City YMCA Roundup Tops Charter Membership Goal
The Garden City YMCA charter membership drive exceeded expectations with 321 members and nearly $9,842 raised. Volunteers led by Owen Fritz organized a two week roundup, naming Vern Holmes as top foreman and Ron Philbrick as lead salesman, aiming to reach $10,000 and establish a full program by year end.
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Garden City
Succes
Wheat Lands Motel
YMCA
Squire Building
Bridge
Robert Fenton
Mack Linn
Bob Renick
Fd Rutter
Kermit Dean
Vern Holmes
Lester Clark
Tom Kitch
Ron Philbrick
0. D. Calhoon
Ken Minter
Bob Greer
Clayton Carroll
Larry Earnest
Holcomb
Carlos Spikes
Tom Wiesner
Clarston Carroll
Art Wilson
Ed Rutter
Jaycees
Walt Weber
Ymca Board of Directors
Garden City humor and debt woes flash in local notes
A miscellany of quotes and jokes from Garden City readers satirize ads and everyday life while a Savannah AP report details a Coast Guard helicopter rescue. Lt Cmdr C W Swickley piloted a helicopter to blow a burning 18 foot boat away from a gas storage tank, rescuing three injured men.
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Savannah
Coast Guard
Cmdr
C. W. Swickley
Oil Find in Kearny County Boosts Wildcat Efforts
In Kearny County near Lakin, the No. 1 Moser well, a renewed wildcat 31 24 SW, shows initial production of 1.5 barrels per hour for 48 hours from perforations at about 4,943 and 4,983 feet before completion. Cleary Petroleum advances No. 1 Roop well, northwest of Patterson field, after a test from Morrow sands at roughly 4,934 feet.
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Wichita
Kearny County
Lakin
W. B. Osborn
San Antonio
Tex
Jack Watson
Osborn
Cleary Petroleum, Inc
Rank Wildcat
Patterson Field
Morrow Sands
Tornadoes and Rain Hit Russell Area in Kansas
Severe storms lashed west central Kansas with tornadoes heavy rain and hail. Official rain totals reached 11 inches at Gorham 9 miles west of Russell and 6 to 8 inches at Osborne. Farms suffered damage utility lines failed and windows roofs were ruined. A car was flipped on US 40 seven miles west of Russell injuring a woman. a truck driver escaped injury.
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Russell
Kan
Kansas
Weather Bureau
Gorham
Osborne
Hays
Dave Harding
Kansas Highway Patrol
Jule Dumler
Simon Goetz
Michaelis
Benkel
Duncan Farm
Duncan Place
Nebraska
Viet Students Threaten New Demonstrations in Saigon
Vietnameses' student leaders threaten fresh mass protests as Premier Nguyen Khanh, ill and absent, nears return. U S envoy Taylor visits Khanh at Dalat. Viet Cong activity limited but intelligence suggests 20,000 VC in Saigon area and potential capital strike. One American officer wounded, six Vietnamese soldiers killed in Kien Phong Province clash.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
Nguyen Khanh
Khanh
Nguyen Xuan Oanh
U.S
Maxwell D. Taylor
Dalat
Kien Phong
Optimistic Note on Must Bill
Democratic leaders reported to President Johnson upbeat odds for enactment of the Appalachia development bill, with McCormack saying the House would take it up Wednesday and likely pass it with full attendance. Mansfield plans Senate action after social security bills, while the plan targets Highway and access projects, plus education, health, water, and timber programs in 11 Appalachian states. The president, back from the Texas ranch, signed a nationwide food stamp measure boosting aid to needy families. The price tag rises from 25 million to 200 million over four years, with Humphreys joining in at the ranch and Mrs Johnson remaining to manage house duties.
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Johnson
Appalachia
John McCormack
Massachusetts
House
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Appalachian Mountain
Texas
Mansfield
Gress
White House
John‘son
Johnson City
Democratic National Committee
Atlantic City
Hubert H. Humphrey
Humphrey
Thisranch
Enrollment Opens in Garden City Public Schools Record
Garden City's public schools opened with 3 650 students elementary through high school. A heavy junior college enrollment could push total system enrollment over 4 000. Enrollment at the college began today and continues tomorrow with classes starting Thursday. Elementary and secondary enrollment rose by 192 students from last year's first day total of 3 458.
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Garden City
Alta Brown
Garfield
Georgia Matthews
Howes
Hutchison
Tay
Sergeant York in Very Grave Condition at Nashville Hospital
AP reports 76 year old Medal of Honor winner Sgt. Alvin York remains in very grave condition from an acute primary tract infection. Family waits by his bedside while doctors monitor his battle with death.
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Nashville, Tenn
Alvin York
York
Argonne Forest
France
Health care plan revised to boost social security
Senate moves toward adopting a revised King And erson health care proposal in hopes of winning support. The plan would raise basic Social Security benefits and restore hospital and nursing home coverage with new cash benefits, wage base, and nursing home limits, while a rival Long amendment seeks higher cash boosts and looser earnings tests.
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Washington
Senate
King-Anderson
Pumeards
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Albert Gere
D-Tenn
King-Anderson Messure
Tt Thue
King - Andersen
House
Russell B. Long
D-La
Long
Jaywalking Crosswalk Checks In Garden City Plan
Garden City police will focus on jaywalking and crosswalk safety for the next weeks. Police Chief Hal Kane said officers will station at crosswalks starting Thursday to ticket drivers who do not yield to pedestrians. The city has posted stop for pedestrians signs in the 300 block N Main and enforces stopping at crosswalks whether marked or not.
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Madison Avenue Boys
Garden City
Hal Kane
Kane
First Shot of World War II Remembered in Berlin and Warsaw
Berlin and Warsaw marked the 25th anniversary of the war began by Hitler's invasion of Poland. West Berlin honored Allied dead including Russians. East Berlin leader Ulbricht pressed for full recognition and UN admission for East Germany. Poland held rallies in Bytom and Warsaw with speeches by officials and a roll call at the Unknown Soldier tomb.
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Red Wall
Poland
Walter Ulbricht
Hitler
Warsaw
Gdansk
Danzig
Schleswig-Hol
Stein
Westerplatte
Danzig Bay
West Berlin
Willy Brandt
John F. Franklin
U.S
Brandt
Dilem
Soviet Union
Czechoslovakia
Holland
Germany
East Berlin
Ulbricht
United Nations
Ast Berlin
West Germany
Ludwig Erhard
Erhard
Bytom
Upper Silesia
Edward Glerek
Polish Communist Party
Gierek
Jozef Dziadura
Marian Spychalsky Monchy
Javestia
Communist Party
Pipeline Fire Claims Victim
A nine injured in a natural gas pipeline fire near Preston Kansas, one dead in Pratt hospital. Aura E. MeCort, 40, district superintendent at Haven for Panhandle Eastern, died after nearly 22 years with the firm. Others remain in serious or fair condition. cause is undetermined.
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Pratt, Kan
Preston
Kan
Pratt
Aura E. MeCort
Haven
Panhandle
Eastern
McCort
Haver
Ty. A. Wilbeck
R. E. King
Greensburg
Prince Edward Island Starts Centennial Celebration
Charlottetown marks the PEI centennial with the 1864 landing reenactment by Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson and ten provincial premiers. Canada celebrates its 1967 centennial, but PEI begins its own anniversary with the historic ceremony.
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Charlottetown
Prince Edward Island
Canada
Lester B. Pearson
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