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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1957
Page
5
A note apologizes to Curtis Studio and Shutterbug Delmar Schmidt for mistakenly swiping credit on a page one photo from yesterday’s Telegram. The writer cites typewriter quirks and upside down letters as possible causes and promises accuracy going forward.
Harvest May reaches a five million bushel milestone while mile crop leads county records. The piece also credits a photographer for technical work with extra lighting and photoelectric triggers, describing the complex process in period newspaper tone.
Kansas announces a Sugar Acres allotment of 7 934 acres for 1958, with requests due by January 31. Base period 1953–57 to set farm bases. farms without accredited 1955–57 records are ineligible for old producer shares. Forms available at courthouse ASC or Holly Sugar Co offices. a Sugar Co agent will visit interested producers.
Kansas faces a near 197 million bushel wheat crop forecast for 1958, the largest since 1952, with favorable moisture and planting conditions. The 1957 crop was 100.1 million bushels. Ex-GOP Rep Cliff Hope criticizes Department policy while Kansas school principal John Riggs resigns in Lakin after 11½ years. the district explores a replacement. In Finney and Garden counties, milo yields push a potential five million bushel milestone, aided by favorable weather and new drying capacity at Co-op elevators.
In Roy New Mexico a 45 year old veteran Lawrence Weisdorfer killed three members of his estranged wifes family in a northeastern cowtown last night He was shot by a policeman 40 minutes later Bradley Weathers 39 said his parents and sister were slain by Weisdorfer The victims were A E Weathers 88 Katherine Weathers 51 polio crippled since childhood and their daughter The two young witnesses were James 4 and Allen 2
Indonesia swore Sartono in as acting president to serve while President Sukarno rests abroad. No date set for Sukarno’s departure. officials say he is worn from the dispute with the Netherlands over West New Guinea and recent assassination attempt.
The weather item reports on a rancher from Coachella Valley near the desert ranch, with fragments indicating a death yesterday afternoon. It mentions Hollywood ties and that the man previously represented Kansas at a national association in Miami Beach. He is now in his sixth year on the school legislative committee in the 5th district.
Merchants will keep doors open until eight tonight as the first of three special shopping nights. Stores will also stay open until eight on Saturday and Monday, under a schedule set by the retail trade committee of the Chamber of Commerce.
London Prime Minister Macmillan won parliamentary approval for basing American made missiles on British soil. The House of Commons backed NATO decisions from Paris by a 289 to 251 vote, pledging to establish nuclear missile sites in Britain.
A three year old boy who wandered from his farm home near Mapleton was found dead about half a mile east of Mapleton. Ralph Wagner Jr., son of Mr and Mrs Ralph Waentey, disappeared during intermittent rains that night as temperatures fell to the mid thirties. A searching party radioed Fort Scott Police headquarters with word of the body found.
Tornadic storms swept Arkansas, Missouri, and Illinois, killing 18 people and injuring about 250. Widespread wreckage and flooding followed as residences and structures were damaged or destroyed. Crews battled debris, power outages, and the clean up began in affected communities.
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