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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1960
Page
1
London AP reports Soviet Premier Khrushchev defended peaceful coexistence and reduced tensions, signaling no change in the Kremlin stance despite apparent rebuke to Red China leaders.
Khrushchev told the third congress of the Romanian Communist Party in Bucharest that no world war is needed for socialism to triumph globally. He said socialist ideas will win in peaceful competition with capitalism, referencing co existence policy and past party congress lines while criticizing U S policy and Peiping. He urged belief in the working class, the socialist camp, and the attractiveness of socialism. Across a separate dispatch, Kansas City livestock market reports show calves, steers, heifers and cows trading with varying declines and steadier prices, plus veal, stocker, and hog summaries.
New York stocks showed a mixed pattern with slackened activity for the second straight session. DuPont slipped more than 3 points while Raytheon and Radio Corporation rose modestly. Otis Elevator gained on a pinsetting contract. Lily Tulip and Bell & Howell moved on blocks, and overall averages edged lower amid profit taking and selective gains.
Nearly 120 Brownies aged 7 to 10 take part in a week long Brownie Day Camp at the Girl Scout house and Finnup Park Garden City. Activities include cook outs knot tying sit upon making and dunk bags under the direction of Mrs W A Selover and Mrs Helen Oswalt with a staff of a dozen leaders.
Miss Mary Lou Geist of Plevna is completing training in Finney County assisting Mrs. Kathryn Sughrue, the county home economist, for two weeks before taking the extension home economist post in Kiowa County. A 1960 Sterling College graduate, she joined extension work after graduation and has nine years of 4-H experience, including time in Reno County where Sughrue also worked as economist.
The Chamber of Commerce will stage a special coffee club session at 10 a.m. Thursday at the Experiment Station. Several visitors from foreign countries are to be present. Howard Romén, son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Boman of Lamar, received his Eagle Award in Scouting recently. Boman is a former member of Garden City Troop 108.
Father Gerald L. McLaughlin a Jesuit missionary stationed in Kingston Jamaica is in Garden City this week on a two month tour sponsored by the Cooperative League of the U S A to inspect study and discuss cooperative policies with Garden City Co op Exchange and other midwest towns in Iowa Nebraska Wisconsin and Kansas He notes Jamaicas near Cuba but limited Communist influence and cites rising radical nationalism and moves toward self rule by natives as a growing concern in the region
The notice lists multiple hospital admissions and discharges at St Catherine hospital including Gary Lee Fief, Carolyn Speer, Ronnie Speer, Mrs Melvin Merz, James Brewer, and Mrs Bennie Morgan. It also notes a birth to Mr and Mrs Melvin Merz in Deerfield at 10 31 yesterday weighing 5 lbs 11 oz and a birth to Mr and Mrs William Herman in Holcomb at 8 31.
In Garden City a.m. yesterday a baby was born weighing 6 pounds VE.
Bond set for John F. Strauss of 512 North Ard and Mrs. Lloyd E. Joyce of 809 Davis on meter violation and failure to yield right of way respectively. Accidents occurred on 300 block of 6th Street injuring drivers Roger Glenn Renfro and Abe Schulman. at Sivans and Fulton streets Warren J. Dorner and Kenneth Carl Krueger collided. at Main and Fulton Darrel Jester and Harvey Gary Martin collided.
GOP and Democrat filings list precinct committeemen candidates across Garden City and surrounding townships with names including Douglas Croity Sr Mary Owens W R Mayo Attillia Austen Daniel R Hopkins Louis Harmon G Hastings Erdene Corley Stewart Boone Mary Janet Conners Jerry Schultz Russell Wells Joe Tennesgen Helen Fankhauser Tony Mesa and others. Township hopefuls on the GOP ticket name E W Henkle Blanche K E Larson Fielding Hands Mrs Gean Hands Frances 5 Gross Ralph L Gross Katherine Jones Taylor L Jones Donald Drees Julia Sroufe D E Sroufe Theoni precinct Garfield Township Pleasant Valley Prep lists, while Democrats filing include Harry A Atherton Donnel Bradford F Williams Alice Brooks John Collings Mrs John Anderson James E Wharton Mrs Andrew D Pitt J W Nolan Gladya Sterling 4th ward etc.
William Hager of Lawrence Kansas studies local Cooperative public relations methods as groundwork for a Lawrence system. He notes Garden City’s well organized system and will understudy Coy Farrell before returning home. The eastern Kansas Co-op began in 1954 with limited PR.
Ten members enrolled at the organizational meeting for a ten week typing course offered by the Kansas University Extension Center. Classes start tomorrow at 7:80 p.m in the typing room at Garden City High School with Dean ole as instructor and a $10.80 fee. Additional enrollments invited at the Friday closing date. Classes meet Monday and Thursday evenings, except July 4, for ten weeks. no credit given.
June 22 1960 Garden City Telegram reports sharper contrasts in Republican and Democratic races. Nixon and Rockefeller clash over growth policy while Kennedy Johnson spar over electability. Symington comments on US Soviet strength. Brown withholds California's delegates until convention.
The Rt Rev Msgr Irvin A De Blanc says Roman Catholics use contraception about same as non Catholics. He calls studies alarming but not conclusive and cites church opposition. He notes possible church stance of continence if overpopulation rises and other methods fail. A Washington psychiatrist etc.
Clarence R Brack 53 of 507 Eugene Garden City died yesterday at St. Catherine Hospital He was born August 15 1907 in Otis Kansas a WWII veteran real estate agency owner and member of Masonic Lodge Median Shrine Congregational Church Survivors include widow Dorothy a daughter Patricia a son Robert a brother Sal and two sisters Mrs Rachel Stenzel and Mrs Hilda Alamterman plus two grandchildren Services Friday 1020 am at Phillips Chapel Rev John Fitzgerald officiating Burial Sunset Memorial Garden Cemetery
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