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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1966
Page
1
The notice lists bag sizes for local produce Bagge extra large A s beg large medium small with prices for wagon items Wheay 1.39 unchanged Mito 1.67 rye 83 barley 82 unchanged and unchs indicating stable prices across listed items.
The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials at noon rose 2.68 to 931.29. In Kansas City livestock trading cattle 200 head, calves none. Hogs 3,000 with barrows and gilts 75 to 125 lower, sows 25 to 75 lower, weight ranges 190 to 260 pounds from 22.00 to 23.50. sows 350 to 600 pounds 19.50 to 21.50. Sheep reported none.
Garden City Junior College drama presents Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater at the Little Theater Juco annex directed by Danno Adams. The children’s play also amuses adults with worthwhile stage sets. Adults pay regular admission while children’s price is 75 cents.
Scott City scene reports the First National Bank of Scott City hosting an open house Sunday from 2 to 5 30 p m to showcase its new building with drive in facilities walk up service and a community room for public use. Officers invite residents from Scott City and nearby areas to inspect the upgraded facilities and refreshments will be served.
Four Garden City motels Wheat Lands Continental Holiday and Flaming rented 34,488 rooms in 1965. The four, with 141 units, had gross income of 204 748.12 and employed 35 people with wages totaling 116 128.18. Taxes paid amounted to 17 313.51.
Cecil Baker of 1804 St John is honored as a senior district sales manager with World Book Encyclopedia. He receives the firm's Superior Service Key, one of 117 recipients from over 60,000 salespersons across the United States and Canada. Baker joined World Book in 1960.
Postmaster W L Harp announced increases in money orders insurance registry certified mail and C O D fees effective tomorrow. The five services lose about 60 million annually while the hikes aim to reduce the gap by 36 million based on 1965 business. Fees for insurance and certified mail were last raised in 1957 and 1961 respectively.
Readable lines show several named individuals linked to hospital missions and addresses including St Catherine, Mrs Maude Jones of Pierceville Ellsworth Holmes, Mrs Sam Lowry of Ulysses Arnold Needham, Rex Stephens Rt 1, Mrs Thomas Elliott Deerfield.
The article lists next weeks school lunch menus for Unified District 457. It covers each weekday with main dishes sides and desserts including Hamburger bake on Monday and Fried chicken on Tuesday. Other days feature Turkey pot pie Wednesday Steak with mushroom sauce Thursday and Hamburgers or tuna burger Friday.
Dismissals list from Garden City includes Mrs Labin Myers at 209 N nencer and Mrs Warry Ingram at 701 Penn sylvania along with Arthur Brown 2505 A Margaret Mesa 309 E Maple John J Wolfe 1112 N th Gladys Darnes 2 Lyle Mrs Charles Romine 1605 York Harry M Towns Imperial Rt Mrs Kenneth Cox Wichita and Mrs Henrietta G Jennings 2111 C
Carroll Leroy Jones of 507 N. Ltd faces assault and battery charges. The case was continued until March 30 and he was released on a $100 bond.
Mrs Mary Loutzenhiser 86 mother of Harry Atherton of Wichita died yesterday at Wesley Hospital Wichita She ran a dressmaking repair shop in her home until three years ago She was a Mitchell Church member born Oct 21 1879 in Rooks County She married twice Frank H Atherton and F H Loutzenhiser Surviving sons Earl Willis Rollin Talmage Fred Fredonia Harry grandchildren and great grandchildren listed
Funeral services for Bernadine Depperschmidt 70 will be at 10 a m tomorrow at St Michael Catholic Church LaCrosse conducted by Rev J J Dreher with burial at St Joseph Cemetery She was born April 9 1895 in Schoenden and lived in Ellis and Rush counties Surviving are four sons four daughters two sisters including Mrs Josephine Graff and Mrs Louise Rupp, four brothers, 28 grandchildren, and two great grandchildren
Three Leoti residents Jeanne Hamilton Terry Woodbury and Diana Cowley pianist join Sterling College Concert Choir on a 15 day spring tour covering Kansas Colorado New Mexico and Texas. Tuesday night the group performs at Parks Presbyterian Church near Leon under director Leon Akin Merling College professor since 1940.
Clarence F. Garvert, local representative for Federated Insurance Companies, has earned an achievement award as a top performer in new premium sales for 1965. He and his wife will attend a firm meeting in the Grand Bahama Island this month.
George J. Stengel owner of Stengel Oil Co. received a 15 year service award from Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. He was the sole Kansan honored among tire dealers nationwide recognized for 10 or more years of service.
The Garden City Telegram honored five employes this week at the annual dinner meeting of the company's Profit-Sharing Trust. Receiving lapel pins for 10 years of employment were John Frazier, managing editor, and Frankie Peterson, press fore man. Five-year awards were given Cheryl Walker, woman's page editor, Bill King, advertis ing salesman, and Jack Schmidt, machine operator. The Telegram annually places one-fourth of its profits, before taxes, in a trust fund for em ployes. Allocations are made on the basis of earnings and years of service.
Terry Cleveland a Fort Hays State College mathematics major and 1964 Garden City High School graduate was initiated into the Kappa Mu Epsilon honorary mathematics fraternity He is the son of Mr and Mrs Glenn W Cleveland and serves as vice president of the United Christian Fellowship and member of the K Club and Baptist Student Union.
Results of the KIAL Telegram Bridge Tournament after six weeks of play show multiple brackets in Men and Women divisions. Standings list numerous pairs with scores, highlighting Bracket A through E across Dale Morris, Unger Gandles, Bock Dickergov, and others as teams chase bracket playoffs next week.
Delegates from junior and four year colleges discussed a unified core biology program for freshmen. Roscoe Waldorf of Garden City Community Junior College reported on the conference in Washington D C where instructors proposed that junior colleges use the same biology curriculum as four year institutions to meet community post high school education needs. Regional meetings will follow with further study and a final report to be issued later. James Whittaker of Seattle is noted as the first American to reach Everest summit.
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