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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1955
Page
6
A reader questions a local store ad for Ladies Halters. Webster defines halter as a rope or strap for leading animals and an insect sense organ, while a staffer explains it as a bikini accessory. The Telegram ad desk notes a canoe request and reports a Dalmatian reunion and lost dogs nearby.
Youth of Fellowship Baptist church will host about 100 young people from Western Kansas and Eastern Colorado for tomorrow's event featuring worship recreation music skits a speaker and a picnic in Finnup park. A 7 30 pm film Stones Cry Out will close the gathering led by district officers Russell Birkle Shirley Unruh and Tom Kitch with Lynn Sparklin of Elkhart as president. Russell also heads the local group.
A Texan and a Bostonian debate valor with a joke about Paul Revere. The Texan insists heroes of the Alamo surpass anything in Boston, while the Bostonian recalls Paul Revere’s lesser-known run for help.
Tuesday brought two young farm accident victims to hospital. Mickey Campbell, two and a half, lost his right hand on a grain auger near Garden City and was transported from the Campbell home fifteen miles east. his condition is listed as good. Tormo Rodriguez, 16, a sugar beet worker from Rosebud Texas, suffered a deep leg gash after falling on a mowing machine and faces several days of hospitalization under an attending physician’s order for 3 to 4 days.
The government will shift from rigid Truman era farm price supports to flexible price floors under Eisenhower policy. Starting with marketing seasons for wheat, corn, cotton, rice and peanuts, wheat support drops to 82 1/4 percent from 90. The 1954 wheat support averaged 2.24 a bushel. this year’s will be at least 2.06. Farmers lose about 18 cents a bushel on stored wheat, saving the government about 172 million dollars on 955 million bushels held. Wheat stock accounts for a large portion of government farm surpluses, with 6.188 billion dollars invested as of May 1 and a 564 million dollar loss in the 10 months to April 30.
The first prize of 750 dollars for the final Cash Day of the summer went unclaimed today. Rosalie Lopez of St. Catherine's Nurses Home failed to claim the top award. Only one of five prizes was taken. Mrs. C. E. Blake of 616 North Second received the fifth prize of 20 dollars. The total prize money of 785 dollars now goes into a fund for a special drawing at the annual Christmas store opening.
Police report a man is dead and three are missing after a cave in in the Bishwick district Brooklyn. Early reports noted as many as 40 men believed trapped in the collapsed wall.
Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov, after a 13 day trip, expressed belief that many in both the United States and the Soviet Union wish peace and prosperity. He urged Americans to know the two nations can live in amity and thanked the American people for their warm reception.
The National Safety Council estimated 380 traffic deaths over the July 4 weekend from 6 p.m. Friday to midnight Monday. Weekend travel, with over 40 million cars on the road, was cited as increasing hazards.
President Eisenhower declared the Soviet downing of a U S Navy plane a local occurrence and not a matter of policy. He criticized Congress for inaction on proposals, discussed a possible second term, and touched on loyalty security, natural gas, and plans for a Big Four summit with Geneva ahead.
The Kansas Driver's License Division expects sales of the new licenses to begin later than July 1. Printing issues mean forms and supplies are not ready, with Dee James noting some forms may be mailed today but sales likely will start no sooner than July 11.
President Eisenhower stumbled over Dixon Yates during a news conference on the power controversy. The mispronunciation produced a humorous moment as he attempted to name the group involved, calling it Vixon Dales instead of Dixon Yates.
In Great Bend Kansas a harvest slowdown hurt custom cutters as wheat work lagged behind normal pace. State and federal agriculture reports say yields exceed preharvest expectations while Labor Control Officer Gilkison warns crews to finish southern county work first before moving north. Nebraska reports large yields with strong prospects from Holdrege to McCook. Topeka agencies note wide yield variation across Kansas.
A Marine helicopter searching for two downed pilots in the Pacific crashed today and one crewman is missing. Three others were rescued as a vast armada continued the hunt for 2nd Lt. David Winton Bell and Capt. H. P. Montague Jr. in a 20,000 square mile search area. Bell’s wife, in Tokyo, awaits a September baby.
In Leavenworth Kansas City two youths Charles Winslow Bruce 21 and Gary Jack Hires 17 pleaded guilty in city court to a forcible assault on Doreen Hahn a 16-year-old hotel elevator operator. They were ordered held in lieu of 5000 bonds each awaiting district court action after the alleged dragging near Basehor following work at about 11 p.m. Monday.
Kansas faces a final roundup of showers and thunderstorms as June ends, with the weather bureau predicting partly cloudy skies through Thursday and scattered storms mainly in the north central and northwest. Eastern Kansas saw heavy rain last night with totals up to 2.30 inches in Douglas, and numerous other areas reporting varying amounts including hail in several towns. Temperatures yesterday ranged from 84 in Olathe to 93 in Goodland, with overnight lows from 63 to 72.
Four Kansas City residents were held for questioning by the FBI in connection with an attempted robbery at Hugo Colorado. State Patrolman Harold Flickenstein arrested the group, identifying them as Andy L. Martinovich 19 Donald E. Reed 20 Marilyn L Case 21 and Lottie May Meyers 18 all of Kansas City Mo. The 1954 Ford listed as stolen from Kansas was cited in the case.
Topeka Kansas. The seven member Kansas Water Resources Board met for the first time and refused to take a stand on the Tuttle Creek Dam. A Blue Valley delegation asked Congress to withhold construction funds, but the board dropped the request and avoided immediate action. The board chose C. Y. Thomas as chairman and Arno Windscheffel as vice chairman. A July 18 meeting was set, with executive secretary and staff to be chosen later.
Finney county sees scattered harvesting as trucks haul wheat to elevators. Early Triumph and other varieties yield around 20 to 30 bushels per acre on dryland, with test weights near 60 pounds and moisture around 12 to 13 percent. Green heads and second growth slow cutting, while crews in Scotty Greathouse, Romte brothers, and Fred Fulton report steady progress amid hail damage and varying field readiness.
Gov. Fred Hall announced the organization of an advisory group to assist state selective service officials in channeling more qualified engineering work and research. He said the aim is to save critical trained scientific personnel for use in vital industries through appropriate state agencies in Kansas.
Topeka files appeal after Kansas Supreme Court upholds state board decision banning The Moon Is Blue in Kansas theaters. Board deemed the film obscene indecent and immoral under state standards.
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