Kitten’s Names Reflect Tiny Owner’s Whims in Garden City
In Garden City a 4 year old, Chipper Leavitt, gives his cat playful titles such as Sump Ringworm Donald Duck and Kitty Kat. Local progress notes include Orville Nanninga visiting Western Motor Co. after a winter heart attack and Joan Kliesen at a baseball game with her parents. DeAnn Hatcher remains hospitalized in Oklahoma City after a car crash. Gladys Pounds serves tourists and a couple from Orange, Texas remark Garden City tops their travel list after a 7000 mile summer journey.
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Chipper
John Leavitts
Donald Duck
Kitty-Kat
Progres
Orville Nanninga
Western Motor Co
Orville
DeAnn Hatcher
Oklahoma City
Garden City
DeAnn
Texas
Weather forecast for tonight and Tuesday
Paelly cloudy tonight and Tuesday with a few scattered thunderstorms in late afternoon and evening. Little temperature change expected. lows in the mid 60s and highs in the mid to upper 80s. Southeasterly winds around 20 mph, strongest near storms. Sunrise 6 24. sunset 8 10.
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Garden
Mydee City
Goodland
Great Bend
Liberal
Tuexell
EA Pratt
Amarilla
Danver
Guymion
Lamar
Harvest Grains Move North As Wheat Harvest Nears End
Finney county wheat harvest winds down with peak passed and cutting shifting northward. Elevators show lighter activity in Garden City area, northwest gains, and 120000 bushels topped Garden Co op exchange receipts. Showers reduced test weight but quality remains above 58 pounds per bushel. Grant county harvest about 75 percent complete. Storage ample with boxcars available and no overall shortage.
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Finney County
Garden City
Friend
Lowe
Kenneth Lyon
Coop
Lyon
Grant County
Pool To Get Diving Boards At Finnup Park
Finnup park pool is closed for cleaning and will reopen Wednesday at 1 PM. City officials aim to install two new aluminum diving boards by opening time, replacing two damaged wooden boards. One broken board was the recently installed new unit, and the other is also in need of removal or replacement.
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Finnup Park
Admiral King Dead At 7
PORTSMOUTH N H Admiral Ernest Joseph King U S N dies in Portsmouth Naval Hospital at 72 after years of failing health Heart failure from high blood pressure attributed Death followed a brain hemorrhage in August 1947 King served as commander in chief of the U S Fleet and chief of naval operations during World War II and was the first officer to hold both posts concurrently.
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Portsmouth
N.H. Wi
Ernest Joseph, King
U.S.N
Germany
Japan
Portsmouth Naval Hospital
Secretary of the Navy
Adm
King
U.S. Fleet
Pearl Harbor
Six children left at Indianapolis station on trip
Mr and Mrs Cecil Prater of Milwaukee stopped at an Indianapolis filling station during a trip to Knoxville Tennessee and forgot to count their six children Eight year old Carrie asked Where s Carrie Police traced her to Indianapolis and the family returned to collect her after the call
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Indianapolis
Cecil Prater
Milwaukee
Knoxville
Tenn
Carrie
Fraser Colorado Feels Nation’s Coldest Morning
Fraser Colorado sits at the Continental Divide about 75 miles west of Denver and records a 32 degree low, the coldest reading in the nation. The town, known for summer visits by President Eisenhower for trout fishing, remains in shimmering heat of its unusual cold snap.
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Fraser, Colo
Colorado
Fraser
Continental Divide
Denver
Eisenhower
Rainy Squalls Spur Varied Showers Across Western Kansas
A squall line crossed Western Kansas with Garden City spared while nearby areas saw moisture. Temperatures tumbled from 97 to 62 F after 8 pm. Saturday rain totaled .27 inch with lightning and hail reported locally. CAA measurements varied, while station reports showed zero. Countywide totals included .50 to .95 inches in spots. Ness City received .83 inch and Dodge City around .20 to .50 inch. Next four days expect above normal highs, with 6 to 10 degrees above normal.
