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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1961
Page
5
In a Greek Week relay at the University of Richmond 28 runners carried a torch from the state capitol to campus but a 29th runner slipped in and sped off in an unscheduled direction causing the torch not to reach the campus.
Travel writer describes affordable ways to circumnavigate the world. Freighter trips cost about 124 a day, with meals included, while two dozen foreign lines offer bargain interchanges for stopovers. Retirees dominate the passenger list, and Indian ports like Bombay and Calcutta are popular two week stays.
Oklahoma City AP reports a busy Memorial Day session with routine work and major actions. The House passed a rural electric cooperative measure requiring customers to buy electricity from nearby suppliers, sent to the governor. A companion measure prohibits private power firms from taking over co ops in city-annexed areas served by a franchised private company. The Senate failed to repeal the 1957 Supernumerary Judge Act on a 19 to 19 tie. Senator Ray Fine cited economy. the act would let long-serving judges retire at 65 on reduced pay, with recall required to hear cases. Senator Roy Grantham argued senior judges help reduce court backlogs.
Washington AP The Labor Department sees a gradual employment pickup from March continuing to mid July with about two thirds of 150 major centers expecting gains. May job totals due mid afternoon, with unemployment falling and farm employment rising after spring rains. Recovery moving faster than after 1958 recession.
An American Superconstellation ferrying U S military personnel and families from Germany to McGuire AFB New Jersey limped hundreds of miles after one propeller ran wild and could not feather. The plane with 104 aboard including 40 children and 20 babies in arms landed safely near Shannon Ireland after an escort from Pan American helped guide it.
In Fort Riley Kansas an equestrian statue will be dedicated on June 4 to honor the U S Cavalry. Retired cavalrymen are invited to attend the ceremony, the closing event of the Junction City Fort Riley centennial program starting June 10. The life size statue depicts a horse and rider after Frederick Remington's painting The Cavalry Man. Soldier artists built the frame with fiberglass and bronze epoxy finish. The Junction City Chamber of Commerce financed the project.
Soviet paper Red Star reports a commemorative pillar and trees planted by a nearby collective farm at the Yuri Gagarin landing site across the Volga from Saratov, with an asphalt path and a Young Pioneer camp planned. It notes Gagarin’s takeoff at Baikonur and landing details used for the records.
In Kansas City AP reports union locals 533 and plumbing contractors resume talks on a three year pact amid a 45 cent package offer. Plumbers Local 3 plans to review a similar proposal as old contracts expire at midnight. Union seeks a 55 cent package while current scales run at 3.75 for plumbers and 3.85 for pipe fitters. The article also notes excavations at Van Meter State Park in Missouri.
Raymond Allen, 22, of Kansas City Kansas, died from stab wounds after an early evening altercation. Police detained William Brady, 34, of Kansas City Missouri, who admitted stabbing Allen in the chest with a pair of scissors at General Hospital before succumbing to his injuries.
Judy Mae Banks 21 testified that Allen started beating Florine Robinson 22 in a Garden City apartment on May 31 1961 when Rob inson and Brady intervened Allen then turned on Brady creating a confrontation.
A formatted puzzle page lists a cryptic horizontals and verticals with numbered clues and answers, including a cryptoquip section. It notes an average solution time of 24 minutes and cites King Features Syndicate from 1961. A garbled cryptoquote at bottom references SCHOOL SOON OUT and a shouted line about children.
A cryptogram style puzzle fragment lists clues and answers by numbers and includes phrases like American author Edward Everett and King Features Synd., Inc. It ends with a cryptogram line and a faded note Yesterday's Cryptoquip with a sample answer TOURISTS TIRE OF.
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