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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1958
Page
2
The piece ponders 1958 amid Sputnik era anxieties, noting fatalism about cold war tensions yet affirming life goes on with babies, graduations, and weddings. It argues the year won’t end the world, may bring taxes but overall remains a stubbornly hopeful, self-made year.
The Ford Almanac predicts a harsh winter with cold waves across the Rockies, Midwest, and Texas area beginning late January through March 1958. It warns of coldest days in the Midwest and alternating warm spells, urging warm apparel. Also noted is a separate piece on a Hitler race plan discussed by a U.S. professor and a Journal article.
Drew Pearson surveys 1958 as a pivotal year with Russia holding the cards and U.S. prestige fading. He predicts Kremlin pressure, potential missile spending, weather-control experiments, stamp price hikes, tax changes, veterans’ impacts, Alaska statehood, farm policy struggles, and a coming recession, with Eisenhower and Nixon constrained by health and power.
A Michigan student asks University of Michigan officials for lengthy information on space rockets stars atoms and the past noting a young inquirer seeks books and materials with thanks for extra items. Church prayers reference love and forgiveness as a separate anecdote appears alongside.
A friend vows to quit plucking gray hairs to avoid baldness, a mother brags about a brilliant eldest child, and ads urging stretching Christmas checks raise questions about gifts. A Colorado blizzard scene shows neighbors sharing heat and meals. A long friendship between two journalists from Kansas City and Denison, Texas, spans 11 years, ending in reunion and reflections on careers and families.
In Warm Springs Georgia a Polio Hall of Fame ceremony honors 17 figures including Joseph Salk and Franklin D Roosevelt for fighting polio. Bronze busts are dedicated as the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis marks its 20th anniversary with Mrs. Roosevelt attending.
Billy Ray Beeson 26, an ex convict from Clovis, was being questioned here about burglaries in Sun City and Kiowa Kas. He was arrested Tuesday in a grocery store burglary and grilled about other burglaries and robberies in Texas and Oklahoma. Beeson is on parole after serving five years for forgery.
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