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CAA
Garden City
Pete Smith
Smith Farm
Fred Vanderee
Pierceville
Henry Douglass
Dighton
Nelan Yates
Ness City
Dodge City
Weather’ Bureau
Fogay Days For Bugs Ahead
The city plans three days of morning fogging to reduce flies and mosquitoes this week. City crews will spray the entire area using a new Lak in chemical mixed with oil, said to be safe for plants and pets. Next Tuesday the equipment will fog Lakin on a rental basis to deliver a dose there.
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Garden City
Lakin
Priest Joins Prisoners In Final Mass At Maryland Penitentiary
Rev Joseph J Ayd S J a 74 year old Baltimore priest spent his last Mass at the Maryland Penitentiary and Baltimore city jail after 38 years of service. He aided 54 inmates in their final hours and fought for death sentence commutations and wrongful-justice releases. He plans a quiet retirement with crime fiction as a busman's holiday, while his tough, investigative side aided 11 men to commutations.
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Baltimore
Maryland Penitentiary
Baltimore City
Joseph J. Ayd
S. J
Father Ayd
Eisenhower to convalesce at Gettysburg farm
President Eisenhower plans to convalesce at his Gettysburg farm after leaving Walter Reed Hospital planned for this weekend. White House secretary James Hagerty said the president and Mrs. Eisenhower will spend the weekend at the farm and noted a Panama City visit on July 21-22 to meet other heads of state. The illness caused postponement of July talks with India’s Nehru and the hospital bulletin reported a comfortable night and very satisfactory progress.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Gettysburg
Walter Reed Army Hospital
James C. Hagerty
White House
Hagerty
Panama City
India
Nehru
Hagery
Waller Reed Army Hospital
Minnie Draws 10 Year Term
Minnie Mangum former officer of a Virginia savings institution was sentenced to 10 years for embezzling 1 082 968 25 and 10 years for giving false information to the State Corporation Commission. Judge H Lawrence Bullock ordered the two sentences to run consecutively. Additional counts included two forgery indictments and other false information charges. She was jailed to await transfer to Goochland state farm for women.
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Norfolk
Minnie Man- Sum
Heard Corporation Court
H. Lawrence Bullock
State Corporation Commission
Bullock
Commonwealth Building & Loan Assn
Corporation
Commissin
NAACP Hopes To Speed Racial Integration
San Francisco delegates from the NAACP prepare to open the 47th annual convention seeking faster integration in U S activities. Thurgood Marshall will deliver the keynote in Cline Auditorium as the NAACP celebrates legal wins on desegregation and honors guests including first Alabama campus student Autherine Lucy Foster.
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San Francisco
U.S
National
Asan
Advancement of
Colored People
Cline Auditorium
Thurgood Marshall
NAACP
Paule
U.S. Supreme Court
Autherine Lucy Foster
Tyler
Tex
University of Alabama
Hatcher Declination Fails For Supreme Court Run
Earl Hatcher of Topeka was rejected by the State Canvassing Board for filing a declaration of candidacy for the Kansas State Supreme Court too late. The noon June 20 deadline was missed by a minute or two, and the board voted to keep his name off the ballot.
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Topeka
State Supreme Court
Earl Hatcher
State
Hatcher
Supreme Court
Paul Shanahan
Shanahan
Aly
John Anderson
Anderson
George Robb
Hatchers
Paul Wilson
Opon
Richard Fadely
Fred Hall
Hall
Secretary of State
Harvey Crouch
Micheola
Kas
Crouch
Conress
Congress
L. F. Cushenbery
Oberlin
Car Shortage Lets Ottawa Wheat Crop Face Delays
Ottawa Kansas Franklin County farmers pressed state officials in Topeka as the Ottawa Co op Elevator had only one car to move grain. Eight cars were promised for dispatch to speed the harvest. The 1956 crop yields about 40 bushels per acre with some fields reporting 50 bushels, though not as strong as last year.
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Ottawa
Kas
Franklin County
Birthday Dilemma At Notre Dame Hospital
Officials at Notre Dame Hospital in Central Falls Rhode Island face a birth date dilemma for Susan Agnes Merow born at midnight Saturday. The hospital cannot decide whether to record her birth as June 23 or June 24 creating an uncertain clerical entry.
