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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1966
Page
6
Kansas City wholesale market notes feeders steady with best feeder steers at 27.00 to 28.35. Good to low good feeders 24.35 to 27.00, high good and choice 24.35 to 25.28. Calves untested. Hogs higher with barrows 24.75 to 25.28 for 190 to 225 lb, others up to 25.00. Sheep light supply, lambs 28 lower, ewes steady, spring slaughter lambs 24.50 to 24.75, others 6.00 to 50 for good shorn.
The Dow Jones industrial average at noon declined 3.84 points to 897.27, with traders watching market moves amid a cautious session. The quote from Tate Gram via Goffe & Carkener provides the latest price level and intraday change.
Willard F. Green a 22 year old trusty serving six months on an assault charge escaped from the city prison farm in Wichita and was shot in the hip during a confrontation with officers. He had earlier tried to steal a car from Eli W. Nelson and struck Nelson with an iron pipe. Green fled in a stolen pickup, was cornered in a traffic jam, then fled on foot before Detective Lindy Kelly and Patrolman Jerry Skelton cornered him in a Wichita yard. Kelly fired a warning shot and both officers fired when Green refused to stop. The hip wound was sustained by Green during the exchange.
Garden City Senior High School released the third six weeks honor roll lists. A honor roll includes forty eight students such as Lynn Andrews Victor Ball Terry Bates Alberta Betsse and many others. B honor roll includes one hundred twenty seven students such as Gy roll Nita Austin Elizabeth Avila Carmin Bauer Renee Blackwell and numerous additional names.
LAWRENCE Kan AP Karen Rolf of Isabel defeated Kerry Latrmore of Hughton to win the 74th Sunflower Girls State gubernatorial race. Nationalist candidate Rolf faced Federalist Latrmore amid a week long program at the University of Kansas run by the American Legion auxiliary. Other state officers elected include Lt governor Kate Hartman secretary of state Carol Lyon attorney general Mary Pat Kennedy auditor Janie Whittier treasurer Cinda Cummings superintendent Ann Moritz insurance commissioner Sheri Robertson printer Sharon Rogers chief justice Debbie Hayes and several other justices.
The 10 year old Joe Matolla Jr. drowned in a large pit used as a trash dump near a migrant workers camp on Harold Drake farm, 13 miles southwest of Ulysses. Coroner Dr. W W Dodson ruled accidental drowning with time of death at 4 p m June 10. The body lay in 4 to 5 feet water after 4 to 5 hours in the pit. The Matolla family had moved from Brady Texas about a month ago.
Installation of new officers concluded a three day Rainbow Girls meeting at the Grand Assembly of Kansas in McPherson. Janet Werner daughter of Mrs Roland Warden was installed as Grand Charity. Jeanne Rogers of Hays was installed as Grand Worthy Adviser in a gathering attended by over 1100.
Ray Arlan Hess of Clovis New Mexico has earned a scholarship to Pacific Christian College Long Beach California. A 1966 Clovis High School graduate he was Distributive Education class president home room president and Senior Superior named Mr Dependable. He is grandson of the late Mr and Mrs Jim Minnis and nephew of Mr and Mrs Warner Minnis Rt 1 Garden City.
Mollie E. Smith 1878 1939 of Lakin died at St Catherine Hospital Garden City after five weeks as patient. She was a former teacher, married to Chas M Smith in 1902, and survived by two sons a daughter five grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Funeral at United Presbyterian Church Lakin with burial in Lakin Cemetery. O E Clark 55 died in a Denver hospital after living in Lakin since 1996. Survived by wife daughter mother three brothers and a sister. Burial at Denver Olinger Mortuary services tomorrow.
Loren Oliver Hines 50 died Tuesday in Marysville Missouri. Graceside services are set for 2 p.m. Saturday at Elkhart Kansas Cemetery with Rev. Bob Johnson officiating. He lived in Sublette 10 years after moving from Elkhart where he resided seven years and worked as a city maintenance employee. Born March 25 1916 in Albany Missouri he married Norma Garnett August 17 1945 in Hugoton. Surviving: widow a daughter Ruby a son Jimmy of Sublette a brother Charles of Rock Port and a sister Oletha Carter of Sublette plus two grandchildren. Friends may call 4 to 9 p.m. tomorrow at Phillips White Funeral Home.
