Sublette youths wins Telegram KIAL tip contest May
A Sublette youth wins the Telegram KIAL tip contest for May with a tip from a reporter about a local shooting. Ron Lindberg takes $25, second prize goes to Mrs. Jim Zahnter of Syracuse for a weekend trip tale. Other prizes include tips about a boat accident near Garden City Holcomb, a lightning strike on St James Church parsonage, and a grain warehouse mishap. Call tips to Telegram BR 6 3232 or KIAL Bridge 6 3251.
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Jim Zahnter
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Jim Creeden
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Moving Day For Monkeys At Lee Richardson Zoo
Wednesday afternoon at Lee Richardson Zoo ten long tailed monkeys moved from winter quarters to Monkey Island in a staged outdoor transfer. Guards opened cages and slid the primates through, with a water spray easing hesitant ones into the new enclosure. Once on Monkey Island they explored, splashed, and played while observers laughed at the lively scene.
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Lee Richardson Zoo
Avatar
Monkey Island
Monkey House
Goyler
Lax
Sore
Garden City notes on weather, animals, and school levy
The week began with a wish for swimming weather and a sunny forecast delivered by Ma Nature. A prairie dog escaped Lite Alcatraz at Finnup Park, now prowling near the shuffleboard courts west of monkey island. Garden City School District’s 5 mill levy for junior college operations reads $40.92 per $1,000 valuation, with county-wide LA mill levies up to 5 mills subject to June 25 vote. Registration deadline is 9 pm Friday June 14 at City Hall. A Garden National Bank sign showed a 3.57 temperature due to a burned-out light.
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Monkey Island
Garden City
Kansas
Finney
Garden Citians
Wichita Man Wins $105,000 Damage Suit
Theodore G. Haines won a 105000 verdict in federal court against the Gas Service Co. of Wichita after a collision with a Gas Service Co. truck. Haines, a minor, sued through his mother Mrs. Pauline Haines, alleging throat muscle and tendon injuries impairing speech and sensation.
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Wichita (Ap
Theodore G. Haines
Gas Service Co
Wichita
Haines
Pauline Haines
Garden Sass After Watching The Birds
Gas Garden jokes about Alfred Hitchcock's latest film The Birds and argues there are worse fates than being hen necked in a cheeky take on cinema and satire.
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Alfred Hitchecock
The
Birds
Blind Youth Asks Meets President
11 year old Joey Renzi, who is blind, will shake President Kennedy's hand after writing in braille asking for the meeting. A Secret Service agent arranged the encounter as Joey, an honor student and novice ham radio operator, plans to greet the President with questions about school and his ambition to be a scientist. Joey’s family, including his 9 and 5 year old brothers and Navy father, will accompany him in San Diego.
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Calif
Kennedy
Ava
el Paso
Tex
State College
Pacific
Washington
Long Island
Alabama
Walter Gray
Jony Renzi
Joey
Secret Service
Alfred Renzi
Finney County Commission Schedules June 25 Election
Finney County Commissioners held their regular monthly session with routine payroll and checks signed. They set June 25 for a special election to decide if Finney Countians support the 144-mill tax levy for Garden City Junior College. A soil conservation district committee met regarding the 1964 budget. three bids for gasoline and diesel fuel were accepted but no action taken. The board has been acting as the board of equalization since May 1. the session closes Friday.
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Finney County
Finney
Garden City Junior College
Soil Conservation District
Board of Equalization
Wichita Crime On Increase Says FBI In 1963 First Quarter
The FBI reported that in the first three months of 1983 Wichita and Kansas City Kansas saw crime rises while St. Louis Kansas City Missouri and Topeka showed declines. All cities saw aggravated assault increases with national major crimes up seven percent.
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FBI
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Kansas City
Topeka
Kan
Wichita
Kamasas City
Cow Belles Offer Prize for Father’s Day Births
The local Cow Belles plan a prize five pound beef roast for the first baby born on Father’s Day June 16. Eligible births must occur at St. Catherine Hospital or Raynes Ford Clinic. County chair is Mrs. Taylor Jones with state chair Mrs. Dow Keller. local president is Mrs. Jack McVicker. Governors proclaimed June 9–16 as Beef for Father’s Week and the group promotes the slogan Serve Beef on Father’s Day.
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St. Catherine Hospital
Raynesford Clinic
Taylor Jones
Finney County
Dow Keller
Pierceville
Jack McVicker
CowBelles
Kansas Livestock Assn
John Anderson Jr
Merger Hint Stirs Talks Between Santa Fe and Missouri Pacific
Chicago AP reports one of the nation’s largest railways the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe and Missouri Pacific Railroad will start a joint feasibility study on merging. Leaders Marsh and Jenks say other western lines may join. Santa Fe runs 12 4 miles in the Southwest Chicago to San Francisco and 1962 net income 70 6 million on 612 million gross. Missouri Pacific runs 11 000 miles from the Mississippi to Colorado earns 22 25 million on 40 million gross. assets 932 million including 80 percent of Texas and Pacific stock.
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Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
Missouri Pacific Railroad
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Santa Fe
Downing B. Jenks
Missouri Pacific
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Jenks
Western Railroad
Western Lines
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Rock Island
Southern Pacific
Northern Pacific
Great Northern
Burlington Railways
Prograes
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San Francisco
Ing
Mississippi River
Pueblo
Colo
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Gulf of Mexico
Texas and Pacific Railroad
All Quiet At Ole Miss
The university opened summer classes as Jaman H Meredith, the first known Negro to attend Ole Miss, planned to return for the term amid quiet enrollment of a second Negro Meredith 20 said he would arrive in Ame for classes. Cleve McDowell 21 from Drew entered the law school amid orderly registration as police and soldiers watched. Gov. Barnett said McDowell was admitted only because Mississippi could not whip the U S Army, a remark linked to Meredith's earlier attempt to block admission.
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University of Mississippi
Jaman H. Meredith
Meredith
Jackson
Ame
Cleve McDowell
Drew
Ole Miss Law School
Humid Weather Grips Kansas Statewide Heat and Storms Persist
Warm humid conditions linger across Kansas with scattered thunderstorms likely. A tornado touched down in southern Kingman County causing crop damage. hail and heavy rains were reported in Kingman Reno areas near Clay Center and Leavenworth. Wheat damage up to ten percent in Reno County. rainfall totals ranged from 0.85 to 1.25 inches in Plevna Willowdale and Virgil. Temperatures ranged from 87 to 94 degrees Fahrenheit, with lows between 57 and 73 across various towns.
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Topeka
Kansas
Weather Bureau
Kingman County
Kingman
Reno
Clay Center
Leaveworth
Tots Like Classroom Floor Experiment
A Seymour Elementary School kindergarten classroom tests wall-to-wall carpeting to compare durability and maintenance with other floor coverings. Five-year-olds enjoy the carpeted floor as teacher Tamara Cohen notes. Harvest activity runs across Great Bend area counties with early cuts in Kingman County yielding about two bushels per acre.
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Tamara Cohen
Great Bend AP
Che
Hlurper
Sulaney
Barber County
Kingman County
Garden City Library shifts opening hours this month
Garden City Public Library announces earlier daily opening at 9 a.m. and closing at 8 p.m. on most days, with 8 p.m. closure Fridays and Saturdays to suit cooler morning visits. Enrollment for a summer reading program totals 250 children across three groups, including Squeegy Bug and Dinosaur clubs, plus Faith 7 Day for teens.
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Garden City Pubdic Library
Lester Harp
Qchildren
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