You Plant a Tree and Change in Garden City Visit
Former Telegram editor Stuart Awbrey returns to Garden City with Barbara, reflecting on Seven Years in town. The column recalls cottonwood planting at Theron Place, local changes on Main Street, and a philosophy of planting a tree to mark presence while noting aging neighbors, new junior high, and ongoing town evolution.
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Telegram
Stuart Awbrey
Barbara
Theron Place
Cy Harmon
Arkansas
Ramona (Grimsley) Oyvens
Garden City
Appalachia
Motion to widen restraint on Fairmont Foods filed
A Finney County District Court motion seeks a state wide temporary restraining order against Fairmont Foods Corp to bar advertising and free gift panels on milk cartons. The prior county only order targeted Fairmont gifts redeemable at local shops and aimed to curb alleged trade diversion and price discrimination. District Judge Bert Vance sets a Friday hearing as county wide action may follow Liberal proceeding. Tempe Oklahoma wheat harvest report notes Ray Zachary harvesting pus on Randett farm at an elevator.
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Fairmont Foods Corp
Finney County
Fairmont
Harrison Smith
Kansas
Bill Ferguson
Seward
Liberal
Bert Vance
Finney County District Court
Temple
Okla
Oklahoma
Ray Zachary
Randett
Heart Health Series Promises Key Warnings and Tips
Garden City Telegram launches a 12 part series on heart health starting tomorrow. The feature condenses the best selling book Your Heart Has Nine Lives by Alton Blakeslee and Dr Jeremiah Stamler with praise from Dr Paul Dudley White. It highlights risk factors such as high blood pressure cholesterol overeating lack of exercise smoking and obesity and urges readers to take preventive steps.
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America
Garden City Telegram
Alton Blakeslee
Sciencere
Associated Press
Jeremiah Stamler
Paul Dudley White
Hisenhower
New exile attacks hinted on Communist Cuba
Miami refugees hint new guerrilla action against Castro's Cuba around May 19 20. Manuel Ray and Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo, exiled guerrilla leaders, may be in Cuba planning incursions as U S officials doubt a popular uprising. Ray left Puerto Rico recently. a radio broadcast urged rebels to rise. Refugee leaders also report a ballot count on a five man junta to represent Cubans.
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Miami
Fla
Cuba
Manuel Ray
Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo
Batlefield
Jose Marti
Gutierrez Menoyo
Fidel Castro
Fulgen
Ccio Batista
Castro
Havana
Ray
San Juan
Puerto Rico
Radio Free Cuba
U.S
Sainos
Garden Sass Gas Garden and the No Comment Claim
A brief column notes a running joke about a woman becoming president and the notion she would struggle to say no comment. It frames a gendered stereotype in a wry municipal tone.
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Gas Garden
Mower Mishap Injures Garden City Junior High Principal
Hubert Abe Hubert, longtime principal at Garden City Junior High, was badly cut when a mower blade threw a wire fragment at high speed. After receiving seventy stitches to his face chin and right shoulder he drove himself to Leopold Hospital where he is listed as much improved. Hoyt Ferguson will serve as acting principal during his absence.
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Abe Hubert
Garden City Junior High
Leopold Hospital
Hubert
Hoyt Ferguson
Garden City School Board Night Meeting Signals Uniforms Contracts
Garden City School Board meets at 7 30 p m in the Keller Building to review new band uniforms and costs, discuss a summer work program across district buildings, approve contracts for two new teachers, and consider transportation needs including two wagon replacements. Principal Tom Saffel and high school band director Robert Anderson will present uniform styles for board approval.
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Garden City School Board
Keller
Tom Saffel
Robert Anderson
Sugar Beets Chamber Topic Breakfast Meeting Set
A breakfast for the general Chamber of Commerce membership is set for 7 tomorrow morning at the Warren Hotel to discuss the sugar beet situation. Mitch Geisler says a presentation on acreage allotment will be given as a prelude to a day-long session Wednesday with regional economic stakeholders including a USDA sugar policy staffer and officials from firms serving the area. All Chamber members are urged to attend.
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General Chamber of Commerce
Warren
Mitch Geisler
Department of Agriculture
Chamber
Housing list sought for Garden City Junior College students
The Dean of Women and Dean of Men at Garden City Junior College are compiling an approved housing list for students. Local residents with rooms or apartments for rent to students should call the college office before Wednesday to be added. Policies revised. the College Catalog will reflect changes.
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Garden City Junior College
Berniece Fry
Morton Philips
College of Ice
Jaycees Pick Garden Citian Art Wilson Vice President
Art Wilson of Garden City was elected one of two vice presidents for the Southwest region of the Kansas Jaycee organization at the annual state session in Hutchinson. John Duncan of Hugoton was the other Southwest vice president. Twelve other Garden City Jaycees and wives attended. Liberal will host the 1965 state convention. Bill Tucker, a rancher stockman from near Elkhart, was elected president. Gene Cyr of Elkhart became one of Kansas national directors.
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Art Wilson
Garden City
Hutchinson
Southwest
John Duncan
Hugoton
Wilson
Dale Berry
Vern Holmes
Ray Kantola
Dick Henry
Kansas
Bill Tucker
Elkhart
Butler County Juco Plant Referendum Faces High Turnout
DORADO Kan AP voters head to the polls to decide a 1.8 million bond issue to fund a new plant for the Butler County Junior College. City Clerk F D Tulse notes a surge in registrations as turnout nears.
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Dorado, Kan
Butler County
F. D. Tulse
el Dorado
Women Plan For Conference In Garden City Four-State Meet
Mrs. Georgia Brown will chair the Midwest Conference of Women's Divisions of Chambers of Commerce in Garden City June 5 6 and 7. The theme Garden Spot of the West was chosen. Delegates from Iowa Missouri Nebraska and Kansas will attend.
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Chambers of Commerce
Garden City
Georgia Brown
West
Chamber of Commerce
Finney County United Fund Board of Directors
Community Church
Iowa
Missouri
Nebraska
Kansas
Scott Federal Building Funds Approved
The House Appropriations Committee approved new federal building funds for Scott City Kansas 261000 Wellington 259200 in Kansas and Missouri projects Branson 142200 Crystal City 125900 Montgomery City 248000 with funding allocated to each site as listed.
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Washington
House Appropriation Committee
Kansas
Scott City
Wellington
Missouri
Branson
Crystal City
Montgomiery City
Finney County Set to Vote on Unified School District Plan
Finney County voters take part on June 2 in a unified district proposal linking Garden City No. 1 and rural areas. Voters in Kalvesta join Gray and Scott counties portions for participation, with separate tallies for Garden City and rural votes. If either fails, a September follow up is planned before state action may form the districts.
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Vientiane
Pathet Lao
Plaine Des Jarres
Geneva
Laos
Souvanna
Finney County
Unified School District
Garden City
Kansas Department of Public Instruction
Holcomb
Kalvesta
Gray
Scott Counties
Pierceville
Scott
Friend
Scott County
Finney County Planning Unit
Finney
Gray County
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Healy
Don Killer
Pinewood
Mark Daley
Dennis Dowell
Dighton
Larry Horn
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