Garden City News Briefs Spur Local Happenings
Florence Lile notes Norris Drug rush as a matron orders 50 new books for a house. Cable TV plans for Garden City are explored with Wichita and Hutchinson links. Ed Porter and brother-in-law plan a ready-mix plant in Colorado Springs. Ute Pass transformed into a major thoroughfare over two decades. Dale Davis named probationary Garden City police officer, to full status after six months. he farms with his father, is 27, married with two kids.
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State Bar Association
Tommy Thomas
Southwest Bell Telephone
Garden City
Wichita
Hutchinson
Ed Porter
Colorado Springs
Clint Keller
Woodland Park
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Ute Pass
Dale Davis
Cedar
Mitchel Geisler
Davis
Garden Cilian
Water Shortage Not Widespread in Kansas Says AP
A nationwide AP survey finds Kansas faces limited water shortages. Salina reports restrictions and declining groundwater, while Liberal, Wichita, Emporia, Manhattan, Independence, Coffeyville, Lawrence, Leavenworth and Ottawa report adequate supplies or no imminent danger. Windom and McPherson irrigation also steady despite regional strain.
Air Force Plans Moonlight Experiment Next Month
The Air Force will launch a rocket from New Mexico around September 6 releasing sodium vapor to create artificial moonlight at 60 miles up. Scientists of the Air Force Research and Development Command will study atmospheric composition during the flight.
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Washington
Air Force
Air Force Research and Development Command
New Mexico
Sun Stroke Alibi Arises in Detroit Reckless Driving
Charles Gallagher accused of ramming a parked car on July 9 claims sun stroke caused his actions. Traffic Referee Andrew Wood noted the crash occurred at 2 25 a.m. and the arrestee was fined five dollars for reckless driving.
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Detroit
Charles Gallagher
Andrew C. Wood
Gallagher
First Rate Boost Denied Gas Firm
The City of Garden City and other cities blocked Northern Natural’s request for rate increases. The commission denied the proposed 347 523 annual revenue rise based on 1944 sales, but allowed a new schedule to be filed with KCC approval. Rates cannot raise revenues by more than 176 390 annually across 15 towns and must remove discriminatory pricing. The test year 1954 was deemed unrealistic due to abnormally low heating demand from mild weather, prompting cost allocations adjustments.
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Garden City
Agus
Northern Natural
Northern
KCC
ECC
Northern Jigs
Garden City Company
Ealher
Hugoton
Healing Sea
Polio second shots fall short of turnout in Finney County
Finney County first and second graders received the second round of Salk polio vaccine at six clinics but only about two thirds of the 800 expected students attended. About 550 total injections were given. A makeup clinic is set for August 10 at Alta Brown school for those who missed today.
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Finney County
Don Williams
Alta Brown School
Williams
Lester Harp
Found-Ldm Ont Iolumnnist Focns Naional Foundaion
Bids Sought for 12 Mile Garden City to Pierceville Highway
Highway officials announced bids will be opened Thursday August 18 at Dodge City for surfacing a 12 mile strip east from Garden City toward Pierceville. The project includes widening the roadbed, extending ditches, and condemning land valued around 38500 dollars.
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Garden City
Pierceville
Dodge City
Highway Commission
Finney County
Ncort City
Scott City
Logan County
Scott County
Ford County
Child and nature themed joke from a daily humor column
The lady asks a Thrare jan for a book explaining birds and bees to a seven year old. The clerk replies with a witty twist about him knowing people already and needing facts of the birds and the bees.
Airman Convicted of Desertion at Forbes AFB
Airman Quintin R. Stangley aged 22 was court-martialed at Forbes Air Force Base for desertion after failing to report to a new station. He received an 18 month sentence at hard labor.
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Fopera
Quintin R. Stangley
Forbes Air Force Base
Yeserday
Congress Adjourns With Late Legislation Flurry
Congress closes with a burst of late bills as Methodists pick new leaders at the First Methodist church. Ralph H. Miller elected lay leader. J. T. Lear chosen lay delegate for four years to Central Kansas conference. Edward Bilwas remains financial secretary. Homer D. Campbell budget treasurer. Chester H. Cleaver and Fielding Hands elected trustees. Claude F. Wright reappointed. committee to study selling old church properties named. Rev. Franklyn L. Edwards may add an associate pastor. Peggy Fletcher newly added director of Christian education. Helen Keane begins second year as office secretary. Deaths and transfers totaled 79 with a net gain of 10. Budget hits another high. $125,000 paid on construction bills. Women’s Society and Wesleyan Service Guild total 480 members, $6,100 raised in ten months. Conference led by Dr LeRay F. Arlend.
