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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1955
Page
2
A local column argues Scott County with about 5000 residents badly needs a single building combining an auditorium museum and expanded library. It notes current high school limits and delays in school expansions, urging early planning despite tax concerns and rural growth. It predicts favorable timing when crops resume.
In a light column the Dighton Herald shares quips and trivia about language names and national trivia. It notes Key’s fame for Star Spangled Banner verses and jokes about Alaska servicemen quips. It mentions schools preparing fiddle play for years ahead as Wilt the Stilt is at KU.
Elders who judged the Ulysses high school debate last weekend praised the speaking ability and research effort of the teen competitors. The piece notes the positive lifelong benefits of debate, the growth in public speaking, quick thinking, and study, and lauds the enduring value of the activity despite at times losing teams.
Madrid Spain Gen Francisco Franco says Spain will not be replaced in Spanish Morocco by anyone and will not passively accept agreements made without its participation. He warned France against attempts to shrink Spaniards influence as negotiations with French high commissioners begin.
The Federal Trade Commission shifts from prosecution to persuasion in a bid to stop deceptive advertising for health and accident insurance. It plans an urgent meeting with state insurance commissioners and industry reps to craft a uniform corrective solution.
Fragmentary Garden City Telegram text shows advertising and staff roles with garbled lines. Names and positions appear unclear but indicate Managing Editor Advertising Manager and AP dispatch rights. No coherent event or story details present.
About 50,000 more Kansas employees and 10,000 additional Kansas employers will be covered by the state employment act and the federal unemployment tax act starting Jan. 1. John Morrison, director of the Employment Security Division, says changes this year extend coverage to firms with four or more workers on 20 or more weeks in a year. Benefits range from 5 to 32 dollars weekly, based on prior earnings. The federal tax is 3 percent, with 90 percent deductible if paid into a state fund. newly subject employers pay 2.7 percent state tax and .03 percent federal tax. Wages over 3,000 annually are exempt.
A religious invocation asks Almighty God to shine on our path and lift anxiety, enabling trust in both seen and unseen, through Christ our Lord Amen.
Washington report shows seven out of ten farm families had an automobile in the 1954 census of agriculture. Census Bureau officials announced the finding today, highlighting rising rural car ownership and its implications for farm mobility and markets.
A critical appraisal of Elmer Davis's 1954 work But We Were Born Free. The author notes Davis's anti McCarthy stance and argues that true freedom requires active defense by free men, not reliance on courts alone. Davis blends journalism theory with political commentary on loyalty and liberty.
Puzzle lists across and down clues with entries from silk thread to biblical and mythical terms. It notes a solution line average solving time of 28 minutes and credits King Features Syndicate with a Cryptoquip puzzle solution and yesterday’s clues.
Barbara Ramsey hopes Gwen recovers from chicken pox so the Leon Ramsey family can visit grandparents in Dickinson county. Debbie Saffels laments her mother’s absence due to illness at the Jones kindergarten Christmas party. Another Debbie rushed by Santa at the Rotary Club dinner with a terse note. The piece notes a shift from slot profits to fundraisers as the American Legion Auxiliary prepares turkey dinners to support veterans services, with Nelma Hennigh and Margaret Concannon leading cooks and Mary Connors directing the serving.
President Eisenhower hosts a calm three hour meeting with congressional leaders as Dulles reports on Europe and Asia. He pledges boosted US propaganda and defence spending while teasing Johnson and Dulles. Hoovers decisions on Southeast Asia and the Middle East prompt concern over low level policy control.
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