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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1955
Page
5
A Kansas extension specialist explains pond management to maximize big fish. He notes heavy fishing yields larger specimens, says only a few fish can sustain stock, and advises predator fish, sharp bank slopes, fencing, sod drainage, and a drain to manage silt and water levels.
The ASC committee election will be completed by August 18 1955 with three regular members and two alternates chosen in each community. Ballots were mailed to eligible voters and must be returned by 5 p.m. on August 18. Eligible voters include farm owners and tenants meeting conservation program criteria or price support loan eligibility, with non age restricted voters allowed if supervising farming operations. Voting entities may include individuals partnerships corporations estates or other legal entities.
Wheat prices show optimism with a forecast of a January peak and limited gains through mid-winter. Factors include reduced loan rate, CCC sales influence, and steady mill demand on the 1955 crop with large carryover.
An eligible voter is entitled to only one vote. The community committee elections will be held under the general direction of the county election board. The tabulation committee will count the ballots to determine who was elected.
Retiring Air Force Secretary Talbott publicly criticized Defense Secretary Wilson for not defending him amid questions over Talbott’s resignation. The exchange occurred in Wilson’s office as Talbott and his successor Donald A. Quarles were photographed, with Talbott urging a defense of his actions. Wilson described his distress over the resignation controversy and a Senate inquiry into Talbott’s outside interests.
New York artist Fritz Kreisler, now 80, says age is his incurable disease. He no longer performs publicly, aside from rare radio spots, and says he has shifted to listening and occasional home practice. Born in Vienna in 1875, Kreisler became an American citizen in 1943 after holding French citizenship earlier, and he notes how politics and war shaped his national loyalties.
Dr. Martin Fleck of the University of New Mexico promotes the World Calendar as a universal, unchanging system approved by the UN and over 30 countries. He cites shifts in the current calendar, argues for fixed dates and days, and links calendar reform to civilization impacts.
Kansas State college specialist R D McKinney argues a $35,000 baseline covers a farmer’s own capital, livestock, machinery, land, rental machinery, and borrowings. If total assets fall short, seek more land or funds. He notes renting money can boost output if returns exceed costs. Background hinges on farmer’s finances and planning.
Elmira NY Mrs Henrietta B Hewitt 63 pleaded guilty to speeding in Recorder's Court. She produced as evidence a slip she claimed she wore at the time containing a squashed bee. Judge Henderson Riggs fined her five dollars instead of twenty.
A fragment outlines a method to draw circles by using a taser as a compass with a pivot point. It mentions drilling a hole for a thumb tack as a pivot and using additional holes for measurement points to guide the pencil.
MEMPHIS Tenn. Kim Story writes he was not annoyed by TV commercials. The program taught him to read and he now reads almost anything. His father, police officer Frank Story, notes Kim started with tough words like hexachlorophene and chlorophyll and now enjoys identifying car makes in spare moments while continuing to study stammer class.
Five Southwestern Kansas counties led irrigation land leveling in the 1955 first half under the agricultural conservation program. Haskell Finney Seward Grant and Kearney top the leveling. Johnson Jewell Iowa Douglas and Nemaha led permanent sod waterways. stock water dams terraces waterways leveling land and legumes and grasses rotation were top practices. County ASC offices offer additional information and funds remain available.
Wool growers in Finney county receive ballots on a marketing agreement cutting one cent per pound from 1955 clip payments for promotion funds. Similar deductions for 1956 to 1958 clips were planned. The referendum, run by the county ASC, calls for a two thirds vote in favor. Ballots must be mailed by August 19. The program, under the National Wool Act of 1954, aims to raise domestic wool and mohair production. The other item notes the 46th National Motor Boat Show in New York January 13 to 22.
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