Garden Citians Reunion and Local Track Meet Spark Busy Day
Former Garden City residents gathered at Fleishhacker Zoo in San Francisco for a reunion while Penrose Stadium hosted the annual city grade school track meet. A telephoto image from the New York Times Western Edition, shot by Jim Johnson, circulated nationwide via AP. Weather prophet Elihu Allman predicted rain to northern and western areas, recalling a similar 1935 drought end.
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Lee Richardson
Whitney Hicks
Stanford
Calif
New York Times
Los Angeles
Hicks
Fleishhacker Zoo
San Francisco
Bim
Diane
Archibald) Braddock
Brian
Cindy
Brent
Betsy
Telegram
Jim Johnson
Associated Press
Elihu Allman
Garden City
Rome
Penrose Stadium
Orange School Board Told to End Severe Racial Imbalance
In Trenton, state Education Commissioner Raubinger ruled Orange Oakwood Elementary must address extreme racial imbalance after finding the 99 percent Black enrollment deprives students of equal educational opportunity. He ordered a plan due by July 1 and implementation for 1963 54. Similar Englewood Lincoln Elementary faces a 98 percent Black enrollment and is under review.
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Trenton
N.S
State Education Commission
Frederick M. Raubinger
Orange School Board
Oakwood
New Jersey
Raubinger
Kansas Traffic Deaths Log May 26 1963
Topeka AP logs show 24 hour traffic death totals through 8 am Thursday May 26 1963 with 157 compared to 186 in 1962, reflecting year to year change in fatalities.
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Topeka
Kansas
Garden Sass Gardener Gas Garden 5 find ing that what goes down doesn't necessarily come up.
A brief garden note suggests that what is uprooted or buried may not always resurface, reflecting on cyclical growth and the unpredictable nature of planting and soil.
Heavy Rain Strikes Northwest Area Near Garden City
A deluge soaked an area northwest of Garden City, with up to four inches of rain and heavy hail that damaged wheat. Rain totals varied widely across towns from Marienthal to Leoti, Scott City, and beyond, while many locations reported little or no rain. Weather records note the driest April in decades and overall low moisture this year.
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Garden City
Marienthal
Tel Graff
Tribune
Kansas State University Agriculture Experiment Station
Staite
Whitelaw
White Woman Creek
Horace
Syracuse
Leoti
L. E. Gorsuch
Leon
Wichita
Scott City
Doug Baker
Scott
Friend
Desegregation Pact Backers Are Revealed
Birmingham residents confront a desegregation pact backed by prominent Alabama businessmen as white shoppers threaten a boycott while both communities pledge adherence. 77 named participants were disclosed to curb violence. Montgomery Governor George Wallace denounces federal troops. Shuttlesworth Jr. jailed 180 days for march without a permit.
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Birmingham
Ala
Alabama
Kennedy
Fred. L. Shuttiesworth Jr
Garden City Students Blamed in Canon City Prank
A Daily Record front page wrongly identified Garden City Kansas students as the culprits in a prank near Canon City Colorado. The group, said to be from Mary Baker school, did not exist, and no Garden City group was visiting Royal Gorge when a bus rolled a 100 pound rock into the 30 inch water line, causing a temporary leak.
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The
Daily Record
Canon City
Royal Gorge
Garden City
Kan
Mary Baker
Helen Riley
Cation City
Clifford Hope resigns as GPW president in move to new chief
Clifford R. Hope resigns as president of Great Plains Wheat Inc., effective June 30, with Howard W. Hardy promoted to president. GPW board chairman Otis Tossett lauds Hope’s 40-year congressional career and role in farm policy, including Public Law 480. Hardy, former vice president, will head market development from Garden City office.
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Howard Hardy
Great Plaing Wheat, Inc
Clifford R. Hope
Bismark
N.C
Great Plains Wheat, Inc
Hardy
Association
GPW
Otis Tossett
Hope
America
U.S
Congress
Tossett
Garden City
Beech
N.D
Elate
Stirdy
North Dakota
North Dakota Wheat Commission
Teasett
Not Easy Leaving Hope Tells Board
Clifford R. Hope, president of Great Plains Wheat, announced his resignation to the GPW board, citing his upcoming 70th birthday and his wife’s health as reasons. He praised the staff, urged grassroots outreach, and pledged ongoing support, noting wheat’s importance to the plains and the world’s needs.
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Hope
Great Plains Wheat
Weather forecast for Harden and nearby cities
Cloudy and cooler with intermittent light rain or drizzle and scattered thunderstorms in northern and eastern counties tonight. Northerly winds 10-20 mph, lows in the lower 50s. Friday partly cloudy and mild with light northerly winds, highs in the lower 80s to mid 70s, northern winds around 20 mph.
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Fareun
Guy Ree
Harden City
Furitay
Salina
Union Officials Urge Tax Cut and Spending Hike
AFL-CIO Executive Council urged a $10 billion tax cut and higher federal spending to revive the economy. The resolution seeks retroactivity to Jan 1 and argues the measure would provide high-velocity buying power to boost employment.
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St, Louis
API
Afl-Cio
America
Officials Cheered by Perfection of Flight
CAPE CANAVERAL Fla AP Astronaut Gordon Cooper nears completion of a 22 orbit flight with Faith 7. He reports excellent spacecraft condition and fuel use as recovery forces await offshore near Midway Island. If no emergency, rockets will fire off China east to begin a controlled descent toward a Pacific splashdown around 6 29 p.m. EST.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Gordon Cooper
Pacific Ocean
Mercury Control Center
Cooper
Shanghai
China
Kearsarge
Walter M. Schirratr
Indian Ocean
Faith 7
Alan B. Shepard Jr
Wall Cooper
Shepard
Cape Canaaveral
Aith 7
Australia
Roger
Coopea
Muchea
Atlantic
Evan
Control Center
Hin Systems
Air Force
John A. Powers
Mercury
Powers
Sleop
John W. Glenn, Jr
Japan
Powara Sald
Australa
Midway
Carrion
Soviet Snooper Ship Near Monitoring Ship
A Soviet trawler used for electronic snooping was sighted near a U S destroyer and the monitoring ship Coastal Sentry close to Gordon Cooper’s space flight area in international waters. The trawler’s mission remains undetermined.
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Yokosuka
Japan
Gordon Cooper
U.S
Cooper
When's An Orbit Not An Orbit Semantics CAPE CANAVERAL
The piece explains orbit terminology for Gordon Cooper in NASA's 42 orbit mission. It contrasts Keplerian orbits with earth fixed revolutions measured by an imaginary Cape Canaveral north south line. Cooper completes about 22 earth fixed revolutions or 23 Keplerian orbits before returning to Earth.
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Mercury
Cape Canaveral
Cooper
Cape Canaveral Ring
Mercury Control
NASA
Earth
John A. Powers
Ton Day
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Garden City School
Colo
Clifford Hope
Howard W. Hardy
Fife
Washington
Pierre
Denver
Great Plains
Greats Plains
Hallo
Virgil Grissom
Guaymas
Mexico
MIT
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Grissom
United States
Cooper Was
Walter M. Schirta Jr
Coops
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