Garden City hosts Dodge City band at Stevens Park
Garden City's hospitality shone as the Dodge City Cowboy Band performed at Stevens Park last night. Despite thunder and rain, a large, appreciative crowd enjoyed the concert with locals and visitors dancing and commenting on the musicians. Betsy Welch impressed with flute and piccolo solos while Don Threlkeld observed sound from different seats. Friday's Stevens Park encore may feature new seating arrangements. Also noted were tax officers visiting Wichita and a skunk incident at Sherman's Grill where two patrons released the animal without injuries.
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Garden City
Dodge City
Stevens
Howard Harms
Hig
Betsy Welch
Kitty
Matt Dillon
Don Threlkeld
Stevens Park
Don
JFK Tax Bill Suffers Setback
Washington AP reports the Senate Finance Committee voted 10 to 5 to drop the withholding system on dividends and interest from President Kennedy's tax revision bill. The move hurts the administration's revenue plan but leaves a 7 percent investment credit under discussion as a potential aid to modernize machinery, with Sen. Byrd opposing the credit as well.
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Washington
Senate Finance Committee
Kennedy
Harry F. Byrd
D-Va
Ayrd
Weather outlook partly cloudy through Thursday
Partly cloudy through Thursday with little change in temperatures. Humid conditions persist with scattered late afternoon and nighttime thunderstorms. Winds variable 10 to 15 mph. Lows in the upper 60s and highs in the 90s.
Stolen Paintings Worth 700000 Struck London Gallery
In Mayfair London the O Hana Art Gallery reported the theft of 35 modern art paintings valued at 700000. Thieves entered by forcing a rear door amid a wave of recent art crimes in the city. The Goya portrait remains missing from prior thefts, with other works previously recovered.
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London
O'Hana
Mayfair
England
Duke of Wellington
National Gallery
O’hana
Renoir
Funnel cloud touches down near Lecompton, Kansas
Lawrence reports 14 inches of rain in 20 minutes as a funnel cloud touched down near Lecompton blowing over a barn and damaging several trees in northwest Douglas County. The storm flooded streets and prompted weather warnings from authorities.
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Lawrence
Kan
Lecompton
Douglas County
Harold Anderson
The
Johnson Pioneer
Kenneth Barber
Pete Daniels
Johnson
Manter
Kansas-Colorado Border
Garden Sass Gas Garden Queries Telstar Abilities
Garden Sass Gas Garden questions Telstar’s capacity to subject the world to ongoing television reruns, casting doubt on the reach and impact of early satellite broadcasts.
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Gas Garden
Telstar
Damage claim denied by City Commission in Gardendale
The City Commission denied a $25,000 damage claim filed on behalf of Charles Lundblade after electrocution on the Cash and Carry Lumber Co. building site. The action, taken at City Hall, may lead to court action. Other items included water well study, drag strip runway, Lubbock home inspections, tree spraying denial, building setbacks, alley deeds, pool opening date, and liquor license approval.
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City Hall
Lloyd Haag
Charles Lundblade
Haag
Lundblade
Cash and Carry Lumber Co
E. Fulton
Finnup Park
Henkle Drilling
FFA
Portland Cement Asso
C. Wandler, Dighton
6Th and Spruce
Ray Calihan, Jr
Planning Commission
Claude L Ang Onita Kerr
Godfrey Street
Spruce
Gardendale
Chamber of Commerce
Memorial
Bereal
Frank Delgado
Walker's Tavern
Raymond Walker
Garden City Shrine Club
Fairgrounds
Leonard
Norman Heinlen
Holmes Third
8Th
Homewood Addition
Fellowship Baptist Home
6Th and Pine
Harold Long
Garland
City to install footbridges across drainage ditch
City Manager Deane Wiley announced two reinforced concrete T beams, rejected on arrival for the new junior high, will be set as footbridges at B Street crossing the ditch and the rear of Georgia Matthews Elementary School. The city will relocate beams from a railroad siding at cost.
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N. Main
Deane Wiley
City Commission Today
Wiley
B Street
Georgia Matthews
Thousands protest Regina Medicare plan in Saskatchewan capital
Tens of thousands from across Saskatchewan converge on Regina to oppose a compulsory medical care plan. Leaders promise peaceful protest as streets near the legislature are barricaded. British doctors arrive to fill strike vacancies amid government appeals for calm.
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Regina, Sask
Saskatchewan
Keep Our Doctors Committee
Woodrow Lloyd
Lloyd
Regina
Henry Baker
Legislative Building
London
Britain
United States
J. M. Laidlaw
Champaign
Ill
Telstar satellite brings world a new voice eyes and ears
Storms battered Johnson and Stanton counties in Kansas with hail up to marble size, wind damage, and power outages. Telstar, America's first communications satellite, launched from Maine, relayed TV pictures across the Atlantic and demonstrated a future global satellite network.
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Hopscotch
Kansas
Garden City
Stanton
Garden
Hall
Johnson
New York
Telstar
America
Lonely Space
Atlantic
France
England
U.S
Maine
Lyndon B. Johnson
Washington
Garden City Building Activity Near Alltime High
City building inspector R L Bethel reports 25 permits in June totaling 172 500 bringing six month total to 2 671 725 and placing 1962 on track for a second 3 million year. July already has three large permits including 45 000 for a new employment service office at 7th and Spruce and 50 000 for Dondlinger Sons Construction Co. plus 35 000 for Rex Burden residence at 921 Davis.
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Garden City
R.L. Bethel
Bethel
7Th
Spruce
Dondlinger and Sons Construction Co
Wichita
Southwestern Bell Ae
N. Tth
Fritz Sauer Construction Co
Europe Welcomes Telstar Space Telecast In Europe
In London and across Europe crowds celebrated the arrival of space age television with headlines calling it a triumph for America. The Times recalls the 1930 London reception by Douglas Walters and broadcasts from New York to a German station, noting earlier limitations. Modern breakfast-viewers enjoyed markedly improved Telstar images from the satellite’s seventeenth orbit.
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London
Europe
United States
America
Daily Herald
L’aurore
The
Times
the Times
Douglas Walters
GSCV
Walters
New York
General Electric Co
Schenectady
Germany
Telstar
Seylenth
Algiers Nervous After Leader Talks Collapse
Algiers faces instability as talks to heal the split in Algeria’s leadership collapse. Ben Bella plans a western advance from Rabat with 2000 troops toward Oran, while Ben Khedda’s side seeks a return to Algiers. A mass meeting and parade are planned to show support for Ben Bella.
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Ben Youssef Ben Khodda
Ahmed Ben Bella
National Army of Liberation
Ben Bella
Algeria
Rabat
Morocco
Ben Khedda
Peneysite
Liberation Army
Oran
Marnna
Tlemcen
Rabah Bitat
Mohammed Yazid
Paris
National Liberation Army
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W. J. Schiffelbein
Telegram
Wheatland Electric
Clint Clark
Wheatland
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States
Canada
Medlock Co
Lubbock
Texas
Ken Eisner
Eisner
Jim Sloan
Commission Today
Street Department
7Th and Chestnut
George Starkey
Syracuse
Ulysses
Sublette
Yves Montand
Jacques Marotte
Andover
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American Telephone & Telegraph Co
Newton Minow
Federal Communications Commission
Bell Telephone Laboratories
Television Exchange
Rex Burden
Davis
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