Blizzard movement eases across Southwest Kansas weather report
Southwest Kansas recorded varied moisture with snow up to several inches north and northwest of Garden City while regions to the south saw little action. Syracuse and Scott City reported heavy snow and gusty winds, Ulysses saw almost no moisture, and some areas dismissed schools as a precaution amid a breaking blizzard.
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Kansas
Garden City
Ith
Santa Fe
Syracuse
Lakin
Deerfield
Syra
Scott City
Leoti
Ulysses
Satenta
Sublette
Blizzard Recall Hits Garden City March Snow Tie In 1957
Weather note recounts the 1957 Garden City blizzard that halted traffic and left the city in standstill for three days. It compares the present storm to that historic event with March 23 as a calendar tie and comments on forecast delays and evolving conditions.
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Garden City
No Injuries After Eastern DC 9 Crash Landing at Logan
An Eastern Airlines DC aircraft with 15 passengers and a four crew skidded on a slushy Logan runway and dumped into a snow bank. No injuries were reported. Pilot Capt. Edward R. Lebecker said braking action was absent on touchdown and emergency crews were stood down after arrival. The Washington bound plane sustained minor damage, including bent propeller and some lights. Kansas traffic death log noted 1963 figures for the 24 hours to 9 am Tuesday March 10.
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Boston
Eastern Airlines
Logan
Frank Sweeney
Massachusetts Aeronautics Commission
Sweeney
Edward R. Lebecker
McLean
Washington
Topeka
Kansas
Garden Sass Guy Garden Snowball Halted This Morning
Garden Sass Guy Garden planned a snowball event this morning but halted the effort partway. No further actions or outcomes are reported.
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Guy Garden
Tornadoes Strike Tennessee Alabama and Mississippi
Widespread flooding followed a tornado outbreak across Tennessee Alabama and Mississippi. Five people were killed and many injured as floods closed major roads around Chattanooga Knoxville and Kingsport. Seven residents near Parrottsville were reported missing but later accounted for.
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Parrottsville, Tenn
Tennessee
Alabama
Mississippi
East Tennessee
Parrottsville
North Carolina
Cocke County
Tennessee Highway Patrol
Chattanooga
Knoxville
Kingsport
Committees Tag At Unification Wichita U Bill
Kansas House Education Committee discusses unification language with four unified districts per county and a 750 pupil threshold with a 3750 county exception. Ways and Means negotiates Wichita University state status amid Senate and House bill tensions.
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Wichita U. Bill
Topeka
Kansas
Unification
Wichita University
John Bower
R-Mclouth
Bower
Seward
Liberal
Ways and Means
John Conard
Senate
House State Affairs Committee
Ways and Means Committee
Main Project To Be Discussed At City Commission Meeting
The City Commission will discuss the storm drainage and street resurfacing program for Main in regular session at 9 a.m. in City Hall. The sole resolution sets up a single election board for the April 2 city election. Additional topics include a summer field for women's softball, planning commission recommendations, a zoning request for Corn Tobacco Co. at 614 N 6th, and a Rainbow Girls candy sale fee waiver on March 16.
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Planning Commission
Corn Tobacco Co
Rainbow Girls
Rezoning and zoning proposals by Garden City-Finney County plan
The Garden City-Finney County Planning Commission recommended rezoning the north half of the block between 10th and 11th Avenues from single family to multi family. They also backed a six trailer park behind the OK Courts on E Fulton and approved several variances including enclosing a porch at 319 N 10th, waiving lot width for moving a house at 1906 N 11th, and tabled a utility easement study for two lots at 9th and Elm pending action.
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Garden City-Finney County
N. 10Th
Howard Blanchard
Morris Jones
Blanchard
Jones
Leonard Heinlen
Colorado Springs
N. &Th
Walter Mercer
Gillan Heads United Fund in Finney County
Dale Gillan of St. Catherine Hospital was elected president of the Finney County United Fund for a one year term at the annual meeting. A. M. Fleming was named vice president. Three new 3-year board members were elected Milton Thomas Fidel ity State Bank Leigh Perry and Floyd Hands. Deadline set April 15 for agency budgets 1964 with budget hearing May 13 at the Warren Hotel. Mary Knief reported on Springfield meeting and praised local United Fund success.
