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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1958
Page
1
Washington orders tighter jump safety precautions and equipment review following April 23 airborne drop at Ft Campbell Kentucky that killed five soldiers and injured 112 others.
In California Nixon and Stevenson may test 1960 presidential issues this fall. Nixon, backed in California, is expected to campaign for Knowland and Knight while Stevenson considers campaigning for Brown and Engle. Stevenson has said he is not pursuing the presidency again, but allies hint he could be available if Brown defeats Knowland. Army officials blamed freakish winds for deaths and injuries of paratroopers in the 10th Airborne Division. safety measures and wind-velocity reviews will be tightened after the jump incidents.
Washington AP reports a lead and zinc study group planned to stabilize prices and imports. Initial steps were detailed at a conference with industry reps and Asst. Secretary of State Mann. The group could include Canadian Mexican and Peruvian mining interests. U.S. industry seeks antitrust exemption. The Tariff Commission says imports threaten the domestic industry. President Eisenhower has until June 23 to act on the commission’s report.
Finney county's 13 rural schools hold annual meetings tonight and tomorrow night at district buildings. Pierceville rural high school meets tonight and the remaining 12 districts vote on the new budget elect a new director to the board of education and handle other required business for the coming term.
The Gray Ladies training class, the fourth to be started here, will be held in the last week of June. Interested persons should sign up at the Red Cross office in the courthouse. The Gray Ladies have been active about a year and there is a great need for their services in the city.
In Topeka a three judge federal panel hears a suit by the Kansas Corporation Commission seeking to set aside an ICC order regulating freight rates for grain to southern points. The KCC argues Kansas wheat ships pay higher costs to Memphis and other southern destinations than competitors.
In Falciano Italy Alba Guidotti once vowed to a Benedictine order after being told her fiancé Rinaldo Matesini was dead. He survived and they wed after she gained papal permission. The Fabiano parish church marriage has the Holy See blessing.
AP report from Yokosuka Japan states airman James W. Newmaster 20 Auburn California confessed to strangling Yasuko Wakatsuchi 23 in a bar but said she asked him to do it. Despondent over an American lover’s departure she was killed with a nylon stocking. body found March 19.
A list of traffic and driving citations and damages from the county includes Mrs. Donald R. Lopez 20 North 12th fined $10 for running a red light and Kay Lynn Ashburn 117 West Haz el cited for improper driving with a $35 penalty. Bonds posted for William Alexander Dobson Scott City for improper driving and improper muffler, and Josephine R. Patton cited for specing with $15. Accident noted yesterday on 200 North 7th alley involving Dwight Eugene Denbo 06 North 5th and a parked car owned by Mrs. Waldo Bla key Conkling with $40 damage.
Birth announcements list Mr and Mrs Henry Geeseka Leopold hospital a son weighing 6 pounds 2 ounces born 3:55 am. St Catherine's records Mr and Mrs Richard Gugelmeyer 2311A a daughter 6 pounds 4 ounces born 4:27 am Wednesday. Other notices include residents: Mrs Richard Gugelmeyer 2911 Marsha Lynn Helm Holcomb Mrs Ellsworth Holmes 1211 Parkwood Mrs Raymond Smith Lakin James Fitzgerald Sublette Duane Arthur Roth 1808 St John Ralph Carlisle Lacon Ricky Lee Redd Sublette Roxann Redd Sublette and Mary Jane Pinkston Fellowship Baptist Home. Royalties and leases mention B T Gale to E T Lindsay and other transfers. First Trust Co. St Paul referenced with Gestenslager Stephen Lee Gestenslager 1041 N 8th and 1403 N 8th.
AP report from Omaha recounts Carole Moore, 21, mother of two, walking nine miles in humid 97 degree weather to prove to her husband Ray she could do it. She started at the city airport after leaving her children with a babysitter and rested at a street bench and a police station. Her husband describes her as always doing something quirky and notes she later enjoyed a beer at home.
Local produce prices show eggs and dairy with modest changes while market reports in Kansas City note cattle theft charges against Richard Mitchell of Cherokee Oklahoma. The column mentions calf losses, loaded steers, and oil can theft versus steady hog and sheep trading levels with bond details and district court steps.
AP Utah story reports Kirkham, 21, condemned for grocery-store holdup slaying, seeks mercy and confinement outside prison for psychiatric treatment. Board rejects request for life imprisonment or alternative mercy, national coverage notes UAW GM talks and Pittsburgh plant strike.
The National Safety Council today presented public interest awards for exceptional safety service. Kansas recipients included Stroup Poster Advertising Co. of 610 Fourth, along with Weaver Advertising of Great Bend and Dougherty Poster Advertising Co. of Downs.
LeRoy Sylvester Dannar was arrested last night in Manhattan on a driving while intoxicated charge and is in city jail awaiting a city court hearing. Dr. James A. McCain, president of Kansas State College, urged 4-H delegates to value farming, praising agriculture as the state’s prosperity engine amid recession and predicting a large wheat harvest.
Washington AP President Eisenhower asks Congress for authority to spend foreign aid in Trd Curtain countries separate from the mutual security bill. Senate GOP leaders report Knowland opposes Kennedy’s amendment to permit spending in satellite states if it helps independence from Moscow. The probe centers on the Battle Act ban.
Members of the National Assembly will take a summer break with reduced work while Premier Charles de Gaulle retains governance without parliamentary interference. Regular committee meetings will continue for at least a month. Deputies will still receive their regular salaries of 280,000 francs per month.
The Garden City municipal band will perform a free concert tomorrow evening at Stevens Park at 8 p.m. under Donald Threlkeld. The 45 member ensemble will present a varied program including National Anthem Directorate March Round-up Time from Southwest rh Panorama Swinging Shepherd Blues Belle of the Ball Hollywood and Vine featuring a trumpet trio The Band Played On George Brown's Fiddle Everglade Sugar March.
Congressional approval seemed assured for a 10 percent pay raise for the government's one million white collar and supervisory civil service workers. The Senate accepted the House approved figure with amendments, aiming to send the bill to the White House. The boost would cost about 542 million dollars annually.
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