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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1963
Page
1
Pro Communist gunmen overpowered a guard at the U S Military Mission headquarters in Caracas late Wednesday night. They forced 12 employees to strip, splashed a flammable liquid, and set the building on fire in a terrorist attack attributed to extremists.
Market figures show steady to mixed cattle and hog prices with hogs down. A separate report details an attack on a U.S. mission in Venezuela by FALN terrorists, who abducted and stripped guards and officers, fled with weapons and valuables, amid threats and political tension.
Irregular market action noted in New York with tobacco shares leading losses after a Florida court ruled a tobacco firm liable for a death from smoking. Sugar futures supported by a rally while the Dow dipped to 725.29 as industrials, rails, and utilities declined. Estimated 160 stocks were down amid light trading.
The annual instrument display and enrollment for the summer band program, originally set in Clifford Hope Auditorium, will be held in the new senior high gym due to a conflict. It remains scheduled for 9 a.m. Also noted are obituaries and Kansan workshop news about Denman Doty and Crist, plus tour details for the statewide agriculture business tour arriving in Garden City.
American space scientist Wilmot N. Hess reported at the Space Science Symposium that four high altitude nuclear tests, three Soviet blasts plus a U.S. detonation, increased the Van Allen radiation belt in 1962. The events, detected on Oct 22, 28 and Nov 1, temporarily raised radiation particles and expanded knowledge for future space travel. Kansas traffic death log notes two fatalities added to 1963 tallies.
Admissions list includes Genevieve Palmateer Norton Charles Maune Conkling Harold Webb Clair West Janet Rintowl 515 N 12th Gerald Grady Gardendale Loretta Green 1302 Coward Janet Rintowl 515 N 12th Gerald Brady Gardendale etc. Dismissals include Rose Biernacki Eminence Alex Samarripa 1114 N 12 Jeanette Eisenhour Scott City Mrs Joe Woolman 1510 St John Janet Rintool 514 N 12th Gerald Brady Gardendale Mrs J B Randall So Star Laurie Wedel 1303 Hattie Loretta Green 1302 Coward Bessie Briggs 1507 N 3rd Mrs Glen Patterson Kendall Yolanda James Dighton Mrs Elizabeth Rash City Mrs Gordon Lowe 607 Garden City Ave Mrs Karen Baier 2303 N 7th Leopold Scott Kenneth Marine 903 N 1st Court County allowed to abate Joe Allen Deed 1612 N 7th insufficient fund check $5 and $6.75 costs.
City traffic records list fines for speeding defective headlights and no license, plus uncollected funds checks and parking violations. Notable items include corrections on assault charges, bonds posted and forfeited, and a Wednesday morning city accident on Miller Avenue involving a Mrs. Stephens and a pickup truck.
Among 111 KU seniors graduating with Distinction at Monday night commencement were three Garden City alums and one from Leon. Vern B. Grimsley earned a BA in philosophy, Barry D. Draeger a BS in civil engineering, James D. Wolfe a BS in electrical engineering, and Carol J. Betlack a BA in bacteriology from Leoti.
Vatican City AP report notes Pope John XXIII reshaped the papacy before his 1963 death. The incoming pope faces a modern church with ecumenism advances, expanded cardinals and a Vatican opening, while Roman crowds idolize their beloved pope.
The Veterans Administration says 23 million dollars remains to pay dividends to about 210000 Korean veterans holding RS prefix term insurance policies. They must act by Sept 14, 1963 to receive the dividend, either by exchanging to a lower cost term policy or converting to a low cost permanent plan before age 50.
A 20-year-old Kansas City woman, Mrs. Arthur C. Blevins, was arrested by Garden City Police on grand larceny charges. She allegedly stole a billfold containing about 80 dollars from Mrs. Gene Crook at 907 North 8th Street after gaining entry to use the telephone, then fled by taxi. Police recovered the money, with about 60 dollars on her person and 20 dollars in the billfold. She is jailed in Finney County awaiting further investigation.
President Kennedy formally commits the United States to developing a supersonic jet to rival Britain and France on the Concorde project. Pan Am orders six planes, boosting hopes for a Mach 3 airliner, with estimates of over $1 billion cost and possible government subsidies.
At the Kansas 4-H Club Roundup the Clutter Memorial was dedicated at Rock Springs Ranch Center. Gov John Anderson Jr, honorary Kan sas 4 H Foundation Board chair, accepted the memorial built by the Clutter family and friends of Holcomb. Over 1100 delegates and staff attended as the memorial serves as registration center and shelter.
A Nebraskan who lived in Garden City during the 1920s reached his 100th birthday. Henry Kleine, born May 10, 1863 in Westphalia Germany, now lives near Daykin. He moved to Nebraska in 1922 with his wife Marie who died here. Kleine is a retired farmer with a good memory and health despite arthritis.
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