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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1955
Page
5
In Western Kansas Scott City reveals a retired 28 year service fire engine restored by local men. Fresh paint and a brass bell donated by Santa Fe’s Chicago division upgrade the parade entry. Scott City also reports a drop in population due to spraying and notes other local happenings across Meade Dighton and Ulysses.
Boston health officials urge nurses to aid six hospitals as polio cases near 1000 in New England. Mayor Hynes declares limited emergency after a spike with 999 nationwide count. Massachusetts reports 778 cases and 26 new in a day. 20 deaths so far in the state.
Twenty five members of Battery B of the 489th anti aircraft reserve battalion moved out of Garden City yesterday and today en route to Camp Haven Wis for their annual two weeks training. The battery made up of men from Southwest Kansas including Garden City Ulysses Satanta Friend and Lakin will go into training Monday morning with camp. Those making the annual day Aug 22 traveling by car the reserve unit members are traveling to the Wisconsin camp in private vehicles. By noon today the entire battery personnel were en route to the camp. Thus making the annual summer training jaunt are Sergeants Walter L Webster Darrell G George Elmer J Kreutzer Raymond Schiffelhein Leroy E Ochs Jackie W Starrs Johnny W Howard and Ernest L Hager Corporals Philip Escalado Eugene L Herring David H Kubler Jesus B Led esma Wendell L Maddox Harold J Nabb Joseph J Ohmes Jr Rodger B Tunder and Raimon G Walters Privates Hubert L Brungart William D Dullap Kenneth T Jones Richard Rangel Baltazar QO Guillen and Burton S Jones.
A severe cloudburst hit Cripple Creek Colorado causing floods and damage. Lightning struck the home of Mrs. Marie Huston and a barn owned by August Fry was destroyed by fire. Firefighters contained attic flames as Sheriff Rufus Jones reported up to three inches of rain in an hour and a 25 foot water crest damaged a parking area where a car fell into a hole.
Gov Fred Mall files neglect of duties charges against James Gilmore and Harold Trusler of the Kansas state civil service board seeking their ouster. Emmett Graham is not charged. Hearings set before Hall on Aug 18 with Trusler denying the charges and Gilmore rebutting.
SAMAR Leonards Milburn 25 of Lakin Kansas and Mrs Thelma Cook 36 of Garden City Kansas have been charged with manslaughter after a highway crash Thursday. Cook drove Milburns car into a bridge abutment killing Blanche Ayers 39 of Lakin. Milburn Cook and two young men in the car were injured. Cook earlier faced charges of reckless driving and DUI. She remains hospitalized.
Two semi trucks were heavily damaged but the drivers were unhurt in a collision one mile north of the city on US 83 yesterday. John James Yoho of Topeka was fined $20 and $5 costs in county court for failure to yield right of way. Yoho pulled his auto transport in front of Lonnie Plankenhorn of Garden City, who drove the southbound truck. both rigs were empty.
Senators Sons Russell and Morse announced support for salary boosts for cabinet members and top administration officials next year. They helped block action on raises this year but now back proposals to raise pay similar to increases approved for members of Congress, judges, the military, postal workers, and civil service workers, while stopping short of executive level pay.
Hollywood mourns the deaths of Suzan Ball at 21 from cancer and Carmen Miranda at 41 from a heart attack. Ball had suffered knee injury and leg amputation earlier, then cancer returned. Miranda, famed as the Brazilian Bombshell, died after a taxing day of singing and dancing in Beverly Hills, with comedian Jimmy Durante present during filming.
Six year old William Williams, a polio patient confined to St Catherine hospital for a week, is improving and has been dismissed to Hutchinson St Elizabeth hospital for physiotherapy. He is the son of Mr and Mrs Arthur C Williams of 410 North Ninth and was admitted July 19.
Eugene W. Landy, top U S Merchant Marine Academy graduate, prepared to sail as an able bodied seaman aboard Sun Oil tanker Texas Sun for a 30 day voyage from Carteret. The Navy denied him a reserve commission citing his mother Deborah Landy former Communist member. Landy refused oath.
A mobile zoo with an aquarium will tour several county fairs and the state fair. Owls, a skunk, and a fox are among the animals donated to the state for the exhibit. The creatures were surplus with no trade value and are being tested in Garden City this week.
A boss announces a new sales contest supervised personally by him. When asked what the winner earns, he replies that the winner gets to keep his job. The exchange underscores the employer’s emphasis on job retention as the prize.
In Binghamton New York Justice Daniel J McAvoy announced the heat in the state supreme court courtroom. He told lawyers that those with the shortest arguments would receive the longest consideration during yesterday’s session.
A fragmented weather note from a dubious source gives no reliable region, timing, or forecast details. It mentions a generic weather service but lacks concrete data such as region, temperatures, or precipitation chances.
Police continue to seek Wilma Allen 34 wife of a leading Kansas City auto dealer. Bloodstained clothing and a car trunk clue the scene. Allen was last seen Thursday on a shopping trip. her husband doubts kidnapping for ransom. Investigators discount reports of two men dragging a woman at a lake near the family’s summer home.
Thousands of radio residents from southwestern Kansas and eastern Colorado gathered in Lakin as the Kearny County 4-H fair and saddle club entered day two. Grand champions were named across clothing, foods, and exhibit categories led by Karen Maune in clothing and Doris Ann Loepnke in foods. The SunSet 4-H group and Swineing unit also earned top honors. A turtle race produced Randy Watkins as a quick winner, and a large parade through Lakin was slated for 2 p.m. MST followed by a rodeo tonight.
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