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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1956
Page
5
Missouri teachers have rejected a plan to add Social Security benefits to their public school retirement pensions. The public vote failed to reach the required majority of the 22,959 members. In last month’s poll, 7,086 voted for while 5,166 voted against.
Two gunmen who killed editor Thomas Dombrowski, 46, and Frank Grodzki, 45, both of New York, at the Polonia Social Club last night eluded a concentrated police search today. Police ruled out political motive and focused on criminals known for card game robberies.
Gen. Alfred M. Gruenther told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that Russian smiles or Kremlin talks do not justify any cut in the $4.9 billion foreign aid program. He argued NATO can defeat aggression even if Soviet forces shrink by 1.2 million, noting Germany will place five divisions under NATO by year end and target 12 divisions overall with continued training.
An oil well blast near Kellyville Oklahoma killed William E. McBride 49 of Tulsa and injured 11 others. Critical patients include Lester Jones 48 Kellyville C D Rowton 22 Tulsa Harold Staadt Tulsa and Don Setser 32 Tulsa. Dowell Inc public relations manager Paul Fitzgerald said a perforating gun on the No 1 Bowden well exploded while being eased down the hole. cause unknown.
A Roman Catholic priest climbed a 20 foot fence at Whipsnade Zoo and fought off a lion with an iron bar to rescue an 11 year old boy named Tony Murphy of London. Tony lost both arms and was listed in critical condition, while three female lions and the male were in the pit. The boy, part of a Scout party, reportedly climbed a wire net and was grabbed by the male lion during the attack.
President Eisenhower named a seven member Committee on Small Business to pursue a continuing study and recommend steps to strengthen the economic position of small businesses and foster their sound development. Arthur F. Burris, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, is named chairman. Members include Secretary of Defense Wilson, Secretary of Commerce Weeks, Secretary of Labor Mitchell, Defense Mobilizer Arthur Flemming, Small Business Administrator Wendell Barnes, and Housing Administrator Albert Cole.
SAN FRANCISCO and Boeing Airplane Co, Seattle, today disclosed a capsule design for the B52 Stratofortress to hold two extra crew members in a cylindrical pressurized pod fitted into the bomb bay. The pod adds four cameras and interchangeable electronics, enabling conventional and nuclear delivery, photo reconnaissance, and electronic missions at over 630 mph and above 50,000 feet.
Topeka WR J Cross Santa Fe Railway agricultural agent said there is a prospect Kansas will harvest a wheat crop of 142,500,000 bushels. A forecast of 150,640,000 bushels had been issued last month by federal and state departments of agriculture based on conditions prevailing May 1.
Washington action reports the Senate passing a bill to impose the death penalty for heroin peddling, labeled slow death narcotic, with a voice vote removing a provision to allow wiretapping for narcotics cases.
Four airmen died when a B25 crashed near a cemetery two miles south of Lowry Air Force Base shortly after takeoff from Tacoma to Panama City. Four others were hospitalized, one in critical condition and one in fair, after refueling stop and emergency landing radio communications.
In Oshawa Ontario a pair of robins built a nest on the rear of a truck driven by Keither Moffatt. The birds accompany the vehicle on a daily 261 mile run toward Port Hope Peterborough and Lindsay. They forage for food and continually return to their traveling nest which now holds several eggs.
Muriel Greer 23 of Paragould Ark escaped from Missouri deputy sheriffs near Bartlesville Oklahoma yesterday. He had broken from the State Prison at Jefferson City on May 5 and, after an earlier capture in Los Angeles, fled into the woods when deputies stopped him at a service station.
Rescue crews recovered the bodies of William Jerome Hogeland, 57, and M. H. Robbins, 61, after an underground explosion at Praco mine in Alabama. The blast injured others and knocked 127 miners from their shift, who reached the surface with minor injuries or unharmed.
Pittsburgh report says representatives of the three largest steel makers United States Steel Bethlehem Steel and Republic Steel paused negotiations to study the United Steelworkers on a three hour meeting. A bars gaining session was cancelled. A whale shark may reach 60 feet in length.
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