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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1959
Page
4
New York financier Intington Hartford, heir to A&P, announces plans for a multi million dollar resort on four mile Hog Island opposite Nassau. He will purchase most of the island from Swedish industrialist Dr J Axel Wenner Gren.
Kansas City and Kansas City Kansas face newspaper suspensions as printers strike, halting Star editions and Kansan. Union asks premium holiday pay and a shorter 87 hour week. Star offers retroactive $3 weekly raise and $4 weekly raise next October.
Walter Williams, last Civil War survivor, rests in an oxygen tent in Houston as pneumonia worsens his condition. Dr. Russell Wolfe reports little change, noting a slight drop in temperature and a steady pulse. Williams is 116 years old, with a temperature near 101.
Roberts said two raises would boost the print workers pay to 127.50 weekly for day work and 133 for night shift. The union demanded that a printer receive one hours pay for the first 3 hours on a holiday and double the holiday rate for any excess. Under the proposed scale, this would amount to 9.5414 an hour for the first hours and 19.08 hourly for the excess.
Hollywood AP Walt Disney pursues a new fad with The Swamp Fox a one hour TV series about Gen Francis Marion the Revolutionary War hero. Leslie Nielsen stars in the California filmed episodes to capture authentic swamp action with adventure humor and romance. The program shot at Golden Oak Ranch north of Los Angeles as snake risks in the South were avoided. Nielsen tall rugged 6 ft 2 in joins Disney stable of stars Parker Williams Courtland and Tryon as potential future frontier legends.
Broad set of clues and answers cover astronomy heraldry anatomy flora and fauna geography and language with a final note on a cryptoquote about grammar and the need to avoid errors in wording. The puzzle lists many numbered entries and references a King Features Syndicate cryptoquote from 1969.
Radio schedule rundown shows KIUL with Beat The We reports at six, NBC News blocks, weather, world roundup, and merchants of variety time. Notable names include Tony Jewell Ray Hudson and Sidelines segments, plus late night Bob Wells and Dr Leroy Hood commentary.
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