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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1955
Page
9
The Glacier, last ship of the U S Antarctica expedition, makes first landfall in Christchurch with 372 crew after a 10 day Panama passage. Heavy gales and 30 foot waves slowed progress, while towing a small oil tanker faced worse conditions.
A 16 foot marine whatsit washed ashore yesterday at Venice California. The odd creature has a snake-like head a fin tail and an estimated weight near 800 pounds when alive. Old-time mariners and lifeguards examined the strange find.
Norman Bishop, an 18 year ocean survivor and former lifeguard, says the object witnessed at sea defies his experience and he suspects a sea serpent rather than a known marine animal. Local observers seek more verification.
Esther Twente, chairwoman of KU’s graduate department of social work, has received a Fulbright grant to lecture at the University of Adelaide in Australia. She will take a sabbatical and be away for the spring term, the summer session, and the fall term of 1956.
In Denison Texas children have stopped calling local man known as Shorty Freeman and now call him Jack. A 14 foot…
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