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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1956
Page
2
An editor notes a poem narrating Mary blessed among women on the night of Jesus birth. A beetle climbs a stone wall as Mary rests in a stable beside Joseph. She reflects on divine favor and the quiet shelter, finding serenity amid the birth moment.
Petroleum Inc reports a gasser on Raymond Morris land near Garden City awaiting perforation tools. Cities Service plans a collection pipe from an earlier Morris strike. Stanolind conducts drillstem tests to diagnose tube wear, while several wells, including Shell No. 1 near Garden City, report open flows and depths. State tests show Knapp A-1 delivering 1,705,000 cubic feet daily. other wells in Finney and Haskell counties reach depths around 2,700 feet with acid treatments and fracs.
Quotations from Kansas City and Chicago show mixed moves in wheat corn and soybeans with highs lows and closes drifting across multiple percentages. Items include Wheat receipts and regional codes Hutchinson Wichita Omaha Amarillo and Enid along with firming and easing prices across Chicago oats soybeans and rye futures.
Admissions list includes Mrs Homer Kiehl 801 Jenny Gary Rickman 503 Stoeckly Arnold Partin 1204 E Chestnut Joseph Komlofske Sr 109 Conk ling Discharges include Mrs James Morris Sublette Mrs B W Smallwood 508 Stoeckly Frances Eveleigh 808 N Main Mrs Delbert Allenbaugh 101744 N 6th Leota Walker RFD 1 Births at Leopold hospital Mr and Mrs Garden City Grain market news with Wheat prices and Local Produce Market notes and county briefs listing property deeds and court actions plus current receipts and farm commodities prices including corn oats soybeans rye barley Milo and bran trends.
Wheat futures eased while old crop months rose on the Chicago board of trade with gains in the old crop tied to export hopes. New crop wheat sold as traders brushed aside a government estimate that winter wheat production was not lower than expected. Rye stayed firm whereas corn drifted lower, soybeans mixed late. Open interest and weekly purchases varied as markets tracked export demand and government data. A separate Montgomery bus segregation injunction looms as federal action nears, signaling change in city transportation policies.
The stock market drifted lower in quiet trading with about 1.9 million shares changing hands. Geneva Mulch was named deputy county clerk by Doris Meyer after the death of Vincent Beckett, with several leaders in motors and rails slipping modestly.
In Topeka Kansas the Board of Health reports eleven tularemia cases or rabbit fever this morning far above the usual two monthly. Five cases appeared in Labette County two in Shawnee and Allen and one each in Cherokee Bourbon and other counties. The dramatic scene describes a newborn boy and the accompanying family as the moment of life and hope centers the report.
The United Nations information office says plans are ready to begin clearing sunken ships from the Suez Canal immediately after British and French forces depart. Lt Gen. Raymond A. Wheeler, adviser on the operation, moves headquarters to Ismailia as the canal remains blocked since October 31. Egypt’s Suez Canal Authority is based there.
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