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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1956
Page
10
Harry Farbman led the St Louis Symphony Orchestra before 3,600 grade school pupils at a concert in St Louis. The program featured Rossini's William Tell Overture, parts used as the Lone Ranger theme. After the kids sang Hiyo Silver, Farbman urged attentive listening as the orchestra played the full overture.
Mrs R C Nelson in Temple Oklahoma beat a mother possum and two young in her hen house with a club and dumped the bodies at the city dump. She discovered a $50 dumping fine then returned to find the animals alive and walking away unhurt.
A United Nations bulletin shows global fertilizer use more than doubling from 1938 to 1955 with the United States nearly quadrupling per acre. New Zealand the Netherlands Hawaii Belgium and Japan follow in highest per acre consumption as world totals rise from 8.4 million to 17.9 million metric tons in the year ending June 30 1955. U S consumption also rises from 1.311 million to 5.469 million tons.
Adlai Stevenson campaign manager accuses Kefauver aide James J. Donohue of attending a reception honoring GOP incumbent Senator Kuchel while Donohue calls the charge silly. The report also notes hybrid seed corn costing about 1.50 dollars per acre.
Paul Whiteman known as the King of Jazz says his awards and money are nothing beside his father Wilberforce J. Whiteman. He attended a Denver school dedication named for his late father and praised his dad as more influential than he ever was.
Fireman i R F Callis of Portales was loading an 18000 gallon supply truck when a metal lid fell causing a spark. Flames erupted and he shut the flow, drove the flaming truck away from the dock, then summoned firemen who put out the fire with little damage. Callis was warm but unhurt.
The University of Illinois Air Force ROTC unit held its annual review without last year's sponsor Sara Barry who planned to attend festivities but instead married an Army lieutenant and left school.
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