Plans Take Shape For Soap Box Derby In Garden City
Garden City prepares for the first official Soap Box Derby on Independence Day week, with four Kansas sites sending winners to Akron. Sponsors Nolan Motor Co KIUL and Optimist Club organize a double elimination race for ages 11 to 15, with kits at Nolan's and a $7500 college prize at Akron.
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Plang
Garden City
Focal Chevrolet
Nolan Motor Co
KIUL
Optimist Club
Optimists
Don Jones
Dallas Enslow
Melvin Frey
Kansas
Garden
Wichita
Nutchinson
Dun
Wesk
Akron
Ohio
loCel
Jones
Nolan's
Andy Ott
Nolan Motors
Record heat grips Garden City as downtown hits 106
A heat wave pushes temperatures to near 100 and beyond around Garden City. Airport readings reach 99 degrees at 5 and 6 pm, with the Kansas State University station northeast of town recording 98 or 100 degrees. The downtown Bank peak hits 106 in late afternoon, marking a scorching day in the local records.
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Airport
Town
Garden City
Kansas State Univerty Agriculture Experiment Staton
Mercury
Garden National Bank
Negro pilot offered job by Continental Airlines
Marlon D. Green, 33, says he would accept a Continental Airlines offer to become the first Black pilot for a U.S. carrier. The offer follows a Supreme Court ruling upholding states can bar discriminatory hiring by interstate carriers. Green, who left the Air Force in 1957, moved to Denver with wife Eleanor and six children and began work April 9 as a Reclamation Bureau pilot at $9,475 a year.
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Denver
Marlon D. Green
United States
Continental Airlines
U.S. Supreme Court
Green
Continental
Taylor
T. Rayber Taylor
Air Force
Lansing
Midh
Eleanor
U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
Seventh Minuteman Launch Successful at Vandenberg
The Air Force reports the seventh in a series of Minuteman missile tests launched from an underground silo at Vandenberg Air Force Base California. The solid-fuel missile was fired Wednesday by a Strategic Air Command crew and the target area was not disclosed.
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Vandenberg Air Force Base
Calif
Air Force
Pacific
Strategic Air Command
Hospital Admissions and Discharges Ledger With Names
Admissions listed for St. Catherine includes John M. Smith Loren Doll Mrs. Robert Brooks Frank Orth Bradley Hayden Louis Kampschroeder Jack Penny David Moyers Dennis Logan Cathy Wright George Johnson Mateo Arguella Theodore Friesen Cath Barker Lori DeGarmo Leonard Danler and others. Dismissals at St. Catherine include Donald Glenn Sondra Glenn Joseph Arellano Della Knight Gregory Simmons Arlyn Seba George Lipe Alicin Merbrew Clare Glenn and more. Births at St. Catherine report a son to Robert and Roberta Brooks and a daughter to Leonard and Diane Danler with times and weights.
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St. Catherine
Funeral service set for Clinton Roderick 2
Funeral for Clinton Roderick age two, son of Mr. and Mrs. Bryce Roderick of 2800 N Main, will be Friday at 10:30 a.m. at First Methodist Church. The Rev. Paul A Tantla will officiate. Burial at Valley View Cemetery. Calling hours tonight at Garland Funeral Home. He died Wednesday morning at St Catherine Hospital. Survivors include parents, one brother Bryce II, four sisters Cheryl Glenda Ann Patty Lynn Marlena Kay, paternal grandparents Boyd and Mrs Roderick of Stillwater, Oklahoma, and maternal grandparents George M Asper and Mrs Asper of Anthony.
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Clinton Roderick
Bryce Roderick
N. Main
First Methodist Church
Paul A. Tantla
Valley View Cemetery
Garland Funeral Home
Chid
St. Catherine Hospital
Bryce II
Cheryl
Glenda Ann
Patty Lynn
Marlena Kay
Boyd Roderick
Stillwater
Okla
George M. Asper
Anthony
Death of Sheep Broker R. P. Lee Ward in Texas
R. P. Lee Ward died unexpectedly Wednesday morning in San Angelo Texas after moving from Leoti in the 1990s. Survivors include a daughter Mrs. Virgina Crook of 904 Pearl and a son Donald Lee of Leon. His wife died about 18 months earlier.
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Ward
R. P. Lee
San Angelo
Tex
Tae
Leoti
Texas
Virgina Crook
Pearl
Donald Lee
Leon
Lee
Garden City Courts Abate and Civil Actions Reported
Proceedings list insufficient fund check for Mrs. Carter and costs. fines for speeding. civil actions against The Railroad Building, Loan and Savings. multiple defendants fined or bonded for traffic and offenses. several individuals committed for drink and disorderly conduct, drunk and assault charges, with monetary penalties and durations.
