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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1955
Page
5
A diary style reflection on bachelor life after a holiday visit home. The narrator describes conversations about a married man, touches on domestic tedium, gadgets like an electric skillet, and the freedom of meals and schedules. He notes little joy after three days and even a tiff with a teenage daughter would feel welcome.
In south St. Louis three elderly Hoening brothers Charles 62 George 64 and Henry 67 were found dead in bed inside their locked three story brick home. Autopsies awaited to explore possible lead as no note no gas odor or signs of violence were found. Home heated by coal stove. search for poison clues yielded nothing.
In Loma Linda California four youngsters digged with their hands to rescue 12 year old Darrell Rogers after a cave ined Santa Ana River wash collapsed near his entrance. Brothers Clyde 15 Irving Clark 14 Robert Sells 12 and Clyde 9 worked to clear the debris freeing the boy who was then rushed to county hospital in critical condition with a fractured rib and punctured lung.
New statewide measures set to replace the ten mile tax on trucks with higher license fees and a fuel tax, revise assessment districts to county level, and require annual property value updates. The package expands unemployment coverage, imposes a birthday renewal system for licenses, tightens ballot rules, eases absentee voting, adds meal provisions for election staff, and seeks to tax motor vehicles as a separate property class.
Washington Senator Schoeppel called for a shift from acreage quotas to bushelage or poundage limits to curb farm surpluses. He backed soil bank retirements and higher loans on stored goods while urging expanded authority for the Agriculture Secretary to aid foreign market access for surplus crops.
Louis O. Munoz faced county court for driving while intoxicated after a Saturday incident on US 50 one mile north of Holcomb. A judge fined him 105 dollars to cover the accident costs, sentenced him to nine days in jail, and then released him on parole after the roll over crash when he missed the curve and veered off the highway.
SAN FRANCISCO reports the worst floods in history with up to 34 known deaths and 19 to 35 missing. Army Navy Air Force Coast Guard crews saved lives and limited losses as damage reached 150 million dollars and over a million acres flooded. Weather Bureau notes 31 inches of rain last week across the north coast and ranges from Oregon to Visalia. The last major danger was overcome as tides spared further flooding in the delta.
U S Air Force sergeant from Brooklyn identified as M Sgt Mike Kliman 46 stationed at Orly Paris was held 24 hours by East Berlin authorities after a car crash blamed on drunkenness by the Reds but attributed by U S Army to poor visibility and slippery roads He was turned over to American officials at Karlshorst East Berlin last night and is back in West Berlin today.
Garden City builders emitted 16,221,000 kwh of electricity in 1955, surpassing 1954 by over 500,000 kwh, while water pumping reached 689,774,200 gallons. Peak electrical use occurred Aug 20–Sept 20 at 1,710,000 kwh, and water pumping peak ran July 25–Aug 25 with 116,000,000 gallons.
Air Force Sabre Jet explodes midair over Levittown New York forcing bailout by Captain I Bruce Buechler aged 30 after controls jam on a 35000 foot flight. He parachutes to safety. fuselage wreckage and car are damaged on Blacksmith Road near homes. Tail section lands three miles away in Bethpage. no injuries reported.
The Eisner No 1 deep test for oil one mile north of the Garden City airbase was abandoned as a dry hole after reaching 5100 feet. Garvey Drilling Co of Wichita drilled the well, the first deep test in about two years. Geologist Clark Roach reported the site earlier this week. Land owned by Mrs. Ben Oetkin 16 miles northeast of Garden City could host the county's next deep test, with prior contact made before Christmas about drilling on section 30 22 30 but no updates since.
City Manager Deane Wiley announced Garden City motor car dealers are invited to bid on three pickups one three-quarter ton and two half ton to replace aging trucks in the engineering and electrical departments and at the airport. Bids will be opened at the regular city commission meeting on Wednesday January 25.
Eight year old Richard Inman was killed yesterday in Cherokee Kansas when a 22 caliber rifle held by his 13 year old uncle Richard Edwards Jr. discharged accidentally. The coroner W G Rinehart said the bullet struck the boy in the back of the head.
The City Commission wrapped a 67 minute year end meeting approving a 1955 budget boost of 10 million and renewing 16 cereal malt beverage licenses for 1956 plus one new license. It granted beer licenses to 15 venues and Marie Witman for Marie's Tavern at 118 N. Main, plus 23 pool table licenses. Permits included three Yellow Cabs for Bol Leiker and two Veterans’ cabs for Ysabel Orozco. bonds and licenses for gas fitter Roy Tabor, plumber M C Sonnemberg, and electrician Earl W Cook were approved.
The Jameson plat of a two acre tract south of Kansas Ave and west of Bancroft was approved by the city commission on planning commission recommendation. A quitclaim deed for five feet of land on the north side of Fulton was accepted from Emil Salyer and Taylor Jones for a sidewalk strip in the Wheat lands Motel addition between Anderson and Davis streets.
London records show a Comet NL jetliner flying from Montreal to London in six hours and minutes, a nonstop crossing that builders claimed as a civil airliner record.
Atlantans advised that fresh air does not hasten alcohol metabolism after heavy drinking New Year’s Eve. Georgetown University Medical School pharmacology professor Dr Theo dore Koppanyi says five to six hours are needed to burn four ounces of whisky and oxygen or honey do not reliably speed sobering.
Gov Fred Hall seeks designation of 18 more Kansas counties as emergency drought areas to secure federal assistance under Public Law 875. He telegraphed President Eisenhower and Agriculture Secretary Benson, adding Pawnee Edwards Stafford Geary and Morris to the prior list of 48 counties. Benson has approved drought fed aid for 25 counties including Cheyenne Sherman Wallace Greeley Scott Republic Cloud Clay Dickinson Ellsworth Phillips Reno Rawlins Thomas Logan Wichita Jewell Mitchell Ottawa Lincoln Saline Rice Marion Harvey and part of Chase. Hall reiterates requests for Decatur Norton Phillips Smith Sheridan Graham Rooks Osborne Gore Trego Ellis Russell Lane Ness Rush Washington Lyon Sumner and Cowley.
Paul Huelskamp 23 son of Mr and Mrs V T Huelskamp of 610 East Kansas Avenue is hospitalized at St Catherine hospital for a gunshot wound from a 22 caliber rifle. The bullet struck his left leg above the knee during a hunting trip. He is on Christmas furlough from the army and expected to report to Camp Gordon Georgia after recovery.
A playful verse from a personal quirk references red violets and a wagging wain with whimsical sounds. The piece reads like light verse, centering on affectionate humor and quirky wordplay.
Garden City's Junior Chamber of Commerce will host Jaycee Week Jan 14 to 21 with three awards. The Distinguished Service Award honors Garden City's outstanding young man, the Outstanding Young Farmer of the Year Award names the top farmer, and the Paul Kersey Award recognizes the top Jaycee contributor. Nomination forms circulate through civic clubs and the Chamber of Commerce. 35 years old and younger eligibility applies.
Gov. Fred Hall announced a 262.9 million general fund budget for the 1957 fiscal year with 9.61 million in additional revenue sought. He would remove the statewide 1.99 mil ad valorem tax and fund needs through other sources, citing spending above current year and capital improvements.
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