A special program of song and worship unfolds tomorrow night at Garden Valley Church. The Charis Tones a woman’s trio from Grace Bible Institute Omaha Neb will perform with Shari Swank Marliss Fast and Myrna Friesen as singers Accompanist Ariene Bakewell and Dr HD Burkholder institute director will give a devotional message The public is invited for an 8 PM start.
A 100-year-old cottonwood on the Kansas State Capitol grounds, damaged but alive after a recent tornado, is expected to endure for several years. Kansas State University professors L R Quinlan and Charles Parks assessed the tree, noting its reduced height of about 90 feet and a 200 foot spread prior to the storm. The tree’s origin legend and past attempts to cut it down are recalled while officials plan remedial work.
Basutoland plans independence this year and will be known as the Kingdom of Lesotho. The enclave in eastern South Africa seeks full sovereignty and a new nation name.
AP reports limited progress in the 1966 Kansas wheat harvest as cloudy, rainy weather slows ripening and keeps combines idle. Harper County shows 85 percent cut with yields 20 to 25 bushels per acre. other towns list varying conditions and delays, with general harvest projected by late June in several areas.
TOPEKA AP The State Personnel Division announced civil service examinations will be held July 23 for park manager and patrolman positions. Park manager jobs are planned at Perry Reservoir east of Topeka and Elk City Reservoir in Montgomery County north of Independence with Perry filled by September and Elk City by early 1867. Patrolman posts are available at state universities and colleges in Lawrence, Manhattan, Wichita, Emporia, Hays, Pittsburg, KU Medical Center in Kansas City, the state office building in Topeka, and at various state parks.
At St. Catherine Qarrell Wayne Degenhart and others listed among dismissals. A birth at Raynesford Clinic reports a son to Mr. and Mrs. Joe Archuleta Jr. on June 16. County notes include suspended sentence for Govan Mills, speeding fines for several drivers, and bond forfeitures and fines for improper driving and traffic violations.
In Garden City Ford at 1102 Safford improper driving and improper mufflers led to fines of 10 dollars on the first count and 5 dollars on the second count. Marcelino Santigo Romero of Hugoton jailed after a drunkenness charge with a 25 dollar fine. Burr Cline of Enid Oklahoma jailed 10 days after fines of 25 dollars for drunkenness and 25 dollars for begging. Several Warranty Deeds recorded as Harry Maglaras to Henry Sager, Raymond F. Wright to Robert Lee Scott, Viola Mae Nelson to Marion L. Dale, and Dale E. Davis to Izetta P Baxter, detailing lots and tracts in Fairmount Addition, Finnup Acres, Jones Addition and Herd's Addition. Quit Claim Deed James Walter to J T Waller for lot 7 in Holmes Third Addition. Traffic City Accidents cited two minor-damage incidents in the 400 block N Malin and at Taylor and Jones involving drivers Michael O'Brien and Eric Oppliger Jr, with Rex Porter and Betty Sparks. County Accident noted a Tuesday 6:10 p.m. collision on a county road northwest of Garden City involving August Lebsack and Joe Baier, both vehicles heavily damaged.
A small fire broke out in an abandoned car at 202 South 1st, reported to the fire department at 11 19 p m. No damage was recorded.
NASA will study parachute assisted Mars landings this summer using balloons and sounding rockets. The mission plan calls for lofting parachute equipped capsules to 130000 feet to simulate the descent of instrumented unmanned landers on the red planet.
Er nest Smidt, 15, son of Mr and Mrs R L Smidt of near Jetmore, was killed in a one car crash on a county road 15 miles NW of Jetmore. His brother William Ray Smidt, 16, who was driving, was taken to Hodgeman County Hospital for observation.
In a Florida cabinet meeting the official drink was switched from orange juice to lime juice to promote Florida limes. Agricultural Commissioner Doyle Conner distributed plastic bags of Florida limes to cabinet members.
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