14 Feb 1959
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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1959
Page
1
Washington AP reports on heart shapes and conditions with a light editorial tone. It explains normal heart shapes, mitral stenosis, vertical versus horizontal heart orientation, and blood pump energy over a lifetime, with playful asides about Valentine messages.
The latest moisture reports show .01 inches in Olathe, .02 at Chanute, and .98 at Goodland over the last 24 hours. Pleasant weekend ahead with light to moderate precipitation in parts of the region.
An Oklahoma City liquor law crackdown and renewed prohibition enforcement disrupted a major convention. Hotel owner James reported being charged from the Skirvin. Officials said a longstanding convention was cancelled as confusion spread among groups booked for months.
Columnist argues about beauty standards focusing on baldness and gender roles, claiming preferences in attraction vary with style and confidence. The piece satirically questions fixed norms and invites readers to rethink conventional looks.
Secretary of State John Dulles is undergoing radiation therapy after surgery for cancer and will remain on leave. President Eisenhower visited Dulles at Walter Reed Hospital and expressed prayers for a successful outcome. Earlier reports noted a nodular implant removed during hernia surgery and cancer cells found in fluid, with no further surgery planned.
Fidel Castro, 32, becomes Cuba’s premier with wide powers to drive social revolution. He takes over an economy strained after civil war, facing sugar industry strikes and half a million unemployed in a 2,204,006 workforce while seeking jobs and economic stability.
In Warren County Virginia only 4 of 549 white parents choose to send children back if Warren County High reopens under a court order for integration. The Warren County Educational Foundation offers private segregated instruction for 78 students and holds contracts with 26 of the 42 teachers as the all white school previously closed under an unconstitutional anti integration law.
BEIRUT Lebanon AP The Iraqi Embassy said peace and quiet reign in Iraq denying reports of an alleged plot to assassinate Premier Abdel Karim Kassem. It noted violence from Syria and Egypt as propaganda against Iraq.
Senate investigators said James R. Hoffa, president of the Teamsters Union, is to appear for closed-door questioning Monday and to produce further financial records. Local 266, branded gangster-ridden, was depicted in committee testimony as using threats to muscle in on the jukebox business in the New York area.
Funeral services were held today for Claude C Cunningham 75 an agriculture expert who died of a heart attack Thursday He was a member of the State Board of Agriculture eight years and served in the Kansas House of Representatives 1933 35 El Dorado Kansas AP
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