Fulton Speedway Weekend Editorials Comment on Speeding and Local Culture
The column notes Garden City speeds on E Fulton with calls for more patrols and speed traps on Sundays. It highlights support for a municipal band, summer concerts in the park, Friday concerts in Stevens Park, and the Miss Garden City Pageant, praising local beauty observed by a visitor and predicting a pageant winner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Garden City
E. Fulton
Stevens Park
East Coast
Graffiti and gossip in a busy city column
A collage of observations on new neighbors sayings by Mae West and a teen dictionary update. It notes graffiti as a craze with Kilroy references and humor about the miller invasion and a light aside on a typewriter mishap, all in a brisk weekly feature tone.
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Kilroy
Campbell Model Farm Efforts in Gray County 1907
Inspired by W. H. Campbell, Gray County Commercial Club sought a Campbell Model Farm for the county. Subscriptions collected, doubts voiced, and weather setbacks hampered funding, with notices that area towns might seize the chance if Gray County failed. Though the effort faded, Campbell’s dry farming ideas spread across Southwest Kansas and influenced local farming practices.
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Barbara Oringderff
W. H. Campbell
Gray County Commercial Club
Gray County
Cimarron
Jacksonian
J. E. Burns
Ingalls
Gary County
The
Pomeroy
Hill City
Geo. Miller
C. C. Isley
Campbell
Campbell Model Farm
Kansas
Garden City Teegrams
Finney County
H.W. Campbell
Garden City
Jackson
Colusa
Wear
C.M. Buckley
Hess Township
Vital Waterways Internationalization Debate Within Johnson Admin
Drew Pearson reports a backstage Johnson administration debate over using the break with Egypt to pursue internationalization of world waterways, including the Suez Canal. He notes past canal closures by Nasser, U S actions in 1956, and argues Washington’s neutral stance amid Nasser’s charges and Arab world reaction.
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Washington
Johnson
Egypt
Nasser
Suez Canal
John Foster Dulles
Aswan
Eisenhower
Ike
Nasker
United States
Sikth Hteet
Aig
Israel
Near East
Suez
Sixth Fleet
Little Rock
U. S
Abba Eban
Gulf of Aqaba
Rusk
Senate Foreign Relations
Gulf
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Mae West
Garden City Telegram
Telegram Publishing Company
Mervin Smith
Jobe Frazier
Gaden City
Southwest
Gray County Club
Model Farm
Drew Pearson
Ben
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