Memorial Day Notices and Garden City High Graduation
Memorial day closures affect mail and stores while outdoor commencement at Penrose stadium for Garden City High School proceeds with a strong turnout. Judge Philip Gilliam of Denver delivers a top speech as police reroute traffic and wind dampens notes. Local color includes a SW Bell rate discussion, a student grade prank, a bull snake removal, and two Colorado Springs youths found wandering with aliases as they sought work.
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Penrose Stadium
Garden City High School
Phillip Gilliam
Denver
Kansas Avenue
Colorado Springs
Main Street
Pueblo
Colo
Judge Gilliam urges Garden City grads to value simple lives
Denver juvenile court judge Philip Gilliam addressed 147 Garden City High School graduates in outdoor ceremonies at Penrose Stadium. He urged that America needs a great people from small towns, warned against compromising integrity, and stressed the value of simple, worthwhile lives. About 2,000 spectators attended as Dr. Leroy Wood introduced the speaker.
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Philip Gilliam
Denver Juvenile Court
Garden City High School
Penrose Stadium
Garden City’ High
British protests US over firing of two monkeys
London animal welfare groups delivered a written protest to the US Embassy against Americas firing of two monkeys. In Tokyo seven people were killed and 14 seriously injured as a high school graduation ceremony was marred by an explosion at a plant. A tropical storm named Arlene threatened the Louisiana coast with 50 mph winds as it moved toward New Orleans.
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London
Americas
Conference of Animal Welfare Societies
Britain
Tokyo
Pauli
Masoner
Shimoina
Princi
Pal Bill Jellison
New Orleans
Gulf of Mexico
Louisiana
Weather Bureau
Arlene
Mississippi
Gunmen Steal 3 Million Pesos In Mexico City Robbery
Gunmen seized more than three million pesos from a Mexican woman and fled after wounding her. Police identified the American woman Marilyn Mae Beyeff of Miami Florida and several associates among suspects in the heist. Investigators also said they may have uncovered an international ring dealing in foreign currencies jewels and possibly narcotics.
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Mexico City
Marilyn
Mae) Thall Beyeff
Cential
Miami
Fla
Tinto
Blushing Blonde Quits Teaching for Stripping
A Minneapolis born former junior high teacher, Patricia Ann Carruthers, turned stripper in Los Angeles under Patti White after being criticized for her dress. She quit teaching last October, seeking acting work, and now performs nude burlesque nightly at El Rancho Club, saying the dress scrutiny drove her to quit. Police later recovered a stolen valise with 3,767,500 Cuban pesos tied to a currency exchange scheme involving four U.S. citizens and three Mexicans.
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Hollywood
Minneapolis
Patricia Ann Carruthers
University of Minnesota
el Rancho
Los Angeles
Patti White
Beyeff
A. Karl Beyeff
Fidel Castro
Havanta
Mexico
Girl Injured Crossing Street after Car Hit
A 14 year old girl Anita Mage Orozco was struck by a car while crossing West Fulton near Taylor. She suffered major bruises to arms and legs and was hospitalized at St Catherine. The driver Giles Warren Browne a high school student said he did not see her until too late and was charged with speeding.
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West Fulton
Anita Mage Orozco
Jesse M. Orozco
Taylor
St. Catherine
Fulton
Giles Warren-Browne
Big Four Ministers Start Secret Talks On Summit Berlin
Western officials report the Big Four foreign ministers began secret talks on Germany and a Geneva summit after a 17 hour flight from Washington. The ministers, including He rter and Gromyka, met at the Palace of Nations for a series of organized discussions and informal exchanges over two days. A dramatic in-flight session preceded the talks, with limited progress noted but optimism for a framework within two weeks. A fire and injury during the stopover incident in Geneva hospitalised one participant, Neil Jackson, with non life threatening burns.
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Washington
West Germany
Acad Yeouroli
Palace of Nations
St. Catherine Hospital
Christian
Herter
Neil Raymond Jackson
Andrei A. Gromyka
George Retary Lloyd and Franee
Couve de Morville
Af Town
Comiein
Tedd Pny
Plang
Gromyke
Jackson
Ing Heldsistant
Andres
Wil Bording
Anity
Hal
Shilement
Highway Patrol
Gerald Mulwider
Dick Eider
Genwy
ATL
Gloyd
Herding
Som
Big Four
Wisenhower
Finance Gridlock May Slow Wheat Harvest at Elevators
Deadlock between Democratic Gov George Docking and Republican state finance council members risks slowing wheat harvest as grain inspection work drains the department budget. Arthur Croton head of the grain inspection dept says layoffs may be needed unless an emergency spending increase is approved. Docking refuses to convene the finance council, citing executive overreach. Council Republicans and Atty Gen John Anderson dispute memo method and plan to meet in Topeka June 5, but Docking will be away.
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George Docking
State Finance Council
State Grain Inspection Department
Docking
Arthur Croton He
Kansas City
Creten
Grain Advisory Commission
Docking Hag
Finance Council
Council
GOP
Atty
John Anderson
Topeka
Vacation Church Schools Start Across Garden City
Several hundred youths from Garden City Church of Christ and other congregations will begin vacation Bible schools in early June. Most programs run mornings for two weeks, with some churches offering longer or evening sessions from June 8 to 9 p.m. Volunteer workers lead the programs, and about 600 youth are expected to participate.
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Garden City Church of Christ
Pilgrim Chapel
First Son Baptist
Bible E
Ious
Memorial Day Observances in Garden City 1959
Memorial day 1959 will be observed in Garden City with a solemn pause for the dead followed by rest recreation or work. Services at Valley View cemetery start at 10:30 a.m. Garden City Municipal band appears. Rev. Arthur Fleming to give the address. Cemetery will host music all day. Future Horsemakers of America play records. Water barrels placed around the cemetery. Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars in charge. Brownie Scouts help place wreaths. Gates will open for the first time this year. Pool hours set for tomorrow and early June. weather may adjust closing. Beth Greathouse head lifeguard. pool managed by Mrs. Ae Owane. Lifeguards listed. Buffalo Stampede rodeo at Finney County Fairgrounds with multiple events. shows at 7:30 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday. Brodbeck-Schrader carnival moved in for a dray stand.
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Garden City
Valley View Cemetery
Arthur Fleming
First Christian
Horsemakers of America
Bill Fief
Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars
Brownie Scouts
Beth Greathouse
Ae Owane
Fairgrounds
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