Memorial Day traffic toll hits new high for second year
The National Safety Council reports 446 highway fatalities from Friday 6 p.m. to Monday midnight, surpassing the previous 421 record. Multiple deadly crashes in California and San Jose area, plus 35 boating deaths, mark the three day holiday.
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Associated Press
National Safety Council
Howard Pyle
Council
Pyle
Needles
Lone Pine
San Jose
Calif
High Sierra Fothills
Rubber stamp sample offers 25 000 impressions
In this morning's mail arrives a two color rubber stamp sample with its own ink supply promising 25 000 perfect impressions and no ink pad needed. Nearby, Drop sie College alumni held a reunion with full attendance and adjourned by unanimous vote. Municipal band director Bob Anderson previewed the first concert of the new season and invited attendance to admire park beautification. A new quick drying swimming suit for men boasts instant drying and no dripping when entering water.
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Bob Anderson
Stevens Park
Paper Delivery Deadline Upped in Garden City News
Telegram subscribers in Garden City are told of a new delivery deadline during summer. Papers must be delivered by 5 p.m. or call the Telegram. June to August complaints accepted 5–6 p.m. Carriers aim for 5 p.m. delivery. summer office closes 6 p.m. Saturdays routes end by 4 p.m. and complaints taken 4–6 p.m.
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Telegram
Garden City
Dennis Smith
Four 7th Fleet destroyers head for Gemini recovery stations
In Yokosuka Japan four 7th Fleet destroyers set course for mind Pacific Gemini 4 recovery zones as the spacecraft with astronauts James A. McDivitt and Edward H. White II heads toward a planned Atlantic splashdown.
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Yokosuka
Japan
7Th Fleet
James A. McDivitt
Edward H. White II
Atlantic
Ghastly five hour rail ride ends in injury
Joseph Martin a 37 year old construction worker described a ghastly five hour rail journey from Erie to Lackawanna after his foot was caught in a freight car coupling. He suffered a crushed right foot and was listed in fair condition at a hospital. He freed his foot only after the train moved and he clung to a car ladder for the final leg of the 100 mile trip.
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Joseph Martin
Erie
Lackawanna
Martin
Japanese Miners Trapped After Kyushu Mine Blast
A gas explosion at Yamano coal mine on Kyushu trapped more than 200 workers. Police counted 2 dead, 21 injured, 180 unhurt, with 24 bodies recovered and 552 miners total in the pit at the time. The blast occurred about 2,000 feet from the entrance, 500 miles southwest of Tokyo.
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Tokyo
Yamano
Japan
Kyushu
Beginning Band Meeting Tonight at Hope Auditorium
Public school band director Robert Anderson issues a 7 p.m. reminder for beginning band students and parents. Attendees will see instrument displays, schedules for the summer band program announced, with the program starting next Monday at Cuttard Hope Auditorium.
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Public
Robert Anderson
Cuttard
Hope Auditorium
Rain figures hide storms and soil loss in May moisture
May rainfall exceeds averages in Garden City with 6.20 inches pushing the year to 7.76 total, but heavy hail and winds damaged wheat and washed topsoil. The May 7 storm brought 2.70 inches, with two more inches from May 24 to 27 and other showers. Local measurements show varied totals, including Mrs. Bob Goodman’s 6.95 inches and 3.10 inches from the May 7 storm.
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Garden City
Garden City Experiment Station
Norman Nossaman
Bob Goodman
Telegram Ave
Johnson to press on with policies despite criticism
President Johnson told graduates at the National Cathedral School for Girls that he will debate ideas but proceed on what he believes is right. He cited broad support yet acknowledged campus demonstrations while stressing unswerving commitment to his course.
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Washington
Johnson
National Cathedral School For Girls
Luci
Lynda
Henry Clay
Astronauts Prepare for Four Day Gemini Flight
Astronauts James McDivitt and Edward White undergo medical exams ahead of a four day space mission. They will test maneuvering near a drifting booster and conduct weightlessness studies, with a 97 hour flight to collect cardiovascular data for Dr. Berry. Reservations for a Telegram World Fair tour were also noted.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
James McDivitt
Edward White
McDivitt
White
Christopher C. Kraft
Project Gemini
Space Agency
Berry
Air Force
Wasp
Garden City Pool Closed For Repairs After Sealant Bleed
Garden City's municipal pool was shut today to repair a crack and address water discoloration from a sealing compound. City Manager Deane Wiley expects a 1 p.m. Thursday reopening after the pool had opened for the season this past Sunday.
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Garden City
Deane Wiley
Garden Sass Gas Garden Keeps Sleeves Rolled Up
Garden Sass Gas Garden is described as someone who seldom loses his shirt when he keeps his sleeves rolled up, highlighting a practical approach and a ready, hands-on attitude. The remark suggests a steady, unflinching character.
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Gas Garden
Torrential Rain Swamps Wide Areas in Kansas
Central and eastern Kansas soaked by torrential rain Monday night, with unofficial gauges near Beaver reporting 7.90 inches. Official totals included 5.65 at Claflin and 5.00 at Yates Center. flash floods were seen along Cow Creek and the Smoky Hill River. Flooding not expected to be severe. lingering unsettled weather through today and tonight with more showers and storms possible.
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Topeka
Barton County
Kansas
Beaver
Kun
Claflin
Yates Center
Cow Creek
Lyons
Smoky Mill River
Lindsborg
Mentor
Fort Scott
Weather Bureau
Kasay
Moon Shadow Flight Probes Solar Eclipse Observers
NASA scientists aboard a modified jet observed a total solar eclipse over the Pacific, studying corona brightness magnetism and spectrographic data during 9 minutes 42 seconds of totality. The eclipse path crossed water from New Zealand to Peru with observers from Belgium Netherlands Italy and Switzerland.
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Hilo
Hawaii
Pacific
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Michel Bader
NASA
Ames Research Center
David Perlman
San Francisco
Cle
Airborne Observatory
New Zealand
Peru
Dr. Bader
Perlman
Belgium
Netherlands
Italy
Switzerland
Supreme Court to Rule on Georgia Indictments in Penn Slaying
The Supreme Court agreed to review dismissals of federal indictments against six Georgia men charged in the shotgun slaying of Lemuel A. Penn, a District of Columbia educator and Army Reserve officer. U S District Judge W A Bootle had dismissed for lack of federal law violation. Penn was shot July 11 1964 near Athens after a return from Ft Benning.
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Supreme Court
Georgia
Lemuel A. Penn
District of Columbia
U.S. Dist
W. A. Bootle
Macon
Justice Department
Department
Penn
Athens
Army Reserve
Ft. Benning
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