Long Long Road 2000 Miles a Year at Gardendale
Merle Thompson, chief maintenance man at Gardendale housing project, logged 2114 on the job miles from Dec 27 1955 to yesterday using a pedometer gifted by his wife. On call 24/7, he covers 20 buildings with eight apartments each, patrolling sinks, heaters, windows, fuses, and coordinating new tenant moves.
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John Frazier
Merle
Jack) Thompson
Gardendale
Thompson
Garden‘City
Johnson
Telheram
Merle Thompson
Belated write-in vote revives local justice of the peace case
A write-in candidate in Finney County, A. E. Rudd, says the county Board failed to count his votes and that the February election name was not approved. Rudd claims he was elected justice of the peace, with the office delayed to the next election. The Rev Leigh Perry was introduced at a Kiwanis pastors event, and other town notes include a unique Christmas card from M. W. McFarland, a Puerto Rico based diver’s Santa portrait, W. B. Tarver moving to Washington state to farm, and no entries yet in the Junior Chamber Christmas lighting contest. Local winners receive plaques and potential national prizes of up to $5,000. entries must be sent by December 18 to Box 506, City.
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Doe Brinkleyt- Finney
A. E. Rudd
Rudd
Leigh Perry
Leigh
Kiwanis Club
M. W. McFarland
Puerto Rico
Santa Claus
Finney County
W. B. Tarver
Holcomb
Quincy
Wash
Clydé Stalleworth
Chamber of Commerce
Jaycees
Lloyd Haag
Garden City
Chamber
KCC
Topeka
Hotel Warren
Clifford R. Hope
Sublette Banquet Attracts Top Sooner Guests
Sublette hosts its annual all-sports banquet bringing 10 former Bud Wilkinson Oklahoma Sooners to speak and attend. National and All-Americans Jerry Tubbs Tommy McDonald Kurt Burris Bob Burris Bo Bolinger are listed among attendees with Leo Winters organizing the visit. About 500 Southwest Kansas residents expected to attend at Sublette Grade School Auditorium starting 7 pm. Tickets sold in Sublette and Garden City and local firms. Possible Mantle appearance still not confirmed.
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Sublette
Soonerland
Hols
Bud” Wilkinson
Oklahoma Seonar
Jarer
Krief Clothing
Sublette Drug
Subjlette
Weather Halts Plane Search Over Vanished Trans-Canada Air Lines Plane
Stormy weather forced a halt in the search for the Trans-Canada Air Lines four engine plane that vanished Sunday night with 62 aboard. Four search planes were recalled and eight Royal Canadian Air Force craft remained grounded at daylight due to hazardous conditions. American passenger and a college football player were among the 50 travelers aboard.
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Vancouver
B.C
Trans-Canada Air Lines
Royal Canadian Air Force
Varied Agenda On City Commission Meeting
City commissioners will act on water rights and well sites in the buffalo reserve, authorize land for a new armory, and introduce petitions to curb gutters and pave areas. They will consider federal aid for disposal plant construction, floor plan for the administration building, audit contract for 1956, razing bids for Gardendale housing project, unpaid accounts, license bonds for three individuals, police reports June–October 1956, and ordinances for street work and deed of block 4 Finnup Acres for armory use.
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Garden City
Smorrow
Buffalo Reserve
Pri
Gardendale
John F
Tatro
Roy ‘Tabor
Arthur Higzing
City Commissioners
Idd
Inge
Main
Thompson
Emerson
Finnup Acres
Births and tragedy follow fire in Houston home
In Houston Texas Mrs Lillian Taylor gave birth to her seventh child moments before a fire destroyed the Taylor home killing her three year old son Marion Richard The newborn Charlotte Rose Taylor was born at a clinic just before the tragedy The mother was not told of Marion's death as she celebrated the season despite the loss
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Houston
Tex
Lillian Taylor
Taylor
Charlotte Rose Taylor
Crowded Finney County Wheat Growers Meet Forms Board
An estimated 75 wheat men attended the Finney County Wheat Growers association annual meeting, a record turnout. John Wampler was re elected to a 3 year term on the state association board, G W Meeker was named to fill an unexpired term, alternates were Lawrence Beckett and Franklin Oldweiler, and featured speaker wage Ball, former director now in the soil bank division in Washington, spoke to the group.
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Finney County Wheat Growers Association
John Wampler
State Association Board
G. W. Meeker
Robert Ball
Lawrence Beckett
Franklin Oldweiler
Wage Ball
Soil-Bank
Department of Agricul
Washington, D
Hungarian Delegation Walks Out Of U N General Assembly
The Hungarian delegation left the General Assembly in protest of U N interference in Hungary. Imre Horvath said some delegations backed by the United States meddled in Hungary's internal affairs and would boycott further sessions over the issue. India and three Asian allies backed a plan to send Dag Hammarskjold to Moscow to negotiate Russian withdrawal from Hungary.
