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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1957
Page
1
A Modoc bank robbery and the mishap with Loretta Wilken’s photo in Garden City’s Fourth of July bathing beauty contest are recounted. The Telegram explains photo sizing errors and the switch to 2 o'clock temperatures for the weather page as a lighthearted note on newspaper deadlines and extra services.
City commissioners will review long standing items tomorrow morning. City Manager Deene Wiley will report on applying for federal funds to build a sewage disposal plant and on the bid to Continental Air Lines to keep service to Dodge City, Garden City and La Junta, Colorado. Second reading will be given to an ordinance granting Commonwealth Theaters a franchise for installation of telemovies in Garden City. A franchise request for Bob Hood of Liberal to establish community television here will be heard. Ordinances for apportioning curb gutter and paving costs and private fire protection rate addition will be up for passage.
In southwest Kansas a countywide roadblock system, an on call strategy with 19 counties in Division six, enabled rapid response after a Modoc bank robbery. Despite a 46 minute alert to locate the fugitives, officers found no trace of the suspects or their old model getaway car and lifted the block after an afternoon. Officials emphasized speed, full deployment, and coordinated effort among city police, highway patrol, and sheriffs to maintain the plan’s effectiveness. Capt. Gerald Murray leads after the initial call, with Mitchel Gessler noting the need for complete implementation.
Law officers continued the hunt for two pistol wielding men who robbed the Modoc State bank of 752 dollars before noon yesterday. Bank cashier Raymond Salyer, locked in the vault for nearly an hour, identified both suspects by description as a 30s man six feet tall with black hair and a younger at about 20, 5 eight to ten inches tall weighing 170 pounds with blond hair. A roadblock was set up after sheriff Robert Brittan was notified, using an old model car possibly a Chevrolet with Illinois or Scott County plates. The bank was locked while fingerprints were collected and Arlo Warrington, the bank president, released Salyer after finding the bank unattended. The two suspects escaped in a car 46 minutes after the robbery.
Four people were injured when two cars collided at an county road intersection last night. Alvis Earle Cleete and his wife Pat, of Jenny Street, were hospitalized for non serious injuries. Leo M. Schmid and his brother Clifford of Ulysses were kept for observation and released this morning. Mrs Cleere suffered facial cuts and hip and foot injuries. cuts around her eye required stitches.
Four Garden City scouts Robert Werner James Wells Michael Keller and Dennis Myers join 37 local youths and three adult leaders from Santa Fe Trail council for the July 12 to 18 National Boy Scout Jamboree at Valley Forge Pennsylvania. They form Council Troop 15 with 2 700 Cubs Scouts and Explorers represented from the county council. Pre jamboree encampments have been held in Garden City under Scoutmaster Harry Donart and district executive Scott Agnew. The event is funded by a 50 participant fee covering food equipment and camp costs at a 1 500 acre tent city with full services and five trading posts.
California health officials seek to identify influenza outbreaks affecting about 900 at Davis and San Diego while noting no severe illness. Three teenage girls at Davis report three day flu. San Diego Naval Training Center reports over 800 cases. Elsewhere in Guatemala, rebels attempt to seize an airstrip near San Jose, three killed and many captured as exiles plot to oust the government. Authorities say the plan involved exile leaders in Mexico and Costa Rica amid ongoing political tension.
At the Williamsburg Governors Conference President Eisenhower urged a joint federal state task force to study duplications in financing programs and proposed cutting federal taxes to ease state costs. Several governors praised the plan while others warned against centralization as a trend. Daniel L. Rupp, age 9, was injured in a bicycle accident on St John Street.
Dr. Leighton Fairbairn, K State veterinary graduate, moves to Garden City to join Reeve Animal Hospital around early July. He served with the Air Force for two years, was released last Saturday, and will work with Dr. Jacek Reeve in summer 1952. The Fairbairn family includes two sons Kyle and Scott.
A matron explains why finding help is hard as workers imitate her methods rather than follow her standards. The piece surveys labor dynamics and the clash between tested routines and preferred approaches in household management.
Garden City Jaycees received a first place national award in Sports Activities at the 1956 national convention in Milwaukee. The top entry, a sports scrapbook detailing committee work, photos, and clippings, was judged by a three member panel after consuming about 4000 man hours.
Army Col John C Nickerson Jr guilty of permitting secret documents to reach unauthorized persons in a 10 man general court martial The plea covers 15 counts of violating Army rules on handling Secret materials The major espionage charge was dropped The 41 year old West Point graduate faces up to 30 years and a dishonorable discharge The case stems from his opposition to Secretary Wilsons 200 mile missile order and his efforts to obtain permission for a 1500 mile missile through secret data to congressmen editors and industry sources
Senate leaders Eastland and Johnston push a constitutional amendment to require Senate approval of Supreme Court justices every four years. Senator Kefauver protests injecting politics into the court. Proponents seek impeachment moves by House members Andrews and Mason amid contempt rulings and past court rulings on segregation.
The forecast calls for partly cloudy skies tonight and Wednesday with scattered thunderstorms tonight. Temperatures little changed, with lows in the 60s tonight and highs near 80 on Wednesday. Sunset around 8:10. The rest of the item covers a human-interest note about an 11-year-old girl Barbara Calhoun facing eye surgery for glaucoma in Alva, Oklahoma, alongside a brief report of U.S. air attache Col. Welwyn Dallam being expelled from Hungary. both sections are presented in compact, period-appropriate prose.
A gun battle in Terre Haute Indiana left Alta Martin 88 dead and her 10 year old son Jack killed. Stuart Martin 49 a photographer was wounded while Thomas Whitaker 47, the former husband of Alta, is believed injured as police search a wooded area south of Terre Haute. Regina Whitaker 9 was seriously wounded and Alta’s husband Stuart Martin was hospitalized with a leg wound.
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