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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1968
Page
7
Kansas City market data show cattle and calves totaling 2,200 with varying weight ranges and prices for steers, feeders, and calves. Hogs trade steady to higher with mixed weights ranging around 18.0 to 19.5 per hundred pounds and sows steady. Sheep and lambs show spring lambs up about one dollar with shorn ewes steady, lambs quoted 28 to 29 dollars.
At 2 p.m. futures for June August and October traded around 26.30 to 26.40 with highs near 26.40 and lows near 26.12. The Dow Jones industrial average stood at 806.56, down 0.23 points at noon.
Fifty six Kansas high schools were recognized for journalistic merit in the 1967 68 contest by the William Allen White School of Journalism. Garden City Sugar Beet placed 11th in A AA division. Lakin Bronc Roundup 5th and Shallow Water Tiger Tales 9th in B BB. The 48th annual contest drew 808 entries from 76 schools with multiple honors awarded to Garden City Lakin and Shallow Water in various categories.
A list from Garden City Hospitals details dismissals and police fines. Individuals such as Elsa Ramos Ethel Stone and Herbert Stout are named with offenses including no parking improper backing and drunkenness. Several defendants face jail time or suspended sentences, with amounts ranging from 2 to 100 dollars plus costs.
Colleen Morris holcomb high school 1968 graduate receives a speech and drama scholarship from Garden City Lions Club at Garden City Community Junior College. She is an honor student active in student council yearbook staff school newspaper and multiple clubs.
A special music program by children of the Russell Day Care Center will be presented Wednesday at 9 30 a m at the Knights of Columbus Hall under the direction of Mrs F Howard Schroeder music therapist This annual showcase is sponsored by the Garden City Assn for Retarded Children and features Larry A Bell staff psychologist as director with Mrs James Neher as speech therapist and many volunteers assisting Refreshments will follow and officials invite parents staff friends and citizens to share in the year s progress
Five Points at 9 28 a m on Thursday saw minor damage to two cars driven by Lee F Ballinger and Mrs Curtis Middleswart in the 1206 St John and Ellinwood areas. At 2 50 p m Wednesday in the 100 block W Chestnut Barbara A Doty and Robert W Brown sustained minor damage. At 1 10 p m Wednesday in the 400 block EB Fulton Samuel D Unruh Jr and Luther B Proffitt had extensive damage to both cars, with Shirley Unruh of Copeland suffering minor injuries.
Republican candidate George W. Meeker of Garden City steps up his bid for Congress in the First District. The itinerary includes Hays Russell Ellsworth Hoisington Great Bend Montezuma Cimarron Sublette Fowler Meade Plains Liberal Deerfield Lakin Syracuse Johnson Richfield Elkhart Hugoton Spearville Dodge City and a Kansas traffic death log for 24 hours to May 28.
Garden City Community Junior College will award degrees to 82 graduates in a commencement at 8 p.m. in Clifford Hope Auditorium. The class includes 76 Kansans and six out-of-staters. degrees awarded are associate of arts, associate of science, and college diploma.
I See. by The Telegram reports J D candidates and degree recipients from Washburn University Wichita State University and Hardin Simmons University. Mentions include Winton Hinkle son of Ralph Hinkle 812 Center candidate for Juris Doctor. Ron Huxtable grandson of Alice Pitcher 312 N 1st to receive B A from Wichita State June 2. Kenneth Gardner 1712 Parkwood selected for NSF summer math institute at Southeastern State College Durant Ohio. Charles Cason Sublette editor of Hardin Simmons Bronco with $350 scholarship. Kenneth D. Wion Sublette chosen for NSF Institute at Augustana College Sioux Falls June 10 to Aug 3. recent degrees awarded at St Mary of the Plains Dodge City to Luke and Judith Schwieterman Syracuse and Alberta Stauth Cimarron.
Daylight savings time prompts extended visiting hours from 7 to 9 p.m. at St Catherine Hospital Garden City. Hospital administrator Dale Gullan notes the change assists farmers and workers with later hours. A separate line mentions age-based counsel norms in African tribes, noting a man earns weighty opinions around age 40.
A feature on Madeline Carl, an Eskimo woman working at Cleavers Cleaners in Garden City, detailing her Alaska roots and church work, followed by coverage of the Great Bend arson case. Retired Gen C C Parrish faces arson charges in the Parrish hotel fire of October 1967, with Christendon and others also charged. Kansas natural gas output noted, Hugoton field a major source.
YMCA calendar lists May events across Memorial Stadium and YMCA venues. Activities include Girls Track and Jog and Walk sessions, Women’s Ceramics, and Youth Swim with age groups at Mel Krebs Pool. Beeston, Garden City teams and Baby-Sitting classes appear alongside baseball sign-ups and evening exercise classes.
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