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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1956
Page
6
A family recipe for a nut flavored confection with sugar syrup and beaten egg whites is shared, inviting readers to submit favorites for a $1 prize. The page also includes a busy cryptogram puzzle and crossword clues from King Features Syndicate, offering a mix of culinary nostalgia and brainteasers.
Numerous local families plan or completed trips home for Christmas. Guests include Alice Eldridge a Kansas State student visiting her parents, and John Walker and family flying to Atlanta to visit relatives over the holidays. Local gatherings feature bingo parties, readings, and an open-house silver anniversary celebration with relatives from Syracuse to Denver.
The notes list the DeHarts departing to Wichita to visit son Van DeHart and family, Annie Smith en route to California, B. Lloyd Zahnter visiting relatives in South Texas, and several others visiting or hosting during Christmas. Also mentions gatherings, Open House, a Christmas party for junior high teachers, and holiday travel plans across Hutchinson, Pierceville, Lakin, Council Grove, and surrounding areas.
In Madill Oklahoma a holiday guide suggests scent choices for different recipients. The piece advises avoiding superstition by selecting perfumes that suit the recipient, noting Friday the 13th as a potential timing for gifting. It recommends light floral odors for questionable cases and mentions a range of recipients from teachers to babysitters.
In Newark New Jersey a quirky note warns that leap year 1952 reshapes bachelor trends with statistics showing 41 125 men married that year and 39 744 in the following period. The column playfully urges singles to stop dodging fate.
Copy and photos for the Telegrams women’s page must be in by 9 90 a.m. on publication day. Deadline on Saturday is 8 30 a.m. Club reporters and contributors should, if possible, file in the afternoon before publication.
Tacoma readers learn of 12 year old Diane Grady who earned an honorary junior auxiliary policewoman title after spotting a robbery, noting the car license plate, aiding an arrest. She is the daughter of a police officer.
Instructions for freezing leftover turkey include deboning and dividing into white and dark meat, storing gravy in a jar, and freezing. For long storage keep large pieces. for short use cut into lunch portions. A five to eight pound turkey roasts about four hours at 325 degrees. The Civic Center juco high alumni dance Dec 28, 8 to 11:30 with Hy-Tone Orchestra.
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