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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1957
Page
9
Apology issued to Curtis Studio and Detmar Schmidt for a credit mix up on a Page 1 photo from the school Christmas music program. Police seek a donated bed for the department Santa list, useful for needy families, with pickup arranged by officers at 4343.
Drew Pearson relays Cliff Hope Sr. remarks at a National Grange meeting in Colorado Springs. Hope, once the leading farm expert in Congress, criticizes agriculture policy and says there has been too much soft soap from the Agricultural Department.
Mrs. Nellie Mae Minnick, 71, of Wichita, was killed yesterday in a head-on collision on K-57 southeast of Pittsburg. Glenn Moore, manager of a local furnace company office, was seriously injured. Both drivers were alone in their vehicles.
Kansas Sugar Acres announces a 1958 sugar beet allotment of 7 934 acres with requests due by January 31. Producers may obtain forms at the courthouse ASC office or Holly Sugar Co offices and will be contacted by a fieldman. Base periods 1953 to 1957 determine farm bases. farms without an accredited 1955 1957 record are not eligible for old producer shares.
MOMURDO SOUND Antarctica The Russian headquarters in the antarctic informs U S officials of plans for extensive surveys along the coast of an unclaimed Antarctic sector. The United States, preparing to send the icebreaker Glacier to the Palmer Peninsula coast, faces ice and luck delays.
Merchants will keep doors open until 8 oclock tonight for last minute shoppers. This is the first of three special shopping nights in local firms with similar hours planned for Saturday and Monday nights per the Chamber of Commerce retail trade committee.
The horticulturist noted figure has long branded himself as a gardener of public policy. He frames his career as grafting progress through steady cultivation of local projects and reform initiatives.
The 1958 Kansas wheat crop is forecast at nearly 197 million bushels, the largest since 1952. With ample moisture and good planting conditions, wheat acreage rose sharply to 19.942 million acres. The 1958 yield is expected to be about 18 bushels per acre, above the 10 year average.
John F. Riggs resigns as Lakin high school principal effective July 31 1958 ending an 11 year tenure in the Lakin school system During his administration the district expanded from two to five buildings with enrollment rising from about 200 to 550 He expressed desire to stay in administration potentially in Southwestern Kansas The board has not yet named a replacement and no reason for resignation was announced Construction included a new athletic building vocational agriculture and a grade school building Riggs formerly led the Lakin grades since 1947 and high school since 1949 He is Ottawa university and Colorado State college graduate with further study at Kansas University and Ft Hays State He has held multiple educational posts including vice president of the Kansas State Teachers Association and represented Kansas at the National Education Association in 4 years ago He is currently in his sixth year with the school legislative committee in the 5th district.
A grain expert says Finney County milo harvest may exceed five million bushels, with about 200 000 acres planted and yields near 26 bushels per acre if the 1951 record is surpassed. Sheltered by favorable weather, moisture is still high and storage requires drying before sale. The Department of Agriculture extended storage loan deadlines to Feb 28 to aid farmers.
London Prime Minister Macmillan wins Commons approval for basing American intermediate range missiles in Britain. The 289-251 vote endorses NATO decisions taken in Paris and requires Washington approval for any firing, with Britain unable to use them independently.
A tornado in Magnolia Arkansas killed two residents and seriously injured three others as part of a trio of twisters that swept through Southern Arkansas. The storms added to deadly outbreaks across Missouri and Southern Illinois with 13 dead and 250 injured.
John Van Druten, noted playwright behind I am a Camera I Remember Mama Voice of the Turtle and Bell Book and Candle, died of a heart attack yesterday at his desert ranch in Indio California. He was 56.
Lawrence Weisdorfer, a 45 year old veteran of Corregidor and Japanese prison camps, killed three members of his estranged wife's family in Roy New Mexico. He was shot by a policeman 40 minutes later. Bradley Weathers, 59, killed Weisdorfer, whose actions followed threats to wipe out the family. The victims were A E Weathers 88, Katherine Weathers 51 polio crippled, and her 78 year old mother. Elizabeth Weisdorfer 38 fled the home amid the rampage. James 4 and Allen 2 witnessed the murders.
A three year old boy, Ralph Wagner Jr., disappeared from a Mapleton farm yesterday and was found dead about a half mile east of Mapleton. Intermittent rains totaling .60 inch and a morning temperature of 34 accompanied the search.
Sartono was sworn in as acting president of Indonesia to govern while Sukarno rests abroad. Sukarno watched the ceremony in the guarded parliament building. Sartono, 57, a Nationalist party member, is a former lawyer with a Netherlands law degree.
The US Weather Bureau reports tonight will be fair with light variable winds and a low around 25 to 30. Saturday remains fair with little temperature change, a high near 50 to 56, and southwest winds 15 to 20 mph. Sunrise is 7 55 and sunset 5 28 with humidity around 35 percent, observations through 6 30 CST.
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