Eisenhower Enjoys New York City Exhibit Tour
President Eisenhower visited the New York Coliseum with Soviet leader Kozlov for a long official tour. Crowds pressed crowds and even Secret Service faced minor strain as both leaders smiled through the jam. Police and newsmen documented the bustling scene with lively, wary humor. Maj. John Eisenhower also traveled, noting moments of push and lighthearted exchange amid the crowds.
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Miss Southwest Kansas candidates feature in Garden City pages
Garden City notes a cool night with outdoor pool weather and reports from the Associated Press Kansas City about statewide overnight lows from 49 to 95. Local Jim Brand, Champlin Service Station owner, suffered a leg laceration from a golfing mishap while enjoying the night.
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Garden City
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Supreme Court stays Bobby Joe Spencer hanging in Blanton murder case
AP reports the Kansas Supreme Court stayed the scheduled execution of Bobby Joe Spencer while his appeal proceeds. The stay lasts during the appeal of his Wyandotte County conviction and sentence or until the court orders otherwise. Also noted are rioting Italian seamen injuring about 65 in Torre del Greco and related police action. Other briefs mention a Bryan, sector, arrest in a jewelry theft, Louis Armstrong's outing against doctor advice, and a Baltimore burglary with extra phone bill charges.
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Ruby Blanton
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Dodge City Planners Visit Officials Here
Dodge City planning delegates praised Garden City progress in a morning visit. John Elliott and Jim Smith urged not to rename streets for publicity, noting long term costs in changing abstracts and titles. City leaders shared zoning and future planning maps.
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Planning Commission
John Elliott
Deane Wiley
Lloyd Haag
John Stansel
Howard Blanchard
Bob Schreiber
New Garden City Post Office Plan in 1961 Budget
Postmaster Lester Harp says plans for a new post office in Garden City will be included in the 1961 budget. Regional engineers draft the building, with options on three to four sites via a real estate office. The goal is a location convenient to business and residential areas with room for trucks.
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Post Office Budget Talks On Truck Mail Change
City officials discuss moving mail from trains to trucks to cut costs. Harp cites irregular train schedules and a 23 percent net gain in revenue for 1957-58 with postage increases and high mail volume totaling millions of pieces.
Probe underway in Georgia train wreck disaster
MELDRIM Ga AP a full scale investigation is under way to determine what caused Sundays disastrous train wreck. The death toll from butane flames reached 19 Monday night with three people still in serious condition. The disaster occurred about 3 30 pm Sunday at a recreation area on the Ogeechee River 18 miles northwest of Savannah. Eyewitnesses said several cars derailed rupturing a tank car filled with butane gas which floated down over the area and ignited with a tremendous roar.
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Pilotless Plane Crashes Into Okinawa School Killing 21
A U.S. Air Force jet crashed into a Okinawan elementary school in Naha, igniting a firestorm that killed 21 people and injured about 100. The target room held a sixth grade class as teachers and students evacuated amid rising casualties.
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Uncle Sam Faces Record Budget Deficit
Washington reports the 1959 fiscal year will see the largest peacetime deficit on record. President Eisenhower forecast about 12.9 billion dollars in January budget to Congress. Budget Director Maurice Stans told a Senate panel the final figure could be hundreds of millions lower.
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Two Americans wed in Moscow Russian ceremony
MOSCOW AP Two young Americans who fell in love while studying Russian in the United States wed today at the St. Louis Des Francais church. Dennis Michael O Connor from Maplewood and Mary Louise McMahon of Tenafly flew to the Soviet capital for the ceremony conducted by Rev Louis Dion the sole American priest in the Soviet Union. O Connor, an American exchange student at the University of Moscow, met McMahon during language lessons. They plan a three week honeymoon in the Caucasus Mountains followed by a brief Western Europe tour and will return to the United States in August.
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Miss Continental Janet Dougerty Represents Continental Airlines
Janet Dougerty an 18 year old Miss Continental represents Continental Airlines in the Miss Southwest Kansas contest. She is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Herbert Dougherty of 1515 North 8th Street.
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Marcille Brown
Fidelity State Bank
Mrs
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Hattie
Janet Dougerty
Continental Airlines
Herbert Dougherty
Harvest Rain Delays Wheat Cut Across Kansas Areas
Rain and a cool front halt much of the 1959 wheat harvest across the region. Temperatures dropped to 53, with reports of heavy showers in parts of north central Kansas and flash floods at Herington and Kanopolis. Statewide progress varied from 25 to 75 percent complete, centered in Greeley and Scott counties as Sherman and Thomas counties begin.
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Pinney County
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Weather Tonight and Wednesday Forecast Fragments
Mostly cloudy tonight with scattered showers and thunder storms. Heavy rains likely in northeasterly counties and cool lows 55 to 65. Wednesday partly cloudy and cool with light winds shifting from north to south and afternoon temps in the 80s. Sunrise 5 36 Sunset 10 Max Mill Pree Chanute. Concordia Goodland Garden City Olathe Topeka Russell Salina items appear in fragmented city list.
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