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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1955
Page
10
Former President Herbert Hoover explains in a U S News interview that he tried to cut handshakes by abolishing New Year receptions. He notes Washington and Roosevelt started large public handshakes, and his reform led to maintainable, less disruptive dealings.
The CIO executive board authorized a one dollar per member voluntary contribution to a merger start AFL-CIO organizing drive. The fund could total millions and target workers in retail trades offices chemicals and several Southern industries. Contributions will come from union treasuries with no direct member assessment.
F. H. Cox of a 965 acre ranch south of Jenks operates the Skyline Railroad a private amusement line in Oklahoma The two car coal fired Wisler locomotive runs on 3000 feet of track with plans to extend to three miles next spring A circle track will host Sunday free rides crossing an earthen dam and a gas flare fun feature Cox envisions a trestle picnic tables an old railway station and log cabins along the route
Atty Gen Brownell asked the Subversive Control Board to require the American Peace Crusade of New York City to register as a Communist front. Brownell placed the organization on his subversive list two years ago.
Jacksonville man Richard E Laughner age 21 paid 1300 to enlist in the Marines after a prior rejection for a nasal defect. He underwent cosmetic surgery costing 1500 to meet the enlistment standards and was accepted.
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