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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1957
Page
7
An Outpost in experimental farming that has played a major role in Kansas agriculture will celebrate its golden anniversary this weekend. On June 9 and 10 the Garden City branch experiment station will observe 50 years of service and the continued confidence and support of those who rely on it.
The Kansas Garden City experiment station celebrates 50 years of dryland and irrigation farming research. Wheat yields rose, plots expanded from 50 to 2,000, and studies cover winter wheat sorghums oats clover cotton flax and many crops. Built from 1907, the station evolved with staff changes equipment growth and extensive work in crop variety physiology and entomology.
Federal Judge Henry N Graven approved the liquidation sale of Henry Greemmer s Garden City properties in Wilson Junction Indiana. The carbon dioxide tank at Shurtz Meeker Co was bid to Spencer Chemical Co Kansas City Missouri for 4500 and approved on the receiver s request Harry R Gerneken of Oelwein Iowa represents Indian Carbonic Ltd Gruem mer is serving a five year term for fraud involving over 800000 in securities and CO2 scheme.
A four day mobile unit drew heavy traffic as about one hundred people per hour received free chest X-rays. In total 516 people over 14 got X-rays with 182 during the 7 to 8:30 pm window. The Red Cross Bloodmobile collected 158 pints, near its 160 pint quota, the best in the state this year. The X-ray unit continues at the American Legion building with a varying schedule through Saturday.
Friday at 7 p m about 150 youngsters are expected at Finnup Park tennis courts for the annual pet show. Garden City Recreation Commission sponsors the event with Herman Beringer directing. Uncle Joe Tennesten of KIUL will be master of ceremonies, Clifford R Hope Sr will award prizes. First prize five dollars, then three, two and one dollar to ten more winners. Judges will be hidden among spectators. State Theatre manager Shelby Bourne will give every entrant a free movie ticket for a future show. Beringer urged local kids to enter their pets.
Belated but real summer warmth sweeps Garden City with temperatures hitting 92 degrees amid little breeze. Residents complain of a damp two week stretch while forecasters warn the heat may rise further toward 95 as readings climb past 90 for the first time this year.
Rep Floyd Breeding said soil bank acreage reserve checks for the area will begin distribution within a week to 19 days as the Agriculture Department processes the payments. A final report cites 21.3 million acres enrolled with total potential payments of about 614 million dollars across crops including wheat corn cotton rice and tobacco with specific acreage and payment figures.
President Eisenhower toured the USS Saratoga off Florida for a demonstration of atomic warfare tactics by jets from the $350 million supercarrier. Accompanied by Cabinet members and officials, he watched two Skyray interceptors catapulted from the carrier, then circled the ship as 2,000 sailors spelled Welcome Mr. President on the flight deck. The visit, during which the President stayed aboard until tomorrow afternoon, showcased rapid air deployment while in port.
The area can expect fall conditions becoming partly cloudy with isolated thundershowers along the western border tomorrow evening. Temperatures will cool tomorrow evening with strong gusty winds in the afternoon. Tonight’s low around 60, highs in the 90s on Friday. Sunrise at 22.
Dillon's J S Dillon Market in Garden City will start Sunday hours from 9 30 a m to 7 p m this weekend the first regular Sunday opening since operations began. The move follows a brief Sunday closing pact among Garden City grocers excluding Stoners No 1 Five Points and Walls Foodliner had resumed Sunday hours last week after a four week layoff. Manager Frank Leonard said the Sunday hours come from grocers inability to agree on policy rather than any store decision. Deal market officials had no word on opening Sunday and no other stores announced changes.
A lighthearted feature notes men in households embracing aprons to shield pants from dishwater. The piece highlights evolving domestic roles and humor in kitchen chores among families.
Dale Wayne Swafford 18 faced first degree murder charges in Evanston Wyoming and a federal auto theft complaint in Kansas City Kansas. He was questioned at Sallisaw by PBS agent Bob French and reportedly signed a statement admitting stealing a seat and transporting it from Evanston to Liberal Kansas. He cited hitching a ride near Provo Utah with a man named Tommy in a car driven by Larue Howard en route to Omaha from Los Angeles. The statement alleges Tommy shot and killed Howard near Evanston.
A flat-bed truck carrying migrant laborers and a tractor-trailer collided at the intersection of Highways 101 and 102, nine miles north of Fayetteville, killing 17. Fire followed the crash, with 41 laborers from several states aboard. 21 were hospitalized, 14 in critical condition. Victims included men women and children. driver of the tractor-trailer was injured lightly.
In suburban Philadelphia the trend sees two teen-aged babysitters operating together in homes with swimming pools. One tends youngsters while the other swims, a coordinated routine popular in fashionable Main Line neighborhoods.
Washington special reports Rep Floyd Breeding of Kansas says a bill will be introduced to end immunity from production and marketing rules for farms under 15 acres. He cites 1,026,424 such farms in the commercial wheat area and notes the move would affect big farm wheat production, facing opposition in Congress. Breeding also discusses a two price support system tied to a major road project in western Kansas.
Walter Bolia, 42, appeared in court on a charge of abandoning his wife. He said he left home May 10 to visit friends at Westport, 120 miles north, and had been jailed for driving an unlicensed car, receiving a 25 day sentence.
Chief Mitch Geisler graduates from the FBI National Academy at FBI headquarters in Washington. The 12 week session at Quantico involves 98 lawmen from 38 states plus Puerto Rico. Geisler will return to Garden City after the ceremony.
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