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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1955
Page
4
A 1948 Pontiac two door sedan with radio heater and seat covers now 295. A 1948 Plymouth two door sedan with 31 000 miles radio heater fog lights and spotlight offered at 325 with a school car guarantee. A 1947 Chrysler four door sedan with radio and heater was 325 now 245. A 1946 Pontiac two door sedan runs well was 249 now 195. A 1941 Chevrolet Coupe priced at 125 now 95.
Egyptian Abdel Latif Abu Heif won the cross channel swim after a slip past leader Thomas Park near shore. Park, Long Beach instructor, finished close behind. Prize money of 5320 dollars was split by winners. 18 swimmers started. Florence Chadwick swam toward France in a separate bid.
TOPEKA Proceeding seek ing disbarment of Alvin Strosnider a Wichita attorney were filed today in the Kansas Supreme Court by Atty Gen Harold R Fatzer. Fatzer said charges against Strosnider were referred to his office by the State Board of Law Examiners for action. Strosnider is accused in more than a dozen counts including perjury filing actions before the U S referee in bankruptcy when not admitted to practice in any federal court in the district of Kansas and failure to enter credit for or turn in amounts of money collected in garnishment actions. Fatzer said the board of law examiners has referred charges against two other Wichita attorneys to his office and that disbarment proceedings are now being prepared.
Hutchinson reports state CIO officials backed Dodge City’s Cowboy Capital of the World campaign over the weekend at the labor convention. State Sen. Bill Weigand urged CIO to call itself the CIO Cowboys of Industry. A national board meeting next month will consider an endorsement proposal.
In Seoul a quieting of protests followed a parade past the U S Embassy and Ambassador Lacy residence as Koreans marked the 10th anniversary of liberation from Japan. President Rhee postponed indefinitely his ultimatum for truce inspectors to withdraw from Korea.
Miss Phyllis Rutland of Harrow England was a guest in Scottsbluff when a tornado struck. She, unsure what Americans do, brewed tea in British fashion, saying it’s always the thing in a crisis.
Kansas City reports that about three million dollars from a 742 million federal package will resume Tuttle Creek dam work near Manhattan. Col. E C Adams said contracts start in 30 days to extend the outlet structure. land purchases shrink to 29,000 acres with flowage easements and continued government compensation, while local landowners face possible inundation frequencies as the project advances.
A Greensboro civic club heard a railway official claim air conditioning on trains allows car interiors to be redesigned since windows need not be opened or shut. He disputed rumors that rain conditioning prevented opening windows, stating such assertions were untrue.
The United States proposed that India help repatriate Chinese nationals in America who wish to return to Communist China. The plan, discussed in Geneva talks between Ambassador A Alexis Johnson and Chinese envoy Wang Ping-nan, involves Chinese seeking to leave contacting the nearest Indian consul with Red Cross facilitating travel.
Police in Geneva searched the city for a small piece of radioactive cobalt taken from the atoms for peace industrial exhibition display. The fragment, about the size of a postage stamp and protected by copper film, was exhibited by a French firm among other materials viewed by thousands.
Workers return to jobs today as a two month strike ends at the Westinghouse jet engine plant in Kansas City. Representatives from Westinghouse and the CIO United Automobile Workers Union reached a settlement on Saturday with about 1,400 workers voting nearly unanimously in favor yesterday.
An electronic weighing device is tested by the Virginia Highway Department and Bureau of Public Roads to allow trucks at legal limits to avoid highway pull-ins. If an overloaded truck passes, a red light signals at the weighing station and the vehicle will be weighed on standard scales.
Workmen measured the center of South Main Street blocks in Columbia and painted a line, then repeated on the next block using the prior curb measurement. The second block was wider, so the line ended off center and had to be scraped and repainted correctly down the middle.
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