Growing City Seeks New East Sewer Main and Plats
Garden City City Commissioners discussed installing a new sewer main to serve areas east of Porter subdivision and accommodate upcoming growth as an out of town builder plans homes east of Center. The council also approved a final plat for the Algrim Smith subdivision north of Jenny, planning an eventual north Jenny main artery. Mayor Fansler and City Manager Wiley reviewed off street parking in Winfield El Dorado and Garden City with meter revenues and district funding. The board approved fire department officers and notable entries, allowed treasury bill reinvestments, denied a trailer park request, and granted a concession stand license for 1960 softball fields.
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Deane Wiley
Win
Spruce and
Center
Belmont
Pershing
Wiley
Porter
Mission
Algrim-Smith
Jenny
8Th
Metropolitan Planning Commission
Sid
Taylor
Harold Fansler Sr
Winfield
el Dorado
Garden City
Garden City Volunteer Fire Department
Firemen’s Relief Assn
Roy King
James Fare
John Koch
Dale Bjorklin
Kenneth Butt
Ira Bunney
Dallas Enslow
Melvin Fry
Leonard Meredith
Phillip Michel
Don Miller
Charles Shelton
Clarence Thomas
Treasury
Gerald Becker
N. Main
H.V. Mickel
Garden City Softball Assn
Alaska Lodge Tale and Pearl Then a Coffee Cup Gibe
Perry Edward Smith linked to Clutter vase case with Alaska trips to Point Barrow Nome Fairbanks and Anchorage and Trapper's Den Lodge 161 miles east of Anchorage described by ex Santa Fe agent JO B Hinthorn. A pearl found after oysters at a Conley home proves small but valuable, Rowe keeping it as a show-piece. National Wheat Growers head Carl Bruns news on wheat legislation and Farm Bureau talks noted. Local store worker teased with a coffee cup gag about taking a break then "Get back to work."
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Perry Edward ‘Smith
Smith
Phillipsburg
Trapper’s den Lodge
Glenn Highway
Alaska
Jo.b. Hinthorn
Zot Garden
Point Barrow
Nome
Fairbanks
Anchorage
Hinthorn
Trapper
Merrill
Rowe
Sting
Lee Conley
Atlas Pad Bids Sought For Salina Launch Pads
Washington AP reports bids for nine Atlas JOBM launching pads around Schilling Air Force Base near Salina Kansas will be requested January 3 with February contracts expected and construction to start by early spring. An allocation of forty million dollars funds the installations.
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Washington (Ap
Schilling Air Force Base
Salina
Kas
Andrew F
Weather forecast and rainfall impacts across Kansas
Fog covered much of Kansas this morning and should clear with continued cloudy conditions east and sunshine in the west. Tonight and Thursday expect further cloudiness with rain in the east and possible snow in the northwest. Temperatures to hold steady through Thursday. Readings Tuesday were notably lower than Monday with Topeka at 68 and Manhattan at 61. Local heavy rains moved through the Solomon Valley and Blue River basins, with Winifred seeing unofficial 3 inches and the Black Vermilion River rising to 22.4 feet at Frankfort, triggering eight flood concerns.
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Topeka
Kansas
Weather Bureau
Manhattan
Concordia
Russell
Goodland
Chanute
Pittsburg
HM City
Lower
Solomon Valley
Republican
Blue River
Winifred
Marshall County
Frankfort
Goes to Jail To Escape Wife Goes to Jail
Harold F. Tobin posed to cash a bogus 99 dollar check in Hillsboro Missouri circuit court. Judge Edward Eversole noted possible probation due to a clean record but Tobin asked for prison as a way to get away from his wife. He was sentenced to two years.
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Hillsboro
Harold F. Tobin
Edward Eversole
Tobin
State GOP Leaders Criticize Tax Cut Proposals
TOPEKA AP Republican leaders in the Kansas Legislature criticized Gov. George Docking's tax cut plan on the opening day of the 1960 budget session. They pledged to push for more funding for education and mental health while warning the proposals could bankrupt the state and strain state services.
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Topeka
Kansas
George Docking
Docking
Wunsch
Howard Tmmel
Lola
Anderson
August Lauterbach
al Colby
Senate
Ways and Means Committee
Sixth Graders Go to Top for Big Question
In Paramus New Jersey more than 80 prominent Americans answer Ridge Ranch Public School sixth graders on how to build a stronger America. Focused on education public affairs reading news and editorials. Notable contributors include Eisenhower Fulbright von Braun Stewart Faubus and Wilton Persons.
