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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1955
Page
4
The editorial lampoons Safe-Driving Day for piling up publicity while failing to reduce deaths. It advocates real action including stricter traffic laws and enforcement, controls on auto safety equipment, modern highway design, and ongoing driver training and periodic exams.
The National Municipal League notes 1360 U S communities use the manager form now and city management dominates in towns over 20 000. Variations exist by temperament and law, yet sewage streets and fires demand efficiency. Garden City shows taste for referendum waning as sound governance rises.
A collection of quips from several papers notes Bertha Shore calling a doctor a trainer of patients who feign illness during office hours. The Atomic Age influences fashion with a fall-out neckline. Jokes compare dieting schemes and rummage sales to clothe the old man. Iron corsets echo old fashions, while modern corsets creep. A rhubarb pie metaphor praises social skills.
In Moscow Idaho service station attendant Claude Campbell could not call police last night because the telephone was stolen. Nearby in Pullman Washington, Jos Stone reported a man tore the phone off his service station wall.
Earl J. Kerschen 34 of Conway Springs died in a Wellington hospital after his car skidded and rolled 162 feet following a collision with a car driven by Wanda Riggs 27 of Conway Springs. Wellington authorities and Highway Patrolman Jim Martin reported the accident last night.
Topeka residents an Air Force sergeant and a housewife bitten by a rabid skunk received Pasteur anti rabies treatment promptly. Health officer Dr C Henry Murphy said they showed no ill effects and should recover. In Virginia Harrisonburg reports mention a mosquito control fire department clash as a separate note of fire scene.
The text presents a devotional prayer invoking Jesus as Lord and Immanuel. It references Joseph naming Jesus and asks for power from God through Christ. The form resembles a religious meditation with emphasis on spiritual access and faith.
Garden City Telegram published daily except Sunday by The Telegram Publishing Company with staff listed including managing editors and the commercial superintendent. It notes Associated Press ownership rights for reproduction and dispatches and provides subscription and carrier information for Garden City, Kansas.
Charles Boyer rejects the “continental lover” tag and notes age has changed his image. He discusses TV work with Four Star Playhouse, finding material, and his plans to bring a French play to Broadway. He jokes about taxes, recalls naturalization, and recalls earning $205,000 with $134,000 in taxes.
In Birmingham yesterday a record 18 700 000 deal announced the sale of the Birmingham News and its subsidiaries including the Huntsville Times. Publisher J Newhouse also acquired a TV station three radio stations and the Mercury Freight Line. The papers became the 12th and 13th in Newhouse's group. The sale, the biggest ever in U.S. newspaper history, surpasses the prior 18 million Philadelphia Inquirer sale in 1930.
Colombo reports a bilateral trade agreement listing tea and coconuts exports from Ceylon and sugar and textiles from Poland. Buenos Aires notes the United States plans a 60 million dollar loan to Argentina to boost its steel industry after talks with Raul Prebisch and Henry Holland.
Radioactive fallout was detected in fresh snow in Denver and Helena Montana with physicists at the University of Colorado Medical Center reporting only barely detectable levels in the Denver snowfall.
Kansas Civil Defense plans two statewide operational exercises within two weeks to test the efficiency of its 100 ground observer corps Posts. Kansas Civil Air Patrol planes will participate. If successful, around the clock aerial scanning for identification of air targets will be inaugurated.
Washington Merry-Go-Round notes Ike and Cabinet overheard at Camp David expressing surprise over the French UN walkout. The piece links farm policy anger to a dried milk surplus sale scandal, detailing losses to taxpayers, litigation against farmers, and the roles of Walter Berger and James McConnell in the Commodity Stabilization Service.
Puzzle with multiple across and down clues plus a cryptoquip for Saturday and a cryptogram revealing a phrase about distribution and time. The grid references include people places and objects such as Foose, King Features Syndicate, and Galopines.
Local familiar Byron matron testifies to the honesty of a duckwall’s dime ride scene on November 28. Rudy Valenzuela, photographer for the local bar and Curtis Studio, may develop film from last June’s picnic. Gov Fred Hall’s New York trip and Mrs Hall’s fashion show in the city are briefly noted with a list of outfits and rhinestone details.
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