Rainy weekend brings heavy showers in southern areas
Sublette area saw 1.79 inches in a storm as reported by county agent Willis Blume, with lighter rainfall near Garden City and along US-83 between Sublette and Garden that caused brief traffic stops south of Satanta. Substantial rainfall also reached 1.40 inches just south of Satanta amid cooler weekend weather.
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Garden City
Willis Blume
Sublette
Haskell County
Garden
Satanta
Three Qualify For State Fair In Kansas 4-H Contest
Three Finney County 4-H boys qualified for the Kansas State Fair in a props judging contest at the Fairgrounds. Larry Scott led with 362, Jimmy Oeding 346, and Robert York 336. Benny Oeding took fourth and became an alternate. Twelve boys competed in five grain classes plus weed ID and oral reasons. County agents Fromm and Davies led the session. more contests and a talent show are planned at Clifford Hope Auditorium to select the state team.
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Finney County
Fairgrounds
Larry Scott
Jimmy Oeding
Robert York
Benny Oeding
Hutchinson
Larry Oehing
Jim McGraw
Bobby Seay
Paul Schneider
Larry Schneider
Jerry Brungardt
Clifford Hope Auditorium
Garden Sass Gas Garden Returns From Long Vacation
Garden Sass Gas Garden resumed duties after a strenuous two week break, returning to work to rest and recover from the extended vacation period.
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Gas Garden
Cash Days to Resume in August in Garden City
Garden City's Cash Days will resume the first Wednesday in August as the chamber announces a new series. The just-ended third weekly series offered a $500 prize that rose to $600 before capping at $1,000, but remained unclaimed when Robert Cramer failed to collect the $600 prize. Registered participants need not re-register, with stores and the Chamber office facilitating signups ahead of the new series. The prize amount for the upcoming series has not yet been set.
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Garden City
George Purnell
Chamber
Chamber of Commerce
Congress Goes Back to Work After July Recess
Washington AP Congress begins a cautious week with three major bills likely to emerge from Senate committees foreign aid the National Defense Education Act and the farm bill but no major actions are scheduled. President Ayub Khan of Pakistan addresses a joint session Wednesday as Sen Fulbright predicts a close committee vote on Kennedy's five year 8.8 billion foreign aid program with Rusk urging passage.
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Congress
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House
Pakistan
Mohammed Ayub Khan
Sen
J. William Fulbright
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Kennedy
Dean Rusk
Train Bus Toll Reaches 49 Dead in Formosa Crash
The Formosan toll from a Southern Formosa collision rose to 49 dead with 27 people on the critical list. Blood transfusions were given as the disaster, the worst in Formosa's history, occurred when an express train hit a bus near Chiayi. The bus driver and a girl conductor died. police cited failure to stop the bus at the crossing.
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Taipei
Formosa
Chiayi
Plan Court Test Of Rider Plan To Fight Segregation
A federal three judge panel in Jackson will hear a National Association for the Advancement of Colored People suit seeking to strike down Mississippi laws enforcing segregated rail cars buses restrooms and waiting rooms and the posting of segregation signs. The case follows arrests of riders seeking desegregation and a Rainbow Beach wade in at Chicago as clashes occurred with police maintaining order.
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Jackson
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
New Orleans
Montgomery
Ala
Chicago
Rainbow Beach
Missile-Warning Satellite Fails in Launch at Arguelal lo Calif
United States first attempt to launch a missile warning satellite failed at 8:59 a m as the 98 foot rocket did not lift from its pad. Midas III rested undamaged on the Atlas booster pad north of Los Angeles while white smoke rose from the nose. The Air Force canceled the day’s test and eyed a possible reschedule for Tuesday. Midas I failed to orbit on Feb 26 1960 and Midas II orbited May 24 1960 but had a faulty radio.
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Calif
United States
Russia
Midas
Air Force
Ship Save disaster toll hits 237 in Mozambique
Portuguese ministry reports 287 dead or missing and presumed dead from the grounded and burning transport Save. About 490 aboard, including 44 crew, with 253 saved after a storm drove the 2,037-ton vessel onto a sandbar near the Linde River estuary. Rescue continued as helicopters ferried survivors to Beira and Lourenco Marques.
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Lourenco Marques
Save
Laurence Marqueg
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Angola
Quelimane
Lorenco Marques
Air Force recovers Discoverer nose cone over Hawaii
Air Force fliers snagged the Discoverer XXVI nose cone with a C119 on its return from space 270 miles northwest of Hawaii. The capsule circled Earth 32 times on a polar orbit before parachuting to the Pacific. astronauts reported nothing alive aboard.
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Alaska
Sunnyvale
Calif
Globe
Vandenberg Air Force Base
Jack
Weather Tonight and Tuesday Forecast Highlights
Partly cloudy with scattered thunderstorms tonight and Tuesday. Lows mid 60s tonight, highs 85 to 90 Tuesday with southerly winds 10 to 15 mph tonight and 15 mph Tuesday. No significant precipitation details beyond scattered storms.
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Dodge City
Emporia
Garde
Goodland
Will
Rosenell
Salina
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Wichita
Mercury Drops To Record Low In Kansas Cities
Temperatures sank to unprecedented July lows in parts of Kansas with Topeka recording a 53 degree low, the city’s coldest on July 10. Manhattan also hit 53, Goodland 62, while Dodge City and Russell saw highs of 76 and 87. Light showers touched Hill City, Goodland, and Hill City again. The Weather Bureau anticipates little change in the next 36 hours with a possible warming Tuesday and a chance of light rain. The five day forecast calls for resort-like weather through Saturday and readings about 6 to 8 degrees below normal.
