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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1955
Page
5
A daughter memorializes Hugh E. Farquhar, who died in Williams, California, July 13 from a heart ailment. He was a former junior college teacher in teacher training. The verse honors a quiet, brave, truthful father whose strength sustained his family and whose loving example endures beyond death.
Baltimore and the Air Research and Development Command say they developed an electronic aircraft detector called a buzz bonnet. The device mounts on a hard hat with an antenna, a coil cylinder, and a knobbed rod. It aids the Ground Observer Corps in spotting low flying planes by sound and quicker impulses than sight, with a ear piece, battery pack, pulse amplifier, and choke assembly.
Kansas City report quotes Ben Powers an associate city counselor on a downtown firm complaint about men whistling at young women from a nearby training school. He says whistling is crude expression but not illegal.
In Tokyo the nationwide count of poisoned powdered milk victims reached 39 dead and 4,448 sick on Saturday as families faced milk shortages. News reports warned parents and advised thin rice gruel for children in areas lacking fresh milk.
In Riverside California bomber crews from Strategic Air Command return after 3000 mile missions simulating strikes on Los Angeles Sacramento and Spokane. Jet B47s and eight engine B37s competed in bombing and navigation tests with the newer B47s again leading in late missions.
A Senate subcommittee will hold a public probe this week into the Eisenhower administration handling of security risk charges against Wolf Ladeinsky and others. Ladeinsky, a land reform specialist, was fired as a security risk by Secretary Benson, while the Foreign Operations Administration and State Department had previously granted him full clearances.
SANTE FE New Mexico Harold Roberts attorney said Saturday a check from a recent client is still bouncing The client he had defended successfully on a bad check charge was the issuer of the check
Bernard Huggins, 49, is in the cooler after a six month sentence for petit larceny. He allegedly stole a block of ice from the front of a Lexington business, with the heat destroying the evidence against him.
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