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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1966
Page
5
Deerfield volunteers staged a large fire drill to practice handling a stack of 200 to 300 rubber tires soaked in oil on a hill. Chief Neil Moreland led hose operations as flames repeatedly surged, drawing onlookers and a staged water fight between two teams as part of the training exercise.
In a lighthearted column from Southweast Kansas weather notes the editor recalls terms like Rain showers and Tornado Watch. Leroy Towns, a journalism student, moved from Lansing to Manhattan and later to Topeka after floods and storms, marrying at Colby last Saturday and facing sleepless nights. Brian Hammond leaves Telegram for Air Force service. Gus Garden jokes about his wife buying a new washing machine.
Cloudy skies tonight with lows in the mid 30s. Friday looks a bit warmer with a high in the upper 40s and a cool night ahead.
A proposed regional airline would connect Hugoton with Elkhart Elkhartson Syracuse Garden City Dodge City Liberal Coldwater Ashland Meade and other towns in southwest Kansas with Hugoton as base. Two daily circuits six days weekly would operate, clockwise and counterclockwise, with a reserve plane to meet capacity. Cities would be urged to offer load guarantees and at least one paid day to support early service, targeting July 1 for launch.
Water service will be shut off for two hours in the western part of the city affecting residents along Fulton west from 7th to Taylor. The outage runs from 0 to 10 p.m. to allow a new tap at 12th and Fulton.
Earl Rettig will guest conduct Stevens Park concert with Alton Foster directing portions. Program includes The Star Spangled Banner Block M Emperor Valse Irish Tune from County Derry On the Mall My Fair Lady Canta Canta Lianerito Lullaby of Birdland National Emblem Begin the Beguine If Thou Be Near U S Field Artillery March.
In Ellsworth Kansas widow Hazel M Cadwell teaches piano and clings to a dream of a buried cattle fortune. Her husband John C Cadwell lost 70000 cattle in the 1918 blizzard and a 1965 Senate bill to reimburse his heirs remains stalled in Congress. The family keeps faith that a pending bill might finally bring relief.
A Kansas Agri culture Business Industry and Education tour visited Windsor last night with thirty nine teachers two foreign exchange students and an instructor. They toured Producers Packing Co plant and Brookover Feed Yard then viewed Windsor Hotel court with Raymond Baird recounting the building’s history. Local hosts included Garden City Area Chamber of Commerce School Affairs Committee members Mrs. Crawford Blake and Jerry Huggins. The group toured Finnup Park zoo and had a Chamber picnic before overnight at Warren Hotel and departure to Ulysses. Nobel Drake aided as escort.
The Migrant Ministry seeks 37 new or used swimming suits sized 4 to 12 for migrant children. A suit drive will support a waterfront outing tomorrow afternoon. drop boxes at Dillon's Food Market or call Mrs. Ken Anderson at BR 6-6459 to arrange pickup. Bruce Kenyon leads, assisted by Cliff Burrows and local teens.
Army Engineers award Massman Construction Co. of Kansas City Mo. a 459380 contract for channel stabilization on the Missouri River with Leavenworth Kan as central site. A second contract worth 412743 goes to Glasgow Land & Construction Co. and N R Harman of Glasgow Mo with Atchison Kan as the project center.
Inmates at the Kansas Penitentiary start a relief fund for Topeka tornado victims after a Topeka man serving life for murder proposed the idea to Protestant chaplain Rev. James Post. Warden Sherman H. Crouse approved the plan. Prisoners earn small daily sums and will authorize withdrawals for the aid effort. Estimated 100 inmates linked to Topeka or relatives there.
Atty. Gen. Robert C. Londerholm filed for the Republican nomination for a second term in Topeka. The Johnson County resident will seek the August primary and is unopposed so far. Also filing were William E. Siken Democrat Leonardville for the 55th House District and Melvin O. Temple Democrat Lyons for the 100th District.
An 11 year old Plymell boy, Bobby Allen Overton, severely burned when an incinerator exploded at a farm mishap. He is in Wesley Medical Center Wichita in the burn unit awaiting his first plastic surgery. His father, an engineer at KGLD, expressed gratitude for public concern.
Representative Robert Dole urged designation of nearly 30 Kansas counties as federal disaster areas to aid grazing amid seed and grass shortages and prolonged drought. He contacted the Kansas State Disaster Committee and the U S Department of Agriculture seeking early action under the grazing program.
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