Preachy the bridge talk stirs local politics
In Garden City a local official pleads for forthrightness about why a bridge over the Arkansas River won t be built. He accuses Governor of wanting pliant lawmakers and notes residents may have to build their own bridge. Also Bird events and local news: Sky Lady Derby entrants Mrs. Waddell and Mrs. Dienst prep for race June 13-14 from Little Rock to Raton with stops incl Dodge. Ed Austin clarifies liquor license Hearing. birthday greetings to Mrs Blanton.Flag Day drive led by LeRoy Allman. and a chance reunion spurred by a license-tag encounter between Garden City visitors and Don Davis in El Paso.
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Freddie
Committee For Cleaner Politics
Garden City
Arkansas River
Lowell Waddell
Gardens City
Lucile Dienst
Lada
Women’s Aeronautical Association
Little Rock
Ark
Raton
N.M
Springfield
Topeka
Modge City
Dodge
Waddell
Dienst
Ed Austin
I. N. Blanton
Falls Church
Hall
Les McCoy
Cap Burtis
Bill Leavitt
Broadmoor Hotel
Cheyenne Mountain
Thayer Tutt
Broadmoor
LeRoy Allman
The
Dighton Herald
Ray Denchfield
Keith
George Brett
Denchfields
el Paso
Don Davis
Tribune
Texas
Davis
Denchfeld
Police Probe Blasts At Missouri River Wharf
Police investigated a sequence of dynamite blasts at Powell Port Facilities on the Missouri River near Kansas City Wyandotte County Kas. The three blasts about 10 p.m. caused about 8000 dollars in damage and prompted a swift inquiry by local authorities.
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Missouri
Kansas City
Missouri River
Powell Port
Wyandotte County
Kas
Milk Price War Hits Atchison Rise in Competition
A price war cuts milk to 15 cents a quart and 29 cents a half gallon in Atchison as local suppliers undercut to counter Adams Milk Co of Kansas City attempting entry into the market.
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Atchison Atchison
Adams Milk Co
Kansas City
Freed Korean War airmen reunite with families in Hawaii
Four U.S. jet pilots freed after two years in Red China arrived in Hawaii. They described harsh prison ordeals and hope that 11 other airmen may soon join them. Families welcomed them with tears and plans for a Hawaii holiday before returning home. Lt Roland W Parks of Omaha relayed jailers' statements suggesting broader releases.
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Honolulu
U.S
Red
China
Red China
Hong Kong
Hawaii
Roland W. Parks
Omaha
Spring Field Day Planned At Garden City Station
The annual spring field day at the Garden City experiment station will be held next Friday at 10 a.m. A B Erhart announces. The one day meeting will be at two locations with morning at the main station and afternoon at the irrigation project near Holcomb. Farmers, county agents and soil conservation staff from western Kansas will attend. Dr A D Weber, L V Withee and others will lead talks on plots, insect problems, evaporation studies, weather instruments, wheat varieties and seeding, mosaic studies, barley, oats, clover and rotation. The afternoon program includes Weber speaking on agriculture research, soil test value, irrigation methods and rates for watering wheat for 200 plots.
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Garden City Experiment Station
A. B. Erhart
Holcomb
Erhart
A. D. Weber
Kansas Agricultural Experiment Stations
Kansas State College School of Agriculture
Lester DePew
Roy Herring
al Lowe
Station Agronomist
Weber
L. V. Withee
Guy Wilkenson
Wilkenson
Senators Seek Higher Minimum Wage Boost
A Senate labor subcommittee voted to raise the national minimum wage from 75 cents to $1 an hour effective January 1. The move, 10 cents above Eisenhower’s proposal, was approved unanimously to delay adding new worker groups beyond the 23 million covered.
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Washington
Senate Labor
Eisenhower
Sen
Douglas
D-Ill
Another Church Fights Gas Hike
First Methodist church files formal protest with the Kansas Corporation Commission against Northern Natural’s rate increase. The board votes unanimously, arguing profits are evident and the franchise renewal demands present rates remain. a 63.7 percent rise would curtail church heating and lighting needs. Edwin Hooper signs the letter as secretary of the board.
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First Methodist Church
Northern Natural
Kansas Corporation Commission
Edwin
Hooper
KCC
Planners Give Rezoning Nod to Two Church Projects
Gar den City planners recommended to the city commission that two areas be rezoned from U-2 to U-4. The Presbyterian church seeks an educational plant on Seventh street and St. Mary's church plans a gymnasium on 12th street north of St. John. The rezoning covers two full lots and part of a third, including the west half of the block behind St. Mary's. No objectors appeared. the commission must act on the plan.
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Garden City
City Commission
Presbyterian Church
Seventh Street
St. Mary's
St. Mary's Church
Ford and UAW Near Major Contract Vision
Negotiations between Ford Motor Co and the CIO United Auto Workers focus on Ford supplementing unemployment benefits for laid off workers. Sources say Ford has accepted the idea in principle, with conflicting reports on the extent. GM’s stance remains unofficial, while UAW presses for a guaranteed annual wage and related benefits. Ford and UAW opened talks and planned separate caucuses as pace quickens.
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Detroit
Ford Motor Co
CIO United Auto
Ford
UAW
General Motors Corp
Detroit Times
General Motors
the Times
No Immediate Relief Seen By Ag Experts
Denver reports a three day Great Plains drought conference produced a 19 page guide urging land classification studies to tailor farming methods and farmer education while avoiding mandates. It calls for emergency credit, continued disaster loans, and targeted funding, with no immediate relief measures adopted.