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Ralph H. Miller
First Methodist Church
J. T. Lear
Central Kansas
Harry A. Atherton
Edwin 8. Hooper
Edward E. Bilwas
Homer D. Campbell
Chester H. Cleaver
Fielding Hands
Robert Pound
Andrew E. Larson
Claude F. Wright
Cleaver
Wright
W. W. Wells
Franklyn L. Edwards
Christian Education
Peggy Fletcher
Oklahoma
Helen Keane
Edwards
LeRay F. Arlend
Distict
Dodge City
Flash Floods Hit New Mexico City Again
Flash floods struck North Albuquerque for the second time in two weeks last night causing evacuations and disrupting train service.
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New Mexico City
Albuquerque
Impromptu Floor Show Ends House Session 1955
Washington report on the closing hours of the 1955 House session describes a boisterous, joking finale. Members sang, clapped, and performed as Rep Priest led harmonizers, Rep Friedel mimicked a bird, Rep Chelf played harmonica, and gallery staff joined in Moonlight and Roses while a Pontiac page boy sang The Lord's Prayer.
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Washington
Senate
Priest
D-Tenn
Friedel
Chelf
William Goodwin
Pontiac, Mich
Change in Sugar Legislation Dies
A coastally timed end to the beetle closing senate session halted a move to amend sugar laws. The plan aimed to give American producers a larger share of rising U S sugar demand, currently slanted to foreign producers. Garden City Co backed the act along with cane and beet processors. Russell Tutt, company president, said a parliamentary maneuver by Sen. Fullbright of Arkansas, a Cuban sugar supporter, knocked out the bill as adoption neared. The measure had passed the House and been favorably reported by the Senate Rules Committee, with expectations to reintroduce early in the new session in January.
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U.S
Garden City Co
Russell Tutt
Sen. Fullbright
Arkansas
Senate
House
Senate Rules Committee
Jones Ranch Oil Boom Near Mississippian On No 20
Helmerich and Payne team drills on Jones No. 20 in northern Haskell county nears Mississippian, potentially making the fifth oil producer on the Jones ranch where about 15 gas wells already operate. Offsets include Jones No. 18 and earlier producers No. 17 and 19 with No. 19 completed in June. Bucy notes drilling progress to about 4,774 feet as preparations push toward a new oil producer.
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Jones Ranch
Haskell County
Helmerich and Payne
Gordon Bucy
Helmerich
Jones
Bucy
Thiil'ne
Carnival of Carelessness Blamed for Grain Bins Defects
Washington A Navy inspector testified a carnival of carelessness by many people likely caused defects in several hundred grain storage bins bought by the Agriculture Department. The bins, 5 100 plus in Kansas, were to store surplus wheat, with Navy inspectors overseeing manufacture.
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Washington
Navy
M. A. Gibson
Inspector of Naval Material
Kansas City
Senate
Sen. Mundt
Gibson
Kansas
Agriculture Department
Blick, Sivalls & Bryson
Navy Department
Wendell Becraft
Becraft
Lile Resus
Congress Ends Seven Month Session With Compliments
Washington reports bitter wrangles gave way to mutual praise as Congress adjourned early, sending several major bills to President Eisenhower. The session approved housing and health measures, defense production funding, a money bill for Congress, and a $1 minimum wage for interstate commerce amid broad pay raises for government workers. Barring a special session, lawmakers return January 3.
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Washington
Congress
Eisenhower
House
Senate
White House
Flagstone Stolen From Garden City Firm
Gene Palmer reports a theft of about two tons of flagstone from Palmer and Leopold Memorials at 1408 E Fulton in Garden City. The red stone with white and gray pieces valued around $100 was likely hauled away in a small truck, based on yard tracks.
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Garden City
Ward of Palmer and Leopold
E. Fulton
Gene Palmer
Tito Indicates Yugoslav Communists Reopen USSR Ties
Belgrade reports President Tito telling an American group that the Yugoslav Communist party is re entering relations with the Communist party of the Soviet Union. The statement signals a potential thaw in post split era diplomacy between Belgrade and Moscow.
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Belgrade
Tito
Yugoslav Communnist Party
Communist Party of the
Soviet Union
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