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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1955
Page
8
This brief ad notes RCA unveils the 56 model clock radio lineup with a price tag of 29.95. Also advertised is a Universal upright sweeper offered at 4.95, located at 49 North Main.
Nine townships will send representatives to the Little Theater at Lane County High School tomorrow for the annual election of the extension council executive board. Twenty seven officials were named across agri cultural home economics and 4H groups. nine will join the board. A county wide meeting opens to the public at 7 p.m. with a potluck dinner, and William Duftsman of the Fort Hays experiment station will be the featured speaker.
Springfield Illinois reports federal authorities refused Gov. William Stratton’s plea for a federal investigation into the Emmett Till case in Mississippi. Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr. states no federal offense was involved.
Clark H McPherson files in Finney County District Court to quiet title to the west 40 feet of Lots 7 8 and 9 in Block 78 Original Plat Garden City Kansas seeking judgment that he owns the property free of adverse interests and barring claims by all defendants and their assigns with a plead or before January 5 1956. The defendants include Robert Wright James W Van Eps John C Cochrane and others and the Peoples State Bank of Garden City and Stroup Lumber Company plus unknown heirs and possible successors. The case proceeds Pro Se for plaintiff.
Construction at Lakin Rural High School’s new athletic building runs tight with heat ready, doors and windows in place, and floor work nearly done. Electrical work and dressing rooms remain. moving date had been set for December 15 but the principal expects completion by January 6 without formal acceptance.
Syracuse board of appraisers sets a $25,913.30 price tag on land for the Hamilton County state lake site. The 432.4 acres are valued at about $60 per acre including damages. Members Fred Dikeman, Charles W Holdren and Brent Gould served on the panel. Damages, leases, and individual tracts are itemized, with John Tracey’s 160 acres valued at $6,400 and his damages at $2,240 plus $480 leased value for an oil company ring totaling $9,120. Other landowners include Dave Buhrle Ada Parsons and M D Kuttler of Tribune. Kuttler’s tract totaled $15,846.10, the highest among the four tracts.
Denver taxi driver Alvin W. Brooks, 26, was given 40 to 60 years in the State Prison for the July murder of Zelma Broadfoot, 23, whose battered body was found in Clear Creek Canyon near Golden. Dist. Judge Martin P. Miller called the killing vicious and horrible as he imposed the sentence.
Southwestern Kansas and Oklahoma Panhandle mile growers from 13 counties meet in Liberal at 7 p m December 15 to discuss raising mile prices. Sponsors are Southwest Kansas Irrigation Association and Liberal Chamber of Commerce with speakers J R Peele and Julius Cox.
PHILADELPHIA broadcast of Piaseck Helicopter Corp staged the world’s largest jet powered transport helicopter’s first public demonstration. The YHI16A turbo transporter reportedly flew 166 mph Dec 1, surpassing the Sikorsky XH39’s 156 mph record, with 20 hours of flight time to date and climbs to 12 000 feet.
The Kansas Corporation Commission studies a railroad request to keep current temporary intrastate freight rates permanent in Kansas. Railroads report the Interstate Commerce Commission recently made interstate rates permanent with no noticeable traffic diversion to other transport.
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