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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1959
Page
4
The article reports Kansas State University and Extension discuss keeping lawns healthy amid drought and the wheat-for-planting program. It details nine maintenance steps including fertilizing Bermuda and bluegrass, mowing heights, crabgrass control, weed management, spraying for pests, hedge trimming, monitoring red spider and bagworms, and options for starting lawns with sod or rye cover crops.
Washington reports Missouri and Kansas members split on a 1 375 000 housing bill. Democrats Bolling Carnahan Harris Karsten Moulder Randall Sullivan Mo. supported. Republicans Cannon Curtis Rees Smith Mo. Hull Jones Mo. voted against. The measure aimed to aid farmers and wheat markets through barter and proposed cooperative experiments.
Extension specialist Charles Parks outlines nine lawn and landscape steps for Kansas gardeners. He advises early planting now for Bermuda and bluegrass, recommends fertilizing schedules for different grasses, careful herbicide use, mowing heights, weed control, watering, and ongoing hedge and evergreen maintenance to protect and improve lawns during summer heat.
Farmers and homemakers discuss freezing techniques for pies and cakes to save time during wheat harvest. Guidance covers freezing unbaked and baked fruit pies, proper wrapping, storage times up to four weeks, and thawing procedures. Also notes industry talks between U S Steel executives and the Steelworkers Union amid looming strike.
LAWRENCE Kan AP English professor Eugene E Slaughter says colleges and universities bear blame for weak student English. He notes teachers lack strong prep and colleges overemphasize professional education. He urges longer programs with balanced liberal and major studies and calls for higher English course hours in teacher prep.
New York AP reports steel negotiators faced a seven week stalemate as they enter the crucial buy and sell period. With a potential July 1 strike looming, the parties must break the deadlock to avert shutdown, signaling intensified bargaining amid urgent deadlines.
A B 52 jet bomber on an experimental low level SAC flight crashed in a remote area 35 miles east of Burns Oregon. Five crew members died as the eight jet aircraft caught fire and exploded, scattering wreckage over a wide area. Boeing built the plane and conducted tests for the Air Force. Injured or aboard were pilot Lewis Moore 44 Kirkland Washington copilot Joseph Keller Bellevue Washington navigator Gerald Green 37 Kent Washington flight engineers Charles McDaniel 29 Seattle and Neil Johnson 29 Seattle.
COLUMBUS Ohio M Sg John Vandenberg nearing the halfway point of a 20 year Air Force career this will be his second. He is 41 and previously spent 10 years as a sergeant pilot in the Netherlands Royal Air Force with wartime duty in the southwest Pacific. Now a U.S. citizen, he has nearly 10 years in the U S Air Force as a maintenance sergeant in the Strategic Air Command at Lockbourne AFB Columbus. He served 20 years in the Dutch Air Force and is credited with four downed Japanese planes. He was captured in Java, escaped with 16 other POWs in a stolen transport plane. The escape craft was shot down near Darwin Australia but he and 13 others survived. After Dutch discharge he and his family settled in Florida. He enlisted in 1949 and naturalized in 1950.
Baltimore signs pitcher Gary Cooper Wilhelm, 23, to join Bluefield West Virginia in the Appalachian league. He is the younger brother of Hoyt Wilhelm and has served in the U S and Army Air Forces. Wilhelm says his best pitch is the knuckleball and he hopes to learn as a pro. He notes he can devote time to baseball and aviation careers.
New York AP reports film star Marilyn Monroe is in excellent condition after an operation whose nature was not disclosed. She is expected to leave the hospital Friday. Surgeon Dr Mortimer Rodgers noted no pregnancy evidence. Husband Arthur Miller says the surgery was corrective and the couple desires children, having had two miscarriages.
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