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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1963
Page
1
Local produce markets show eggs and grain movements with a mix of steady and up prices. Fat cattle receipts reach 724 with steers selling up to 23.30 and cows and calves steady to higher, while Kansas City reports mixed gains across cattle hogs and sheep with prime lambs bringing 2.00 to 22.00 and sows up to 14.50.
New YorkAP Motors and tobaccos led a uneven rise in active trading as the market opened mixed then advanced. The AP average for 60 stocks rose 5 to 273.0 with industrials up 0.5, rails up 0.8, and utilities down 0.1. the Dow Jones average gained 0.85 to 724.21 as gains appeared in steels, building materials, rails, farm equipment, airlines, nonferrous metals, and office gear while chemicals lagged.
Finney County Agricultural Agent Kenneth Fromm will attend a three week summer extension school at Colorado State University Fort Collins starting Monday. He will return to duties at the Finney County Courthouse in July and has received the Horace Moses Foundation scholarship for youth program development and basic evaluation in extension teaching. The Moses Scholarship supports adults already active in 4 H Club work. Fromm's family accompanies him to Colorado for the trip.
An armed bandit robs Mr. D's Eastgate Supermarket in Wichita on Wednesday night and escapes with more than 2000 dollars. It follows another local robbery, Mam Mel's Food Market, which yielded about 5000 dollars Tuesday night.
Admissions list includes St Catherine cases Steven Branstetter Walters Kila and others. Missalls and births noted at St Catherine with multiple names and addresses. Legal items include Warranty Deeds and a Marriage License. Court and police notices show abatement and bonds in Garden City area. Residents and addresses feature Deerfield Pittsburg Jetmore and 2016 N 6th among others.
In Garden City Theodore Martin Jr. of Burnside Drive was fined $10 for speeding. James Arthur Skaggs of 104 S Main was fined $100 and committed for driving while intoxicated. Bonds forfeited were those of John Henry Marlow and John Joe Garcia. City accidents occurred Wednesday at 6:31 p.m. at Kansas and 11th, with cars driven by Mrs Jerry C. Chmelka and Timothy Virgil Knoll. Another incident Wednesday at 8:45 p.m. on 1400 block E Fulton involved Vicki Lynn Schroeder and Jerry Lee Morris, with Mrs Schroeder noted as minor and Morris as no damage.
Nightly integration protests in Cambridge sparked three fires with two allegedly set deliberately. A burning oil pot shattered a grocery window in the Negro district, a shed behind Helen Waters home burned, and a kerosene mop ignited a bakery window in the white section. Waters and Cornish, local Black officials, faced threats and vandalism after votes on school integration.
STUNTSVILLG Ala AP a third Negro enrolls today in the University of Alabama system under protection of state police after Gov George C Wallace decided against a second doorway stand for segregation. Dave Mack McGlathery and two others had registered amid National Guardsmen and federal officials during a tense stand over integration.
Escalante Utah AP Mar vin E Porschatis 29 Salt Lake City the 13th victim of a truck crash that killed five other adults and seven Boy Scouts Forty six were on the stake truck when it rolled backward down a grade and tipped into a ravine near Hole in the Rock Porschatis suffered a skull fracture and never regained consciousness
SAM DAWSON reports unions push for extended leave as a tool against unemployment. The United Steelworkers eye sabbaticals mirroring Can and Continental Can contracts that offered 19 weeks paid every five years after 15 years of service, with costs cited by management as a main hurdle. If steel adopts the plan other unions may push similar deals, amid fringe benefits and automation fears.
Thomas D. Burch, 62, retired farmer, died at Scott County Hospital after a long illness. He homesteaded near Selkirk in 1904 and married Pearl Williams in 1916. Survivors include a son, a daughter, three brothers, three sisters, and five grandchildren. Funeral Friday at 2:30 p.m. in Leoti Methodist Church with burial at Scon Cemetery. Earl Lamar Evans, 33, former area resident, died in Torrance California after a long illness. Born in Garden City, he and his wife Hazel had a daughter and siblings. funeral arrangements are pending. South Dakota noted as the Coyote State.
President Kennedy said he will give Congress another chance to approve a 450 million distressed areas appropriation. The House rejected the bill 209 to 204, leaving ARA to halt new loans unless a new measure passes, with seven states most affected including Pennsylvania and Michigan.
Mayors across the nation backed President Kennedy's call for racial harmony by approving a five point civil rights program plus a sixth point urging shared responsibility. The package includes biracial committees, nondiscriminatory hiring, legal conformity, housing and public access equality, and efforts to curb school dropouts. Mayor Jerome Cavanagh of Detroit led the civil rights measure, praised as the biggest action possible.
In Kansas City AP dispatch, Walter Reuther president of the United Auto Workers urges the labor movement to stop attacks on James Hoffa president of the Teamsters Union. He says he will refrain from discussing Hoffa and spoke at the Communications Workers of America convention Wednesday night.
New York critics offer varied takes on Cleopatra, a $40 million epic. premiere at Rivoli drew celebrities Rex Harrison Roddy McDowall Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, with 5000 spectators outside. opinions ranged from glowing to critical about acting, humor, and dialogue.
Ervin H. Schmidt former Arden City Schools elementary education director 1949 1958 earned a Ph D in curriculum development from the University of Kansas Monday night His doctoral major was education reporting He now serves on the education and psychology staff at Kansas State College of Pittsburg
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