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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1966
Page
1
Local market notes show fats steady to lower with steers 26 to 26.90 and heifers 23.50 to 24.59, while Kansas City reports cattle at 28.50 for choice slaughter steers and hogs easing. Dow Jones industrials gain 1.28 to 917.41 at noon.
YMCA offers golf lessons at Alta Brown Gym led by John Dickerson and Fred Dickerson at Garden City Country Club. Knitting and ceramics classes at YMCA Hall with enrollment closed. call Bridge 6 3991. Charm class for juniors March 19. job interview session led by Jerry Huggins. Women only session March 21 postponed. volleyball for men at YMCA Hall.
Clayton L. Spires, 27, has been added to the Garden City police force effective yesterday. A Hoisington native and Hoisington High School graduate, he served four years in the Navy Air Corps and later worked in Barton County oil fields. He and his wife have two daughters and moved here last week. Chief Hal Kate notes patrolman vacancies remain.
Jujitsu, the Japanese self defense art, will be taught to high school boys at the Civic Center starting Saturday at 2 pm. Cleve Spencer, assistant recreation director, will lead the eight week program from 2 to 4 pm each Saturday in the Center basement. Herman Beringer, city recreation director, notes Spencer has demonstrated jujitsu tactics to clubs and schools in western Kansas during eight years with the Garden City Police Department.
Senator Wayne Morse of Oregon accused President Lyndon B. Johnson of steering the United States toward war in Vietnam. Speaking at a labor-management conference in St. Louis, Morse also criticized Taft-Hartley section 148 as conflicting with national labor policy and government interference in free collective bargaining. About 20 Missouri Young Americans for Freedom members picketed nearby outside Chase Park Plaza Hotel as Morse spoke.
Admissions include Philip Charles Webb, Kenneth Leon Wehkamp, Loretta Kessler, Alvin Schultz, Mrs. Francis Phelps, Rollo Ulsh, Daniel Hickman, Kipling Lee Lamb, James Ear Lewis, Mrs. Rosa Powers, Casper Van John, and others at St. Catherine Airport and nearby addresses. Dismissals list Elizabeth Harkness, Ned Jacobs, Mrs. Bryan Long, Patricia Purcell, Mrs. James Ford, Elizabeth Oxford, Michael Irsik, Gay Guinn, Samuel Hewes, Darrel Downs, Mrs. Clarence Crowley, Charles Owens, Robert Mason, Mrs. Martha Becker and more.
A list of local fines shows multiple residents including Merlin E Ball at 310 Edwards and Albert G Savolt of Scott City fined for parking in no parking zones. Other offenses include driving the wrong way in a one way alley and parking in a yellow zone. Also noted are car and pickup incidents with minor vehicle damage.
Numerous acts of vandalism involving spray paint were reported in the past days. A vacant house at 2202 N Main and Northside Grocery at 2009 N Main were sprayed on Tuesday night. Dale Cook’s pickup at 2206 A was painted. Several neighborhood mailboxes were also targeted.
Garden City Unified High School publishes the honor roll for the fourth six weeks. A roll includes 56 students earning A grades and 110 earning Bb. The list names numerous students across multiple families and households. The article notes a rapid sun energy comparison, stating in one second the sun emits more energy than humanity has used since civilization began.
William John Hemphill 90 died Tuesday at Sabo Manor Rest Home Lakin. Services at 9:30 tomorrow at Mennonite Brethren Church Ulysses with Rev Dale Warkentin officiating. Burial Arlington Cemetery at 3 p.m. He was born November 22 1875 in Illinois and moved to Ulysses in 1928. He was a retired farmer. Survived by son Lester Ulysses daughter Mrs Lois Egan Cheyenne Wells Colorado stepdaughter Mrs Valentine Edwards Ulysses 10 grandchildren 13 great grandchildren 4 great great grandchildren.
The Juco community reports spring sports warming up across golf track and tennis. The Student Council dance will be Saturday from 9 to midnight in Ben Grimsley gym with The Riding Five, plus Murray Banks speech Monday in Clifford Hope Auditorium. Ticket sales available now. at door price higher. The Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater drama is postponed due to illness. exams loom nine weeks away. students grimace at study.
Police report two firearms a rifle and a shotgun stolen from a parked pickup at 1112 Taylor. Owner Paul John Irsik said the robbery occurred sometime Tuesday at his residence. The note mentions Telegram Want Ads.
Civil Air Patrol Garden City Cadet Squadron holds graduation exercises at 8 pm at the Army Reserve Building Kansas Plaza Loretta A Wilcoxen information officer states cadets from Phase I II and II will receive ribbons and promotions senior members also promoted new members join March 24 for next Phase T. Youth 13 18 invited to March 2 meeting with cadet program briefing and summer fall activities. Meetings every Thursday 7 to 9 30 pm at the Army Reserve Building. Walt Bellamy Debuts for Knickerbockers against Bullets in Baltimore game this fall trade noted.
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