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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1968
Page
7
Stock quotes from Chicago Live Beef Futures and Dow Jones index show modest gains. Garden City and Kansas City livestock markets report steady to strong demand with calves, hogs, and cattle moving briskly. prices vary by weight and quality across regions and classes.
Police seek the driver of a car that jumped the curb in the 1300 block of West Fulton just after midnight Saturday and crashed into a house corner. The vehicle fled the scene. owner Carlos Gonzalez Rincones reported the car stolen minutes later. Damage affected the front porch of 1311 West Fulton owned by Owen Grable.
About 125 DeMolay members from Western Kansas gathered for a district conclave hosted by Garden City. Activities included bowling tennis golf rifle shooting and swimming followed by an evening banquet at the Masonic Hall where Mary Jo Patrick of Liberal was crowned area sweetheart and will advance to the state competition in Salina.
Three troopers in Division Six of the Kansas Highway Patrol will transfer this month. Trooper Pat Elliott, 28, moves from Marion to Garden City to replace Trooper Mike Cochran, 29, who goes to Hugoton. Robert D. Armstrong will transfer from Hugoton to Hays and be promoted to sergeant. Effective July 1, the moves follow Elliott and Cochran’s training at Salina.
A weekly list of local events across Memorial Station and YMCA venues. Jog and walk sessions for men and women run at Memorial Stadium and YMCA Hall. auto tech for youth, dancing, and guitar lessons held at YMCA Hall. Family bicycling meets at the high school lot. note no women’s swim today and a public antiquing demonstration at 1 20 p.m. at the YMCA Hall.
An 8-year-old Garden City boy, Wendell Maynar Wasinger, was injured Saturday night when his bicycle collided with a car at Fair and Parkwood. He was treated at St. Catherine Hospital for minor injuries and released. The car was driven by Mrs. Clifton Leon Algrim of Eminence Rt.
Topeka AP reports Kansas traffic fatalities over 48 hours to 9 am Monday. The June total stands at 7 for the 1968 period, compared with 7 in the same 1967 span. The year’s 1968 total reaches 244, versus 250 in 1967 for the comparable period.
A partial list of hospital dismissals at St. Catherine on Saturday and Sunday includes Dean C Bruso 209 N 10th Leonard Kart Liberal Robert Hernandez Jr 202 Spencer Glenn Keeton Rt 1 Angela McCord 1019 N 7th William Miller 1411 N Main Monica Munoz 1901 C Mrs Robert Scott 615 N 11th Bob Turner 612 N 10th Sandra Wartman Pierceville Victor Willson 1307 N 13th Mrs Walter Colby 1408 B At St Catherine Sunday Mrs Fidel Aguilar and baby girl 310 N 4th Mrs Samuel Moler 1001 Saf ford Mrs Clyde Moon 1907 Walker Mrs Robert Park and baby son 611 Pennsylvania Kelly Nichols Woodland Talif
Court records show Inez Trene Pippit granted a divorce from Floyd Eayl Pippitt on grounds of extreme cruelty. Also listed are traffic fines and license actions for several individuals, including speeding, improper driving, and assault charges, with penalties and costs noted.
An 11 year old boy, Bobby Heinrichs, was seriously injured when a tear gas grenade exploded in his hand at home in Ulysses. The weapon, a brown plastic covered ball the size of a baseball, had been given by a neighbor and was traced from a National Guard Armory. Police and officials identified the item with help from grenades relayed from Topeka and a Kansas Highway Patrol connection.
Spring term at Garden City Community Junior College lists fifteen students with 4.0 averages on the president's honor roll. Names include Verna G. Anderson and David Anthony Downtain among others.
The Office of the National Alfalfa Dehydrating and Milling Co. in western Kansas was broken into Sunday night. About $25 in cash was stolen from the petty cash box in the unlocked safe. The entire office was ransacked and entry was made through a side window, according to the sheriff's office.
Funeral services follow long illnesses for Adele Earle Wonsetler and Carl J McCormick. Wonsetler, 61, died at Wichita County Hospital after months of illness. services at Leoti Baptist Church with burial at Leoti Cemetery. Born February 7 1907 at Plains she married Carl J Wonsetler on December 1 1936 at Partridge. Survived by husband two daughters and a son plus siblings and grandchildren. McCormick Cope Lakin resident and WWII veteran died after a brief illness. funeral at United Presbyterian Church with Masonic and military rites in Lakin Cemetery. Survivors include widow a daughter and siblings. Funeral homes listed Davis in Lakin and Weinmann Price in Leoti. Continuous memorials and heart fund notes listed.
Pete McCormick, 58, died suddenly of a heart attack at noon Saturday in his Lakin home. Born July 29, 1909, in St. John, he moved to Lakin in 1939 and worked in insurance and real estate after a prior stint as a seismograph operator for Standard Oil. He married Ethel Klein on October 23, 1986, and later married Faye M. Sha.
Ivan Dawson aged 47 brother of Lawrence Dawson will be laid to rest at 1 30 p m Wednesday at the Howard Mortuary located at 46th and Tenneson in Denver The funeral follows his unexpected death in Arvada Colorado on Thursday
Garden City Civil Air Patrol members joined a Dodge City civil defense exercise on air search and rescue instruction. Attendees included Col. J. D. Raynsford, Maj. Otto Ballinger, Lt. Dave Schneider, Rocky Mitchell, and Cadet Sue Widows. Last week, Adult Basic Education certificates were awarded at Garden City Community Junior College to Ronald Coates, Hendrik Rijtkogel, Jan Rijtkogel, Heidi McLellan, and Margarita Ibarra, with 44 others previously listed.
Lincoln, Kansas AP report: a man bought turkey livers to use as fishing bait but cooked them for dinner after his wife found the item. The livers were fried and served that evening in the Lincoln home.
Merwin E. Mitchell has assumed duties as chief psychiatric social worker at the Area Mental Health Center. He began Sunday and will handle outpatient and emergency clinical work plus consultation and education services. A Kansas native, he earned a BA from Southwestern College in Winfield and an MS in social work from the University of Missouri. He is a member of the Academy of Certified Social Workers and came from Liberal where he led the Southwest Guidance Center.
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