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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1965
Page
17
The National Safety Council reports 446 deaths in the Memorial Day weekend ending Monday, a new high. Key crashes occurred near Needles California and Lone Pine, with several survivors. The group blames incompetent driving and calls for better skills nationwide.
In this morning's mail we received a two color rubber stamp with its own ink supply and no ink pad needed. The brochure claims 25000 perfect impressions. The piece notes an upcoming Drop sie College reunion with 100 percent local attendance and adjournment by motion. Municipal band director Bob Anderson announces the first concert of the new season on Friday night.
Telegram subscribers in Garden City are told of a new delivery deadline during summer. For June to August, papers must be delivered by 5 p.m. with complaints accepted 5 to 6 p.m. The Telegram office closes at 6 p.m. in summer, and Saturday routes finish by 4 p.m. with complaints 4 to 5 p.m.
Four 7th Fleet destroyers departed Yokosuka Japan for mid Pacific recovery stations for the Gemini 4 mission. The capsule with astronauts James A McDivitt and Edward H White is planned to land in the Atlantic.
Joseph Martin of Erie Pennsylvania described a five hour ordeal after his foot became trapped in a freight car coupling while he crossed to reach his auto. The 37 year old construction worker suffered a crushed right foot and was listed in fair condition at a Lackawanna hospital. He clung to a ladder as the train moved for about 100 miles until help arrived.
A gas explosion at Yamano coal mine in Kyushu caused 552 workers to be in the pit when it blew shortly after noon. Police reported two dead, 31 injured, 180 unhurt, and more than 200 remaining entombed nine hours later with 24 bodies recovered.
Public school band director Robert Anderson reminds beginning band students and their parents of a 7 p.m. meeting in Clifford Hope Auditorium. Instrument displays and summer band program schedules will be announced. The summer program starts next Monday.
May rainfall in Garden City area ran far above average, easing five month totals to 7.76 inches while wheat suffered heavy losses from hail and high winds. The Garden City Experiment Station logged 6.20 inches in May and noted 2.70 inches in a single day, with more precipitation to follow. Local totals varied, with Mrs. Bob Goodman reporting 6.95 inches for May and a mixed sequence of showers and storms shaping the moisture picture.
President Johnson told graduates at the National Cathedral School for Girls that he will press ahead with the course he believes is right despite criticism. He urged young Americans to use parents in the struggle for a better world and emphasized debate as a strength of democracy.
Cape Kennedy reporting astronauts James McDivitt and Edward White underwent medical examinations to compare their condition with prior spaceflight data. They will test a rendezvous with a second stage booster, perform spacewalks, and gather physiological measurements during the mission.
Garden City's large municipal pool shut today for repairs after a sealing compound used on a crack caused water discoloration. City Manager Deane Wiley hopes to reopen at 1 p.m. Thursday. the pool had opened for the season on Sunday.
Torrential downpours across central and eastern Kansas soak the region with unofficial gauges reporting up to 7.90 inches near Beaver and several five inch plus totals at Claflin and Yates Center. Flash flooding was forecast along Cow Creek and Smoky Hill River, with Marmaton River nearing flood stage at Fort Scott. Weather conditions remained unsettled with more showers likely after noon into tonight and Wednesday.
A NASA flown airborne observatory over the Pacific tracked a total solar eclipse for 9 minutes 42 seconds at 39 500 feet. 30 scientists from NASA and partner nations conducted 18 experiments confirming a successful mission while analyzing coronal brightness magnetism and spectroscopy.
The Supreme Court agreed to hear the government’s appeal after a district judge in Macon, Georgia dismissed federal conspiracy indictments against six Georgia men charged in the shotgun slaying of Lemuel A. Penn, a District of Columbia educator and Army Reserve officer. The case centers on federal terrorism and race-based intimidation claims. Penn was shot July 11, 1964 near Athens, while en route to Washington after duty at Fort Benning.
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