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Dale Gillan
St. Catherine Hospital
Finney County United Fund
Richard Bortz
Chamber of Commerce
A. M. Fleming
Gillan
Milton Thomas
Fidelity State Bank
Leigh Perry
Garden National Bank
Floyd Hands
Star
Frank Lightner
Georgia Brown
George Voth
James Neumann
Bill Brown
United Fund
Warren Hotel
Mary Knief
Springfield
Finney County
Winter Weather Snow With Strong Winds Tonight
Strong northwesterly winds and snow continue tonight with diminishing impact Wednesday. Lows tonight in the 20s, highs Wednesday in the upper 20s to lower 30s. Snow totals range from trace along the southern border to three inches or more in western and northern counties. Sunrise 8 37, sunset 6 53.
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Akron
Ta Juna
Wedge City
Iiporia
Trace
Garden City
Goodland al
Hult City
Four East Germans Escape to West Berlin
Four young men escaped to West Berlin Monday night from Communist East Germany. Police said the four sneaked past border guards and through barbed wire at four different points along the city border.
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Berlin
West Berlin
East Germany
Storm Could Dump Upward to 15 Inches
A severe storm moving into northwestern Kansas may drop up to 15 inches of snow. Reports from Cheyenne and Sherman counties show 8 to 10 inches already, with Colby at 2 to 3 inches as the system spreads east. Roads are impassable, motorists stalled, and buses are warned off open country. Temperatures to fall below freezing statewide tonight. heavy snow expected mainly in northwest counties by noon.
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Goodland
Kan
Kansas
Goodland Weather Bureau
Cheyenne
Sherman
Colby
Northwest
Topeka
Taye
Manpete
Wichita
Blood donors sought for Red Cross bloodmobile visit
Recruitment begins this week for the March 28 Red Cross Bloodmobile visit. Beta Sigma Phi chapters urge committees to gather as many donors as possible to meet a 175 pint quota. Hours are 9 a.m. to 2 15 p.m. in the basement of First Presbyterian Church. Call BR 6 4762 to join the donor list and request convenient appointment times.
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Red Cross
Beta’ Sigma Pr
First Presbyterian Church
Red Cross Office
Two Garden City Men Charged With Tire Fraud
Charles Steen and Roy Morse, both from Garden City, charged in Salina with selling recapped tires as new. Bond set at 500 dollars each. trial scheduled March 21. Police traced the scheme after a service station operator reported suspicious tires. Detectives found about 200 tires in a truck. the men claimed to manufacture them locally using Italian molds. An expert confirmed the tires were recaps with faulty inner casings and misrepresented as new.
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Salina
Charles Steen
Roy Morse
Thane
Jack Richardson
Garden City
Italy
Minneapolis
Communist Meet Okayed Between Soviet China Leaders
Moscow AP reports the Soviet and Chinese Communist parties agreed to a meeting to discuss ideological differences. A summit between Khrushchev and Mao Tze-tung was not specified in announcements from Moscow and Peking. Informed sources say little progress is possible without a direct talks.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
China
Khrushchev
Mao Tze-tung Wag
Peking
Fate of Proposed Packing Plant in Hands of Farmers
In Dodge City area meetings about a proposed cooperative beef packing plant, about 160 farmers and others learned the project would require substantial farmer capital and risk. The plant, planned as a farmers marketing cooperative, would cost about 144 million dollars with 30 percent funded by farmers and local cooperatives, 23.3 percent by certificates of indebtedness, and 36 percent from loans.
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Dodge City
Kansas
Garden City
Oklahoma
Kansas Cooperative Marketing Act
Farmers’ Marketing Cooperative
CCA
Consumers Cooperative Assn
WBC
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Elihu Allman
Telegram
Julius Hultquist
Becky Rogers
Wynn McAfee
Jeannie Phillips
Clifford Hope Auditorium
Garden City High School Vocal Music Department
Scon
Bell Engine Co
Morse
Steen
Lamar
Calo
American Legion
Alta Brown School
Fairgrounds
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