Wire-TV Franchise Plan Sparks Garden City Drive
A city commission's first reading approves Commonwealth Theaters to use streets for cables under a 10-year franchise with possible 20-year option and 2-year grace. A 60-day protest window allows residents to object while the city gains rate oversight and utility coordination. Garden City hopes telemovies will soon arrive.
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Garden City
City Commission
Commonwealth Theaters
Dan Hopkins
Commonwealth
Shelby Bourne
Commission
Spectator pleas and park signs at local baseball game
A reader Mary complains that uniforms colors cause base running confusion and suggests gray road uniforms or different color caps for visiting teams. Bob Wells proposes better direction signs to Finnup park, noting US-83 access issues and the unclear Maple street entrance. Maurice Brown reports a busy week with Century Refining, while Doug Crotty Jr and Paul Cole discuss car and rainfall troubles amid a blizzard aftermath in Garden City.
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D'Emale
Mary
Bob Wells
Finnup Park
Main
Maple Street
Maurice Brown
Wheat Lands
Maurice
Century Refining
Fairway
Kansas City
Doug Crotty Jr
Paul Cole
Garden City
KABIE Group Here Tonight In Garden City Visit
Kansas teachers from 30 districts join the eighth annual KABIE tour visiting Garden City. Henry Hall of the Chamber of Commerce says the group will tour Brookover Feed yard Finnup Park and nearby irrigation projects then attend a buffet at Downing's. The tour is sponsored by the Kansas State Chamber of Commerce and the Kansas State Teachers Association.
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Kansas
Garden City
Kansas Cities
Henry Hall
Chamber of Commerce
Brookover
Finnup Park
Downing’s
Kansas State Chamber of Commerce
Kansas State Teachers Association
Second Dorsey Brother Dies
New York reports bandleader Jimmy Dorsey, 53, died today at Doctors Hospital after an operation for a lung growth in January. He and his brother Tommy Dorsey formed a famed musical duo. Tommy died last November. Funeral arrangements were incomplete.
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New York
Inal Dorsey
Tommy Dorsey
Jimmy Dorsey
Doctors Hospital
City to Place Refuse Containers for Pickup Schedule
City commission approved regaining control of curbside garbage can placement for collector access. Residents in Laurel to Spruce between Center and Davis must curb cans by 9 a.m. Tuesdays and Fridays for collection starting July 1. Other actions included street improvements, bonds, and a lease for the city’s historic fire truck.
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Laurel
Spruce
Center
Davis
6Th.street
Hamline
Albert
James
Price
Tair
Edward
Johnson
Roy King
Treasury
Flock to Tent For Matinee at Fair Grounds
Crowds filled the fair grounds for the matinee of the Al G. Kelly Miller Brothers circus described as the second largest show on tour. Animals appeared in town this morning to tease the evening spectacle, with gates opening at 7 p.m. and the final performance at 8 p.m.
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Fairgrounds
al G. Kelly-Miller Brothers Circus
United States
Fair‘grounds
City gas well project and road resurfacing plans noted
Reed Wiley reported the city gas well No 3 at Finnup Park near completion except fences around the well head and meter house to be installed by Northern Natural drillers. He said resurfacing Main and Fulton streets is planned with city state and federal funding, but work cannot begin until 1959 due to 1958 allocations. Also update on Eldon Voss injury from auto crash near here with improvements reported after car hit a bridge railing.
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Ery
Severe hailstorm and floods lash southwestern Kansas crops
A powerful hailstorm and heavy rain swept southwest Kansas from Garden City to Plymell and Cimarron, damaging wheat fields and farm buildings. Hail chunks up to 1.5 inches, winds up to 80 mph, and rainfall up to around 3 inches were reported, with scattered damage near Scott City, Lakin, and Crop areas south of Lawrence.
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Jill
Jean Kleystueber
Plymell
Garden City
Leo, Kleystueber
Kansas
Plymell Community
Paola
Garnett
Rock Creek
Topeka
Emporia
Ottawa
Independence
Hutchinson
Fort Scott
Atchison
Dodge City
Arkansas City
Coffeyville
Hartford
Neosho Rapids
Lebo
Wichita
Wellington
Conway Springs
Oxford
Harry Lightner
Leo Kleysteuber
Walter Meyer
Eugene Heiman
Harold Kleysteuber
Cliff Owston
Walt Meyers
Lawrence Stracklejohn
Scott City
City
CAA
A. G.warren
Peterson
Town
Holcomb
Lawrence
Olathe
No Amplifier Allowed for Word of God
Garden City pastors sought city approval to broadcast sermons on street corners and in Stevens Park using public address systems. Rev Virgil Koehn of Pentecostal Holiness and a Southern Baptist minister asked for permission to advertise church activities. The city commission denied both requests citing resident protests and potential offense to other denominations.
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Garden City
City Commission
Stevens Park
Virgil Koehn
Pentecostal Holiness Church
Southern, Baptist Church
Paratrooper Dies After Three Hour Struggle At Bragg
Iowa private Wayne H Flugum, 23, LeLand, Iowa, died after entangling in static lines during a routine airborne exercise at Fort Bragg North Carolina. Crew tried to free him for over three hours as the C123 transport skimmed above a foamed runway. Officials say he suffocated likely before landing and investigations continue.
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N.C
Iowa
Pfe
Wayne H. Flugum
Leland
Flugum
Jand
Weather forecast and figures from Garden City area
Scattered showers and thunderstorms early tonight then partly cloudy tomorrow. Light variable winds, near thunderstorms. Some locally severe storms possible tonight. Low sixties, high in the lower eighties Thursday. Sunrise 5 22, sunset 8 06. Observations show varied readings across stations including Garden City 83 58 and Amarillo 54 Denv er 6.
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U.S
Breau
Garden City
Dodge City
Goodland
Great Bend
Liberal
Russell Pratt
Amarillo
Denver
la Junta
Lamar
New Ag Agent Named for Finney County
Danny Trayer was named agriculture agent for Finney County and will start July 1, succeeding Oscar Norby, now district agriculture extension agent of northwest Kansas. The appointment was made by the Finney County extension board and the Kansas State College extension staff. Trayer, a K State graduate, has served as ag agent in Hedgman County for six years. The Norby family will move to Manhattan where he will have a central office for a district including 20 North West Kansas counties. J. Floyd Breeding introduced a two price support bill in the House advocating parity for wheat. The plan would let the Agriculture Department set production limits in bushels, not acreage, and provide full parity for wheat used domestically and exported at world market levels. The bill has strong support in Congress and similar measures are being prepared in the current session.
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Danny Trayer
Finney County
Oscar Norby
Northwest
Kansas
Finney County Extension Board
Kansas State College Extension Staff
Rae
Trayer
J. Floyd
Banane
Ant Nancy
House of Representatives
Jetmore
Norby
U.S
Manhattan
Culture Department
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Kabie Group
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Salina
Firea
Gamen City
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Joe Nickell
State Adjutant General
Helday
Toneka
Camp McCoy
Wis
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Eldon Voss
SECTI
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Walter Meyler
Plymer? Community House
Finney- Scott County
Cimarron
Lakin
Gorrdon
Havlinek
Two Rivers
Salvidor Zumudio
San Antonio
Tex
George Nash
Kas
Thomas Ansberry
Urbana
Ohio
Danny Carroll
Charles Carroll
Wesley
Jay Crook
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