Eisenhower recalls Bay of Pigs sequel tractor ransom tale
In The Wine Is Bitter Dr Milton Eisenhower recounts a seized prisoners episode after the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion. He details Kennedy calls, a private committee to raise funds for tractors, and mixed congressional and public reactions highlighting administration silence and tense Latin American policy.
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New York
Cap
Kennedy
Milton Vs
Eisenhower
Save
Terra
U.S
Latin Amerinan
White House
Orp
Latin America
Dr. Eisenhower
Castro
United States
Congress
Dean Rusk
Market Report from Kansas City Livestock Yard
AP reports Kansas City cattle and hog markets with steers good to high choice 23.00 to 25.00, cows 12.25 to 14.50, hogs 2,500 head active and mostly steady to 25 higher, barrows and gilts 1.30 to 1.79 per pound, sows 15.75 to 16.50, lambs 18.50 to 21.00, ewes 4.00 to 5.50. Wheat and other feeds show slight movements with listed prices.
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Kansas City Livestock
Kansas City
Irregular rise as SEC report looms on Wall Street
New York stock market edged higher in light trading amid SEC staff draft changes under study. Investors cautious as full commission approval pending. Motors oils steels rails and building materials rise while broader issues mixed. Dow Jones at noon 700.92, AP average up 3 at 268.4 with gains in industrials and rails.
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New York
Wall Street
Securities and Exchange Commission
SEC
Wall
Dow Jones
Associated Press
Industri
Funeral service for Mrs Anna Margie Whitman 76
Funeral for Mrs Anna Margie Whitman 76 of 1602 N 8th will be Friday at 9 30 in St Marys Catholic Church with Rev Clement Goubeaux officiating Rosary is tonight at 8 in Phillips White Funeral Home Burial in Valley View Cemetery Mrs Whitman died Tuesday at Catherine Hospital
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Anna Margie Whitman
St. Mary’s Catholic Church
Clement Goubeaux
Rosary
Phillips-White Funeral
Valley View Cemetery
Whitman
Catherine Hospital
Scientists Prep For Big Show
Washington AP scientists prepare for a total solar eclipse drawing a huge audience and rockets for experiments. Observers expect a 60 mile wide total path across Alaska Canada and Maine with safe naked eye viewing limited to those areas. Health officials urge nonexperts to view via TV cardboard eyepiece or reflector.
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Washington
Natalie
Alaska
Canada
Maine
North America
Navy
Cmdr
Malcolm
Carpenter
Earth
University of Maine
Two Are Killed Near Kingman
A head on collision three miles west of Kingman Kansas killed two people and injured two. Craggett 42 of Wichita driver of the truck and Lloyd Whitmer 68 of Zenta driver of the car died. Marie Whitmer 63 was in critical condition and Walter Brinkley 69 passenger was in fair condition at Kingman Memorial hospital. A pickup driven by Leo Hageman 57 of Spivey had pulled over to aid a motorist when Whitmer came over a hill and skidded into the westbound lane.
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Kingman
Kan
Cleland Fb, Craggett
Wichita
Lloyd Whitmer
Zenta
Marie Whitmer
Kingman Memorial Hospital
Walter Brinkley
Highway Patrol
Leo Hageman
Spivey
Whitmer
Moonshine Seized Near Paola by Sheriff
Sheriff Martin Prothe of Miami County reports a seizure of 25 gallons of moonshine about 14 miles northwest of Paola. A woman arrested at the farmhouse will face charges for the untaxed liquor sale. The operation began after Johnson County officers stopped a Kansas City area car and found a gallon half full of an alcoholic liquid. The occupants claimed it was “blue smoke” from Miami County.
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Paola
Kan
Martin Prothe
Miami County
Johnson County
Kansas City
Truck Found In Washington
A 1963 pickup taken from Garden City man Elmer York was recovered in Spokane. York had lent the truck to employee William Dawson who was arrested in Sublette on an open battle charge. No local charges will be filed. Dawson, 44, is an Oklahoma native.
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Garden City
Spokane
Wash
Richard Rohleder
Elmer York
N. Main
York
William Dawson
Dawson
Stone Hotel
Sublette
Rohleder
Drunken frenzy ends in bystander death at Ozarks resort
At Breezewood resort on Lake of the Ozarks Colorado youth Robert Matthews, 21, attempted suicide with a .22 rifle after a confrontation with his aunt Mrs. Raymond Hall. A bystander, Orin Robinette, 35, was killed and his wife, Mrs. Robinette, 28, critically wounded. Matthews surrendered after a 2.5 hour manhunt and potential charges will be filed. Mrs. Robinette underwent emergency surgery and was listed in fair condition.
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Osage Beach
Raymond Hall
Robert Paul Matthews
Matthews
Grand Junction
Colo
Colorado
Osborn
Missouri
St. Mary's Hospital
Tefferson City
Robinette
Man escapes with cut after home built plane crash
Harold A. Lewis escaped with a cut over his left eye when his self built midget airplane shut down after takeoff from Fairfax Airport. The engine failed moments after liftoff and the craft crashed onto a nearby bluff in Kansas City Kansas.
