Aust Of Me and the Burtis Family News in Garden City
A baby boy joins three Burtis sisters at the Burtis mansion in La Sunta with grandparents Cap Burtis and Grand Like. Sally reports a two way radio delivery system cutting time to the cleaners.
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Spencer Burtis
Burtis
la Sunta
Cap Burtises
Garden City
Grand
Sally
Cleaners
Mds
Dale Fry
Chamber of Commerce Industrial Committee
Kansas Park Board on Tour of Oklahoma Area
Topeka leaders visit Oklahoma to study its state parks system over a three day tour. Oklahoma park director Jack Boyd will guide the Kansas group. The Authority can issue revenue bonds for park construction with users paying fees to retire them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Kansas
New Park and Resources Authority
Oklahoma
Jack Boyd
Kansas Group
July Drought Deepens In Finney County History
Rainfall in July 1955 totaled .71 inch in the area, with .68 inch in the vicinity, making it one of the driest Julys on record. The 1955 year-to-date rainfall stands at 16.41 inches, well below the long-term average, and July comparisons show it as drier than 1953 and 1954. John Martin reservoir near Las Animas holds 136,860 acre-feet, highest since 1948, supplying irrigation water to Kansas and Colorado, while Lake McKinney remains nearly dry with planned releases of about 5,000 acre-feet to irrigate fields.
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Garden City
Finney County
Russell Tutt
United States Irrigating Company
John Martin Reseroir
Las Animas
Colo
Trinidad
Polio Siege in Boston Believed Past Peak
Boston health authorities expressed hope polio has passed its peak as 12 new cases raised the city total for the year to 324. Haynes Memorial Hospital administrator Edward J. Dailey reported only 2 of 26 recent admissions were Boston residents, while two deaths increased the city’s death toll to 24, including an 8 month old girl and a 39 year old woman from Wayland.
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Boston i
Boston
Edward J. Dailey
Haynes Memorial Hospital
Haynes
Wayland
Chuckles Highlight Wordplay on Money Moments
A light joke features a wife recalling asking her husband for money with a pun about being calm and collected. The quip hinges on a play of words between financial request and composure, delivered in a newspaper’s humor column style.
FBI Enters Murder Case In Kidnap Theory
Mrs Wilma Allen 34 mother of two was found nude shot twice in a Johnson County pasture. The FBI joined Missouri and Kansas officers amid questions of sex motive and possible kidnapping. A man was questioned as investigators trace missing rings and an empty purse.
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Wilma Allen
Johnson County
Kas
Kansas City
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Here
Missouri
Kansas
City Homicide
Allen
T Hey
Dust Blamed In Car Pileup Near Dighton
A dense dust cloud reduced visibility on K-96 near Dighton four miles east Saturday evening triggering a major vehicle pileup. Five cars and a truck were damaged, with several others involved. Notable impacts included a collision between an REA truck driven by Lester Richardson and a car driven by Orlie Thomas, both of Dighton, and a rear-end crash pushing Edwin Stormont’s car into Willis Pitts’s vehicle, after Pitts collided with Lyle Burns’s car from Pomona. Two people in the Pitts car were shaken up. Misegadis, a LaCrosse driver, was reported at Great Bend hospital. Mrs Pills was to be taken to Dodge City.
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Dighton
Here
Lane County
Earl Mel Gowan
Orlie Thomas
REA
Lester Richardson
Edwin Stormont
Great Bend
Dodge City
US Soldiers Hurt In Korean Rioting
Fifteen U S soldiers and four Koreans were reported injured in renewed riots against Communist truce inspection teams in Pusan and Taegu. The 8th Army noted six soldiers treated for minor injuries, while police and army officials disputed bayonet claims. Demonstrations spread to Inchon and Kunsan as Seoul sought UNSC team removals by Saturday.
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Seoul
U. S
Pusan
Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission
8Th Army
U.S
Taegu
Army
Inchon
Kunsan
South Korea
UNSC
ROK
the &Th Army
October Weather Returns Warm and Wet Across Kansas
Garden City and southwestern Kansas saw cooler air with a high of 81 as scattered showers cooled the day. A cool front brought dust and rain late Saturday, with early Sunday morning showers totaling about .13 of an inch in the city and higher amounts nearby, while CAA readings varied. Farmers reported light rain amounts, from traces to .60 of an inch, with sprinkles dampening sidewalks and a lingering falllike feel in the region.
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Garden City
Kansas
CAA
Carden City
Finney County
Holcomb
Leo Kleysinebur
Max Hunt
Pierceville
Bob Christensen
Christensen
Pierreville
Weir
Weather report fragment from U S Weather Quregn Pinene 4314
Fragmentary weather bulletin appears to reference U S Weather Quregn Pinene 4314 with unclear data. No clear forecast region dates or conditions are readable in the text.
