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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1963
Page
2
President Kennedy seeks bipartisan support for a limited nuclear test ban treaty as Senate debate opens. Key lawmakers signal positions while subcommittees outline endorsements and opposition. The pact faces a two thirds vote, with administration confidence and potential bipartisanship noted.
Market brief shows wagon prices for wheat and barley with values around 1.84 to 1.90 per bushel and rye at 1.85. Includes COOP prices and uncited shell figures, plus references to eggs and hens in an unclear format.
Totals show 475 cattle and 290 share stocker calf receipts. Steer calves 200 to 900 pounds bring 20.50 to 28.50, heavier weights up to 28.50, Holsteins and bull calves 2 to 25, heifer calves 24 to 26 on 300 to 450 pound ranges. Yearlings steady around 23 to 25, lighter weights 23 to 23.50. Cows and calves 105 to 210 per pair, butcher cows steady, canner and cutters 1050 to 912.50, utility 13 to 14.75, up to 10 for light cattle. Bull market steady 16.50 to 17.50, baby calves 15 to 40 per head. Hog market 40 cents lower, top 18, butcher hogs 15 to 16, lights 13.50 to 14.80, sows 11.50 to 14.90, boars 8 to 9.90, stock pigs 7 to 14.50 per head. Kansas City hogs steady, lambs weak, choice primes 19.50 to 80.00, cows 14 to 15.50, vealers 22 to 25. Overall cattle 13,000 head at Kansas City, calves 400, steers and heifers steady, vealers steady, prime steers 24.65 to 25.00, choice 23 to 24, good 24.50, cows 14 to 15.50, vealers 22 to 25.
Senate Republican leader Dirksen said he will vote for ratification of the limited nuclear test ban treaty after a White House meeting with President Kennedy. Senate Majority Leader Mansfield of Montana supports ratification with a two thirds vote and an assurance letter from the president.
Finney County hires Sonja Thiel as a temporary home economics assistant to Isie Branden. Thiel will work until October 13 before taking duties as WIA at Osbaskell County Sublette. Thiel is Sterling College and recently completed a week of induction training at Kansas State University in Manhattan.
In Murphy North Carolina rescue teams recovered the body of Carl Dockery 9 after a mine collapse that trapped him for about 24 hours. Fellow miner Louis Pone 49 died during extraction and three others were injured. Wilford Beavers described the collapse as severe with large steel pieces breaking apart.
PROGRESSO Mex AP two Cuban sailors who fled Fidel Castro in a small canoe appealed for political asylum at this Yucatan Peninsula port. The captain of a Mexican sloop said the sailors had almost no fuel or water when he picked them up Sunday and brought them here.
Saturday and Sunday hospital admissions at St Catherine Leopold and other locations include Mrs William Ward Mrs Elsie Renshaw Dorothy Melnnis Rebecca Burtis Steven Smith Albert Rowan Larry Scheideman Mrs Clayton Carroll Mrs Frank Heili Inna Bonjour Sadie French Wade Renick Bill Barber Loleta Dearden Roscoe Marmon Jessie Garcia Margaret E Fink and discharges Salvador Arteaga Mrs Manuel Beltran Jr Frank Kitch Donna Goss John R Graves Walter S Baker Terry Hayden Deane Wiley Lavon Grusing Carl Brown Varry Scheideman George Lucas Mrs Alex Karle.
Births announce Ason daughter to James Overby and wife at 6:22 am Sept 9 weighing 7 lb 3 oz and a Becker child born Sept 9 at 3:48 am weighing 7 lb 5 oz plus Robert Nairn born Sept 9 at 5:42 am weighing 7 lb 9 oz. Legal deeds list warranty and corporation transfers, marriage licenses, county fines for speeding, district workmen comp, and police bond actions. Also suspends a driver license for DWI and several traffic offenses.
The Chinese wife of US defector Scott Rush says love persuaded officials to let her accompany him to the United States. Shanghai born Tielen K. Rush, 31, explains her lack of political interest was key to the decision. They arrived in Hong Kong with their 1 year old daughter Betty en route to the U.S., while Rush plans a West Coast settlement after a visit to his mother in Tuсson Arizona. The visa to stay expires Saturday and consular officials aim to fast track citizenship processing.
An AP dispatch recalls the Newport wedding of John F Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier on September 12, 1953. A 3,000 strong crowd gathered at St Marys Church to glimpse the couple, with police needed to control the throng outside. The reception at Hammersmith Farm drew 1,400 guests as a motorcade and security created traffic jams along the Narragansett Bay estate.
Steels rose in a mixed stock market with fairly active trading and small gains or losses among major issues. The Associated Press average for 60 stocks was up 0.2 at 280.1, while the Dow Jones industrial average gained 0.43 to 735.80 at noon.
In Bastogne Belgium AP reports Lt John Waters of the 4th U S Armored Division unveiled a 6 5 foot monument to his grandfather General George Patton who commanded the U S 3rd Army to break the German siege during World War II The event occurred as part of World War II commemoration efforts.
In downtown Vientiane, a two hour clash between right wing and Pathet Lao forces leaves one Pathet Lao soldier dead and another wounded. Gunfire and grenades exchange as civilians are reported killed. Neutralist Premier SouVanna Phouma postpones his New York departure. AP reporter Antoine Yared is arrested, later released after orders from Gen. Phoumi Nosavan.
Public school teachers in New York canceled a threatened strike after approving a new contract with pay raises. The agreement, covering over a million students in 850 city schools, was brokered by a three‑man mediation panel and endorsed by about 8,500 teachers. The deal raises top salaries to 11,025 and keeps minimum pay, while limiting class sizes and adding grievance procedures and a joint committee on hiring and school conditions.
Fidel Castro, speaking at a Brazilian Embassy event, predicted a 1964 presidential race between Kennedy and Barry Goldwater. He warned Goldwater’s tough stance and pledged Cuba will defend itself if he wins. Castro also noted no expected U S policy change with a new administration.
The ninth unsolved strangling in Greater Boston in 15 months revived fear after a lull since December 1962. Victim Evelyn Corbin, 50, was found slain in her apartment on her 51st birthday week. Medical examiner notes two mismatched stockings strangled her, with one around the ankle and two cut on the bed.
COFFEYVILLE Kan AP Kenneth Leigh 23 was shot in the leg Sunday when a .22 pistol in his car trunk fired as he lifted the jack to change a flat tire. The bullet struck his right knee with the weapon located beside the tire wall during the incident.
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