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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1956
Page
10
The Agriculture Department estimates the 1956 wheat crop at 997,207,000 bushels and corn at 4,451,292,000 bushels. Winter wheat 734,995,000 bushels, Spring wheat 292,212,000. State yields and harvest figures for Missouri Nebraska Kansas Oklahoma Colorado listed.
Kansas CIO delegates urged a 65 mph day limit and 60 mph at night on state highways at their two day convention in Topeka. The group also backed unemployment compensation changes to raise the weekly benefit. Vernon Welling was chosen president with a slate of officers and board members from across the state.
Louis Armstrong arrived in London to perform for Hungarian relief as arson blazes struck multiple churches. Police say two fires were ignited by gasoline, with damage totaling hundreds of thousands and a cathedral fire nine months prior remains listed as suspicious. Armstrong thanked Sir Callum Welch, lord mayor, after a rough transatlantic flight from New York.
Premier Nuri Said declared Iraq would stand with the West and remain a member of the U.S. backed Baghdad Pact linking Iraq to Turkey Pakistan Iran and Britain to defend against Communist aggression. Arab opposition and strikes followed Syrian radio calls and protests over Iraq policy as political prisoners were reported to be fed secretly.
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