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Paramus
N. J
United States
Ridge
Wernher von Braun
J. W. Fulbright
D-Ark
Senate Committee On Foreign Relations
Wilton B. Persons
Eisenhower
America
James Stewart
Orval E. Faubus
Arkansas
Ellen Oswalt Named Executive Secretary of Tumbleweed Council
Ellen Oswalt of Garden City is appointed executive secretary of the Tumbleweed Girl Scout Council. She holds a B S in business from Kansas State and an M S W from Kansas, with years in social work. She is wife of Harry Oswalt Jr of Oswalt Industries. their daughter Joslyn is an Intermediate Girl Scout. The council covers 16 Kansas counties and Prowers County, Colorado, serving about 75 900 people with local fund drives.
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Ellen Oswalt
Garden City
Tumbleweed Girl Scout Council
W. A. Selover
Oswalt
Lakin
Kansas State University
University, of Kansas
Harry ‘Oswalt Jr
Oswalt Industries Inc
Joslyn
Girl Scouts of the
U.S.A
Congress
W. Hackberry
Tumbleweed Council
Kansas
Prowers County
Colo
Weed control officials meet on Johnson grass removal
Weed control supervisors from southwest Kansas gathered with chemical firm representatives for a full day session at Downing's in Garden City. The meeting, under the State Board of Agriculture Noxious Weed Control Department, aimed to discuss effective chemical methods for Johnson grass and field bindweed. About 50 attendees heard from firms such as U. S. Borax and Chemical Corp. and Standard Oil Co. Local distributors and Co-op representatives attended, including Best Seed Company and Garden City Co op.
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Kansas
Downing’s
Garden Cty
State Board of Agriculture
Dale Olson
John Hutchison
Hutchison
Jack Abel
U.S. Borax and Chemical Corp
Clinton Welty
Barada and Page Co
BE. W. Damon
Clark C. Smith
Standard Oi Co
Dick Lang
Vernon Lewis
Chemical Department of Consumers Co-operative Assn
L. EB
Anderson
Best Seed Company
Sil Galloway
Garden City Coop
Drawings For Small Pup Scamp Spark Adoption Interest
Boston AP reports a sweepstakes drawing will pick Scamp the four month old puppy for a new home after his photo circulated nationwide. The dog faced abuse with casts on both rear legs and Angell Memorial Hospital received hundreds of adoption inquiries from concerned strangers.
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Boston
Scamp
Associated Press
Angell Memorial Hospital
Garden Sass Gus Forecast Sticks to Snow Without Chains
Garden Sass Gus notes the weatherman sticks to a snow forecast yet he has not bothered to acquire any car chains.
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Gus
Eisenhower says Russia rocket tests conform with law
President Eisenhower said it would be unusual for the United States to protest Soviet plans to test rockets in the central Pacific, noting U S tests there and plans to continue. He stressed such testing complies with international law and described U S high seas testing after notifying concerned parties.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Russia
Central Pacific
United States
Harry S. Truman
Thea Musfield
D-Mont
High Seas
Nelson A. Rockefeller
U.S
Nikita 5
Khrushchev
Paris
Truman
Congress
Tour
Hisenhower
America
Cuba
Fidel Castro
Shuffle Dancing at High Court Case Draws Laughter
Supreme Court justices hear a Louisville shuffle dance case as Sam Thompson, an elderly Black man, argues that loitering and disorderly conduct charges for tapping feet to music are unconstitutional. City lawyer notes no dancing allowed without a licensed premises. The court will decide later.
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Sam Thompson
Louisville
Louis Lusky
Kentucky
Thompson
Justice Whittaker
Herman E. Frick
Justice Frankfurter
Frick
Court Set to Pass Sentence On Mobsters
New York AP Twenty mobsters convicted of conspiracy to hide the Apalachin underworld convention face sentencing in federal court. Each defendant could receive up to five years in prison and a $100000 fine as Judge Irving R Kaufman presides. He affirmed police may stop question and search suspects, and the defense sought to suppress a key witness’s testimony. A jury convicted 20 delegates on December 18 after a 53 day trial and 15 hours of deliberation. The case involved discussions of territory division, proceeds, and extending racketeering in labor unions.
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New York
Irving R. Kaufman
Kaufman
Edgar Croswell
Joseph Barbara Sr
Apalachin
N.Y
Parrot Ruins Neat Crime
Angeles AP reports Robert Harold Gebhart changed his plea to contest after admitting 65 parrots were found in his place and suspected of smuggling from Mexico. Investigators could not decipher the birds as they spoke only Spanish, complicating the case.
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Angeles
Robert Harold Gebhart
Mexico
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