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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1963
Page
1
President Kennedy begins a cross country 10,000 mile trip through 12 states to promote preservation of American natural heritage. The tour, described as a national heritage mission, aims to rally public support for the issue while the administration seeks broader bipartisan backing.
Prices for hogs, lambs, and cattle shift as 4,000 cattle and 2,000 lambs are cited. Hogs steady to 25 lower, barrows 200-260 pounds. Lambs 50-109 lower, ewes steady. prime lambs 19.50-19.00, good 17.50-18.00. Cattle and calves steady with cows 14.90-16.50 and vealers 22.00-25.00. Distance notes mention political visits in Milford and Pinchot Institute plans in Scranton.
Norman, assistant officer in charge of the Canadian Government Immigration Service in Denver, will speak to the Garden City Kiwanis Club at the noon meeting. He promotes Canada’s free informational services for travel and employment and has a long foreign service record including time in Liverpool and Ottawa.
New York trading showed a spurt in blue chip demand with heavy activity as indices moved up early afternoon. Aluminum, rails, selected motors, steels, and office equipment rose while tobacco, drugs, and rubbers declined.
An American Airlines Boeing 707 en route from Chicago to Phoenix narrowly avoided a midair collision with an unidentified high wing monoplane over the Mazatzal range northeast of Phoenix. Captain Robert McDaniel, at cruising height, stated the jet dropped to about 20 miles per hour during the near-miss as passengers braced for landing at Phoenix. The small plane’s identity remains unrevealed.
William Williamson underwent eye surgery at St. Anthony's Hospital in Dodge City and is expected to return home soon. Four Garden City area students enrolled at McPherson College for fall term: Carl Green, Altra Kile, Judy Widows, Ruby Simmonas. Judith Oeding is one of two Sacred Heart College freshmen in Wichita awarded an Sister Mary Petrona Stieferman Memorial Scholarship worth 800 dollars. Garden City High School graduate receives 900 state scholarship and 250 Garden City Cooperative Beauty Exchange award to Becky Rogers and others. University of Kansas named members of the University Symphony. a freshman will perform in the violin section.
New York reports price rises across metals and staples on the first day of autumn. Aluminum ingot moves from 22.4 to 23 cents a pound, with Reynoldss Metal Co announcing a 24 percent lift for some products. Refined sugar climbs 25 cents per 100 pounds to 10.80 in New York.
Finney County Teachers Assn will hold its first meeting of the new school year Saturday at 8 a.m. at Downings. It will be a breakfast meeting with all members urged to attend and make reservations with their principals by Thursday.
The Kansas Supreme Court reviews a seven year fight over gas production rules in the Slugoton Field. Justices heard about five hours of arguments on whether the Kansas Corporation Commission can use evidence beyond pipeline estimates to measure market demand and set field allowables. The dispute involves 4000 pages of exhibits plus a two volume commissioner report. Major interstate pipelines Panhandle Eastern Northern Natural Kansas Nebraska Colorado Interstate and Cities Service sided against the commission with the Southwest Kansas Royalty Owners Assn supporting the commission.
Today hospitals report admissions including Clarence K Wheeler at 311 N 6th Anthony T Wittman at 506 N ih Mrs Bill Lauderdale Rt 1 Francis Lavern Wright Scott City NeAnna Martin Eminence Rt Mrs Robert Englert Kendall.
Cleve McDowell, 21, a Drew, Mississippi law student, was suspended from the University of Mississippi after being arrested on a civil charge of carrying a pistol. Sheriff Joe Ford said a .22 caliber pistol with a two inch barrel fell from his inside coat pocket and McDowell admitted it. he may attend today’s Student Judicial Council hearing as he is allowed to leave jail for the proceeding. The weapon’s concealment carries up to a $100 fine and three months in jail.
A list of numerous individuals from Garden City and nearby areas is provided with addresses or partial addresses. The names include Mrs. Joe Duran Johnson Quenana Hefner Sublette Patrick Allen Dezurt Holcomb Mrs. Darrell Webster and others along with street references and city designations. The fragment appears to be an administrative or clerical notice of dismissals or removals.
CLATHE Kan AP Pfe Randy Lew Miksell 23 was sentenced to life imprisonment for the hold up killing of Maurice F Mosher 34 a Springfield Mass businessman last May. Miksell pleaded guilty admitting he stabbed Mosher during the robbery attempt in the Springfield man's car. He is based at an Arty Nike missile base near Gardner Kansas. His father is Le Roy Miksell of Sand Springs Oklahoma.
A wartime era analysis argues the Big Lift airlift test could foreshadow a troop pullback from Europe and perhaps the Far East. It discusses the political and strategic aims of moving 15,000 troops in three days, the cost near 2 million dollars, and the impact on NATO commitments as US forces shrink from about 250,000 in Europe.
President Kennedy signed a $238.4 million three year measure to fund new medical and dental schools and student loans for up to 10 000 students. The bill aims to expand and modernize facilities and address shortages in doctors and dentists with special care to underserved areas.
AP reports Topera notes a sharp increase in traffic fatalities over a 24 hour period in Kansas. The log lists 24 hour totals reaching 94 while comparing to earlier months and the 1982 period, with notes of an accident from the same week.
President Kennedy dispatched special emissaries Earl Blaik and Kenneth Royall to Birmingham to help ease rising racial tensions after a church bombing and ensuing violence. The pair met with civic and religious leaders as Kennedy urged improved communication between white and Negro communities. Judge Clarence Allgood condemned intimidation of a grand jury probing school integration orders amid arrests of men linked to militant segregationist groups.
Finney County tests by the state weights and measures division approved 39 of 42 vehicle and livestock scales. Three scales were condemned for errors over 2 pounds per 1000 weight. J Fred True notes Finney’s approval rate is above state average as testing expands. Two heavy trucks carry 20 500 pounds of test weights for annual statewide testing of all 2 600 scales.
Lt. Gen. Wallace M. Greene will become commandant of the Marine Corps on December 31 as Gen. David M. Shoup’s four year term ends. Kennedy sought a second term for Shoup, who declined due to health and a belief in periodic leadership change. Greene has served as Marine Corps chief of staff since January 1960 and previously fought in World War II in London, the Marshall Islands, Saipan and Tinian. born December 27, 1907 in Burlington Vermont.
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