiting foreign exchange students attended a Sunday horse show featuring the Sandhill Vaqueroes and Garden City Roping Club at the county fairgrounds. Jack McVicker hosted with Gene Whitman as ringmaster as roping club members work with steers and bucking horses. The Garden City group plans a Dodge City Days trail ride later this month, and both clubs will return for Finney County Free Fair activities in August.
Cynthia Headrick and Steve Townsend received scholarships to Southwestern College Music Camp in Winfield from July 28 to August 3. Cynthia, daughter of Mr and Mrs Raymond Headrick, receives vocal chorus and band studies. Steve, son of Mr and Mrs Robert E Townsend, will study orchestra and chorus. both scholarships cover all camp expenses.
District Judge Edmund J Page issued a temporary restraining order Monday against enforcement of the new Kansas Sunday closing law. A hearing on a permanent injunction for Messina Skyway Market Inc of Atchison was set for July 31. The order restrains the state attorney general and Atchison County attorney from enforcing the law which took effect Monday. Messina markets is one of Atchison’s larger grocery firms and contends the law is discriminatory and unconstitutional.
Memphis AP reports Great Western Sugar Co begins experimental sugar beet production in the mid-South to ride rising prices. Pilot plots span Dyer and Lake counties in Tennessee, Kennett Missouri, and areas near Paragould and Blytheville Arkansas. Acreage allotments may be assigned under the 1962 Sugar Act. Normal beet yields run about 18 tons per acre. price prior to the increase was 15.32 per ton.
Two Garden Citians among 188 prospective freshmen attend the University of Kansas summer third KU Preview. Lola W. McAfee and Rebecca Rogers represent the local entrants as eleven programs run to allow placement tests physicals and counselor visits.
Kansas civil service examinations will be given in July for several positions. Posts include Bacteriologist or Serologist II, Physical Therapist I II, Psychiatric Occupational Therapist II and III, Vocational Instructor for the Blind, and Highway District Supervisor. Applications and announcements available from the State Personnel Division, 801 Harrison Street, Topeka. completed forms should be returned promptly.
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