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United Nations
N. Y
General Assembly
U.N
Hungary
U.S
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr
Nation Assembly
Soviet Union
Imre Horveth
United States
Oed Horvath
Budapest
India
Dag Hammarskjold
Moscow
V. K. Krishna Menon
Ceylon
Indonesia
Burma
Hammarskjold
Dulles Sees a Hope of End to Iron Curtain Rule
U S Secretary of State John Foster Dulles told NATO ministers in Paris that internal pressures within the Soviet bloc may topple communism and end its global division. He urged 15 Atlantic Pact foreign ministers to apply moral pressure to assist reform forces while warning that unrest could drive Kremlin risks abroad and spark war. He condemned force as policy and urged UN adherence, noting a possible danger if the world ignores its charter.
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Paris
U.S
John Foster Dulles
Kremlin
Dulles
Egypt
United Nations
U.N
County Clerk Beckett Dies in Garden City
Vincent Beckett 44 county clerk and former county treasurer dies at St. Catherine hospital from a heart attack. Native of Western Kansas, he was finishing his sixth year in public office after two terms as treasurer and one in the clerk's office. Also an accountant and operator of a Garden City newsstand with farming interests in Kearny county.
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Finney
Vincent Beckett
St. Catherine Hospital
Kansas
Garden City
Kearny County
Breeding offers aid to Eisenhower on drouth trip
J Floyd Breeding Democrat elect for Missouri's Fifth District, from Rolla, telegrammed President Eisenhower welcoming his proposed drouth region tour and offering assistance during the trip and in the new Congress. He backs constructive soil and water legislation and says he will arrive in Washington before the New Year.
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J. Floyd Breeding
Rolla
Eisenhower
Drouth
Breeding
Anti-Russian Riot by Poles in Stettin Demonstration
In Stettin Polish demonstrators marched on the Soviet consulate smashing windows and clashing with troops and workers militia. Officials blamed drunken hooligans while sources say students and young workers organized the protest against events in Hungary. Several policemen were beaten and some demonstrators arrested.
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Warsaw
Stettin
Hungary
Gas Producer Drilling Near Garden City Capes Family Tragedy
Mrs Rodie Parke a 33 year old mother with cancer died Christmas Eve after a shopping trip at Garden City area stores. Her illness halted plans but she pressed to buy gifts for her children. Petroleum Inc. reports gas production at 7 6 million cubic feet daily with Cilies Berviss purchasing gas for a line to a regional game. Drilling continued nearby on Barbee No 1 and Garden D 121 tests, both Champlin Refining Co. projects.
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Asheville
N.C
Rodie Parke
Raymond Mormas
Ris Farm
Garden City
By Petroleum, Inc
Cilies Berviss l
Eral
Wens
Haskell County
Holcomb
Duce Oil
Champlin
Warning of 60 minute alert if war comes says Cardinal
In Los Angeles Francie Cardinal tine quotes the United States may get only 60 minutes warning if war comes. The Archbishop of New York, arriving from the Far East, told reporters at the airport that the slaughtering of people in Hungary should give Americans a firm impression to stay alert and on guard.
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Los Angeles
United States
Francie Cardinal Tine
New York
Far East
Hungary
Clashes as Work Halts In Protest In Hungary
Budapest reports say tens of thousands of striking workers paralyzed industry while clashes with Russian troops and Hungarian police were reported. The 48 hour general strike began to protest Prime Minister Janos Kadar's Moscow backed government amid martial law and a partial blackout on long distance calls.
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Budapest
Lahor
Janos Kaflar
Harmashat+athegy
Budapest Central Workers Council
Reabenes
Central Workers’ Council
Austria
Hungary
Kadar
Bettichort
Garden City
Curtis
Buda Bebermeyer
West Radio Today
Lawrence Wolf
Lakin
Ronald
Topeka
Michael
Nor
Ma Beckett
Melvin
Herrington
All Park
N. J
Robert
Overland
Park and Mercert
San Diego
Nussian Calif
Buda
Pest Central Workers’ Council
Garland’s
Wa i
Local Teen's Father Reports Busy Phone Lines Amid Mixup
A Thai woman nicknamed Garden Sass faced a two hour phone outage yesterday as equipment failures disrupted calls. The father of a local teenager says his own line was busy for hours on a single call, while the other party had nothing concrete to report about the big house situation.
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Big House
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Garden City Chamber of Commerce
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Peoples Natural Gag Company
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Dickinson
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Selwyn’ Lloyd
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Gantano” Martino
Halvard Lange
Europe
Russia
NATO Toj
Middle East
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Beckett
Ike
Hutchinson
John Crutcher
Dodge
Great Bend
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Guymon Sermipenmn
Restoet
Oil and Gas
Mra. Parks
Christman
St. Joseph's Hospital
Thane
Yey’s
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