Garden City weekend talk hints at changes and humor
A reader overhears an out of state delegate noting Main Street’s rebuilding after forty years and a new sewer project. Other tidbits report humor at the Windsor Hotel, a Humane Society dog incident with Christopher, a busy Finnup Park Sunday, and the Hutchinson school superintendent Lowell Small's death after illness and a Mayo Clinic visit.
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Garden City
Chambers of Commerce
Garden Citian
Hutchinson, Kan
Lowell Small
Hutchinson School
Small
Mayo Clinic
Rochester
Minn
Grace Hospital
Pittsburg
Sterling
Fort Scott
Kathy Archibald Wins Miss Garden City Pageant
Kathy Archibald 22, daughter of Mr and Mrs John Archibald, was crowned Miss Garden City at Hope Auditorium before about 500. The Fort Hays State College student will represent Garden City in the Miss Kansan contest at Pratt. First runner up was Carol Sterling, then Jane Michaelis. Sponsors included C R Anthonys and Patterson Jewelry with local business support from several Garden City firms.
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Rudy Water
Garden City
Kathy Archibald
Jane Michaelis
Carol Sterling
John Archibald
N. Sth
Hope Auditorium
Jaycees
Miss Archibald
Fort Hays State College
The
Merchants of Garden City
Garden
Emporia State
C. R. Anthony's
Miss Sterling
Patterson Jewelry
Miss Michaelis
Ideal Food Stores
Squire
Nu- Style
Garden National Bank
Sears
Kendick
Navrat Office Equipment
J. M. McDonald Co
Regan's Jewelry
Penny Cleaners
Fritz’ S Ben Franklin
Standard Supply
Gardiner Dairy
Southwest Carpet and Tile
Kunz Mobile Service
Safeway
Woolworth’s
Mission Orange Bottling Co
Renick Drug
Lions Club
Garden City Co-op
LaMesa Grill
Continental Inn
Kiwanis Club
Earl Brookover
Gillespie
Maynard Knief
Danno Adams
Clyde Daniel
Art Wilson
Ken Kisner
Brookover
Sun Pei Lee Earns Degree at 68 in Delaware
Sun Pei Lee, a Chinese immigrant and pioneer of China's textile industry, earned a bachelor of science in agriculture at the University of Delaware at age 68. With seven children funded through college, his family financed his five and a half years of study as Lee aims to work for an international or foreign agency. He became a U.S. citizen in 1963 after moving to the country in 1956 under the Refugee Act.
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Wilmington, del
Sun Pei Lee
China
Lee
Tude
University of Delaware
Stella
United States
Nanjung
Nanning
Shanghai
Man Recovers $125 After 18 Years In Coffeyville
In Coffeyville Kansas Noah Walborn recovered $125 from a long lost billfold. An anonymous letter enclosed the money and asked that he acknowledge receipt via a newspaper ad. No explanation of the 18 year disappearance was given.
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Coffeyville, Kan
Noah Walborn
Coffeyville
Kansas traffic death log brief spans two-day period
Topeka reports a traffic death log covering 48 hours to 9 a.m. Monday. The June 9 reading lists figures for 1963 and 194 to 238 comparisons, with June figures aligning to a comparable 1963 period.
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Topeka
Kansas
Geisler resigns Garden City Chamber post in August
Mitchell F Geisler secretary manager of the Garden City Area Chamber of Commerce announces his resignation effective in late August He has held the post since July 1 1962 and will join a Springfield Missouri financial firm Previously he was chief of police from December 1954 to July 1962 Geisler says leaving Garden City and Western Kansas brings regret but he relishes the growth ahead for the area He and his family plan to move to Springfield during the last week of August
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Mitchell F. Geisler
Garden City Area
Jescos City
Kan
Geisler
Garden City
Marshall
Springfield
Garden City School Board Meets Tonight for Budget Items
The Garden City Junior College operation faces discussion of science equipment industrial arts business speech and drama football and library needs. The board meets at 7 30 p m in the Keller Building administrative offices to discuss equipment and supplies and to select a delegate to the Kansas Association of School Boards assembly in Wichita plus a public program for the visually handicapped.
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Garden City Junior College
Keller
Kansas Association of School Boards
Wichita
Governors Say Barry Must Alter Conservative Image
Governors from New York Pennsylvania and Michigan told reporters Barry Goldwater would need to soften his conservative image to carry their states in the November election. They spoke at the National Governors Conference opening amid election questions and Eisenhower backing Scranton.
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Barry
Cleveland
Ohio
Barry Gallwater
R-Ariz
Nelson A. Rockefeller
New York
William W. Scranton
Pennsylvania
George Romney
Michigan
Scranton
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Romney
Goldwater
Republican Party
Chester
Bnt
Thruston
Morton
Repubean
Richard M. Nixon
Nixon
Eisenhower
Goldwater faces GOP moderates over civil rights plank
Republican moderates seek a strong civil rights declaration and reject Goldwater’s stance on social issues. Hatfield calls the effort futile as Romney and Morton say Goldwater lacks broad support. Nixon and Rockefeller weigh chances while governors anticipate the convention outcome and Illinois fate for Johnson.
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Goldwater
Mark O. Hatfield
Oregon
Trooper Aids Birth in Car on U S 50 West
State Trooper Henry Wessel of Emporia helped deliver a baby on the back seat of a car seven miles west of Emporia on U S 50. Mrs Carl Peacock of Strong City gave birth with assistance from Trooper Wiegel the father and a passing motorist Mrs Homer Hancock. Mother and daughter were reported well at a hospital.
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Emporia
Kan
Henry Wessel
Carl Peacock
Strong City
Here
U.S. 50
Weigel
Homer Hancock
Officer and Boy Killed in Texas High Speed Chase
In Amarillo a midnight gun battle at speeds up to 85 mph left patrolman William Meadows dead and a 14 year old boy among the wounded after a stolen pickup chase. The youths, Jimmy May and Felix Fesmire, were armed and fled from Boys Ranch, with authorities probing possible farm family robberies and a missing Cowboy.
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Amarillo
Tex
Jim Keith
Willam Meadows
Meadows
Jimmy May
Felix Fesmire
Keith
Boys Ranch
Cool Front Aims at State
Hot windy weather marked Kansas with a cooling trend expected by Tuesday as a cold front may trigger showers in northern counties while moisture shifts into Nebraska. Highs ranged from the 80s in eastern Kansas to 90s elsewhere with cooler western lows. Rain totals in Falnsgust showed Olathe 1.18 inches and Topeka 0.60, while Sunday highs reached 102 at Liberal and 1 degree at multiple locations.
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Topeka
Kansas
Nebraska
Weather Bureau
Police Offer Watch Service for Vacations
Garden City Police Department offers periodic home checks for vacationing residents. Police Chief Hal Kane urges callers to provide dates of absence so officers monitor properties to deter vandalism and theft. Arrange mail with neighbors, pause daily deliveries, and report return to have the watch removed.
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Garden City
Kane
Catholic Rally in Saigon Sparks New Turmoil
Thousands of Vietnamese Catholics demonstrated for three hours in central Saigon denouncing U S ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge and Buddhism as a communist ally. Protesters, some from refugee camps, massed before Kennedy Square and the cathedral, amid accusations Lodge backed Buddhist campaigns and helped topple Diem regime.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
U.S
Henry Cabot Lodge
United States
snti-Lodge
Nga Dinh Diem
Diem
Hue
Dang Sy
Sen
U.S. Information Agency
Viet Nam
John F. Kennedy
Kennedy
Cabot Lodge
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Dick Patterson
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