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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1958
Page
2
A Kansas Ivanhoe Valley Grange story highlights the group’s local impact from roadside park plans to farm signposts and hot lunches for Bible students. Nationwide results show 34 162 Granges reporting five million man hours on projects including rural firehouses schools and recreation centers.
Unclear from fragment, a legal matter involves Ezra Benson and a claim of undue sympathy or misrepresentation. Garden City referenced as possible location amid inquiries.
Senator Lyndon Johnson cites President Eisenhower's own reports from 1951 noting the danger of failing to educate scientists and technicians. The column argues Ike procrastinated despite early warnings as Pearson reports.
Columba University advisers and the Ford Foundation formed the National Manpower Council at Columbia. In 1953, after Eisenhower’s rise, the council warned that progress and national security were at risk from insufficient science and engineering training. Zellerbach and Gaither presented the report to the President, leading to a three year committee process and the 1956 President’s Committee on Scientists and Engineers. Only after Sputnik did Eisenhower act, amid debates over education bills and competing priorities.
Tremendous second family of Mr and Mrs L W Murdock near Tricity Kentucky has expanded to 16 children in three years with 12 boys and 4 girls. A new 14 bedroom dormitory style home two miles away will house about 24 more and accommodate 400 children. The Paradise Friendly Home is sponsored by Bell City Church where Murdock is superintendent. Children aged 3 to 16 attend Sedalia School where Mrs Murdock teaches and Murdock supervises older boys farming. The State Welfare Department supervises but adoption is not pursued.
Busy city life traces a playful definition of a modern woman who can assemble a 20 minute meal that appears longer to prepare while spending two hours styling hair. The piece references a 1957 telephone directory, a 87th annual Kansas State Board of Agriculture dinner honoring Jack Jewell and other Kansas winners, and light anecdotes about local figures. It notes Chief Jim Fare and a New Year’s celebration, plus a dramatic Ellis flood of June 16 1957 described in a Christmas letter from Mrs. Cora Reynolds of Kansas City. The letter mentions Reynolds’s donation to the Cowboy Hall of Fame and ties to Garden City resident Elihu Allman.
A London report notes the British Ratting Co of East Grinstead listed as a royal warrant holder. The firm advertises rodent control for royal properties including Sandringham and the Queen's private residences.
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