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Kansas
Manhattan
Goodland
Dodge City
Russell
Hill City
Ind
Weather Bureau
Kangas
Mrs H W Stubbs Ulysses Dies in Kansas
Mrs Lilah May Stubbs 74 a longtime Ulysses civic figure died Sunday at Bob Wilson Memorial Hospital. widow of Herbert W Stubbs county attorney who died two years ago. Funeral Tuesday at 9:30 a.m. at the Ulysses Methodist Church with graveside rites at Mulvane Cemetery at 4:30 p.m. She had lived in Mulvane Lawrence and Ulysses and held many civic and genealogical memberships. Survivors include daughters Marjorie Maser and Marian Pfeiffer, brother Frank E. Shaw, six grandchildren and eight great grandchildren.
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Lilah May Stubbs
Bob Wilson Memorial Hospital
Herbert W. Stubbs
Santa Fe
Haskell
Presbyterian Church
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Ulysses Western Prairie Club
D.A.R
Eastern Star
New England Historic and Genealogy Society
Institute of American Genealogy
Colonial Order of the Crown
Order of Washington
Marjorie Maser
Dighton
Marian Pfeiffer
Colorado Springs
Colo
Frank E. Shaw
Mulvane
Methodist
Robert Peters
Mulvane Cemetery
Soviet Air Show Strengthens Berlin Demands
In Moscow at Tushino, Premier Khrushchev and Yuri Gagarin watched a 50,000-strong crowd as the Soviet air force unveiled new craft including a delta wing bomber, a rear-jet bomber, a screw wing plane, a three-tail helicopter, a giant cargo helicopter, and a mass parachute drop. Western observers noted the display emphasized missiles and advanced aircraft over guns, signaling emphasis on long range strike capabilities amid Berlin tensions.
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Yuri Gagarin
Tushino
United States
U.S
Melvin Neilsen
U S Looks at Defense Posture Amid Berlin Crisis
Washington AP Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara said the United States is taking another look at its defense program as the Soviet Union plans higher military spending. President Kennedy ordered a new appraisal of U S fighting power in light of the Berlin crisis and Soviet airpower display.
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House Foreign Affairs Committee
Laurig Norstad
Europe
Garden City Man Elected By Elks
MIAMI BEACH AP William A Wall 56 year old West Palm Beach Fla businessman was elected grand exalted ruler of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks He was unopposed and will assume office Thursday Also elected were C O Kuhn Garden City Kan grand inner guard Grand Secretary Lee A Donaldson Etna Pa and grand treasurer Arthur M Umlandt Muscatine Iowa who were re elected
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Fla
William A. Wall
West Palm Beach
Pla
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Garden City
Kan
Grand Inner Guard
Lee A. Donaldson
Etna
Arthur M Umlandt
Muscatine
Iowa
Breeding Seeks Higher Supports for Wheat Farmers
Rep J Floyd Breeding of Kay County Kansas says most western Kansas wheat farmers will accept further reductions in acreage if price supports and other payments keep income stable. He toured the district during the July 4 recess and urged a strong wheat marketing program and firm Berlin policy.
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Washington
Marine kept in box during Okinawa confinement claim
San Francisco AP reports defense for Pvt. Stobo C. West contends the Marine was confined 43 days in a five by seven by six to seven foot concrete cell on Okinawa. West, 31, is jailed at Treasure Island awaiting appeal of a five year sentence for a black market charge. A July 18 San Bruno hearing will hear prosecution. West's wife says she cannot reach him by phone. In London AP notes a Moscow radio report of a giant sperm whale ramming a Soviet tanker Ashkhahad with fatal whale injuries.
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Stobo C. West
Okinawa
James E. Stauffer
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San Francisco” Bay
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Judge Advocate General
San Bruno
Stauffer
Spartanburg
D.C
Barbara McGowen West
Wests
Clifton
Search continues for girl footprints on Utah mesa
Clues from a bundle of clothing and footprints on Polar Mesa NE of the mining camp raise hopes in the Dennise Sullivan case. Investigators tied Abel B. Aragon 35 Price Utah to the July 4 abduction and slaying of Mrs Jeannette Sullivan 41, with Boothroyd 55 wounded. Aragon shot himself when stopped by FBI.
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Utah
Dennise Sullivan
Rockville
Conn
Salt Lake City Tribune
Polar Mesa
Kitnap
the Tribune
Nathan
Ince
Abel B. Aragon
Price
Aragon
FBI
Jeannette Sullivan
Charles Boothrud
Dennise
Boothroyd
Hoffa Sees Return to AFL-CIO Within Six Months
James R. Hoffa, president of the Teamsters, said on Meet the Press the union will rejoin the AFL-CIO within six months unless labor leaders prefer a weaker federation. Reelected to a new five year term, Hoffa asserted the Teamsters helped build and strengthen the labor movement and belong in its house.
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Teamsters
James R. Hoffa
Afl-Cio
Teamsters Brotherhood
Senate
Meet the Press
Hoffa
AFL Cio
Turkish constitution referendum shows broad approval
In Istanbul unofficial returns indicate a strong yes vote for Turkey's new constitution in the first referendum of its history. Early tallies from multiple provinces suggest about 60 percent approved as counting continued in several regions.
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