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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1955
Page
5
Two University of Missouri scientists described a method using radioactive iodine to predict how rising temperatures will affect milk production and growth in cattle. By injecting calves they measure thyroid activity, guiding farmers to select potentially productive animals without raising both good and bad calves.
Four Imperial Oil Co. employees died when a plane crashed near the Manitoba Saskatchewan border and burned. Two other workers survived with burns and shock, while an eighth man, G. H. Kendall of Regina, was located by a search plane nine miles from the crash with Owen Smith, also of Regina, later found after rescuers landed.
Two young brothers Lee Andrews 2 and Lewis 5 suffocated after becoming trapped inside an abandoned refrigerator in a vacant first-floor Philadelphia tenement. Their mother discovered the bodies when she opened the appliance late last night, police said.
New York reports backstage at the Metropolitan Opera where Ralph Edson, master of properties, handles guns and props for productions. He oversees a 60-member crew led by his son Louis, with two warehouses storing countless sets and small items. Edson, 35 years with the Met, has mounted about 150 operas, coordinating cueing, scene changes, and safety, while performers and directors push toward curtain.
A South Korean crowd attacked eight U S Army vehicles between Inchon and Wolmi Island injuring American officer L Wayne N Hansen of Augusta Georgia. Hansen sustained a slight brain concussion and bruises but was listed as not seriously hurt. The protests targeted neutral truce inspectors and demanded removal of pro Communist Czech and Polish members of the NNSC as supply trucks to Wolmi were blocked.
Fraser Colorado report notes President Eisenhower and the 7-year-old grandson David vacationing in the Rockies. David takes his first trout fishing lesson at a stocked pond while Eisenhower is away. The scene includes horseback riding and a cottage setting.
Buffalo W subur ban Cheektowaga reporters note Emil A Singer's tavern was open yesterday amid normal Tuesday closure. Two cheerful men tended bar for six hours then vanished with 40 dollars cash and about 65 dollars from bar trade, prompting a police report.
Forty eight government investigators are assigned to halt any possible black market in polio vaccine. They will not investigate doctors actions with the vaccine. A spokesman for the FDA said there have been a few cases of doctors charging steep prices and inoculating children outside the age priority group.
Geneva report says President Eisenhower favors a second conference on peaceful uses of atomic energy within two to three years. Lewis L Strauss, AEC chairman, announced the view at a luncheon with U S delegates to the atoms for peace talks. He noted it would be improper to submit a formal proposal now but said U N delegates would initiate one later.
RUTLAND Vermont report: Mrs Emma Gatewood 67 of Gallipolis Ohio arrived in Sherburne Pass yesterday on a walking trip from Mt Oglethorpe Georgia to Mt Katahdin Maine. Since starting May 3 she has lost 24 pounds and worn out five pairs of shoes, with about 350 miles remaining.
Alabama Governor James E. Folsom, famed for predicting Truman's 1948 win, forecast a Democratic triumph in 1956 with the former president leading the ticket. He reiterated the forecast at his news conference this morning.
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