Garden City Baby Derby winners prizes list
The Garden City New Year Baby Derby, open to any baby born in Garden City, will run next Monday with 22 local merchants offering prizes. The 1957 winner will receive a bundle of gifts from diapers to baby care items, clothing, toys, and a silver cup, with rules that the baby be born in Garden City and birth time verified by a physician.
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Garden City
Stork
Steven R. Lone
Ray Long
Anthony's
Family
Patterson Jewelry
McDonald's
Sears
Wren Studio
Fidelity
Ana
Leap Year Countdown and Local Holiday Notes
A light local column notes leaping toward Leap Year with five shopping days left for bachelors and jokes about next Christmas. It mentions gifts, a Mary Ann record closet incident, a delivered sausage, Gust Nelsons moving to 3rd and Hazel, and a humorous, unnamed barber at Garden City.
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W. £. Rutherford
Rudy
Sigh Harmon
Harmons
Little Mary Ann
Gust Nelsons
Hazel
Dancer sues over Big TV Giveaway alleging rigged quiz
Miss Dale Logue a Las Vegas dancer filed a 103000 suit in U S District Court naming Speidel Corp and sponsor as defendants claiming the NBC program The Big Surprise used pre show warmups to eliminate contestants by posing earlier questions later on. Producer Steve Carlin dismissed the allegations as ridiculous saying warmups are general and meant to calm contestants.
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New York
Miss Logue
U.S
Deliber
Speidel Corp
Ately
Dale Logue
Las Vegas
Cate. Zory
Steve Carlin
Entertainment Productions, Inc
NBC
Carlin
New Year's Traffic Toll Could Hit Record High
A chaotic holiday period in Chicago may push road deaths to record levels. Officials report unusually high crash counts as New Year celebrations extend into late hours, prompting renewed calls for stricter traffic enforcement and safer driving.
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Chicago
Woankand
Nikes to Germany Add To European Army Firepower
HEIDELBERG Germany The Nike a supersonic antiair craft guided missile may be the next weapon to boost the 250 000 man U S army in Europe A year end review says firepower and mobility improved greatly during 1956 The United States forces in Europe possess more killing power than any other army The report notes 1956 saw higher capabilities and readiness across units including mobility and firepower improvements highlighted by the Nike missile program
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Heidelberg
Germany
Nike
U.S
Europe
Army National Safety Council
U. S
Council
Army Artillery Upgrades in Germany With Honest John Rockets
Batteries in Germany handle the Honest John long range artillery rocket. More battalions for Corporal guided missiles and 280 mm atomic artillery were supplied this year. Firepower and mobility improved as the 3rd Armored with Airborne and 8th Infantry divisions replaced three ground troop divisions. Other divisions include the 2nd Armored and the 10th Infantry with numerous supporting units.
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Germany
3Rd Armored
2Nd Armored
Bargaining Gets Christmas Trees At Half Price
Garden Sass notes smart shoppers can cut costs on Christmas trees by bargaining prudently. Stocks have been somewhat picked over, so availability is uneven and selection may be limited.
Customers Help Create Scholarship Gift Plan at Garden City Auto
Garden City Automotive Co and the Marshalls replace Christmas gifts with a scholarship fund for area seniors. Each customer will be listed on the fund’s donor list as money is contributed, with the board selecting a junior college senior from Finney and surrounding counties to receive the scholarship. Money will be held until just before the second semester and then given to the chosen school for the award.
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Desery
Jack Marshall
Garden City Automotive Co
Marshalls
Dougr
Jack
Bill
Simi
Marshell
Pratt
Marshall
Gunfire and arrests mark bus desegregation actions
Gunfire erupted near Montgomery buses after federal court ordered integration. In Tallahassee the City Commission suspended Cities Transit Co. franchise amid efforts by Negro residents to seat Black riders with whites. Birmingham saw arrests of two Black activists and nine bus drivers for alleged violations as Mobile Lines said buses would admit Black passengers without full franchise.
