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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1957
Page
2
The Army reports veteran sergeant J C Paul A Barrier 29 of Jacksonville Florida shot and killed his lieutenant and first sergeant after being reprimanded for ducking drill with an MI rifle. He surrendered at the provost marshal’s office and was sent for a mental examination. no charges filed yet.
W Noble 78 longtime Garden City resident died at St Catherine hospital after a brief illness. Born in Komstad Dakota Territory March 22 1879 he moved to Finney County 25 years ago and worked 45 years as a Thompson Hardware salesman of Topeka. Survived by five daughters Mrs Charles Rockstrom Mrs Oliver Huffman Mrs Iona Shelly Lorraine Noble and Mrs W B Robinson and three sons L W Walter E and Robert G, plus two sisters Mrs S C Holmes and Mrs Huldah Boyle. Funeral arrangements incomplete.
In Auburn Nebraska and Fort Benning, a deadly incident followed a field match dispute. Private barrier, a 22 year old Army soldier from Auburn, shot Lt. Jerry Humphrey and Sgt. Ralph Stilson after a censured confrontation. Humphrey died en route to hospital and Stilson died at the scene. Witnesses report barrier fled to the Company B orderly room before firing. An investigation notes no ammunition was used in the drill and that barrier had secreted three rounds from Ft Benning.
A three-story Near North Side building fire killed three Yates brothers Paul Edward 12 Louis Wayne 10 and Richard Lee 8 and injured Phillip 20 who leaped from the second floor. The family slept on the first floor as Coroner McCarron noted the structure housed 411 families after an earlier fire. Virgie Yates and three younger children escaped unharmed.
New York Times staffer Clifton Daniel announced his baby will be named Clifton Truman Daniel to honor Harry S. Truman and E Clifton Daniel. The child was born at Doctors Hospital as former President Truman and Bess Truman visited. Meanwhile, Congress considers 1957 omnibus housing bill with insured home loan minimums and a conference date pending. Ness County Hospital district approves an $80,000 bond issue for expansion, funding to come from the district with work to begin in 45 to 60 days.
Malcolm Steiner, head of Steiner Manufacturing Co. of Glen Cove, was convicted on seven counts of fraud and conspiracy for producing Navy jet canopies with altered approval stamps. He chose imprisonment over further appeals and received concurrent one-year sentences. The firm previously faced a $45,000 fine after jurors found it had falsified canopy approvals.
Today in Garden City ad mittances list Mrs John Smith and others with addresses in Garden City and Dighton plus Terri Sue Dimitt. Discharges include Mrs Bob Jones and Edward Weiser among others. Also police brief notes arrest for driving while intoxicated and county brief on a warranty deed for Burtis Motor Co.
Washington lawmakers and business groups pressed for cutting government spending and enacting tax cuts. Senator Ellender criticized Defense Department spending on plush helicopter seats for VIPs without Congress, while NAM and U S Chamber urged a 5 billion dollar reduction in the 71.8 billion budget and broader tax reform to curb inflationary growth.
Garden City man Raymond Arthur Wishon was arrested by city patrols at 11:40 p.m. on Burnside Drive near 3rd and Fulton, charged with driving while intoxicated and placed in police custody.
A fiery two truck crash near Fayetteville North Carolina killed 19 people, tying the nation's worst truck accident record. Among the dead was Willie Gary of Syracuse New York. 13 died at the scene and the rest in hospitals. The collision occurred at a Y intersection involving a tractor-trailer loaded with potatoes and a flat-bed carrying migrant farm workers on the way to a bean field. Police work to identify five victims as workers knew each other only by first names.
PROVIDENCE R I John W Betters 20 was brought into District Court last Aug 25 on a charge of reckless driving The judge Luigi De Pasquale sent him home for wearing sloppy clothes and ordered him to return the next morning Betters appeared yesterday nine months late The judge asked why he did not come back and Betters replied he still wore the same clothes The judge fined him 100 plus costs and said the fine would have been 50 if he had appeared at first
Senator Frank Carlson urged Kansas Republicans to stop fighting and confront their mistakes. He spoke at a Second District harmony meeting as Democrats gained governorship and state offices, warning against complacency in a Republican era of status quo.
Local produce market and grain futures show mixed quotes with Kansas City and Chicago benchmarks. Wheat, corn, oats, and soybeans display varied changes while New York stocks dip then recover, led by aircrafts and Chevron-like energy names amid overall uneven trading.
Kansas City markets report a mixed wheat rally amid USDA notes on cattle and calves. Trade activity shows limited demand with cautious interest from buyers, while prices drift as buyers await clearer signals from the supply situation and futures levels.
A fragmented dispatch covers export aid with Poland and wheat futures rally on the Chicago Board of Trade. It reports Kansas GOP leader Carlson urging party rebuilding, service to the people, and a disciplined organization for the next campaign, alongside a New York medical case of restoring eye moisture by redirecting a saliva duct to save sight.
Emil Arky, a 24 year old Negro clothing salesman from Meridian Tennessee, stays at a Los Angeles hotel past his 86th birthday while doctors plan to repair his right eye plagued by xerophthalmia. The event marked by a champagne dinner honors the long tenure as a guest at Hay ward Hotel. Also noted are commodity prices and wheat futures from Kansas City and a brief U S Soviet disarmament talks report from Washington.
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