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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1955
Page
1
Firefighters were called to the Garden City Laundry at 7 45 p m to extinguish flames in a pile of oil rags. Samuel J Fairchild discovered the fire while loading out. George Keisner owner of Garden City Monument Co announced today he was named local authorized dealer for Stone Eternal Memorials.
Mary Kessler, 61, of Lakin died last night at Kearny County Hospital after a heart ailment. Survived by husband Simon, four daughters Ira Stebbens, Lydia Coerber, Mary Stinshcomb, Louise Dreher. three sons Bernard, Everett, Lavern. Funeral arrangements are pending, Phillips Funeral Home in charge.
Farmers Elevator reports Garden City area grain prices with Wheat at 1.85 and Mile.-1.80 Barley showing a price shift.
American agricultural experts, returning from Russia, report Soviet farming by directive is less effective than American methods. They note fattened hogs and limited corn use in beef production, contrast prices and goods with West Germany, and say Russian wages yield few shoes. Nebraska, Idaho, and Phoenix figures speak of cautious optimism from their delegations.
The 1,870 ton Swedish freighter Dorotea sent a distress call claiming crew trouble and the captain was imprisoned in his cabin. The ship was en route from Brazil to South Africa when the radio message was picked up by Capetown Coastal radio. An unidentified vessel near Dorotea relayed the call to Goteborg radio in Sweden.
Kansas war veterans completed a Canadian tour titled Operation Goodwill. Five girls and three boys from Chase and Chase, Kas, were chaperoned by Mr and Mrs Warren Kailor of Chase.
Hospital notices report admittees Martin A. Teeters Dighton Orrin Dick 505 Stoeckley Place Traci Sue Reimelt Sublette and discharges Mrs Owen Grable 1208 E Lau rel Jack Myers Scott City John Wasinger 606 North Eleventh Police brief notes Marilyn L Danford Route 1 charged with disregarding right of way after a crash at Mulberry and Taylor streets involving a car driven by George Yturriage 2108 Fifth Street.
The father of 14-year-old Annette Oster and 17-year-old Robert J. Julius set out for Boston to bring his daughter home to Wichita. Investigators report the teens fled Wichita on February 25 with about $2,540 cash and $500 in checks from Annette’s grandmother. Julius was arrested in West Palm Beach, Florida, and returned to Wichita March 9. he was released on bond until an October trial on grand larceny charges. About $1,500 was recovered. Julius reportedly said he won the money from Annette in Kansas City before leaving.
A caller reports a live kangaroo near Northeast 234th in Oklahoma City. Police, led by Julian Frazier and Lincoln Park zoo staff, chase the animal before it is revealed to be a stuffed dummy planted as a prank.
Waterbury and towns from Torrington to Derby face ruin as the Naugatuck River flood devastates homes and bridges. Debris blocks roads as rescuers search a shredded Riverside Street, a collapsed railroad bridge leaving freight cars scattered. Civil defense spray crews work amid dust storms while residents remember nothing like this.
The FBI reports a second $20 Greenlease ransom note found this month at the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis. FBI agent in charge James Milnes would not confirm progress toward solving the two year old case. Earlier discoveries and serial-number checks tie several bills to the 1953 ransom paid for the Bobby Greenlease kidnapping and murder.
Ellinwood Kansas reports 27 year old Robert P. Clay of Ellinwood was electrocuted while taking a bath in his trailer home. His wife said he touched the spray nozzle in the tub, receiving a shock. He was unconscious when she cut off the electrical current at a post about 15 feet from the trailer.
Kansas crude oil production averaged 332 880 barrels per day in the week ended Aug 22 according to the State Conservation Division. The figure rose 2 850 barrels daily from the prior week and compared with an August allowance of 315 000 barrels daily set by the Kansas Corporation Commission.
Washington reports the nationwide polio vaccination drive proceeds slowly with fall evaluation expected. Surgeon General Scheele cites early signs of benefit while Public Health Service tallies 11,862 cases since April 1 in the current disease year, vs 13,340 last year. About 64 million children have received shots. states have not yet submitted plans for approval.
Funeral services will be held Monday at Courier Funeral Home in Manhattan for L. C. Williams, dean and director of the Kansas State College extension service, who died Thursday in a Chicago hospital.
The United States proposes a veto-free inter national atoms for peace agency run by 16 nations. The plan, confidential and circulated to over 70 U.N. members, envisions a materials clearing house and information hub with a majority vote and no veto. Members would include US Britain France Canada Soviet Union plus five producers and six elected states.
James Allison Travis of Woodward Oklahoma faces charges of driving while intoxicated and transporting an open bottle. Police arrested him at 2 45 a m while driving in the 200 block of West Fulton.
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