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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1968
Page
1
In a village note, Brownie Scouts age in the 2nd and 3rd grades hosted local men for a campfire dinner at the county fairgrounds. Each group handles its own meals, KP duties, and tents. The reporter mentions river hiking, rock collecting, and a father’s blanket sleeping bag anecdote.
The Interstate Commerce Commission directed Union Pacific to continue the Portland Rose passenger trains between Kansas City and Portland for 1967. The agency cited loss of mail revenue and potential loss of service at several stations if discontinued. trains No. 17 and 18 pass through Topeka Denver Pocatello Sun Valley and Portland and earned profits in 1967 before mail cars were removed.
Christy files for Kansas Senate from the 27th District and Harold Crist runs for State Board of Education in the 5th district. Claude W. Robinson announces for the Kansas House from the 117th District. Robinson’s career spans banking, farming, Harvester agency leadership, publishing, and civic roles. Weather: Friday partly cloudy with showers and thunderstorms. highs in the 90s. 20 to 30 percent rain chances tonight and Friday.
Verell T. Westover, a Republican candidate for governor, has withdrawn from the race after saying he was discharged from his custodian job with the Topeka Board of Education the same day he filed his candidacy. He had previously run unsuccessfully for mayor of Topeka.
Washington AP reports the 1968 Poor People’s Campaign march drew around 15,000 people to the Lincoln Memorial area, peaceful and orderly, with Ralph Abernathy vowing to keep Resurrection City. Demonstrators urged ending the Vietnam War and funding poverty relief as lawmakers moved a $5.5 billion housing bill through the House.
Merwin E. Mitchell, chief psychiatric social worker at the Area Mental Health Center, was named assistant director by executive director Larry P. Davis who resigns July 1. Mitchell, joining last month from Southwest Guidance Center, will oversee center operations across eight counties and serve as chief fiscal and clinical officer until a full director is chosen.
Paris taxi drivers prolong their month long strike with an informal boycott as cab lines form at stands. Commuters, once users, stroll by dismayed by price hikes raising trips from 80 cents to about 1.40 dollars.
Beverly Hills AP reports football star Jimmy Brown plans to plead innocent to a felony battery against a peace officer. A hearing was continued to Sept 20 as he prepares to film in Spain. Bail raised from 1250 to 10000 due to leaving the country. Model Eva Marie de Bahn Chin hospitalized with shoulder injury after alleged June incident. TOPEKA AP notes Kansas traffic death totals for June and year comparisons.
Governor Docking urged a Wichita study panel to amend the Kansas constitution to a four year governor term beginning in even numbered years between presidential elections, with eligible for re election. He proposed convening the legislature Feb 1 in term years and allowing executive branch reorganization and elimination of some offices.
A year long talent search funded by a $40,000 federal grant under the Higher Education Act of 1965 is under way at Fort Hays State College. The effort targets low income students with academic promise in western Kansas, aiming to provide counseling, financial aid information, and help with admission to higher learning institutions. The program serves six community junior colleges, three area vocational schools, 158 districts, and 53 welfare and employment agencies, and supports obtaining a high school equivalency diploma for those who did not finish high school.
Michael J. Friesen a Garden City high school instructor and farmer filed as a Republican candidate for Finney County probate judge a role that also covers county and juvenile court duties. He cites concerns over juvenile court handling and says citizens urged him to run. His wife Kathy works as a social worker and he chairs the Finney County Youth Study Committee.
A Navy helicopter with 10 personnel made a forced landing in a wooded area near Dearing Georgia on Wednesday night after a power failure. There were no injuries and the aircraft suffered no damage during the landing en route from Allison Naval Air Station Pensacola Florida to Shaw Air Force Base near Columbia South Carolina.
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