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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1961
Page
1
Delegations from the Laotian government and pro Communist rebels signed a formal cease fire at Ban Namone Laos and agreed to open full scale military and political talks Sunday. Separate delegations were already in Geneva for broader discussions.
Flood waters kept rising in southern Illinois and Indiana with levees strained and hundreds of thousands of acres underwater. The Little Wabash near Carmi neared 22 feet, Murphysboro’s Big Muddy at 22.5 feet, and the Ohio River near Tell City rose toward 14 feet as disaster areas expanded and extensive evacuations continued.
An all-city concert features public school bands from 5th grade through senior high at Clifford Hope Auditorium Monday night at 8. The program includes combined 5th and 6th grade bands, junior high, and senior high bands under directors Bueford Roper and Don Threlkeld. Public invited with over 300 students participating.
An explosion at the Kaohsiung port in Formosa killed three and injured 48 as workers attempted to seal a high octane aviation gas pipeline damaged by a truck. The blast occurred during the sealing effort at the south Formosa harbor.
Garden Sass Gas Garden notes that long legged pedestrians have pushed for major progress in traffic safety. The item highlights efforts by officials and the public to improve crosswalks and curb dangerous crossings.
In Geneva US Secretary of State Rusk and Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko failed to resolve how Laos should be represented at the Southeast Asia conference. Rusk rejected full and equal Pathet Lao status. Western envoys pressed for a breakthrough as Cease-fire talks opened in Ban Namone toward a coalition government and a unified Geneva delegation.
Hollywood AP reports Gary Cooper remains in extremely critical condition. A family spokesman denied death statements, saying Cooper is heavily sedated and fed intravenously as medical staff monitor his cancer-stricken state.
Cloudy cooler tonight with scattered showers and thunder. Northeasterly winds 20 to 25 mph, 40 to 50 mph with storms, low 40s. Sunday cloudy with intermittent rain, high in the 60s, winds north 20 to 30 mph.
Washington AP General Lyman Lemnitzer, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, told the House Armed Services Committee in February that the United States could, without any doubt, destroy the Soviet Union if attacked. He warned of a deteriorating international scene but said the risk of general war had not increased from a year earlier. Lemnitzer stressed the need to reassess American strength versus the Soviets amid future uncertainties. His closed door testimony was released Friday after censorship removal of classified material.
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