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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1955
Page
10
A fragmented, affectionate column collects holiday requests from several local youngsters age five to seven. Beside mentions of families and homes, children ask for toys such as dolls, trains, a ukulele, a piano, a gun, a pony, a kit of tools, a digger, a ball, a high chair, a beetle, and a toe doll. The notes express good behavior and love for family.
A collection of children including Carolyn Ronnie Susan Joyce Bobby Max Cathy Phyllis and others beg for toys and dolls for Christmas in a cheerful plea. The note mentions a nurse set dolls trains cars and guns as requested by multiple youngsters. An Oklahoma City area report notes a railroad line cutting operations and removing station buildings leaving a center portion for agent Joe Owens.
In Madison Minnesota a man and his son each became fathers yesterday at the same hospital. Charles Wright Jr. aged 41 and his wife welcomed a boy, as did Charles Wright II and his wife who had a son. The younger Wrights already have a year-old daughter, while the elder Wright’s youngest prior to yesterday was a two-year-old. the Wrights are the family featured.
A $10,000 damage suit against Melvin L. Decker of Hutchinson was settled for $975 in Sedgwick County District Court. Judge Howard C. Kline approved the settlement, which covered medical expenses for Jon Maniccia, the 5 year old son of Dominic Maniccia of Clinton Iowa, who was injured when struck by Decker’s car in Hutchinson on June 1.
Miss America of 1956 Sharon Kay Ritchie sent a large personal check to the First Christian Church of Grand Island Nebraska for construction. Rev R R Velderman called it the biggest such gift he had ever received from an individual. The sender, then a Grand Island girl now a Denver student, included a letter about her Christian upbringing. The amount was not disclosed by the pastor.
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