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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1971
Page
8
Slaughter steers rise 25c with active trade and large volumes. Slaughter heifers hold steady to strong. Holsteins around 28. Feeder cattle trade slow. feeder steers and heifers mixed with limited demand. Total week sales: 23,200 head versus 10,600 last week and 7,500 a year ago.
In Garden City today several local residents are listed for dismissals at St Catherine and area addresses including Angela Baker James R Bryan George J Clausen Jr and Mrs Larry Davis plus baby girl Brenda Kay Hogie Alan M Hutchins Mrs Patrick Kearney Brian Moore Adelaide Rincones Norman Roberts Mes James Threadgill and baby boy. The Prairie Players canceled the Drunkard tonight due to measles among troupe members. In Topeka Republican leaders plan a drive to attract first time voters in 1972. Ottawa University will grant degrees to John Adams Ralph Adams and Kenneth Golay tomorrow.
U S launches Mariner 9 toward Mars from Cape Kennedy with two Soviet ships already en route. NASA seeks coordinated effort for three missions, aiming to return up to 6500 close up pictures and data after Mars orbit entry on November 4.
Santi Van Patten, Costa Rican former AFS student and transformer shop trainee, calls Garden City the best in the United States. He toured the George Voth home, recalls friendly welcome, notes snow surprised him, and contrasts Costa Rica’s climate and living standards with Kansas. He plans to return home after training and seek graduate studies in the U.S.
A fragmented listing shows multiple playground programs with registrations at Jones School Civic Center and nearby locations. Activities include red rover, ball games, hula hoop, scavenger hunts, shadow tag, four square, and crafts, with times 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and specific names like Jennie Wilson, Georgia Mathews, and Hutchinson noted for supervision.
The Kansas Highway Commission raised the US56 speed limit through the northern Satanta stretch to 43 mph from 30 mph during a Garden City meeting. The note references Satanta in Haskell County and marks a modernization of the rural road rule.
Myron Littlechild, a 49 year old Scott City father of five, received a donor kidney after nearly seven hours of surgery in a Denver area hospital. The transplant kidney has functioned perfectly for a week with no sign of rejection, allowing him independence from an artificial kidney machine for the first time in two years. He remains under hospital observation for several weeks to monitor possible rejection.
The Dodge pace car driven by an amateur skidded from the pits and struck a trailer holding news photographers at the Indy 500 start. At least a dozen injured as Eldon Palmer failed to stop the red convertible after leading the field around the track. Astronaut John Glenn was in the back seat. helicopters flew victims to Methodist Hospital.
Two Explorers from the Garden City area will join 2,000 Explorers at a reception with President Nixon on the White House lawn. The event opens the National Explorer Presidents Congress with attendees from across the nation.
Obituaries report Tom C. Healy of Healy died at Lane County Hospital after illness. Survivors include Ocea, three daughters, a son, 15 grandchildren and 14 great grandchildren. Also noted are infant Thomas Roy Koehn graveside services in Copeland, and Charles Francis Lemons of Lakin who died after a brief illness. Funeral details list multiple survivors and service locations in Kansas. William Moore of Garden City obituary notes a son, two daughters, a sister and three grandchildren. An Emporia item covers Lt Gov Renolds Shultz urging support for Kansas vocational programs at a Flint Hills Area Vocational Technical School graduation.
Washington reports the Agriculture Department data show stronger hog and cattle prices pushing the May farm price index up 2 percent, first rise since February. Potatoes and watermelons rose, eggs and milk fell. May parity up 1 point from April, 70 percent under the traditional index, 94 percent under the 1967 base.
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