Garden City bids on public library site and zoo growth noted
Garden City Recreation Commission members consider a bid to move the public library to the old post office building, while interest rises in using the present library as an administration site. The Lee Richardson Zoo reports seven new infant rhesus monkeys as the collection expands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bob Wright
Garden City Recreation Commission
Harold Fansler
Bob
Lee Richardson Zoo
Kansas
Africa
Claude Owens
Monkey House
City Commissioners Award Bids for Five Cars Trucks
City officials awarded five vehicle bids with Burtis Motor Co winning all low bids including a 1963 Ford Galaxy for the city passenger vehicle. Total bids included options from Nolan Five Points Walters and Million Motors, with various truck bids also won by Burtis. A report on water and light department valuations was presented. no action taken, but plans for a storekeeping system were noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burtis Motor Co
Burtis
Nolan Motor Co
Five Points Motor Co
Walters Motor Co
Million Motor Co
Studebaker
Southwest Equipment
B. J. Kirkwood
A. C. Kirkwood and Associates
Commission
Yukon Plane Crash Survivor Helen Klaben Nears Home Next Week
Helen Klaben, a 21 year old survivor of the February crash on a Yukon mountainside, is expected to leave Whitehorse Hospital next Wednesday after doctors report her left arm has healed and her frostbite injuries are improving. Pilot Ralph Flores is recovering from a broken nose jaw and frostbite, with his wife and six children in California awaiting word. The two were aboard a plane returning from a Canadian job when it crashed 75 miles south of the Yukon British Columbia border.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Whitehorse
Yukon ‘Territory
Helen Klaben
Brooklyn
Nesta James
Yukon
James
Miss Klaben
Ralph Flores
British Columbia
Klaben
Flores
San Bruno
Calif
Canada
Misys Klaben
Wide-Scope Summer Plan Ball Program Recommended
Garden City Recreation Commission urged a wide scope summer ball program at Finnup Park with a full-time director, field lighting, and shared use of Clint Lightner Field for tournaments. Proceeds would fund the program, with events including the Comptom Cuties appearance and a state slow-pitch tournament. Fire damaged 15 fence posts at Pat Springer place near Clint Lightner Field.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Finnup Park
Garden City Recreation Commission
Bob Wright
Recreation Commission
City Commission
Clint Lightner
Wright
Comptom Cuties
California
The
Herman Beringer
New Control In Kansas City
The Citizens Association recaptured Kansas City government after four years in limbo with Ilas W. Davis beating Dutton Brookfield by 2,365 votes. 2,600 absentee ballots remain to be counted Friday. Citizens also won 8 of 12 council seats and ousted most of the Democratic coalition that ran City Hall since 1959 amid revenue woes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City, Mo
Nonpartisan Citizens Association
Tom Pendergast
Ilas W. Davis
Dutton Brookfield
New Independent Voters Association
Davis
Citizens
City Hall
Garden Sass Gas Garden Faces Son on School Resign Decision
Garden Sass Gas Garden struggles to convince his young son not to resign from grade school to ease severe classroom overcrowding. The pair weigh education needs against crowded conditions and future opportunities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gas Garden
British Labour Leader Outlines 14 Point Plan for JFK
Harold Wilson, new head of the British Labour party, presents a 14 point program to President Kennedy outlining shifts in NATO and disarmament policy, East West relations, and Britain's role in a changing Cold War era. The plan calls for limited recognition of East Germany, possible German frontier terms, and a move toward a neutralized arms regime.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Labor Party
Britain
Harold Wilson
Arthur Garshon
Witsor
Kennedy
Arthur Gavshon
London
Woodrow Wilson
Europe
Wilson
United States
East Germany
Poland
U.S
Germany
Hungary
Czechoslovakia
China
United Nations
Chiang Kai-shek
America
Nassau
Holy Loch
Scotland
NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Khrushchev
Berlin
Oder-Neisse River
Soviet Union
West Germany
Labor
Adam Rapacki
Middle
Middle East
Formosa
Asia
Africa
Commonwealth
Latin America
U.N
Wichita U Bill Clears House in Topeka Action
The Kansas House approved a measure to bring Wichita University into the state system as an associate of the University of Kansas under the Board of Regents starting July 1, 1964. The plan authorizes campus transfer of property, outlines budgeting and president selection duties, and awaits Senate action and Gov. Anderson’s signature amid opposition over cost and expansion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas and
Hattie
10Th
11Th
Chamber of Commerce
Topeka
Wichita University
House
Senate
John Anderson
Anderson
University of Kansas
State Board of Regents
Wichita
Washburn Municipal University of Topeka
Odd Williams
R-Lawrence
Tom Crossan
R-Independence
Charles Arthur
Manhattan
Wichita U
Grazing land fire east of Garden City scorches 30 acres
About 30 acres of grazing land burned east of Garden City on Tuesday afternoon. Firemen answered the alarm at 2 43 p m. The scene lay half a mile east of Garden City Country Club and a quarter mile north of US 50 on Marion Russell land. Only damage was to the grass. An irrigation ditch burned nearby and sparks jumped a road igniting the grazing land.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Garden City
Sita
Garden City Country Club
US 50
Marion Russell
Kansas Traffic Death Log March 1963 Snapshot
Topeka AP reports Kansas traffic deaths over a 24 hour period up to 9 am Wednesday for March 22, with a comparison to the 1962 period showing 107 deaths in 1963 83 in 1962. This log records fatalities by date for statewide transport safety records.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Kansas
Hamilton County Woman Is Killed
A 52 year old Hamilton County housewife, Mrs Jacob Johnson, was killed in a highway crash on US 50 nine and a half miles east of Garden City. Her husband Jacob, 53, survived with injuries. A semis truck driven by John T Mangan, 31, Cherryvale, pulled off onto the shoulder to avoid collision after the Johnson car angled toward the truck. The Johnson car was demolished and no cattle were harmed. The incident marks Finney County's fifth highway fatality in 25 days. Funeral arrangements are handled by McFadden Funeral Home of Syracuse.
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Finney County
Hamilton County
Jacob Johnson
Garden City
Sue
Johnson
Jacob
Syracuse
Emporia
Kansas Highway Patrol
John T. Mangan
Cherryvale
James F. Schierlman
Mangan
St. Catherine Hospital
McFadden Funeral Home
Finnney
Garden City High
Kalvesta
Burnside Drive
Holcomb
Royal Construction
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Salina
Gallen
Mitch Geisler
Garden City Chamber of Commerce
Rocky Ford
Colo
Rocky Ford Hotel
R. M. Lawrence
Telegram
Edwin L. Rohr
Main
Youth For Christ
Women's Softball Assn
Pat Springer Place
Clint Lightner Field
Kansas City
JFK
Bundige
Alin
Pree
Akron
la Junta
Dodge
Goocland
ML City
Russell
Geath
Wallace Bascue
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