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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1959
Page
3
An editorial urges action on a semi blind Kansas intersection blamed for recent fatal crashes. It argues human error remains central despite safety devices and road improvements, warning drivers to accept responsibility as highway travel remains a calculated risk.
The citizens advisory committee to the Kansas Education Survey endorses doubling state aid to schools, arguing higher state funding would improve quality. They criticize the current formula as unfair, noting wide district levies and underpayments per pupil in Wichita and city systems.
Muskegon Michigan mourns as Gold Star mother Mary Smith says goodbye to her 17 year old son Mlawd who joined the Navy. The Smith brothers Howard Donald Lionell Charles Alfred all served in the Navy with varying fates from survive to death, shaping a family history marked by wartime duty and loss.
Surveys show married people live longer and teachers happier, with a living wage for educators. A silent film relic from Great Bend features Dick Bortz, preserved by Larry Bryant of Phillips Funeral Home. Rotary tribute to Doug Crotty highlights his tenure as district governor. Cosmetic ad touts Snowball of Fire lipstick. Magazine fillers promote tempting snacks for youngsters. An observation on baldness concludes the item.
Washington notes Drew Pearson as associate writer discusses his long history with people to people diplomacy and past campaigns from Friendship Train to Messages to Moscow. The piece recalls Pearson’s aims and interactions with Eisenhower and his belief in engaging common people to soften Cold War tensions.
The piece notes shifting views on a people to people effort across the Iron Curtain with support from Gen. Omar Bradley and Secretary George Allen. It cites Eisenhower endorsing the idea and recounts private talks about using overwhelming force if limited wars escalate, while detailing regional tensions in Iraq Yugoslavia and Nicaragua involving Khrushchev Tito and Whelan's Nicaragua warnings.
Walter Williams, 116, of Houston receives an honorary five star general rank from the Confederate High Command at his bedside during a weekend ceremony. Donald A. Ramsey, executive commissioner, presents the commission as Williams rests with a whisky nod and a slight chill noted by his doctor. In Marlin, First Presbyterian Church members worshipped in a newly air conditioned sanctuary with cushioned pews. Rev. H. B. Streater preached “Don’t be too comfortable.”
In Missouri a 70 year old farmer, Mike Kordash, lured two neighbors and killed them then killed himself after a failed attempt to shoot a third. Sheriff Claude Bloomberg said the victims were Claude Inman 68 and Charles Hermis 55 near Macon.
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