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Great Plains Agricultural Conference
Benson
Colorado
Wyoming
Kansas
Montana
Nebraska
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Texas
North
South Dakota
Farmers Home Administration
Great Plains
Rains Soak Western Kansas with Minor Tornado Hope
Scattered showers drenched the western two thirds of Kansas with up to 1.80 inches in Spearville and many other towns reporting variable rainfall in the 24 hours to 6:30 a.m. Today. The Weather Bureau forecast more rain tonight and Saturday, with unconfirmed reports of a tornado funnel west of Great Bend.
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Topeka
Kansas
Weather Bureau
Spearville
Great Bend
Ripley
Scandia
Sublérie
Kismet
Kinsley
Dodge City
Ellinwood
Collyer
Scott City
Healy
Belnit
Cawker City
Burr Oak
Luray
Hail
Larned
Liberal
Cedar Bluffs Dam
Russell
Hoisington
Concordia
Ness City
Hill City
Goodland
Wichita
Hutchinson and
Salina
Garden City
Wamego
St. John, Emporia
School Thief Is Only Interested in Grades
A thief broke into Day Junior High School in Newton Massachusetts on Wednesday night and took a teacher's record book containing students grades. Police said the only item stolen was the grade record book.
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Newton
Mass
Grant Schools Plan Budgets for Coming Year
Grant County school officials meet to approve the 1955-56 budget proposals including a $130,000 high school budget. The two day session covers start dates for term, length of year, and faculty increases. Rural and elementary districts discuss salaries rising from $64,606 to $78,500 for the high school, with about $12,000 more than last year. A school board director seat held by Cleve Stoskop expires and will be filled today.
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Ulysses
Grant County
Cleve Stoskop
Priest Is Slain by Robber in Chicago
Chicago police pursued few clues as they probed the slaying of Rev. John Chiramal a 40 year old Indian born Roman Catholic priest. He died at Mother Cabrini Hospital from stab wounds after staggering into the Little Sisters of the Poor residence on Chicago near West Side. Father Chiramal had come to solicit funds from Indians in the city attending the Rotary International convention and was founder and director of Boys Town in India.
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Chicago
John Chiramal
India
Father Chiramal
Mother Cabrini Hospital
Little Sisters of the Poor
West Side
Boys Town
Rotary International
State Begins Road Project
The state highway commission filed a petition in District court to secure a right of way to widen US 50S from Garden City to Pierceville about 12 miles. A three man condemnation board will appraise land for the project. It limits needed land to about 20 feet along most parcels and two relocations totaling about one mile. The board includes George S. Knox Rudolph Gerdes and Conrad Gabriel. The project widens the roadbed from 30 to 40 feet, surfaces with sheet asphalt, extends drainage and culverts, and involves about 30 property owners. The board will report June 16 and landowners may protest.
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State Highway Commission
Yeterday
Garden City
Pierceville
The
Highway Commission
Finney County
Finney
Gray
Ford
Boy Drowns in Beaver Creek at Scott City
Funeral services were held for Tony Dallon four year old son of Mr and Mrs Charles Dallon who drowned in Beaver creek near the Scott state lake last Sunday morning. Tony slipped into a deep hole while playing with brothers Charles and Robert. Despite father Dalton and others diving for nearly two hours he was not saved. Surviving are his parents two brothers four sisters Betty Jane Judy Mae Virginia K Barbara Low and grandparents S G Dallan and Mr and Mrs Donovan all of Utica.
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Tony Dallon
Charles Dallon
Beaver Creek
Scott County State Pak
Tony
Charles
Robert
Daltons
Dalton
Dallan
Scott State Lake
Betty Jane
Judy Mae
Virginia K
Barbara Low
S.G. Dallan
Chuckle Cartoon Style Quote Sparks Quick Retort
A witty quip notes that the fastest laugher is the one who plans to tell his own tale soon after. The remark captures a light moment about timing and storytelling.
Sentimental Burglar Reuses Flowers In Hillsborough Heist
A careful thief in Hillsborough California removed 20 potted plants from a house under construction. He replanted them in the front yard and took the pots, leaving the scene with the unusual botanical theft.
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Hillsborough
Calif
Officials Watch For Trouble As Uranium Rush Is Started
In California officials brace for potential disorder as 2914 acres in Kern River Canyon open for uranium claim staking at 10 am. Two mines warn they will protect digs with dynamite and 1000 prospectors rush to file claims. Sheriff’s posse and deputies, plus doctors, monitor the scene as tensions rise in the high Sierra 40 miles east of Hobo Springs. Clarence Bruce of Long Beach waits in Bakersfield for field word to file.
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Hobo Hot Springs
Calif
Kern River
Miracle
Kergen
High Sierra
Here
le Roy Galyen
California
Bakersfield Recorder
Hall of Records
Clarence Bruce
Long Beach
Bruce
Coffeyville
Kas
Foreign Aid Bill Sent to Senate for Approval
President Eisenhower's 3.0 billion foreign aid program sped to the House after surviving Senate cuts. The Senate approved the seven year authorization 59 to 18, with many wavering on total funding and loan versus grant mix. The measure awaits money votes in the Appropriations Committee.
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Senate
Washington
Eisenhower
House
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Polio Vaccine Cleared for Use on Kansans
TOPEKA W Salk polio vaccine on hand in Kansas has been cleared for use in completing first round shots in the series. Dr. Philip A Beary state epidemiologist said the clearance will permit completion of the first inoculation in counties where the program was halted during government vaccine recheck.
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Topeka
Kansas
Philip A. Beary
Three Varieties Lead Kansas Wheat Acreage
TOPEKA Amost two thirds of the Kansas wheat acreage this year is seeded with Wichita Tawnee and Comanche varieties, a government survey shows.
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Kansas
Topeka
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