Weather and town notes clash with Birmingham unrest
Troopers poured into Birmingham as rioting Negro demonstrations reached a seventh day. Governor George Wallace ordered 260 riot trained highway patrolmen to aid local police. A Garden City Telegram s parked in town jokes about rival weather prophets and moon changes while a junior high operetta and Straw Hat Days fill the local calendar.
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Elihu Allman
Garden City
Clifford Hope
Civic Center
Coin Club
Birmingham
Ala
George Wallace
White House weighs all options on Birmingham crisis
The White House said every avenue of executive authority is being explored to tackle racial tensions in Birmingham Alabama as Kennedy faces questions and resists premature moves while King and King followers direct marches. Federalizing the Alabama National Guard remains undecided as officials seek peaceful solutions amid rising demonstrations and violent clashes.
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Washington
White House
Birmingham
Ala
Andrew T. Hatcher
Kennedy
Alabama
Hatcher
Alabama National Guard
Hatchey
Burke Marshall
Marshall
Atty
Robert ¥. Kennedy
George Andrews
D-Ala
Martin Luther King
Andrews
King
Robert F. Kennedy
Wallace
National Guard
Jackie Robinson
New York
Roy Wilkins
National Association For Advancement of Colored People
NAACP
Six Named to Red Cross Board in Finney County
Six new members joined the Finney County Red Cross board at its annual meeting. Appointees are Joe Benson Bob Renick Duane West and Mrs G W Meeker Mrs Buddy Burris and Mrs Russell McCart of Holcomb. They replace retiring and resigning members. The board also sent Leslie Cheatum and Jeanne Phillips to a water safety aquatic school at Camp Fellowship near Goddard in June to become certified Red Cross swimming instructors. Nurses will attend a Dodge City instructors' school for home nursing training. Summer swimming enrollments total about 50 with May 23 as enrollment deadline. junior life saving minimum age corrected to 12.
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Finney County Red Cross Board
Joe Benson
Bob Renick
Duane West
G. W. Meeker
Buddy Burris
Russell McCart
Holcomb
Truitt Adams
Leigh Perry
Dick Stengel
Bob Cobb
George Purnell
Bob Wright
Red Cross Board
Leslie Cheatum
Jeanne Phillips
Camp Fellowship
Goddard
Red Cross
Dodge City
Mildred Hope
Negro pupils join sit in at Englewood school
In Englewood New Jersey twenty six Negro children entered Cleveland Elementary with regular classes for a three day sit in protesting racial imbalance. A parent alleged a police officer pushed her but officials denied any contact saying she fell and screamed before police arrived.
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Englewood
Cleveland
Cleveland School
Hie
Beulah Thweatt
Joseph Lawless
Arkasas Painters Defy Modern Art With Nocturnal 4x6 Panel
Arkansas artists Guy Brady and Henry Retzloff Jr entered a provocative 4x6 foot wallboard piece titled Experimentation into the Realm of Nocturnal Schizophrenic Endeavors. They painted at night with a car headlights illuminate the work, using sand and mixed paints to create abstract color effects. Their piece earned top 12 among 220 entries with an honorable mention, while first prize went to another abstraction.
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Little Rock
Ark
Guy Brady
Henry Retzloff Jr
Brady
Arkansas
Retzloff
Showers Seen In Some Areas
TOPEKA AP A weather front moves into northern Kansas tonight bringing scattered showers mainly north of the state with cooler readings not likely to be significant. Temperatures climbed into the 80s across Kansas with 93 at Goodland and 84 in Wichita.
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Topeka
Kagens
Weather Bureau
Kansas
Goodland
Wichita
Russell
Manhattan
Girl Runs Into Side of Car
A three year old Garden City girl Cheryla Gay John sustained minor injuries when she ran into the side of a slowly moving automobile at 1 40 p m Tuesday in the 1000 block N 6th Her injuries were bruises and contusions to arms legs and a forehead contusion She was not admitted to St Catherine Hospital Driver Charles Sarl Rockstrom 1005 N 6th told police he slowed as he saw her start across the street but she ran into the car He is the father of the injured child and was not injured
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Garden City
Cheryla Gay John
St. Catherine Hospital
Cheryle Gay
Norman John
Pony
Charles Sarl Rockstrom
Rockstrom
Garden Sass Gas Expresses Disgust At Too Short Belt
Garden Sass Gas describes his belt as too short and expresses that he cannot stomach it. He depicts frustration with the fit and notes the need for a longer belt to accommodate his waist.
