Dusty Wheat Harvest Memories and Beef Show Plans
A Dodge City Globe piece recalls dust storms from Texas and a wheat harvest yearning. It notes farmer pride, the joy of coopering a truckload of wheat, and a farmer’s daughter who married the author. It also mentions John Dohogne filming a beef cookoff to promote next year’s Beef Empire Live and Carcass Show and an honorary marshal tour of Boot Hill for Congress.
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Algo
John Dohogne
Beef Empire
Stevens Park
John
Dodge’ City
Boot Hill
House ‘Agriculture Committee
Dodge City
Inconsistencies Seen in Vietnam Infiltration Report
AP dispatch reports confusion over a sharp cut back in North Vietnamese troop infiltration into South Vietnam as U S officials seek meaning in the conflicting information. Democratic leaders plan a House vote on Nixon's surtax extension after GOP unity signs on. In Omaha, denser looting and fires hit a Negro Near North Side business area. In Ben Het Vietnam, gunners shell the Special Forces camp while freed prisoners boast of plans to overrun it.
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Washington
State and Defense Departments
South Vietnam
House
Nixon
Omaha
Neb
Ben Het
Vietnam
Garden Sass Gus Named Too Much Says Wife
Gus Garden is accused by his wife of overbranding his name on items. She claims the habit strains their joint finances and adds unnecessary expense to their bank account.
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Gus Garden
Court Action Clears Way for Sunflower Electric Plant
Court action cleared the way for a 14 million dollar Sunflower Electric generating plant in western Kansas serving eight distribution cooperatives and 25 411 consumers. Judge Birney upheld a Kansas Corporation Commission order authorizing construction, with Wheatland Electric Cooperative to operate the new plant and transmission.
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Garden City
Kansas Electric Cooperatives, Inc
Kansas
C.E. Birney
Graham County
Kansas Corporation Commission
Sunflower Electric’ Cooperative
WaKeeney
Great Plaing Electric Cooperative
Colby
Lane-Scott Electric Cooperative
Dighton
Northwest Kansas
Electric Cooperative
Birds City
Norton Decatur Cooperative Electric Co
Norton
Pioneer Cooperative Association
Ulysses
Victory Electric Cooperative
Dodge City
Western Cooperative Electric Association
Waeath
Elec
Sunflower
REA
Wheatland Electric Cooperative, Inc
Scott City
Wheatland
White House Aims to Expand Voters Rights Nationwide
Washington AP Nixon administration proposes a nationwide ban on literacy tests and residency requirements for presidential elections. Includes expanded powers for the attorney general to dispatch examiners and file voting rights lawsuits, creation of a national voting advisory commission, and five amendments to the 1965 Voting Rights Act to treat voting rights as a national issue.
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Washington
Nixon
John N
Mitchell
House Judiciary Subcommittee
Attorney General
Justice Department
South
Congress
Waiting 15 Years for This Crop Diehls Keep Fingers Crossed
Diehl and son Jet, farming 22 miles northeast of Garden City, were among Finney County wheat farmers to begin harvesting a promising 1969 crop. A sample load tested 13.10 percent moisture and 115 acres have been cut with one machine. County Ag Agent Al Maddux predicts a county-wide average above 30 bushels per acre, a break from last year’s poor 13 to 14 bushels.
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Nolan Howell
Harthem
Diehls
Garden City
Diehl
Jet
Cam Mer
John
Finney County
Finney
al’ Maddux
Ccres
ASCS
O'Dell
Finpey
Stor
Rameen
Imearetile
Armers
Dighton Director To Be Band Guest
Dighton director will guest conduct the municipal band in Stevens tonight at 8. The program includes themes from More Funny World Theme from 8% LaDonna Nel Mondo and I’ll Set My Love to Music. Denis Radke performs A Trumpet’s Prayer and Sonata in B Minor plus Hungarian Rhapsody No 2. Modern pieces include Three Jazz Moods and Mamnhattan.
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Stevens
Denis Radke
Cimarron Ensign Voters Approve Two-District Merger
Voters in Cimarron and Ensign districts approve a merger forming Consolidated Unified School District 102 across 589 square miles in Finney Gray Ford and Hargeman counties. The measure passed 239 to 15, creating a single district with Baldwin named superintendent and Sayre as assistant. Ensign will keep a high school and elementary school next year.
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Cimarron
Ensign
Unified School District
Norman Baldwin
Norris Sayre
Baldwin
Board of Education
Ensign High School
Brades
State Board of Education
Ensign School District
T+ man board of education
Finney, Gray, Ford
Hedgeman
City Rec Use of School Gyms Approved on trial basis
The board approved limited use of school gymnasiums by the city recreation department with rules on footwear and restroom access. The department will cover damages and provide custodial service. Garfield Elementary and the junior community school facilities are involved and no playground fees will be charged.
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Cleve Spencer
Spencer
Den
City Community
Darryl Woodson
Clara Salter
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Texas
News Digest
Barnet
Dodge’ City City
Max
Mia
Pitt Hi Saima
Russell
Wichita
White House
John Diehl
Pho
Ed Diehl
Board of Unified
Garfield
Paslor Speragroan George
Cassyover
H Peary
USD 457
Bryce Roderick
Tom Saffell
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