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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1965
Page
3
The Kansas Highway Patrol launches Operation Lifeguard with four hour peak periods to control high accident areas and provide enforcement tools. Col. L. E. Hughes says the aim is to cut the Memorial holiday death average by enforcing speed limits and sobriety while aiding stranded motorists to ensure safer motoring holidays.
The Distaff Side notes a 50 year reunion for Garden City High School class of 1915 with 17 1965 graduates expected to attend. Events include a Memorial Stadium program a home gathering at Rowena Beckett’s 508 North 6th Street Dutch treat breakfast and luncheon at the Warren Hotel a bus town tour a 6 30 p m banquet at the Continental Inn and a Sunday noon smorgasbord at Downings. Attending are numerous named alumni and relatives with several members still living and others deceased.
Drew Pearson reports Senator Morse engages Bolivia's new military ambassador Julio Sanjines in a frank talk about revolutionary policy and land reform, while Gen Rene Barrientos tightens control and exiles Lechin amid mine production disputes. The column also notes Arkansas Senator John McClellan's banking investigations and a push to reorganize federal banking agencies. Space news cites Russia focusing on interplanetary travel as US efforts lag.
Hal Boyle describes Ngo Dinh Diem’s unfinished summer palace on a 1,600 foot plateau near Da Nang now used as a civilian irregular defense training camp. A 6,000 foot peak, airstrip, bunkers, barbed wire, and mine fields define a harsh, isolated outpost where Sgt. Davidson and his team train Vietnamese and Montagnard volunteers to defend villages from Viet Cong raids amid jungles and wild game.
Saturday morning May 22 finds me off to Colorado Springs with 21 Garden City fellows for a four day golf trip. I ask friends to bet on me to win place or show and mention a rival calling me an old race horse. I joke about Lions Club broom sales at 1.75 while noting a request for price checks at local supermarkets.
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