Weather, opera tale and mayor’s snowy trip in Kansas
The piece notes light rain and cool weather in Southwest Kansas with scattered moisture and a brief forecast. Garden City Mayor Gerry Reed received a call about an opera set in Garden City claiming a garbage strike, which the mayor dismissed as fiction. Reed travels through the Southwest, stopping at a mountain cabin near Ward, and returns to Garden City amid an eight inch snowfall.
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Garden City
Gerry Reed
Westminster College
New Wilmington
Kan
Louis Sanger
Kansas City
Ward
Cole
Leda
Gerry
Colorado
Business as Usual After Pierceville Post Office Fire
Pierceville Postmaster Mrs. Steve Sloan reported business as usual as the post office, housed in the couple’s home, sustained major damage Sunday evening from a fire. Garden City Fire Dept. controlled flames in minutes. neighbors saved furnishings and postal equipment. The Sloans will rebuild. the post office room remains in use.
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Steve Sloan
Sloan
Sloans
A Neigh
Bor
Jack Conady
Conady
Garden City
Garden City Fire
Pierce+ville
Pueblo
Colo
Telegram
Strings Concert Set Wednesday at Junior High Gym
The annual stringed instrument concert will be Wednesday night at 8 in the junior high school gym. Students from fifth through ninth grade will perform, including 70 players from the fifth and sixth grades, the junior high training orchestra, and the junior high symphony. Public is invited to attend the free event.
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Larry Harris
Newark youth hurls 273 foot javelin at juco meet
Mark Murro, a 16 year old from Newark New Jersey and freshman at Mesa Jaco, set a 273 foot javelin mark at the 27th national junior college track meet. It is the longest ever by a junior college athlete under 21 and ranks second only to a 273 11 by Hanno Struse. Murro eyes the US Olympic trials June 29 30 in Oakland California.
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Mesa
Ariz
Jaco
Newark
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Mark
Associated Press
Hanno Struse
West Germany
United States
Larry Stuart
Pasadena
Calif
Santa Barbara
Stuart
Santa Ana
Juco
Fresno
Arne Os
Norway
Murro
Dover
Terry Pedersen
Oslo
John Tushaus
University of Arizona
Los Angeles
Essex Catholic High
Oakland
Weather outlook with clouds and isolated showers
Considerable cloudiness tonight with isolated showers and possible thunderstorms. Light east or southeast winds. Lows around 0. Tuesday partly cloudy and warmer with a chance of isolated afternoon and evening thundershowers. Southerly winds around 15. Highs in the mid to upper 70s. Precipitation probability 20 percent tonight and tomorrow. Sunrise 6 80, Sunset 8 51.
Plane Crashes At Sublette Airport Pilot Unhurt
A Call-Air spray plane piloted by Mike Sherwood of Sublette crash landed in rubbish at the city dump after failing to gain altitude during takeoff. The tail wheel snagged the road edge, dragging the craft into the dump where it skidded 200 feet. Sherwood, 32, escaped with a bruised thumb. the 1964 model was a total loss. He had been refueling after spraying nearby fields and was near the north-south runway.
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Sublette
Here
Mike Sherwood
Sherwood
Courtney
Haskell
Paul Blackmore
Showers soak City and area in morning rain
Light showers soaked Garden City and surrounding area this morning with general rainfall reported. KIAL downtown measured .14 of an inch while the airport ten miles east and the city power station at 11th and Santa E logged .11 of an inch. Chilly, overcast skies persisted through the morning.
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Garden City
KIAL
11Th and
Santa E
Juvenile Study Panel to present findings in public forum
The Citizen’s Youth Study Committee will unveil its year long findings on Finney County juvenile crime at a public forum Tuesday night at the First United Methodist Church. The group studied 832 juveniles in 1967 and 727 in 1966, addressing offenses from petty misbehavior to assault, and examined how cases are handled by local officials.
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Garden City
Finney County
Citizen’s Youth Study Committee
First United Methodist Church
Daniel J. High
M. C.schrader
Mike J. Friesen
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