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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1966
Page
1
A light column from Garden City shares memories of rain, a friendly bowling-out, and Mary Owens at Finnup Park’s pool. The writer jokes about a vintage swimsuit, church rummage sale tops, and bottomless bottoms. Garden updates praise tomato blossoms and a modest strawberry harvest amid drought.
Annual meeting of the Kansas Chapters of the Soil Conservation Service of America will be in Garden City, with headquarters at the Warren Hotel. Sessions include irrigation tours, panels on conservation, a Friday banquet by Downing's with speaker Clifford R. Hope, and Saturday talks on water plans, groundwater, and agricultural water research.
Funeral services for Pfc. Jimmy L. Williams 19 were held at Newtown Church of Christ Montgomery. Fred D. Gray eulogized him saying Williams death will spur Americans to improve and prevent other fathers headaches and heartaches. The family faced a burial dispute over Wetumpka cemetery officials saying it was full and offering an unfilled plot. Williams mother Mrs. Johnny Williams, a civil rights worker, urged burial in a proper city graveyard noting his service and sacrifice. Gray condemned the city for lacking a resting place for a native son and stated the sacrifice was for all Americans beyond race.
The Associated Press notes counts of deaths in traffic and other incidents as the National Safety Council raises its Memorial Day estimate to about 540 to 550 fatalities in the 78 hour period ending Monday midnight. Early figures show five killed in Kentucky and four in Arkansas amid sunny holiday travel.
U S infantrymen fought multiple battles over six miles west of Pleiku in Operation Paul Rever as 25th Division troops say they crippled about 350 Communist soldiers. They report 227 enemy killed since May 10 with moderate American casualties and a separate Marine clash 135 miles west of Hue with a Vietnamese camp and bunkers.
Chinese broadcasts claim four U.S. planes bombed six fishing boats in the Gulf of Tonkin killing three and injuring 18. Defense Ministry spokesman protests as U.S. officials provide no confirmation. In Kansas, 18 year old Donald Pasek drowns at Wilson Reservoir near Russell after swimming with friends.
Memorial Day 1966 observances in Garden City begin at Valley View Cemetery at 10 30 a m under the charge of American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars posts. Rev Louis Telegdy will speak with music by Garden City Municipal Band and a male chorus directed by Vaughn Lippoldt. A mass sponsored by Knights of Columbus at 8 a m will be officiated by Father Telegdy. The unknown soldier monument hosts the main service. Pool opens at 1 p m. downtown stores largely closed while food stores stay open. Weather forecasts call for possible scattered thunderstorms in western Kansas.
Partly cloudy Monday with light southeasterly winds. High temperature near unspecified. Precipitation chance under five percent. Sunrise at 6 13 and sunset at 7 45.
New York AP reports Mr and Mrs Clifton Daniel welcomed a son born Saturday night by Caesarean section weighing 4 pounds 12 ounces. The couple also have three older sons ages 9 7 and 3. The mother is Margaret Truman and Daniel is managing editor of the New York Times.
In Saigon and Hue, a Buddhist nun self immolated after a day of protests against U.S. support for Ky regime. Monks warned of more fire deaths unless Washington and Ky are pressed to yield. Police and monks urged restraint as crowds demonstrated and letters in blood to President Johnson circulated.
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