Christmas safety tips and local notes from Garden City
The piece opens with the National Board of the Underwriters advising on safe Christmas tree care, urging small trees, watering, proper placement, skeptical use of fireproofing agents, and careful lighting. It then shifts to local notes about abandoned pets, a hospital drive, a TV appearance by Allen Williams, Hungarian news about the Kulcsar family, and activity around Warren hotel sign preparations.
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National Board of the Underwriters
Best Ever Beet Crop Seen In Southwest Kansas
Holly Sugar company officials and Holly Beet growers in Southwest Kansas foresee a record beet harvest for 1957. Latta estimates the crop will average 15 4 to 16 tons per acre, with total tonnage possibly surpassing 114000 despite late snow and ground freezing. Harvesting must wait for unfrozen ground, but experts expect the best yields since beets became a major crop 51 years ago.
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John Frazier
Southwest Kansas Sugar
Holly Sugar Company
Kansas
Latta
Sewage Plant Bids Opened January Sixth
Garden City officials announce bids for a new sewage plant will be opened on January 6. The notice notes all technical clearances are in order and invites qualified bidders to participate.
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Garden City
Eisenhower Eyes Cabinet Session in a Gettysburg Visit
President Eisenhower met with his secretary and press secretary Hagerty to confirm he would sit in on the cabinet session. He returned to the White House from Gettysburg for lunch and a brief rest, with plans to conduct the defense and foreign policy briefing with congressional leaders.
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Washington
Presidentia
Eisenhower
Ann Whitman
Epehre Vida’ Herometite Arta
James C. Hag
Gettys Ral
Burg
Dent
Hagerty
James C. Hagerty
White House
NATO
Paris
Adlai Stevenson
Eight Children Die in Flames Sherbrooke Quebec
Eight Denault children aged 8 months to 12 years perished when their home burned in Sherbrooke Quebec yesterday. Lionel Denault 38 years old was burned while trying to save them and is reported in fair condition. The mother and another child were away at church when the fire began.
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Sherbrooke
Que
Lionel Denault
Nwaladad
Vapiwucu, Denault
Senators Push Unification for Armed Forces Missile Program
Three Republican senators Bridges Saltonstall and Francis Case urge greater armed forces unification after a Senate inquiry found interservice rivalry hindered missile and satellite progress. Knowland proposes a Defense Department coordinator with fund transfer powers to focus on promising missile fields. Dr. Vannevar Bush cited service competition as a hindrance. Bridges favors tightening lower-level cooperation, while Case calls for a presidential commission to centralize authority.
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Washington
Senate
Bridges
R-Nh
Saltonstall
R-Mass
Francis Case
R-Sd
Thay
Knowland
R-Calif
Defense Department
Vannevar Bush
Office of Scientific Research and Development
Senate Preparedness Subcommittee
Bridger
Defense McElroy
Eisenhower
Wheat storage space freed for harvest in Garden City area
About 40 000 bushels of 1952 wheat moved from small bins west of town to make room for the harvest. 13 empty bins at Garden City site and six at Lowe site. can be rented by farmers for 1 cent per bushel per month. ASC manager Ernie Proudfit said more space may open at Lowe if needed. Bins hold about 13 100 bushels. grain moisture must be under 13 percent for farm storage loan eligibility. Farmers should inquire at the ASC office in courthouse basement.
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Ernié ' Proudfit
Agriculture Stabilizaton and Conservation Office
Garden City
Lowe
Proudfit
ASC
Polar Cub Thrives Under Around-the-Clock Care
Klondike the polar cub at St Lin Lee Richardson is surviving infancy as keepers monitor the post birth stage. Superintendent Chceude pwene notes the family stays watchful around the clock while the cub gains from 14 pounds at birth to inches and is fed every two hours in an incubator. The effort aims to raise the cub to maturity, a potential attention getter for G wo and similar feats in wildlife care.
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Klondike
St Lin
Lee Richardson
Chcude’ Pwene
Flondike
Arches
Owens
Bored Wives Have It All Wrong in Office Life
A satirical column critiques married life and the modern office culture. It contrasts wives’ glamorous fantasies with the drab, routine world of husbands in work settings, noting crowding social rituals, office hierarchies, and the monotony of daily tasks. The piece features a parade of office roles and characters, highlighting the distance between romantic ideals and actual professional life.
Weather forecast for The Weather AB area
Weather Bureau bulletin notes low temperatures with northerly winds 10 to 15 mph. Tuesday shows partly cloudy skies and rising temperatures near 60 degrees. Winds shift from northerly 15 to 20 mph to southerly by evening.
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Weather Bureau
Thieves damage school during break in at junior high
Local police investigated a break in at the junior college and high school building discovered early today after windows were broken and entry gained via a door in the southwest corner. Intruders ransacked Supt Leroy Hood office and secretary Helen Reed’s desk, damaged the art department, and attempted to lift a safe’s hinges. Investigators noted no money was believed kept on site and that the burglars appeared familiar with the building. no losses reported yet but damage estimated as substantial.
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Vocational Agriculture Shop
Leroy Hood
Helen Reed
Richard Robleder
Elland
Art
Larcen
Rohleder
T ‘Hood
Two Dead on Kansas Roads Weekend Crash Toll Rises
The Associated Press reports two fatal weekend crashes in Kansas, bringing traffic fatalities this year to 515, down from 610 a year ago. Beaver County family members Edwin Kilmer 33 Coral Kilmer 80 Judy Kilmer 1 Mark Kilmer 3 died in a two car collision east of Wichita. Curtis Fleschman 22 of McConnell Air Force Base was injured. Viola Diehl 57 of Kansas City Kansas and granddaughter Terry Diehl 6 died in a two car crash near Louisburg.
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Associated Press
Kan
Coral
Judy
Mark
Wichita
Curtis Franklin Fleschman
McConnell Air Force Base
Viola, Diehl
Kansas City
Kay
Terry Diehl
Louisburg
Chamber announces late shopping nights before Christmas
The Chamber of Commerce announced a schedule of special shopping days for the Christmas season. Stores will stay open until late in December on three nights before Christmas, with specific dates listed by Joe Biles, chairman of the retail trade committee.
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Chamber of Commerce Today
Joe Biles
Retail Trade Committee
Jordan Israel tensions grow as UN envoy cautions clash
U N Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold reports two long meetings with Jordanian leaders in Amman amid fears of an open clash with Israel over demilitarized zones and stalled convoys to Mt Scopus inside Jordanian territory. He called for halt to military moves and removal of a U S observer while demanding supplies for Hadassah and Hebrew University areas.
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Amman
Jordan
W—U.n
Dag. Hammarskjold
U.N
Israel
Mt. Scopus
Jordaniay
Hamimarekjold
Hammarskjold
Beirut
Ing. Hussein
Samir
Rifaj
Ibrahim Hashem
Jerusalem
Hadassah Hospital
Hebrew. ‘University
Vanguard Rocket Readies for Orbit Launch at Cape Canaveral
Cape Canaveral scientists and technicians continue preparations for Wednesday’s Vanguard rocket launch designed to place a grapefuit sized satellite into orbit. The Navy three stage packet faces a slim chance of lift off amid uncertain conditions. officials press on.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla. 4
Vanguard
Navy
Hopit
Harise
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