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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1957
Page
3
A critique of Rep Breeding's proposal to end the 200 bushel exemption for farmers on 15 acres or less. The piece argues the exemption distorts the wheat program, benefits large numbers of smallholders, and threatens to undermine single crop farmers while preserving support for excess producers. It cites 1,026,424 fifteen acre farmers and warns of growing domestic supply from tiny plots.
The Kansas Chamber of Commerce hosts a bus tour for teachers to explore the state. Participants praise the planning and the knowledge gained about Kansas, noting eastern readers often view the west as foreign. The article commends both the chamber and teachers for their initiative.
A Garden City Kansas letter urges keeping Sunday closures as several chains reopen on Sundays. BEN ZIMMERMAN argues Sundays should be for worship and family, notes Safeway’s past promises, questions employee pay, and urges readers to consider who benefits from stores open seven days.
Secretary of State Dulles said the United States values allied relations above rushing a disarmament pact with Russia. He indicated talks on some aspects may occur informally, but current arms control negotiations are not mere talks with Moscow. He noted potential Arctic zone questions for Canada and stressed no first-stage plan would be imposed without unanimous agreement.
A critique argues Federal Power Commission Chairman Jerome Kuykendall protects corporate profits rather than consumers. It cites trips funded by industry groups, social events with lobbyists, alleged deception about Hell's Canyon actions, and secret meetings with natural gas lobbyists to draft legislation.
New York column highlights odd facts from readers mail. Pore counts nerves, fingerprints, and stomach shapes differ. Americans' Buddhist share small. Automobiles scarce in 1895. Baby foods cost big money. Sophia Loren described as a good, intelligent man in love. Daily breaths and air intake numbers. First televised royal couple at 1939 World’s Fair. lifetime sleep hours if living to 70 exceed 20 years. Hotel Edison offers bridal smelling salts and a lady in waiting. A male deprived of food dies in about a day. Peacock tail feathers number over two hundred. Thomas Carlyle referenced in closing note.
A lighthearted column notes chatter from a family pet show with a black puppy named Snow in see and joking exchanges about dogs mice and horses. It also mentions gifts to Supt. and Mrs. Andy Erhart for the experiment station's 50th anniversary and lists old and new neighbors Burl and Mrs Schaberg and memories of Garden City.
Frank D Roosevelt Jr purchases Mixer Return, the Jon OBryan Polled Hereford herd sire, along with two young bulls and three heifers, in Fort Scott Kansas. The sale follows prior remarks on farm subsidy and production theories by Agriculture Secretary Benson. Roosevelt plans to ship cattle to Duchess County New York and Liberty Missouri.
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