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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1956
Page
2
Jaycee sponsor Bruce Garnand reports judges paused to decide a winner after dark as some entrants lacked outdoor lights during the tour. A new attempt is planned tonight, delaying final results of this season’s home fighting contest.
Senator William A. Egan and wife visit Valdez as Alaska advances its plan to gain admission, saying Alaska’s people will soon have representation while Congress debates the route. They cite the Tennessee plan and plan to meet Gov. Fred Hall in Topeka before heading to Nashville and Washington.
Donald Dickenson, Safeway manager, says a lone gunman entered the backroom and passed a note demanding cash. The note stated we will shoot to kill. After collecting $2000, the suspect fled. three accomplices were alleged but unseen.
Fair and warmer tonight and Tuesday with low around 26 and high near 50. Sunrise at 7 57 and sunset at 5 31. Relative humidity about 40 to 30 percent. Observations include station data for Max Min Pressure and bearing city readings.
Vatican broadcasts Pontiff's Christmas message defending defensive war and condemning communism. He asserts Hungary and others may resist Soviet force, calls the UN to deter aggression, and urges membership bans for states refusing UN observers while allowing police safeguards to protect threatened orders.
The Chester Keller family of Garden City faces disrupted holiday travel as Kenneth Roark son in law of the Kellers escapes a serious car crash 10 miles west of Pratt on the way to Garden City for Christmas. A year earlier Mr and Mrs Keller survived a major crash 18 miles west of Wichita. Roark’s Jaguar rolled end over end after brakes reportedly locked. He received minor injuries at Pratt hospital and is now in Garden City for the holidays. His wife and child arrived here recently for the holidays.
Ellamae Peck, a North Carolina blind girl, will receive a new guide dog after her previous guide was killed by a Southern Railway train near Olivet. Southern Railway will underwrite about 1250 dollars for obtaining and training the replacement, as conveyed by President Harry A DaButts in a Christmas message.
Barry Draeger electronics technician second class USN, son of Mr and Mrs I E Draeger of 1711 N Sixth, arrived in San Diego aboard radar picket destroyer USS Hanson. Hanson served with the 7th Fleet in the Western Pacific since July visiting Yokosuka Kobe Japan and Hong Kong. Next, Garden City experiment station supervisor Andy Erhart will speak at the 100 Bushel Mile club banquet January 28. St Thomas Episcopal church will hold one Holy Communion service on Christmas Day at Garden City 9 am and Ulysses 11 am.
The Associated Press reports a holiday weekend in Kansas produced at least 11 traffic fatalities, lifting the state total for the year to 658 surpassing prior yearly records. Fatalities occurred in multiple crashes across eastern Kansas with deaths near Grenola Ellsworth Gardner and Ottawa.
James Marlow observes that Santa, though generous and merry, also carries a sly side. The traditional figure may regret not fulfilling every wish, balancing jolly gifts with the burden of impossible orders.
A Russian soldier, amid Hungarian border chaos, seeks asylum in the West with a pistol handed to police. Vienna and Austrian civilians mobilize charity as refugees await aid, while a satirical Christmas tale hints at delayed openings and a new White House pass for Adlai.
Funeral services for Lindley A. Browne, 46, formerly of Garden City, were held in Los Angeles with burial at Inglewood Park in the Typographical union printers plot. Survivors include wife Dorothy Browne, two sons Bruce and Conrad, two daughters Linda and Jeanne, brother Theodore Browne of Inglewood, and sisters Elva Rathjen and Alma Metz. Browne began newspaper work as a carrier in Garden City and later worked as a compositor in Sidney Nebraska and Los Angeles.
Today in Garden City hospital admittances list Mrs Lawrence Davis and others from local towns, with several names and addresses. Discharges include Fern Cleveland and Mrs Fred Wolfe among others. Births at St Catherine note two baby boys for Lawrence Davis and Bill Hazen families, plus a baby girl for Joe Dubon. Police briefs cite arrests for grand larceny and hit and run, plus a minor noninjury auto accident at Fulton and 7th.
In Everett Washington nine year old Robert B Long suffered severe injuries when a switching engine struck him in the railway yards. He lost both legs and remained critical though his general condition was described as fair. Locals collected money for his mother’s Christmas gift while hospital staff and railroad workers provided help and donations.
Nyle Ward Hawkins 23 was killed December 16 while moving a land leveling machine from Chappell Nebraska to Copeland. Funeral services were held December 20 in Mooreland Ohio. He is survived by wife Melba and two children Kerry and Judy of Harrison Arkansas. Burial was in Mooreland Oklahoma. His sister is Mrs Russell Ardler of Copeland.
Harry Starr Sr a well known Garden City visitor died Thursday morning in the Veterans hospital at Little Rock Arkansas He was the son of Jack Starr a former Garden City resident now living in Emporia Funeral services will be held Saturday in Mena Arkansas.
Kenneth E. Deihi is jailed on charges of leaving the scene after his vehicle struck a parked car owned by Loren F. Puckett at 212 N. South late Saturday night. Officers arrested him early Sunday in the city’s east section.
The U S Weather Bureau says Miami will see a Christmas Eve low near 60 with a Christmas Day high between 77 and 81 degrees. Santa can skip heavy flannels as south Florida warms for the holiday.
A new Air National Guard jet fighter unit will be activated in Hutchinson on January 1. Governor Fred Hall noted Kansas gains the unit by Air Force allocation, chosen by the Air Defense Command. The unit, based at Hutchinson Naval Air Station, will reach 42 officers, three warrant officers, and 417 airmen, occupying facilities costing about 1.5 million dollars. The state already hosts a similar unit at McConnell AFB in Wichita.
Topeka police report 51 year old welder E Werner Brockmeier died from injuries after a 60 pound weight fell and struck him Thursday and he died Saturday. The incident occurred at his workplace and authorities are investigating.
Markets column shows Wheat price at Farmers Elevator with a bid of $2.04 and a week change of 32, plus a price of $2.31 for another grade or date. Readers get a snapshot of local grain trading nearby.
An unequal Christmas present is planned as a four-site conference call among Garden City families. Walter Meyers and Frank Crase kin will join relatives in Washington DC and Tampa Florida, plus Sterling and Eminence Avenue here, with the call set for 9 a.m. EST and 8 a.m. CST.
UN salvage fleet waits in Port Said as Egypt delays permission for British and French crews to clear the Suez Canal. Dag Hammarskjold to visit Cairo to resolve the use of foreign vessels. Wheeler warns the situation is critical and hopes to move equipment today. Port Said celebrations mark the end of the British French occupation.
Baghdad strongman Nuri Said denounces Egyptian and allied pressure over Baghdad Pact membership. He vows Iraq will decide sovereignty and rejects external dictation amid regional tensions after Suez crisis. In the same report, Wichita plans for a pre cast concrete T hangar and local city commission agendas include curb and gutter work, street closings, and a telephone franchise review.
A Christmas tree light chain caused a fire at Doctors Hospital in Minneapolis killing six people and injuring seven in critical condition. A baby in an incubator died after rescue. victims named include Ella Mullins, Caroline Vale, Lydia Becken, Sara Stone, Mary Balliet, and Clarence Green. firemen rescued patients from windows as smoke filled the five story building.
Jesus G. Ortega of Garden City waived preliminary hearing in Kearny County court on grand larceny after being arrested by Garden City police on a warrant. He was bound over to district court with bonds set at 500 dollars. Sheriff Tommy Cole said Ortega broke into a shed owned by Cecil O Brate east of Deerfield and took an acetylene torch valued around 50 dollars. the break in was reported on December 2.
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