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Gas Garden
Harvest Service Opens Farm Placement for Wheat Harvest
Kansas State Employment Service announces temporary farm placement offices in each county seat in the wheat belt about a week before harvest. The nine county area will be served by local office staff in Finney County with a training session in Garden City to prepare men skilled in county knowledge. Local and regional representatives include G H C Duncombe Dighton Robert E Ford Seon Calvin B Mitchell Tribune A D Harmon Ulysses Boyd A Couch Syracuse Glen York Johnson and William R Berger Scott City.
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W. S. Trebilcock
Kansas State Employment Service
Wheat Belt
7Th and Spruce
Garden City
Ed Schoepner
Robert Wasson
Topeka
Owen Grable
Trebilcock
Finney County
G. H. C. Duncombe
Dighton
Robert E. Ford
Seon
Calvin B. Mitchell
Tribune
A. D. Harmon
Ulysses
Boyd A. Couch
Syracuse
Glen York
Johnson
William R. Berger
Scott City
Students Rally AFS Funds At Garden City High
Garden City High School students start their annual drive for American Field Service funds. Each class competes to raise the most by selling goods and services without asking for contributions. Funds support the foreign exchange program. over $800 needed for next year. Drive continues through this week.
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Garden City High School
Telstar 2 Satellite Flawless in Earth Orbit
New Telstar 2 satellite operated perfectly linking U S and Europe as television pictures transmitted from Andover Maine Tuesday night were described as magnificent and clear. A color transmission between continents was planned for tonight after the Cape Canaveral launch.
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New York
United States
Europe
Andover
Maine
Cape Canaveral
War Threat Eases But Dominican Still Tense
The Dominican Republic and Haiti face a fragile pause as the OAS and UN Security Council convene to deescalate the Hispaniola crisis. President Bosch calls Duvalier a mad man while signaling caution and possible evacuations for U.S. citizens as tensions linger and rebels threaten.
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Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
Haltisiesta
Organization of American States
U.N. Security Council
Caribbean
Hispaniola
Cuba
Security Council
OAS
Juan Busch
Haiti
Francois Duvalier
Bosch
United States
Downtown greenery plan starts on Main block in Garden City
City Commission approves a pilot on east side of Main Street block one. Four redwood planter boxes and six juniper trees to be installed within 7 to 101 days, funded by local merchants. Expansion possible if public reaction is favorable.
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City Commission
Main
Chamber of Commerce
Mitch Geisler
Chamber
Area Highway Bids Planned for South-Central Kansas
Rides for 70 miles of major construction on state highways in south central and southwest Kansas will be taken at Wabinson on May 23 Addison ST Meschke director of highways said today Southwest Kansas projects include Clark 0 miles surface treatment on K-394 from a junction with K-34 and US 160 a mile north of Sitka to a junction with K-34 Hamilton 0.4 of a mile grading and construction of a three span bridge over Sand Creek six miles north and a mile east of Syracuse Haskell 10.5 miles grading and construction of four reinforced box culverts east on a county road from Sublette Selett 80 miles grading north on a county road from a nation with K 0d four miles west of Grigston
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Kansas
Wabbinson
Addison ST
Meschke
Southwest Kansas
Clark
Sitka
Hamilton
Sand Creek
Syracuse
Haskell
Park ing Lot Bid Won by Garden City Firm
The paying bid for a parking lot at TUh and Chest mut was awarded to P L Dale Construction Co of Garden City with the low bid of 11087.25 dollars. Two other bids were submitted Lee Conley of Garden City 11723.47 and Joe Ward of Garden bid 15535.27.
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Tuh and Chest
Mut
P. L. Dale Construction Co
Garden City
Lee Conley
Joe Ward
Gorden
Engglnuers
Mickey Gardiner
Gardiner’s
Kenny Wick
Bun
Doc Howard to Lead Floating Circus Band
Dr W D Howard of Garden City will join Kelly Miller Bros Circus in Jacksonville Florida and lead a shipboard orchestra during a Caribbean cruise. He departs for Hugo Oklahoma en route with elephants and other performers, with a ship charter set for May 1 and a voyage lasting months or years.
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W. D. Howard
Garden City
Jacksonville
Fla
Kelly-Miller Bros
Piorida
Howard
Hugo
Okla
Callinne
Ly Sea Ono
Caribbean
South America
United States
Kelly Miler
Garden CiGian
Phil Shenn
Seenn
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