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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1960
Page
1
A First Methodist Church project near Main and Kansas advanced as volunteers cleared a concrete site for a new Fellowship Hall. Pastor Rev. Leonard Cowan urged helpers to haul dirt away, but shovels barely made a dent in the hard ground.
The Senate voted to extend the 10 percent federal tax on local telephone and telegraph service for another year preserving 462 million dollars in revenue. It rejected the Finance Committee’s call to let the taxes die and to cut travel taxes on trains buses and planes on July 1.
Neill E. West 60 owner of the Pioneer Hotel in Dodge City was crushed beneath his car two miles east of Copeland on US 56 Saturday night after his vehicle missed a bridge. West, a World War I veteran born December 25, 1899, in Anderson County, lived in Dodge City since 1933 and was survived by a brother Hugh.
Tokyo AP reports Premier Kishi faces a renewed bid from Liberal Democrat factions and leftist opponents to delay the exchange of documents sealing Japan's security pact with the United States. Socialist boycott of Parliament continues amid strikes and demonstrations led by Sohyo and Zengekuren. Four party leaders urge Kishi to resign. middle-road factions may withhold support, complicating ratification despite midnight automatic passage.
Eastern Air Lines pilots began returning to duty in several cities as a 10 day stoppage waned while New York and Miami services remained crippled. Pan Am crews called in sick, with 115 pilots out, amid protest over an FAA rule adding an inspector behind the captain. National Airlines faced a looming strike Tuesday after wage and conditions disputes, with talks expected in Miami and a possible settlement before a strike deadline.
Garden City volunteers rushed to a wheat field on Ernest Stopvel farm four miles north of the VFW building on highway 50 after a truck backfire is believed to have ignited two to three acres. The fire was reported around 2 p m Saturday and quickly extinguished while harvesting continued. no damage to the truck or other equipment was noted.
Tonight scattered thunderstorms with southerly winds 15 to 20 mph and overnight lows in the mid 50s. Tuesday fair with possible drizzle at night, highs near 79 and light southerly winds veering northward and cooling. Sunrise 5 22 Sunset 8 08 Dodge City 65 Goodland 92 Garden City 86 Topeka 68 Wichita 61.
Garden Sass Gas Garden lent his gasoline credit card to his son and now fears the consequences of receiving the monthly statement.
Wheat harvest in Southwest Kansas accelerates as warm, clear weather aids cutting. Sublette and Ulysses elevators report early yields above 27 bushels per acre Grant County average, with estimates around 30 bushels and some fields up to 45. Test weights near 60 pounds per bushel, moisture under 13 percent, labor steady and equipment adequate for upcoming peak.
Three new candidates emerged for county offices with an August primary filing deadline. All three face no primary opposition. Republicans Lorraine Pearce McCarty seeks register of deeds, Harold Swartley aims for sheriff, and Democrat Dr. J. D. Raynesford runs for county coroner.
Sweden’s Ingemar Johansson weighs 194 pounds to Floyd Patterson’s 190 for their 15 round title bout at the Polo Grounds tonight. Patterson carries his heaviest weight of 187+ pounds, aiming to gain power. Johansson weighs 194 as the champion defends his crown.
In London AP reports Tony Armstrong-Jones recovered from police and returned to Madame Tussauds with his wax likeness damaged. The Princess Margaret husband figure was stolen Friday night and found in a telephone booth at 2:00 a.m. The dummy showed green placard reading Welcome Home and delays public appearances until midweek.
Prison officials report no change in Perry Edward Smith s condition as he nears four weeks of hunger strike. Doctors stopped IV feeding and began force feeding via nasal tube while Smith and Richard Hickock remain on death row for the Holcomb Clutter family slaying.
Orville Nichols 59 of Topeka died from a skull fracture after being struck by a falling tree limb while fishing at Lake Wa baunsee. He was knocked unconscious, fell into the lake, and was recovered by his son Kenneth Nichols of Wichita, who reported warning shouts and saved his younger grandson Michael, 5, by pushing him away.
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