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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1956
Page
2
A humorously ironic department looks at this season's women’s bathing suits and caps. It notes a return to simple American styles with bold stripes and varied prints, plus new helmetlike bathing caps described as bizarre and unflattering. The piece lampoons designers and ends with a playful hint of taking a swim.
National park visitors report growing litter and trash due to more people and disposable kits. Dave Leahy urges picnickers to take waste home and carry a paper sack for disposables. We should each pick up two pieces, lead by example, and strive to keep areas clean.
A compilation of witty asides from Concordia Blade Empire Eureka Herald Lawrence Journal-World and Lyons News reflecting local humor about fashion desire humor and wheat pricing. The quips touch on girdles tender traits cultural tastes and farmers views on two price Wheat proposals.
President Eisenhower today named Willard Fr and Libby of Chicago for a new five year term on the Atomic Energy Commission ending June 30 1981 and James Cunningham Sargent of New York City to the Securities and Exchange Commission for a term ending June 5 1961 to succeed Clarence H Adams. Amateurs bought 15 million rolls of warpaper in 1953.
Fragmentary notice from Garden City Telegram lists staff roles and AP rights. It mentions subscription pricing by carrier for Finney and nearby counties, and a standard post office filing note. The incomplete text references East Chestnut and local county coverage.
Washington notes stormy prep for the Pan American summit in Panama on June 25 as Bolivian, Colombian and Peruvian presidents decline to meet with President Eisenhower. Argentina Brazil Mexico Venezuela and Cuba signal cautious attendance, upset by late invitations and drafting of a principles declaration.
A devotional prayer invokes gratitude for belonging to the kingdom of heaven and seeks forgiveness, Christlike spirit, purity, peace, steadfastness, and mutual faith in God and in Christ. The prayer ends in Jesus' name.
A three year old boy died in a one car crash on U S Highway 54 west of Neal while traveling from Arizona to Maine to visit grandparents. Phillips George Farr of Williams Air Force Base Chandler Ariz rode with A2C Bruce George Jones Waldoboro Me both stationed at Williams AFB. Passengers included his mother Catherine Farr and his sister Cathy aged five.
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From Quito reports indicate conservative Camillo Ponce Enriquez took a mounting lead for Ecuador's top office as Sunday election returns near two thirds. He was the sole Conservative candidate while Liberal, Leftist and Independent camps remained split. In Jerusalem Arabs fired across the border from the Jordan-occupied sector for a second day with no casualties. Singapore and Malaya plan limited rubber exports to Red China despite UN embargo. In Algeria Arab nationalists resume hit and run warfare while French forces push in the Gates of Iran sector during a four day battle near eastern Algeria.
Two 12 year old spelling champions Gloria Lockerman of Baltimore and Andy Douglass of Greenwich tied for the $64,000 top prize on CBS The $64,000 Challenge. The show ended in a draw after both answered the final spelling question correctly a week earlier. Winnings to be placed in trust funds with taxes not yet estimated.
A 17 year old Lawrence boy, Paul Eugene Merkel, drowned Saturday afternoon while swimming near a dock at the Lake of the Ozarks CAMDENTON Missouri. He had come with his parents Mr and Mrs Paul Robinson of Lawrence for a vacation.
In early days our town lacked recreation spaces and we faced long boring summers. My mother proposed a simple fix, weed pulling, to fill hours and spark resourcefulness. A schoolgirl now bored with toys joins us in turning tidying the yard into productive projects.
Boyle ponders daily enigmas in a humorous riff on life. He questions why horse players feel ahead when not, why money brings worry, why brides demand two rings, and why some quirks persist such as mud puddles over schoolyards and spiders learning without punishment.
An Army technical team led by Assistant Secretary Frank Higgins will visit the Kansas Ordnance Plant at Parsons on June 14. Kansas Republican Senators Schoeppel and Carlson and Rep. George urged expanding and converting the plant for modern uses to ease Southeast Kansas unemployment, with George noting one line will remain in operation.
Two armed escapees from Great Bend Kansas were captured at a roadblock near Eagle Butte South Dakota. Officers identified them as Albert McIntyre 35 of McPherson and Henry Wunder 19 of La Crosse. They surrendered without resistance to Sheriff Paul Taylor and state patrolman Eldon Russell at the roadblock.
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