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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1969
Page
8
Editor notes a change toward an open look with wider columns and no rules while stressing readable content. Mentions tax kit scam mail to executives and quotes Al Capp at Penn State University. Covers Garden City High School Curtain Call awards and a Dodge City talk on J Edgar Hoover retirement age.
Washington dispatch reports the Nix on administration now believes it has the commitments necessary for Senate approval of the Safe guard missile defense system. Melvin Laird backs U S battlefield tactics facing Democratic critiques claiming they cost American lives.
Garden City High School seniors heard a baccalaureate address urging courage to fail and noting that failure is a key, undervalued dimension of life. The rector warned many will face failure in the next five years while praising graduates for understanding real morality. Special music and church leaders accompanied a service at Clifford Hope Auditorium. Commencement is set for 8 p.m. Wednesday at Memorial Stadium unless weather forces the gym.
Apollo 10 returns safely to Earth after an eight day mission. Col. Thomas P. Stafford, Cmdr. John W. Young, and Cmdr. Eugene A. Cernan splash down 400 miles east of Pago Pago near the Princeton. They circled the moon 31 times and tested all landing phases in preparation for Apollo 11.
Garden City Junior High will graduate 367 freshmen on Wednesday at 10 a.m. in Clifford Hope Auditorium. Special education certificates will be awarded to three students. Principal Abe Hubert presents the class. Hoyt Ferguson introduces the graduates. Tom Saffold will award the diplomas. musical groups include Junior High Symphony Orchestra, Ninth Grade Choir, and Ninth Grade Girls Ensemble performing Pomp and Circumstance People Alleluia Amen and Now Let Us All With One Accord. Reverend Walter G. Schmidt gives invocation and benediction.
Gus Garden explains a common fishing method for catfish focusing on the tail as the key lure. The remark reflects practical tips from a local angling expert.
Garden City High School thespian groups honored peers at the first Curtain Call Banquet held at the Wheat Lands Convention Center. Nancy Hope and Bill Alsop won best actor awards for This Way to Heaven and All My Sons respectively, with multiple nominees and special recognitions for supporting roles and technical theater work.
The weather forecast notes a mild night with lows in the lower 60s and light south winds. Tuesday remains fair and warm with a high near 90, winds southwest at 15 to 20 mph. Sunrise is 6 26, sunset 8 58.
MEMPHIS TENN AP James Earl Ray asked for a full trial on the murder of Dr Martin Luther King Jr after pleading guilty 11 weeks earlier He claims inadequate counsel and coercion led to the guilty plea and seeks to reopen the case The judge will decide if a new hearing and testimony are allowed and whether the case should be reopened Ray argues the death of Judge Battle voids the plea while prosecutors maintain the guilty plea bars any appeal or new trial
Local junior college notes that state legislation allows 18 year olds to donate blood without parental consent while 21 remains the minimum to sell blood to banks. The community has a growing group of student donors who return to Bloodmobile events, aiding January success and upcoming Co-op Center drive. Beta Sigma Mu members and local organizers recruit by phone for Thursday’s visit.
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