1961 Garden City High School commencement runs loud with integrity
Skies clear and crowd fills Fort Penrose Stadium for Garden City High School’s 74th commencement. Principal Bill Jellison urges graduates to seek integrity amid national scandals, as honors are announced for Glenda Cleveland and Judith Hamman. Marcelo Huergo, the foreign exchange student, joins the class.
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Penrose Stadium
Garden City
Garden City High School
America
Bill Jellison
Fort Hays
Kansas State College
Dr. Hood
Glenda Gayle Cleveland
Judith Ann Hamman
Marcelo Huergo
Argentina
Dan Hopkins
Don Threlkeld
Elgar
Memorial Day Holiday Traffic Deaths Rise Across Long Weekend
Traffic deaths mounted slowly as motorists hit the road during a four day Memorial Day weekend extending into Tuesday. An Associated Press survey tallied 341 traffic deaths, 14 host fatalities, 78 drownings and 106 miscellaneous for a total of 537 in the 102 hour period from Friday to Tuesday.
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Associated Press
National Safety Council
Peace Corps Testing Starts at Kansas Testing Points
First tests for Peace Corps candidates were given today at Garden City as one of 20 testing points in Kansas. Local Civil Service officials said no tests were scheduled here today, though several supplication forms were obtained from the Post Office and some will take the test on June 5. Most applicants are teachers. Brimibeck Selvadar Carnival at Pair Grounds now and Sunday.
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Peace Corps
Garden City
Kansas
Husband Freed On $6,000 Bond
Billie Dwayne Husband, 28, Leol, freed on $6,000 bond after waiving a preliminary hearing on three counts each of grand larceny and burglary. Bound over to the September term of District Court. The offenses involve grain items valued over $50 from the Christensen Elevator at Pierceville, with alleged thefts spanning May 18, 1959, May 11, 1960, and May 19, 1960. He and the late Charles Bruington, who died May 2, admitted participation. the elevator firm faces an estimated loss of 35,000 bushels of wheat and milo over three years.
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Billie Dwayne
Leol
Husband
Mear Hutton
Pierceville
Harrison Smith
Christensen
Weather Tonight and Sunday Outlook
The forecast calls for partly cloudy skies tonight with a chance of isolated thunder showers in the west and a low in the mid 50s. Sunday should bring widely scattered late afternoon showers or thunderstorms, otherwise warm and fair with a high near 85. Southwest winds 15 to 25 mph.
Garden Sass Gus Garden Says Forgetful Men Do Things
Garden says when a man forgets himself he usually does something everyone else remembers. Tridhenk Schrader Carnival at Buite Veround is now on Sunday March 3.
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Gus Garden
Buite Veround
Suday
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