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U.S
New York Boys Hurt When Struck by a Car
Garden City man Barlola Garcia received 90 days in jail for driving while intoxicated and was fined for license and following too close offenses after rear ending a car driven by Joe P. Bender on US 50. Passenger Alice Chavez sustained bruises. A separate US 50 crash near 30 miles west involved Michael Merrill and Harold Hartley with Hartley escaping injury as his car hit an irrigation ditch. Another driver, Maurice Leo Smith, reported rolling his car eight miles south of town on US 83.
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Garden City
Barlola
Garcia
Bowman Acres
Joe P. Bender
1603
Bender
Alice Chavez
Holcomb
Michael Merrill
Rowle 1
Merrill
Harold H. Hartley
Hartley
Maurice Leo Smith
Evans
Third Polio Case Reported In Finney County
The season's third polio case arrives at St. Catherine hospital with Candy Greenwell, two, Deerfield, diagnosed as spinal polio. Her parents Chester and Greenwell rush to support her three day illness. Two other Finney county cases, William Williams six, and Jimmie Sloan two, are described as improving and awaiting physiotherapy at Hutchinson facilities.
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St. Catherine Hospital
Candy Greenwell
Deerfield
Chester Greenwell
Finney County
William Williams
Art Williams
Hutchinson
Finneyecounty
Jimmie Sloan
Robert V. Sloan
Hutchington
Woman Has Choice of Husbands in California
Una Schmidt-Fine, mother of a young boy, moved away in Nevada City to decide between returning prisoner of war husband Schmidt in Tokyo or the logging tractor driver Alford B. Fine. She had believed Schmidt was dead after the B29 crash on January 12, 1953 during the Korean War. A telephone call with Schmidt in Tokyo followed, after which her attorney said she separated from Fine.
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Nevada City
Calif
Una Schmidt-Fine
Una
Alford B. Fine
Daniel C. Schmidt
Schmidt
Tokyo
America
Harold Berliner
Bomb Damages Saigon Palace of Justice in Vietnam
Paris dispatch reports a bomb heavily damaged the interior of South Viet Nam's Palace of Justice in Saigon last night with no casualties, according to the French News Agency.
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Paris
South Viet Nam
Palace of Justice
Saigon
Peaceful Hydrogen Bomb Predicted by Scientists
Geneva reports that Homi J. Bhabha predicts peaceful harnessing of hydrogen bomb energy within 20 years at the International Atomic Energy Conference. The event runs to Aug. 20 with papers on peaceful atomic use, exhibits, and a U.S. reactor display drawing major interest.
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Geneva
Homi
Bhabha
Hiroshima
Palace of Nations
Ic Energy
Eisenhower
U.N. General Assembly
International Organization
U.S
Two Scouts Injured In Camp Return Crash
Two Syracuse scouts, Ted Graeham and Edward Chrysler, both 14 and 15, suffered fractures in both bones of their lower left legs when struck by a car driven by William R. Ackley on Maple Street near Lith. Three other scouts were hurt lightly while nine walked in two rows en route to Philmont. Ackley said he saw a child and did not notice the scouts until after the impact. Police continue investigation amid weekend city crashes and minor incidents.
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Syracuse
N.Y
Ted Graeham
Edward Chrysler
William R. Ackley
W. Maple
Maple Street
Lith
Oran Nelson Annable
St. Catherine Hospital
Jon Faunce Foster
Ackley
Maple
John Foster
Don Axe
Ronald Hupui
Floyd van Wye
Baldsville
N. Y
Carl Lamb
Liverpool
Garden City
National Guard Armory
Philmont
Philadelphia
Eugene Paul Sheaks
Route 1
Elmer Martinez
Lakin
Martinez
N. Main
John Gonzales
Taylor
Blanche B. Holderness
Donella Gilkin
Kyle I. Swisher
W. Chestnut
Main and
Chestnut
Gilskin
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John Boyer
Scott City
RIDC
Scott County
Buffalo
United States
KIDC
Scott County State Park
Buffalo Preserve
John
Scott Park
Bool
Daltons
Robert Stevenson
North Fourth
Stevenson
J. A. Allen
Emporia
Coffeeville
Dalton Gang
Kansas Park Board
FBI
David S. Long Jr
U.S. 49
Marx
Sui
Benel
Chisian
la Junta
Curtis Studio
Finnup Park
Santa Fe Trail Council
George Woolwine
John Mangan
Floyd Jones
New York
Federal
Viet Nam
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