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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1955
Page
7
Garden City junior college enrollment starts tomorrow with sophomores reporting 1 to 5 pm to line up classes. Aptitude tests run 1:30 to 4:39 pm in the college library. Classes start Sept 6 for most schools with kindergarten delayed to Sept 12.
Eight delegates to Vinney County Agricultural Strilization and Conservation convention re elected three regular members and one new alternate to the county committee. A. E. Cook remains chairman as the group’s leader with O. A. Schop and George Fowler re elected as regular members. Ita Rundell repeats as first alternate and Pete Mai as second alternate, Mai the sole new member. The meeting at the courthouse included Gene Kern Pele Mai Earl Powell Arnold Myer George Bretz Lyle Joss Dan Chines Don Keller. Terms begin Sept. 1. The ASC committee oversees agricultural conservation, price supports for wheat milo sugar beets and wool payments.
The Garden City bloodmobile will visit tomorrow with a full donor schedule set by Mrs L R Thrasher blood chair. Over 200 people have signed up to donate while the county aims for a standing 150 pint quota. Donations will be at the Presbyterian church with transport 10 am to 4 pm under Jaycee Jaynes. call Mrs Alan Probst at 3323 to schedule.
Baltimore girl Gloria Lockerman, 12, won $16,000 on The $64,000 Question and chose to stop. She will net about $11,000 after taxes. $500 is hers to use. The remaining funds go to a trust for her education, per Hal March.
Garden City residents woke to a 55 degree low in the early morning marking the cool start to the day. By noon the temperature rose to 81 degrees as the area enjoyed cooler than usual summer weather amid a summer of many days in the 50s and only one 108 degree high observed at KIUL on July 7.
The FBI announced today that two more twenty dollar bills from the long missing Greenlease ransom money have been found in St. Louis. The bills traced originated in Springfield and Sedalia, Missouri.
Walter Winchell sues the American Broadcasting Company in state courts for seven million dollars following the termination of his contract with the network on June 26. The suit was announced by the network today in New York.
Paris pedestrians and private cars jammed the city as bus drivers walked out demanding a special monthly bonus retroactive to January 1 instead of June 1. The action disrupted transit and traffic across the capital.
Santa Fe Trail council officials from Garden City Dodge City and Liberal depart for the University of Michigan Ann Arbor to join about 2700 fellow executives for a nine day national training conference September 2 9 The meeting covers the new four year program Onward for God and My Country set to begin January 1 next year Speakers include Harold Stassen on Youth in a Free World September 5.
Garden City residents will see a total tax levy drop from 59.564 mills to 58.404 mills next year. County Clerk Vincent Beckett said state funds on hand and higher than expected high school aid allowed lowering of the school district levy to 31.47 mills with a 0.30 mill state topping. The state levy fell from 3.74 to 3.44 mills, keeping the new school levy 0.8 mill above the 1954-55 level.
Wichita youth James G. Probst, 19, faces federal counterfeiting charges after $9,700 in bogus $20 bills were recovered in back to back sheets. Probst admitted printing the fake currency and failing to pass the bills. Authorities say the discovery began with a clerk confiscating a counterfeit note at a south side drug store and later tracing scraps to Probst’s print shop.
Israel resists joining Egypt in a cease-fire on Gaza hostilities, demanding Egypt admit fault for border violence and criticizing the U N plan. Egypt says it will halt fighting, but Cairo reports claim commandos crossed into Israel and bombed targets near Tel Aviv amid ongoing exchanges that have killed Israelis and Egyptians alike.
The Kansas Turnpike Authority outlines auto tolls for the 236 mile stretch from Kansas City to the Oklahoma line with rates scaling by vehicle type. Cars without trailers pay $3.80, larger trucks up to $10, and buses $8, with regional start rates listed from Kansas City to Wichita.
Trooper Jack Ford, moved from Garden City to Ulysses, leaves Garden City. Lloyd Mackown of Goodland among 17 new troopers assigned to the patrol and Bill Houdyshell of Great Bend to join Trooper Jim Thornton in Garden City. Houdyshell replaces Derald Kauffman.
A lighthearted cartoon caption reflects on gender expectations with a snappy joke about a man and a woman confronting a common private dilemma. The punchline plays on disguise and social norms in a playful, era-appropriate voice.
The Civic Center will launch a busy three day program starting Labor Day at 10 30 a m with a Coke and movie party for high school sophomores The schedule runs through Tuesday with football players from high school and college honored Wednesday brings a teacher event hosted by Garden City Chamber of Commerce The Old Timers club meets Friday at 1 p m after a summer renovation that refreshed interiors with new paint and reconditioned pool tables ready for nine months of use.
A 1500 pound Brahman bull escaped from a livestock truck and charged through 48 blocks in Kansas City, eluding capture for an hour and a half. Seven police cars, a horse, a jeep and stockyard trailer joined the pursuit before officers cornered the animal in a backyard. Lt. Cecil Gardner shot the bull at close range after a conference failed to corral it.
Greta DeRemus receives the Gardiner Dairy award at Finney County Free Fair, a $100 honor the largest youth monetary prize of the three day event. The award reflects top dairy work across three categories and is tied to the purchase price of a registered dairy heifer. The recipient’s 1955 fair exhibits and club dairy and project work supported the selection.
A man was killed when a bull fatally gored him through the forehead with his service pistol. The Brahman bull was hauled to its destination. A second Brahman bull escaped, and police later heard nothing more about it, assuming the owner recaptured it.
President Juan D. Peron offered to resign triggering mass demonstrations by his followers who demanded he stay. Alberto Tessaire signaled resignation if Peron leaves, governors threatened to quit, and the CGT called a 15 minute national stoppage as crowds gathered at Plaza de Mayo. Peron appeared at the Pink House awaiting a larger rally.
A 26 year old Navy veteran testified before senators that he was dismissed from a Quonset Point Naval Air Station civilian post as a security risk after authorities linked his mother and father to a subversive organization she denied ever joining. He noted he never learned the organization's name. His mother, Pauline Sumners, testified she belonged to the Progressive party and peace groups, not on the subversive list. The witness, on active duty 1951-53, worked as a metal smith helper and helped overhaul fighter planes, with dismissal on July 29. Senator Olin Johnston said cases like this reveal how many may be affected by the security program.
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