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Central Falls, R. I
Notre Dame Hospital
Susan Agnes Merow
Disarmament Still A Dream
Gen Nathan Twining US air force chief invited to Moscow for Aviation Day observes Soviet displays of three delta wing interceptors two advanced fighters code named Farmer and a Flashlight all weather fighter and a twin engine turboprop transport. Khrushchev says show omits heavy bombers as defense emphasis. Twining meets Zhukov and conveys President Eisenhower’s goodwill.
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Vern Haughland
Moscow IV
Nathan Twining
U. S. Ai
Moscow
United States
Twining
U. S
Communist Party
Nikita Khrushchev
Georgi Zhukov
Britain
France
Kubinka
Best Seed Plans New Feed Plant Opens Near Ninth Street
Best Seed Co announces plans for a seed and feed plant in the 100 block on South Ninth to be built west of the Gano elevator along Santa Fe tracks. A steam boiler building and a 50 by 150 foot metal fronting Ninth Street will house full seed cleaning and processing machinery and feed production including pellets and molasses. construction to start after city approval, completion in about two months, with equipment partially purchased from Fairmont Food Co. and other orders pending. Upon completion, all operations will move to the new site. cost not estimated.
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South Ninth
Best Seed Co
City Planning Board
Santa Fe
Gano Elevator
Ninth Street
Fairmont Food Co
Dodge City
Lane County Couple Hurt in Scott County Crash
A Lane County couple, Mr. and Mrs. Tod¢e Chaney of Pendennis, were injured in a Saturday afternoon collision near Dington at the Alamata Road and highway K-96 junction. Mrs Chaney suffers a broken hip and leg. her husband also has injuries. The car struck a truck after stopping to watch several combines pass.
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Scott City
Scott County
Dington
Tod¢e Chaney
Pendennis
Chaney
Alamata Road
British Crash Toll Rises to Twenty Six in Nigeria
A British four engine airliner carrier crashed near Kano in Northern Nigeria killing at least 26 people including American Mobiloil Nigeria area manager G K Eysaman aged 32 from Mohawk New York. The aircraft with 18 survivors had taken off from Kano en route Lagos London Tripoli and was said to have encountered storm clouds before crashing into trees.
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Lagos
Nigeria
G. K. Eysaman
Mohawk
N.Y
Mobiloil Nigeria, Ltd
Ibadan
New York
United States
Ann
L. A. Ward
Reading
England
Kay Buckley
British Overseas Airways Argonaut
London
Tripoli
Libya
Kano
Veteran Doctor Dies in El Dorado At 81
Dr Ralph B Earp an El Dorado physician aged 81 who practiced 48 years died after a long illness He began his career in Mooreland Indiana and later worked in Dunkirk before returning to El Dorado to practice his final years The obituary notes his long service and ties to Indiana towns
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EL Dorado
Ralph B. Earp
Mooreland
Ind
Dunkirk
el Dorade
Stricken Under Broiling Sun At Miami Beach
James Schaefer a 68 year old retired machinist lay two days under a broiling sun after a paralytic stroke at Crandon Park Beach. He could not move nor call for help while hundreds swam nearby. Temperatures rose into the high 80s. A church picnic group saw him Friday evening and police summoned aid, he was taken to a Miami hospital in serious condition with sun related injuries alongside the stroke.
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Miami
James Schaefer
Schaefer
Crandon Park Beach
Tito Promises to Forget Past in Romania Visit
Tito, greeted as a dear and beloved comrade by Romania's leaders, arrived in Bucharest from Moscow after signing future cooperation agreements with Soviet leaders at government and Communist party levels.
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Sucharest
Romania
Tito
Yugoslavia
Moscow
Stone snowed up for work inspires grand ring tale
Chuckle recounts a humorous office moment as a worker shows a large diamond ring given after a grandmother left 1000 for a stone in her memory. The boss questions the origin of the wealth, highlighting the sentimental link and the surprising gift.
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George Metz
Don Bernbeck
Kansas
Joan Kliesen
B. Weather Bureau
Garden Co-op Exchange
Rains
Hop
Skip
Weexena
Dale Lightners
J. M. Concapine Farm
City
Gettysburg Farm
Minnie
Rule Hatcher
Red
Best Seed
Lane County
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