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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1955
Page
4
Editorial argues schools can cut costs by using current buildings more efficiently. Denver plans double sessions with shifts 7:00–12:10 and 12:20–5:80, and districts consider 3‑month summers and five‑day weeks. Shifting patterns could stretch capacity 10–40 percent and shift funds to teaching staff.
The Rev Dr J Raymond Chadwick, president of Iowa Wesleyan College, added the PHT degree to the graduation program. Nine wives of graduating husbands received the award, a reflection on wives who shared college life with married students and the evolving role of married student housing and campus support.
The piece argues 9 30 a m is a better Sunday service time than 11 a m explaining it fits modern life and family routines. It notes air conditioning and chores like Sunday dinners pressure families and suggests moving to 9 30 a m would create a truer family day.
A fragment from the Independence Reporter presents a brief poem about criticism and ambition among men of enterprise. The verse contrasts those who criticize others with those who rise above them, hinting at themes of merit and perception.
Deputy assessor Charles Hillard mistakenly filed two assessments on himself in the same year. One was $175 higher than the other. County Clerk Glenn Crawford says the higher assessment is the one he is using.
Topeka reporters note the estate heirs of Chief Justice Frank Doster announce a new essay contest offering three prizes of 100 dollars each for best original essays on the First Amendment. Topic is The separation of church and state Why I believe in it with Kansas Authors Club handling details and Thomas E Burton as chairman.
Garden City Telegram details publishing staff and contact lines, subscription rates, and distribution areas. It outlines rights, advertising management, mechanical supervision, and city and state coverage terms for Garden City and surrounding Kansas counties.
Washington diary reports that the Soviet embassy gained permission to use a Rock Creek Park volleyball court on Saturdays and Sundays after a State Department intervention, with FBI oversight and no abuse found. The piece also notes GOP Senators’ ire over 200 Democratic civil service firings, Lyndon Johnson’s Senate leadership, and passing of multiple Senate measures.
A reflective piece on two Fort Stanton cemeteries in New Mexico. The newer national hospital cemetery holds mariners from the Graf Spee and anonymous graves with weathered markers, while the older 1855 frontier cemetery contains cavalry graves and a lone pebbled grave for a boy named Charles. The author contrasts care levels, frontier flavor, and enduring memory in these resting places.
MOSCOW Premier Nikolai A Bulganin is made a member of the order of Lenin on his 60th birthday. In Basel Roger Bannister weds Moyra Elver Jacobsen in a brief civil ceremony with British and Swedish witnesses. Nomura urges freeing war criminals in Tokyo while Sugamo Prison holds 220 U S convicted prisoners. Paris reports arrests of terrorist leaders in Algeria amid rising violence with Morocco shopkeepers strike and tobacco campaign gains.
A devotional with scripture references from Isaiah 12 and Ephesians 4 1 6 Expresses trust in God as salvation and protection Praises the Father for Christ’s light and steadfast presence as believers move forward in faith Amen
In Salem Oregon owners donated several old buildings for firemen to stage controlled blazes and practice new spray techniques. One rain soaked structure resisted ignition, delaying further experiments until dry weather improves the challenge.
A reflection on a dry parched landscape and leaving a graveyard with the sense that life returns from death. The speaker notes a cemetery as a pleasant place when time is not pressing, hinting at renewal arising from mortality.
Saturday’s Cryptoquip presents a dense clue set with numbered hints and wordplay. Answers span marine terms, objects, actions, and plant names, culminating in a hidden message and a final thematic line about creeping vines creating patterns on a garden wall.
A garbled local column describes a man nicknamed the Elk who may join the Eagles, mentions a mulberry tree bearing fruit, notes mixed reactions from a washerwoman and children, and references cold weather, a furnace swap, Christmas reading, and a vague U. S. school pupil quote about chewing meat without effort.
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