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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1957
Page
2
Garden City commissioners approved a $1500 engineering survey to compare the two airports and guide development. The urgent move aims to secure federal aid for an administration building, amid a heated debate over runways, finances, and traffic patterns.
A reader letter criticizes Governor Doc for delaying education funding while demanding a 5 percent raise for state college faculty. It argues adult education and vocational programs need support amid rising student numbers and questions the governor’s focus and the press coverage.
Ralph Richard Bird, former Ottawa elementary principal, received two years probation after pleading guilty to sending obscene materials through the mails. U S district attorney William Farmer said Bird traded art photographs with a nationwide pen pal network via magazine ads. The court ordered psychiatric treatment as a probation condition. Bird, 30, resigned last month and faces no school work again. his attorney said the offense was outside his background.
The excerpt presents a religious devotional prayer praising endurance in tribulation and prayer. It invokes mercy, gratitude for God’s Word, strength for a new heart, forgiveness of trespasses, and protection in God’s love through Christ, concluding with Amen.
A local column surveys holiday fashion and social happenings. It mentions Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds divorce rumors, a woman tiring of Christmas card addressing, a best dressed resident spotting two different shoes on Thanksgiving Day, Jay Crook turning 22 with a cake tally, Christmas gifts for men, a Regis College player with holiday schedule, Terry Sheehy missing Christmas with family, Joe Tennessen judging debates, and a fashion expert declaring blue serge dead while a Topeka man praises its shine. Also a nostalgia note on spinning wheels in Las Veras.
Brig Gen John C Hayden said the proposed Ft. Sill missile range has not yet fixed boundaries. He noted the area under consideration lies west of the present military reservation and north of the wildlife refuge, with towns like Carnegie and Mountain View potentially affected by expansion. Farmers protest the plan, fearing displacement from their land.
Hal Boyle notes in the Bahamas the ease of creating luxury communities for the rich, funded by millions, with no death taxes on real estate. Axel Wenner-Gren has invested in Andros, adding homes, a school, an airport, and a yacht harbor. Coral Harbour near Nassau, owned by Lindsey Hopkins Sr, features 1000 homesites priced 8000 to 30000 dollars, while Hopkins Jr plans a slow, selective community attracting top residents. Florida has already seen such growth, and Bahamian projects promise long term tax savings for investors.
John Foster Dulles travels to Paris to rally NATO after Cape Canaveral setback, with ambassadors from Latin America and Europe offering grim views on American weapons and the alliance. They warn of renewed Soviet prowess, worry over Spain bases, and the need for credible deterrence amid Sputnik fallout.
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