Garden City scenes mix humor and progress in town
Out-of-state visitors to a Women's Divisions in Chambers of Commerce convention praised Garden City for honest residents while noting Main Street remains torn up for sewer and street work. A Windsor Hotel mystery show drew tourist interest and a dog incident caused minor damage to Eleanor Barker's car. Sunday heat drew crowds to Finnup Park with 1,700 swimmers. Hutchinson schools superintendent Lowell Small, 58, died after returning from Mayo Clinic treatment.
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Garden City
Chambers of Commerce
Garden Citian
Hutchinson, Kan
Lowell Small
Hutchinson Schools
Small
Mayo Clinic
Rochester
Minn
Grace Hospital
Pittsburg
Sterling
Fort Scott
Britain
Michael K. Newton
Kansas City
Midwest
Kathy Archibald Selected To Represent Garden City
Kathy Archibald age 22 daughter of Mr and Mrs John Archibald won Miss Garden City from eight contestants in a Hope Auditorium pageant before about 500. She will represent Garden City in Miss Kansas in Pratt and Miss America preliminaries. First runner up Carol Sterling and second runner up Jane Michaelis also noted with their talents and schools. Sponsors ranged from C R Anthonys to local businesses and a large merchant scholarship fund supported the winner.
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Rudy Valenzuela
Garden City
Kathy Archibald
Jane Michaelis
Carol Sterling
John Archibald
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’ Ben Franklin
Standard Supply
Gardiner Dairy
Southwest Carpet and Tile
Kunz Mobile Service
Safeway
Woolworth’s
Mission
Maynard Knief
CPA
Leslie Cheatum
Sherian Peters
Carol Yearout
South Haven
Ellen Bjurstrom
Lcoti
Linda Garner
Kendall
Sun Pei Lee Earns Degree at Age 68 in Delaware
Sun Pei Lee, a Chinese native and textile pioneer who trained over 3,000 technologists, became the University of Delaware's oldest graduate with a bachelor of science in agriculture. He and his wife and youngest daughter watched him receive the degree after five and a half years of study. He intends to pursue work with an international or foreign agency.
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Wilmington, del
Sun Pei Lee
China
Lee
Tude
University of Delaware
Stella
United States
Nantung
Nanning
Shanghai
Man Recovers $125 After 18 Year Delay
In Coffeyville Kansas Noah Walborn recovered $125 from a lost billfold found 18 years earlier. An anonymous letter enclosed the money and asked him to acknowledge receipt with an advertisement in the paper. No explanation was given for the funds’ long absence.
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Coffeyville, Kan
Noah Walborn
Coffeyville
Kansas Traffic Log Seeks Death Toll Update
Topeka AP reports Kansas traffic death log covering 48 hours to 9 am Monday in June 1964. Comparisons show 238 deaths this year versus 217 in the comparable 1963 period.
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Topeka
Kansas
Geisler resigns Garden City Chamber post for Springfield firm
Mitchell F Geisler secretary manager of the Garden City Area Chamber of Commerce announces resignation effective in late August. He has held the post since July 1 1962 and will join a Springfield Missouri financial firm. Formerly chief of police December 1954 he came to Garden City from Marshall Missouri and plans to move with his family in late August.
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Mitchell F. Geisler
Garden City Area
Garden City
Kansas
Geisler
Marshall, Mo
Springfield
Dodge City
Wdccs
St. Joseph, Mo
Midwest
Lincoln
Neb
Topeka
Marshall Finney
School Board Sets Tonight Meeting on Equipment and Programs
Garden City Junior College operations dominate the agenda as the School Board meets at 7 30 p m in the Keller Building offices. Discussion will cover science gear industrial arts business speech drama football and library items plus a delegate to the Kansas Association of School Boards assembly in Wichita and a visually handicapped program for the public system.
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Garden City Junior College
Keller
Kansas Association of School Boards
Wichita
Governors Say Barry Must Alter Conservative Image
GOP governors warn if Barry Goldwater becomes the presidential nominee he must soften his conservative image or risk losing key states in the November election. Rockefeller Scranton and Romney spoke at the Governors Conference amid debate over civil rights and party unity.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Barry Goldwater
R-Ariz
Nelson A. Rockefeller
New York
William W. Scranton
Pennsylvania
George Romney
Michigan
Scranton
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Goldwater
Mark O. Hatfield
Oregon
Romney
Republican Party
Chester
Thruston B. Morton
Rky
Richard M. Nixon
Nixon
Eisenhower
Rockefeller
Robert E. Smylie
Idaho
Otto Kerner
Johnson
Illinois
Patrolman Helps Deliver First Baby
Emporia Kansas AP Patrolman Henry Wessel assisted in delivering a baby on a car seat seven miles west of Emporia while en route to a hospital. The mother Mrs Carl Peacock of Strong City and the baby were reported doing well after the birth.
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Emporia
Kan
Henry Wessel
Carl Peacock
Strong City
Here
U.S. C
Wessel
Homer Hancock
Officer and Youth Die in Texas High Speed Chase
A midnight gun battle at speeds up to 85 mph left Patrolman William Meadows, 23, dead from a shot to the head as a stolen pickup carrying two 15 year olds fled. A 15-year-old boy was wounded. another 14-year-old rider died from multiple wounds after the chase ended in a ditch near Amarillo. The youths had left Boys Ranch welfare home and may have robbed a farm family. Police pursue from city streets to highway.
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Amarillo
Tex
Jim Keith
William Meadows
Meadows
Jimmy May
Felix Fesmire
Keith
Boys Ranch
Clyde Kohler
Kohler
Lit Ranch
Cool Front Forecasts Cooler Temps For Kansas
Topeka weather outline shows hot windy conditions today with a new cool front expected Tuesday bringing slightly lower temperatures and possible showers in northern counties. Moisture shifts into Nebraska as highs reach lower 80s to 90s across eastern and western areas. Sunday rainfall totals exceeded an inch in Olathe Lawrence Stillwell La Cygne Lecompton and Topeka with highs 81 to 102 statewide and early lows from 55 to 70.
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Topeka
Kansas
Nebraska
Weather Bureau
Olathe
Lawrence
Stillwell
la Cygne
Lecompton
Police Offer Watch Service For Vacationing Residents
Garden City residents going on vacation can have police officers periodically check their homes. Police Chief Hal Kane urges callers to provide travel dates, arrange mail and deliveries to stop, and have neighbors pick up mail. Notify upon return so the watch is lifted.
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Garden City
Hal Kane
Kane
Catholic Protest In Saigon Sparks New Turmoil
Thousands of Vietnamese Roman Catholics protested in downtown Saigon on Sunday for three hours, denouncing U S Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge and Buddhism as a partner of communism. Demonstrators accused Lodge of backing Buddhist campaigns against Ngo Dinh Diem’s regime, amid a tense post coup climate and a Kennedy Square protest over a Kennedy statue memorial.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
U.S
Henry Cabot Lodge
United States
Ngo Dinh Diem
Diem
Hue
John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy Square
Kennedy
Lodge
Cabot Lodge
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Eleanor Barker
Humane Society
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Finnup Park
Mary Owens
Hutchinson
Joe Tennessen
KIAL
Eddie Reed
Jackie Curtis
Dick Patterson
Chamber
Barry
WDCC
Harold J. Mandl
Menninger Foundation
Pennsylvania Military College
Congress
Finney
Texas
Gus Garden
Goodland
Hill City On
Russell
Salina Oo Veka
Cool Front
and Wamega
Liberal
Salina
Viet Nam
Dang Sy
Tenced
U.S. Information Agency
North
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