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Kansas City
Kan
Harold A. Lewis
Fairfax
Garden City 1905 brochure hype boosts growth and irrigation
J Q Carter presents a 1905 Garden City Industrial Club pamphlet praising Gar den City Finney County with promises of beets sugar factory irrigation and forest reserve plans. The piece notes the factory later operated half a century and the town’s moral climate remains strong with empty jail and poorhouse reports.
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J. Q. Carter
Garden City
Finney County
National Forest Reserve
Buffalo Preserve
Nebraska
Cornhusker
National Forest
Local hospital notices list admissions dismissals births
In Garden City J of Eigrish and Young's Addition, several admissions and dismissals are recorded at St. Catherine Hospital along with two birth announcements. Names include Joe V. Collins, Delbert Miller, Eva Savolt, R. E. Calvert, Valentino Hernandez, Alex Geier Jr, and Charles Lee Bird. A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Mike Garcia and another to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lee Bird. Legal deeds and court items follow with quitclaims and warranty deeds among local property transactions. Public safety notes list traffic incidents, bonds posted, fines, and court actions, including speeding, stop-sign violations, and drunk driving statutes.
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Eigrish and Young
Joe V. Collins
Joseph
St. Catherine
Collins
Et Ax
Ted Bird
Frederick 40
Holmes
Delbert Miller
Ulysses
Alva Hubbard
Kansas
Eva Savolt
Scott City
R. E. Calvert
Valentino Hernantez
Deerfield
Alex Geier, Jr
Charles Lee Bird
Lakin
Catherine Sheryl Taylor
Katherine Krenzel
Scott
Jerry Matthews
Alvis Nichols
Ridgewood
Orthal Robson
Joe Thompson
N. AN
Raymond Plotner
Mike Garcia
Hattie
Courts County
Ambrose J. Wessel
Oakley
Jerry L. Reese
Sublette
Lupe Jennings
Aloysius Taylor
Kansas City Co
Ricky T. Burgess
Dumas
Tex
Norman Frederick Love
Hutchinson
Donald Chilton
N. 4Th
Henry Espinoza
Jenny
Army Creates Aviation Group’s Historic Entry
Today in history notes a key year 1914 when the aviation section formed in the U S Army Signal Corps highlighting milestones like John Paul Jones death and Jersey Joe Walcott’s title win. The item lists notable events from 1778 to 1955 and a 10 year recall of McCarthy investigations.
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Associated Press
Vincennes
Ind
England
United States
John Paul Jones
Paris
Cunard Line
Boston
U.S. Army Signal Corps
Jersey
Joe Walcott
Ezzard Charles
Lewis Straus
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
Joseph Mccarthy
Senate Investigations Subcommittee
Red China
Vacation Ends In Tragedy Near Ellinwood Kansas
A family vacation ended in a fatal crash when a power line crew truck failed to stop at a sign and struck a car carrying Eugene F. Moos 38, his two sons Sammy Allen Moos 14 and Gary Eugene Moos 12, and David Refiner 15. All four died at the scene. co worker Earl Barkley 41 died later at Lyons District Hospital. The truck driver Larry White 21 said brakes failed. Barkley and White were with Wilson Electric Co. of Chase, Kan., en route home from a line stringing job 214 miles away.
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Ellinwood
Kan
U.S. 56
William Boehme
Kansas Highway Patrol
Luarry White
Eugene F. Moos
Ellinwood Postal
Sammy Allen Moos
Gary Eugene Moos
David Refiner
Lyons
Earl Barkley
White
Lyons District Hospital
David Reffner
Sammy
David
Barkley
Wilson Electric Co
Chase, Kane
Fort Hays honors roll highlights local students
Fort Hays State College lists numerous area students on the spring dean’s honor roll. Names span Garden City to Scott City, with grades from A minus 2.50 to 2.99 to B 2.00 to 2.49 and one straight A. Students include Barbara Maglaras and Sarah Smith from Garden City, Marcia Birney from Satanta, and Elmer Birney from Satanta among others.
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Fort Hays State College
Garden City
Barbara Maglaras
Sarah
Smith
Charles R. Williams
Bill D. Earnest
Holcomb
Donna I. Byler
Kalyesta
Mada N. Cronin
Pierceville
Ulysses
Linda J. Buckner
Ross A. Lock
Susan K. Reeves
Cimarron
Robert L. Timken
Carol E. Walker
Nancy E. Goddard
Ingalls
Roger K. Loewen
Evelyn M. Hoffman
Delbert W. Martin
Virginia G. Woods
Tribune
Syracuse
Galen E. Glenn
Marcia F. Birney
Satanta
Elmer C. Birney
Merle L. Canfield
Virgina D. Bish
Laurence M. Decker
Richard E. Hoffman
C. Easton Beymer
Lakin
Experiment Station Bell Ringers Named in Kansas Breeders
Two dairy herd animals from Garden City Experiment Station have been chosen as State Bell Ringers by the Kansas Brown Swiss Cattle Breeders Association. They are eligible for district and national contests with judging by a special committee. The station presented May's Sultan Kracker 424120 as reserve bell ringer senior yearling and Dora's Larry Hazel 374597 as reserve four year old cow. The Erie Canal was opened in 1825.
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Garden City
Kansas Brown Swiss Cattle Breeders
Assa
Brown Swiss Cattle Breeders’ Assn
Beloit
Wis
May
Sultan Kracker
Dora
Larry Hazel
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