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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1957
Page
2
The Fine Arts Association's latest play succeeded artistically but failed financially due to a $180 hall hire expense for Hope Auditorium and rehearsals. The editorial argues taxpayers should not subsidize some cultural events while others pay dearly, urging a policy rethink by the school board before February’s vote.
A garbled excerpt notes activity around writing and editing circles, mentioning Wellington and editors. It references a friend and a journalist named Stan Newlin, with hints of shifting roles and persistence in literary circles. The text is fragmentary and lacks clear events or dates.
A scattered write up mentions Nancy Joy gon a six year old girl praised for attendance, then shifts to notes on former Garden City scholar McPherson now a Colorado Springs freshman teaching there. It adds a one time society writer Faye Wilkinson adjusting to California life with Max in Bank of America LA, and a local shopper finding a dress under the Christmas tree bought by her husband.
Drew Pearson reports from Morocco that North Africa’s peace-minded troops and antiwar activists contrast with Washington’s push for missiles and bombers. He cites NATO, the Gaither committee, and the fear of nuclear and chemical warfare while urging leaders to pursue peace and people-to-people understanding.
New York Dr Jota Salk discoverer of the polio vaccine reports in Science tests with an antibody serum that may aid cancer research. He says the antibodies in the serum act against both normal and cancerous tissues in test tubes, but cautions further study is needed before conclusions.
Moscow radio said a Rugslag science device can model an oil pool, estimate petroleum quantities, and direct drilling sites. It uses 88 probes from multiple wells to pinpoint oil locations and optimize water input and individual well output.
Sheriff Kennedy reports a fatal shotgun accident near Moundridge in which 14-year-old Norman Kuhns was killed while hunting rabbits with 14-year-old Jerry Strausz. Strausz says the gun discharged while the boys, at a farm east of Moundridge, were “just fooling around” and believed the weapon was unloaded.
Tokyo reports a door to door salesman used a live snake to threaten a housewife until she bought his wares. In Vienna three Bulgarian state cooperative store officials at Stara Zagora were sentenced to death for stealing surplus goods and selling them on the black market.
Senate Housing subcommittee led by Sparkman will probe why the Eisenhower administration waited to release 177 million dollars for military housing urban renewal and cooperative housing programs. The White House said the funds are now released to aid the economy and the housing industry. Housing starts this year slipped to 926000 from a goal of one million. In Formosa ten thousand flights dropped leaflets and rice over Red China in the past year per the Nationalist Defense Ministry. East Germany Deputy Premier Otto Nuschke died at 74 after a heart attack during Christmas holidays, West Berlin Evangelical authorities said.
A religious verse invokes Malachi 4 2 and prays for the Sun of righteousness to rise with healing in its wings. The text asks for a solemn hush in hearts and a holy expectation to hear again the angels song to the listening shepherds.
A 29 year old Pueblo man named Klondika Lewis died in a Wichita hospital from a bullet wound suffered late Thursday night. Harold L. Jenkins of Wichita was arrested for questioning after allegedly signing a statement admitting the shooting, which ended a long standing grudge between the two men.
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