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Courts
John K. Carter
Ulysses
Dennis D. Crist
Witman
Kenneth Leon Gillespie
Jessie Alma Mosa
Jessie Alma Mosa, 106 N. 5Th
Larry Lee Sperry
Rt. 1
Yenacio Martinez Lopez
Holcomb
Laurenza V. Rucker
Donald Dean Bamberry
Saundra Marie Godek
Jessie Alma Mesa
Kenneth Leon Gillesme
Roger Curtis Kinney
Robert Dale Ragel
Ralph Dean Powers Jr
William Leonard Douglas
James David Cruse
Elmer Joseph Gross
Kansas
Traffic County Accident Near Holcomb Thursday Evening
A traffic accident occurred Thursday at 5 15 near Holcomb on a county road 4 miles northwest. The truck was driven by Leo E Neese of 405 Jones Coxtensivey.
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Holcomb
Leo E. Neese
Jones Coxtensivey
KC Livestock Market Report Summary
Kansas City livestock sales include cattle 2,200 head with feeders dominant, slaughter steers 21.75 to 22.50, cows 14.30 to 16.08, hogs 8,000 with barrows and gilts up 1.00, sows 50 to 75 higher, 180 to 260 pound barrows 14.75 to 15.50, 260 to 300 pound 14.00 to 15.00, sows 13.00 to 13.50, spring lambs steady with top 23.50 to 23.75. other classes untested.
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Rys
Kansas City Livestock Kansas City
Heavy trading pushes stocks to 1963 high then trims gains
New York AP report notes a strong market push with the Associated Press average up 1. to 271.8 at noon and major groups like steels motors chemicals and rails posting gains while air lines tobacco and building materials mixed. General Motors briefly touched a historic high before retreating and Radio Corp. rose on favorable reports as Xerox advanced on a licensing tie with Photocopy. The Dow Jones average hovered around 721.5 at noon, above the 1962 close but below the early morning peak.
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New York
Associated Press
General Motors
Radio Corp
Xerox
Dow Jones
Attempt to Cash Missing Bond Arrest in Seattle Trio
A $10,000 bond lost from the Kansas State Treasurer's Topeka office led to the arrest of former Topeka man David Johnson and his wife, plus her son Robert Gaunge. They face charges of embezzlement, interstate transport of stolen securities, and impersonation after Gaunge tried to cash the bond in a Seattle bank. The bond belonged to Citizens State Bank of Jewell, Kan, held to secure bank deposits.
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Seattle
Kansas State Treasurer
Topeka
David Johnson
Robert Gaunge
Gaunge
Secret Service
Citizens State Bank
Jewell
Kan
Kansas
Negro Leaders Go Into Session in Birmingham
Negro integration leaders hold a strategy session to map new demonstration plans amid a fragile 24 hour truce. Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Ralph Abernathy planned mid morning talks with white allies, as authorities monitor protests and a potential settlement nears.
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Birmingham
Ala
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Martin Luther King Jr
Ralph D. Abernathy
Fred L. Shuttlesworth
Dorothy Cotton
SCLC
Negro Eadets
Kennedy
Washington
Martin Tutner King Jr
Ralph Abernathy
Seven Boys and One Girl Honored by JFK for Heroic Safety
President Kennedy awarded gold Lifesaver medals to seven boys and one girl, ages 11 to 15, for saving fellow students from injury or death. Recipients include Alvin Cynova, Randy Newman, John Mingle, Andrew S. Roberts, William F. Shady Jr., Larry Williams, Richard D. Roark, and Cruie Wetterauer, all members of school safety patrols.
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Washington
Kennedy
American Automobile Association
Rose Garden
AAA
Trumbull School
Chicago
Alvin Cynova
Warren Cynova
Randy Newman
Clyde Jenkins
John Mingle
U. S. Knapp School
Somerville
Mass
John
Joseph J. Mingle
Andrew S. Roberts
Flushing, N.Y
Herbert Roberts
William F. Shady Jr
William F. Shady
Halesite
St. Patrick School
Huntington
N.Y
Richard D. Roark
P. Roark
Southwest School
Jefferson City
Crucie S. Wetterauer
Damon Weterauer
Evening Street
Worthington
Ohio
Drucie
Starkey Retires As Head of Fort Dodge
The Kansas Veterans' Commission announced the resignation and retirement of George Starkey as Superintendent of the Kansas Soldiers' Home at Fort Dodge. Arthur Rose will succeed him, with Stanley Langr and John Gere reassigned in Topeka and Ottawa respectively. The commission noted Starkey’s long service since January 1955 and his plans to return to Lawrence.
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Starkey
Fort Dodge
Kansas Veterans’ Commission
Kansas Soldiers’ Home
Ling
George ©. Starkey
Ann
Hall
Docking
Anderson
Lawrence
Commission
Arthur “Rose
Rose
Wayne Garrett
Topeka
Stanley Langr
John Gere
Ottawa
Langrin Lawrence
Trade ties sustain millions of US jobs say official
Paul Hoffman, managing director of the UN Special Fund, disclosed in a recent Boston University speech that about 4.5 million American jobs depend on foreign trade, underscoring the sector's importance to the economy.
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United States
Paul Hoffman
UN Special Fund
Boston University
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