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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1963
Page
1
In Kansas City cattle numbers reach 500 with calves 75 and hogs at 2,500 head, barrows and gilts priced around 15.00 to 75.00 per hundredweight. Sheep total 400 head, but not enough to establish test prices. Eggs and poultry items listed in local produce section.
Sugar issues led a choppy session as the stock market moved unevenly with sugars as the only strong group. The Dow stood at 722.50 at noon, with the Associated Press average up and varied moves across oils aerospace and rail stocks, while profits rhetoric and bond results framed a cautious trading day.
President Kennedy’s reception for astronaut Gordon Cooper at the White House is postponed four hours to allow for more rest after his spaceflight. White House aide Pierre Salinger said Cooper would rest Monday, hold a news conference Sunday at Cape Canaveral, and receive NASA’s Distinguished Service Medal from Kennedy at the ceremony. Cooper will fly to Andrews Air Force Base Tuesday morning and travel to the White House by helicopter.
Twenty eight employees at Northern Natural Gas Holcomb District were honored at a Liberal luncheon for more than seven years with no lost time injuries. A J Vaughan presented an engraved plaque to Perry Moore, superintendent, and Carl Tkard awarded engraved cigarette lighters to each honoree. The last injury occurred on Feb 24 1956. Also present were Harold Carr and Mary Travis. Northern praises 26 field locations from Texas to Minnesota for five plus years without a lost time injury.
The Pontiac Motor Division's 1963 Drive-O-Rama visits Garden City today and tomorrow. The Western Motor Co. Pontiac and Buick dealer invites friends and customers to test drive the new Tempest and Pontiac models.
J Wayne Chambers of Kansas Farm Life Insurance Co was named to the AL Star Honor Ball of The Insurance Salesman Magazine. He received an All Star certificate at the Southwest Kansas Association of Life Underwriters meeting. The group, part of the National Association of Life Underwriters, upholds ethical underwriting standards and advocates favorable public policy for the industry.
Today in History notes several events across centuries including the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court ruling against racial segregation in public schools and the 1792 organization of the New York Stock Exchange by 24 brokers to fix rates. Also mentions Montreal’s founding in 1602 and Boston’s first telephone exchange in 1877.
Ralph Gardiner manager of Gardiner Dairy and Tee Cream Co Bill Gardiner sales manager Jerry Riegel Great Bend branch manager and their wives attend the annual Meeting of All Star Dairy Assn in Chicago this week. Ralph Gardiner is a past president and serves on the board. The group comprises 10 independent dairies.
A Senate Judiciary subcommittee will hold two days of hearings starting Wednesday on the U S policy toward Cuban refugees. Edwin Martin, assistant secretary of state for inter-American affairs, will be questioned as Miami exile groups loom large in the discussion. Chairman Hart says the hearings aim to clarify policy shifts away from the Rodrigo Mira Carolina faction and curb raids. Kennedy promotes small business tax proposals at the White House, while Humphrey jokes about Senate delays comparing Cooper's 88 minute orbit to amendment pace.
The menus list daily meals for the last week of classes at Garden City schools. Meals include chicken supreme with peas and biscuits on Monday, Swiss steak on Tuesday, barbecued ham loaf on Wednesday, fried chicken on Thursday, sloppy Joes on Friday, and the holiday week meals extending to May 28 with beef pot pie hash brown potatoes and white cake. The schedule shows daily beverages, vegetables, salads, starches, and desserts for each weekday.
Kansas State University forester Harold Gallaher notes a nascent pine industry spreading across the state with 100,000 plus trees planted in Riley and Geary counties and other counties. Pine plantings, live trees, and balled and burlapped stock are expanding for home and farm markets. Local growers include Ira Wheeler, Frey and Tony Burre, John Rohde family, and several operators in Pittsburg and Cherokee County. The industry aims toward a multi million dollar annual enterprise as demand continues, with 1963 orders and demonstrations expanding outreach statewide.
Today admissions include St Catherne Marie Rodriguez Holcomb Kevin Wayne Farr Scott City Mrs Howard Noel 1207 Wall Mrs Manuel Garcia Jr 1610 and Mrs L O Lile 812 N 7th with multiple names listed in a terse notation for a local hospital record.
Members of the feedlot study four sponsored by the Western Livestock Journal arrive in Garden City for a 4:45 to 5:30 p.m. visit to Oswalt Industries. Saturday they tour Brookover Feed Yard from 8 to 9 a.m. Residents from Colorado, Nebraska and Kansas join two busloads for a 1,700 mile trek visiting 22 feedlots, three cattle breeding establishments, two markets, Kansas State University, an experiment station, a packing house, and Garden City stops.
Thich Tri Quang, monk superior of the Central Viet Nam Buddhist Association, said Buddhists will sacrifice themselves to obtain equality of religion in South Viet Nam. Officials privately admit concern as Diem government faces growing tension among a 14 million population that is 90 percent Buddhist.
Summary of dismissals and court actions listing individuals and addresses in Garden City and surrounding areas. Includes dismissals at St Catherine, various names with addresses, property transactions, marriage licenses, and public notices. Also covers abatement approvals, speeding fines, license issues, and posted bonds with amounts and jurisdictions.
The nation’s jobless rate edged upward last month while employment hit a record 68.9 million and output rose to 122.4 percent of the 1957-50 average. April nonfarm payrolls climbed by 800,000 to 55.9 million as unemployment totaled 6.0 million, rate at 5.7 percent. Retail trade for the week ended May 11 rose 3 percent year-over-year.
Dean Salter of the University of Kansas, set to graduate this spring, earned a direct exchange scholarship to the University of Southampton in England. He will study political science in October, affiliated with Omicron Delta Kappa, Owl Society, and Delta Sigma Rho, and active on campus clubs and the debate squad. The KU junior is among 16 recipients and will work at KIUL this summer.
Nine University of Kansas graduate students in modern languages received summer fellowships for travel and study in France Germany or Spain. The group includes Jon Rutherford of Garden City who will study in France. Each will receive a 700 dollar grant and will be required to teach at KU for a year.
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