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Newspaper
Greeley Daily Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1959
Page
1
President Ross welcomes summer term visitors in centennial year as CSU extends a 1958 program of study and recreation. The piece details enrollment growth, facilities work, visiting faculty, and plans for eight-week session with a note on campus construction and future faculty additions.
A Little White Schoolhouse will be moved to the CSC campus for a dedication ceremony Monday night at 7 p.m. Dr. William T. Ross will speak on a century of American education history. If weather disrupts, the event moves to Gunter Hall at Garden Theater. The schoolhouse opens to the public afterward with old desks and mementos, hosted by Miss Belly Lowry and Ernest Horn elementary pupils. Regular hours are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily, except Saturday 9 a.m. to 12 p.m., and it will not open Sundays.
AP report states Colorado suspends the 2 percent federal aid driven Interstate highway program due to unclear federal funding. If federal funds lag or are cut, state payments to contractors will halt. bids for Monument Valley Freeway were set for July and the 1950 80 highway budget covers 22.124 million for interstate work with 18.802 million federal share.
A Sunday night Greeley horse show drew 41,200 spectators as top regional horses competed. The crowd kept warm under blankets amid cool air while hunters, harness classes, and flashy buggy demonstrations anchored the program. Everett Reed of Denver showcased an old-time doctor’s buggy, and the Western trailer race offered lively arena action as drivers unloaded saddled horses.
Parade chairman Cliff Campbell invites all horse owners and riders not in any group to join the Thursday parade at 4 pm for Island Grove park rodeo opening. Children may ride, formation at 3:20 pm, music by Greeley summer band, led by rodeo queen Barbara Reid and attendant Sally Hayden. Route runs north on Bth Ave to 3th St, west to 6th Ave, south to Kib St, then west to the American Jagina home. police will patrol.
Weekend crashes in northern Colorado fatally injure C. P. Bain and Albert Edens as a tractor rollover near 20th Street ends in tragedy. Edens died from ruptured lung and liver after being thrown. the driver was uninjured. Other injured include Theodore Radenacher Larry Lee Norman Flores and Rodney Vogle at separate county road intersections.
CSC's summer school enrollment hits a record 3,650 at noon with 250 more than last year, 90 expected to register this week and 40 more for later courses. Outlook pins final figure between 200 and 250 above last eight week term. Saturday registrations reach 3,563, up 220 from a year ago. In New York, Vice President Nixon breakfasts with former President Hoover at Waldorf Towers and plans a chat with Gen. MacArthur in the same hotel.
Charles F. (Bud) Bain, 44, of 2430 6th Ave, died at Weld County General Hospital at 4 am Monday from injuries after a Sunday auto crash at 10th Ave and 20th St. He was ejected from his car when it hit a 1958 Chevrolet wagon driven by Leo Hedberg. Hedberg and a female CSC student sustained injuries. Police reported the fatality as the county line’s first this year.
Greeley Public Schools opened a summer session with 154 students in attendance. Fifty four junior and senior high students study at Greeley High School and 97 elementary students at Cameron. Six courses are offered including remedial reading and arithmetic. Out of state and district students help fuel enrollment while staff includes Ruth Compton and Mary Meeker among others.
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