11 Jun 1955
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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1955
Page
1
In Liberal burglars stole only high grade whiskey from Dunlop Liquor, lifting 406 half pints, pints and fifths valued around 2000 dollars. Previous incidents include armed robbery and about 600 dollars in cash.
Ulysses Grant County public library construction is over half complete and doors are expected to open by September with only the roof and interior finishing left. The building will include two museum wings and be named the Bob Wilson Museum. Liberal pool opens tomorrow despite debris and vandals, as city workers clear pop bottles beer cans rocks and dust from the drains.
NORWICH England Parents revolt erupts after a schoolroom quiz asking about divorced parents and family life. The high school head apologizes and other schools plan to destroy responses. The survey, intended to study television effects, drew hundreds of answers before backlash.
Washington reports the Public Health Service faced criticism from two sides after Surgeon General Scheele voiced confidence in antipolio vaccine safety following a Health Service white paper. Critics accused bias, while Wyeth and others contest statements about a Wyeth batch under analysis amid questions from three polio cases referenced in the review. The document details past safety concerns and current assurances.
A student jokes that a teacher sent an A in some thing to relatives because the report card ecard won’t arrive home. The boy complains that despite the grade the school still mails the item to family members, prompting lighthearted classroom banter.
Bobby Minter an 18 year old farmer from Garden City near Granada Colorado was injured in a tractor accident yesterday afternoon. The tractor rolled backward pinning him against a trailer and fracturing his left leg four inches above the knee requiring pins. He was treated in Lamar then Pueblo and expected to stay at St Mary's Hospital Pueblo six to eight weeks. He and his brother Jackie were planting a mile crop on rented land when the accident occurred.
Detroit GM and the CIO United Auto Workers return to bargaining with a 36 hour deadline before a strike. The UAW approved a five day extension to the GM contract on Tuesday, leaving a Sunday midnight cutoff and no further extensions.
Washington report on 1956 wheat support prices under flexible price law shows a minimum parity of 76 percent, about $1.81 per bushel, down from 82 percent and $2.06 this year. A two-thirds turnout approving acreage restrictions is required, else support drops to 50 percent of parity.
Los Angeles area AFL locals 224 and 357 along with the California Trucking Association ratified a management offer ending an eight day truck strike that began May 19 and spread to 11 Western states. Details of the proposal were not released publicly and no strong opposition was reported.
Manuel Acosta Robles of Santa Fe is charged with drunkenness and assault with a deadly weapon after a Yellow Cab incident. Police say the passenger refused to pay the fare, and driver Boyd E. Morris reported a butcher knife presence though no knife was found at the scene.
About 100 Flying Farmers and 200 wives and children converged on Washington. Planes from 30 states planned to arrive at Washington Virginia Airport in Bailey's Crossroads by noon tomorrow.
Southwestern Kansas farmers at the Garden City experiment station attended a full report on dryland and irrigation projects, touring crop plots and wheat irrigation plots northeast of Holcomb. The program highlighted mosaic tolerance in W771 strains, with Triumph and Kiowa varieties most tolerant, and noted Comanche and Kiowa doing best on dryland while Concho and Triumph excel under irrigation.
Detroit report says bus driver Clonard Osborne, 26, diverted his crowded route to police headquarters after a woman challenged an expired transfer. He escorted her to Lt Edwin Johnson, then returned to resume service with no grounds for action.
TOPEKA Gov Fred Hall will speak at the National Convention of Young Republicans in Detroit. He is scheduled to address the June 16 session during the June 15 to 18 gathering.
Harvest of wheat in Oklahoma continued amid muddy fields. Federal statisticians forecast state yield at 33,030,000 bushels, 3 million below May estimate, making it the poorest crop since 1936. Denver reports Colorado's crop at only 10.1 million bushels with poor range and pasture conditions. overall outlook is dim with fruits the only potential above average.
A four engine U S Air Force B29 crashed into a rocky hillside of the Swabian Alps near Stuttgart causing ten crewmen to perish. German police reported the bodies were removed and emergency squads worked through the night. Visibility was under 500 feet at the time of the crash.
Afternoon showers dumped .09 inch in Garden City, the first moisture of June, with surrounding areas reporting trace to .03 inch. Temperatures warmed from a low of 48 to near normal by noon 58, with a forecast of partly cloudy skies and NW winds. Widespread light showers across the region added more totals, including LaCygne .35 and other towns, while temperature extremes ranged from 11 to 47 in nearby locales.
GM postpones a formal settlement proposal ahead of a looming strike deadline. Rumors center on a guaranteed wage concept similar to Ford, with Walter Reuther and UAW officials awaiting any two offered paths including cash boosts or Ford-like benefits.
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