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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1968
Page
7
Tribune reports a fire severely damaged Gooch's IGA on Tribune's main street. Smoke caused most damage while a gas furnace blast may have moved a pumice-block wall. Glasses rack melted 70 feet from the furnace. Bread man found smoke at 5 am and alerted firefighters. cleanup ongoing.
A local editor shares musings on a near snowfall that fizzled and ties it to golf. A youth group’s sex education survey prompts a blunt remark from a class director. A Salina meeting notice seeks district voters for alternatives to Johnson or Nixon. A Kansas State Wildcats’ Big Eight title win is recounted with playful fan aside.
In Union City Indiana a National Farmers Organization protest dumps hogs into a long mass grave to protest pork prices. Trucks line up as 200 to 400 hogs are killed and buried at 19 cents per pound with aims to reach 23 cents.
The Gambler's Dilemma on elementary probability will be discussed at the Garden City Community Junior College Science Seminar Wednesday evening. Dr. L H Koopmans of University of New Mexico will lecture at 7 30 p m in Sabine Hall room 307. He earned a Ph D from UC Berkeley in 1958 and serves as consultant to Sandia and Westinghouse.
A two car collision west of Coolidge on US50 Sunday afternoon injured four people. Betty Entz and her 2 year old son Duane were taken to a Lamar hospital while Walter Entz and Coolidge driver Betty R Crissman were treated but not hospitalized. Crissman’s four children were uninjured. The crash occurred about a half mile west of Coolidge at 3 30 p m MST when Crissman turned off the highway and was struck from behind by the Entz car.
Light rain and snow brought mixed moisture to the region over the weekend. Garden City area reports include 0.16 inch rain and about an inch of snow, while Liberal saw four to six inches of wet snow extending into Oklahoma and the Texas panhandle. Johnson, Ulysses, Elkhart, Syracuse, Tribune, Goodland and other towns logged varying amounts, with totals from .10 to .69 inch moisture and several inches of snow. the storm moved in from the Rocky Mountains with gusty winds and lingering precipitation expected to ease later.
A large tanker truck loaded with compressed gas flipped onto its side one mile north of Lakin after backing across the highway to turn around. Drivers Thomas Leonard Hengley and John N. Sargent of Big Springs Texas suffered minor injuries. A second Texas tanker rolled onto its side about 2 a.m. Wednesday forty four miles south of Lakin on K25. its driver escaped injury. Both rigs sustained extensive damage and required large wreckers to right them.
A gardener slipped yesterday while digging in the garden and fell on a snow shovel this morning. He was outside sweeping with a broom when the incident occurred.
In London the gold market steadied as the seven nation pool kept bullion at 35 dollars an ounce. Zurich showed only marginal demand drop, while the pound rose to about 239.90 to the dollar. Dealers foresaw subdued London turnover and no aggressive selling by speculators, with the pool action halting but not erasing selling pressure.
Pvt. Jonathan M. Spicer of Miami, a former objector who fled the Marine image, became a battlefield hero at Khe Sanh. Wounded by a mortar shell, he shielded the wounded and helped load litter cases amid heavy fire, earning praise from doctors and officers for gallantry and selflessness.
Secretary of State Dean Rusk testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and says the United States is willing to stop bombing North Vietnam to begin settlement talks. He reaffirms readiness to negotiate today without conditions, while Senate critics press questions on Tonkin, misgivings about policy, and the administration’s wartime explanations.
South Vietnamese forces claim 102 enemy dead in an eight hour clash five miles north of Dong Ha as North Vietnamese guns hit a U.S. naval base near the Cua Viet River. Navy stocks and ammo piles suffered blasts while Marines at Khe Sanh endured heavy shelling and US air raids targeted DMZ positions and border areas.
A head on collision on a Cowley County road south of Udall killed three people and left the weekend traffic toll in Kansas at four. Victims were Connie Schulz 17 of Thailand Linda Marie Porter 19 of Orange California students at St John’s College Winfield and Bill Platt 46 of Winfield. Another death from the weekend occurred when Stephen A Clements 19 of Humboldt Kan died from injuries from a Friday night crash near Girard.
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