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Associated Press
Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
Tallahassee
Florida
Cities Transit Co
Birmingham
Cutestion
Transit Co
al Mobile
Mobile City Today
Lines, Inc
Wangers
Charles Carter
Start Of Suez Canal Clearing Moves Announced
Lt Gen Raymond A Wheeler said the Egyptian government agreed the UN salvage fleet could start clearing the southern end of the Suez Canal immediately. Cairo papers report technicians have begun clearing channels at Ismailia and Suez to conduct research on sunken ships, focusing on mine clearance from the channel.
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Cairo
Raymond A. Wheeler
U.N
Suez Canal
Pnan
Ismailia
Suez
Kansas tops soil bank pay with 750 million total
Kansas leads national allocations for the soil bank retire land program with about 750.7 million dollars across states. Texas follows with around 81 million, Missouri about 21 million, and crop allocations list Kansas and Missouri totals by wheat, corn, cotton, rice and tobacco.
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Washington
Kansas
Soil Bank
Benson
Texas
Missouri
Burley
Massive California wildfire rages along coast and inland
A huge California fire spread along the southern coast reaching Malibu and Latigo Canyon. Salvage ships assisted as flames burned about 20 000 acres and threatened a small community. The fire raced inland and formed a 35 mile perimeter as authorities fought the blaze.
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Port Said
Malibu
Calif
el Cap
California
Wheeler
Imaie
Latigo Canyon
Water plans discussed amid west coast wildfires
Fires stretch along the coast from Coral Canyon to Sequit Canyon across 15 miles, with a thousand firefighters and at least one fatality. Winds surged to 180 mph in gusts yesterday then eased, while crews concentrate in Latigo Canyon and Sequit Canyon to defend homes on brushy hills and canyon bottoms. Fire containment is partial with areas checked but not controlled and significant property loss including luxury homes and cottages.
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Coral Canyon
Here
Sequit Can]yon
Vertura County
Santa Monica Mountains
Latigo Canyon
Sequit Canyon
Topeka
Kansas
Sedgwick County
Down
Los Angeles
Los Angeles County
Keith Klinger
Texan Division Breaks Over Refugee Policy
Washington two lawmakers voiced split views on President Eisenhower's plan to raise the Hungarian refugee quota. Rep Burleson opposed enlarging admissions citing national interest and safety concerns, while Rep Burdick supported raising the quota to aid victims of oppression and highlighted the refugees' knowledge of communism.
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Washington
Burlejson
D-ex
Eisenhower
America
Burdick
R-Nd
Garian
Judiciary Committee
Burleson
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Congress
U. S
Bear sighting leads to accidental gunshot injury in Oil City
Patrolman Carl F. Smith. 24, was driving home when he spotted a bear near a private pool. He exited his car and fired after stumbling, shooting his left leg. The bear wandered off into the hills and Smith was hospitalized.
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Oil City
Carl EF. Smith
Smith
Chiang Forces Claim Toll of 262 Persons
Nationalist Army headquarters said artillery fire from offshore stands and commando aids killed 262 people on the Communist mainland in 1956. The army also reported destruction of 96 junks and other small craft, four barracks, five ammunition depots, twenty six artillery positions.
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Taipei
Ang
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Curtis Studio
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Nancy
Roger
Doug Wagner
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RFD
Wagner
Louis Wagner
Rolla
el’ Dorado
Hei
Joe
Nikes
A. Firm
Jts Racis
Garden City Automotive Company
Finney, Kearney, Hamilton, Grant and Haskell
Scott, Wichhita
Gray Counties
Ing Diaee
Mac Buluye Aes
Denver
Western Water Development
Fred G. Randahl
Interior
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S. L. Bowman
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Neb
Randal
Bowman
Colorado
Wyoming
Nebraska
Perr Sweat
Smith Center
Ikas
Harry W. Kane
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Beach House
Raymond Ury
Ralph Burr
Gordon Jenkins Edwards
Charles Erskine
U.N. Information Office
Egyptian Canal Authority
Mahmoud Yanes
Canal Authority
Sunset
Garden
Doge City
Blum Goodland
Great Bend
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Russell
Amarilla
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la Junta
Ray Santa
John Frasior
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Oklahoma City
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