Quirky Motel Guests Leave $35 Ripoff Behind
A local motel reports two itinerant merchants checked in paying four days’ rent in cash but stole towels and linen worth about 35 dollars after their stay. A church session also lodged there with three delegates, who settled their bill before departure. Rich Quint plans remodeling and relocation if the Texaco station buyer doesn’t proceed. Garden City Derby fans travel group seen heading to Louisville.
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Garden City
Ellsworth Sherman
Kansas City
Louisville
Orville Nanninga
Ned Stormont
Raymond Morris
George Kinney
Hope Fears Farmers Will Defeat Controls
Two young insurance salesmen from Los Angeles completed a 279 mile swim down the Colorado River from Lees Ferry to Pierce Ferry in 26 days. John S Daggett 27 and William K Beer 26 say they proved human flexibility surpasses that of boats while filming portions of the journey. They wore rubber shirts and carried 80 pound buoyant packs as they faced multiple rapids and cold water.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Las Vegas
Nev
Colorado River
Los Angeles
John S. Daggett
William K. Beer
Lees Ferry
Arizona-Utah
Pierce Ferry
Arizona- Nevada
Stanford University
Daggett
Beer
House Restores High Rigid Farm Price Supports
The House voted 206 to 201 to scrap the flexible system and revert to rigid price supports for six basic crops including wheat, corn, cotton, rice, tobacco and peanuts. Parity-based prices fluctuate with general levels to ensure farmers fair returns. tobacco remains at 90 percent. The measure carries into next year’s session, with action possible in 1955.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Rayburn
Dex
Senate
Tax Board To Hear Assessment Objections In Finney County
Beginning May 16 a three member tax equalization board will hear objections to personal property and real estate assessments in the county courthouse. The board, composed of county commissioners, will meet in the commissioners room until May 26 and reconvene after a 10 day adjournment to hear further objections from affected residents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Finney County
Board of Equalization
Nine Die In Chicago Fire At Skid Row Hotel
Fire raged through the Comfort Hotel at 919 W Madison killing nine men and injuring at least 12. About 77 slept in small cubicles as flames trapped most on upper floors. 55 escaped. The blaze, confined mainly to second and third floors, follows a February Barton Hotel fire that killed 29.
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Chicago
Comfort Hotel
Madison Sr
Madison St
Comfort
Barton Hotel
Humboldt Park Hotel
Hineman Estate Claim To Be Decided Soon
Ruth Hineman seeks a widow’s share of the late George B Hineman’s estate in a common law marriage claim. Judge Roland Tate said findings of fact and recommendations were presented and a decision should come late next week. Hearing occurred in district court April 20 and 21. the estate is valued around 252 000 with four children as heirs in Finney and Lane counties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruth Hineman
George B. Hineman
Roland Tate
Hineman
Finney
Lane
Wheat farmers face referendum over controls program
Rep Hope warns a two thirds vote against the fixed parity program in the upcoming wheat referendum could end government controls and move to a free market for wheat. Chairman Cooley says a free market would depress prices. proponents suggest a two price plan with 100 percent parity for domestic human consumption wheat.
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Washington
Hope
R-Kas
House
Cooley
D-Nc
House Agriculture Committee
Congress
Briggs Ranch To Be Sold In Logan County Kansas
One of Western Kansas oldest ranches, the Briggs Brothers ranch in Logan county, covering 12 640 acres near Oakley, with 1740 cultivated and 10900 pasture, will go to auction Monday May 23. It includes 400 cattle and ranch equipment, offered in six tracts then as a whole, sale starts 10 a.m., handled by McNaghten investment company of Hutchinson.
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Kansas
Briggs Brothers Ranch
Logan County
Oakley
Moffett Andrews-Lewis Ranch
Gurley Ranch
Uni Ge
McNaghten Investiment Company of
Hutchinson
Soil Deadline To Be Saturday In Erosion Tillage Program
Ernest Proudfit, county agricultural stabilization and conservation office manager, says emergency wind erosion tillage must be completed by Saturday for payment eligibility. Retroactive to Jan 1, 1955, June 1 is the deadline to report emergency control work. Cost-sharing available for work already done with caps of 50 to 75 cents per acre depending on furrow spacing, up to a $1,500 maximum under the emergency or F-4 program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ernest Proudfit
County Agricultural Stabilization’ and Conservation Office
Proudfit
Red Cross Swim Classes Open Enrollment This Monday
Red Cross swimming classes will begin Monday at the Red Cross office in the courthouse announced by county water safety chair Mrs E L Droege. Enrollment runs through May 28 with classes starting June 14. Eligibility requires completion of first grade and a parent or guardian present. Open to adults as well, with five levels beginners intermediates swimmers junior and senior life saving.
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Red Cross
E. L. Droege
Mueller
Vaccination Halt Looms Over Polio Campaign
Surgeon General Leonard Scheele announced a temporary halt in releasing more Salk polio vaccine until medical scientists convene and set conditions. He noted 44 paralytic cases among millions vaccinated, stressing confidence in the vaccine but signaling possible safety checks and federal controls. The Public Health Service will decide on independent product safety standards as a House hearing examines vaccine distribution.
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Washington V
Leonard Scheele
Scheel
Tog
Public Health Service
Scheele
PHS
House Banking Committee
Officials Probe Fatal Accident Near Holcomb
County officials report a fatal one car crash west of Holcomb that killed 19 year old Deerfield high senior Vania Lorraine Creamer and left passenger Homer D. Brinton injured. Brinton now says he was not driving and recalls reaching for the wheel. the car overturned into an irrigation ditch at about 8 30 p m Tuesday. Creamer died from a basal skull fracture, Brinton suffered shocks and minor injuries as the investigation continues.
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Vania Lorraine Creamer
Deerfield High School
Ray H. Calihan, Jr
Homer D. Brinton
Lakin
Calihan
Brinton
Holcomb
Callhan
Annual Meeting Of Co op Monday In Garden City
About 600 people are expected for the 36th annual Garden City co operative equity exchange stockholder meeting. Kenneth Lyon says the event opens at 7 p.m. in the Alta Brown auditorium with registration, followed by speakers including Prof. William Nielander, dean of the College of Business Administration at the University of Wichita. An election for three board members will be held, with the seven member board led by president Herb Clutter. Refreshments will be prepared by the Home Choral Club.
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City Co-Operative ‘Equity Éxchange
Kenneth Lyon
Alta Brown
Lyon
William Nielanderer
College of Business Administration
University of Wichita
Nielander
American Institute of Cooperatives
Washington,d. c
Chet, Reeve
Bob Ackley
Ralph Miller
Herb Clutter
Milo Joye
J. T. Lear
Paul Davis
Clutter
Topeka Wing Transferring for 90 Day Alaska TDY
The 90th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing was moving today from Forbes Air Force Base to an Alaska station for a 90 day temporary duty assignment.
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Topeka
Alaska
90Th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing
Forbes Air Force Base
Death Steps Into Walkout Rail Strike Fallout
A strike wave worsened as a Knoxville shooting occurred near a wrecked L and N truck. Mayor Dempster ordered a shoot to kill policy for a police unit guarding Bell telephone property amid explosions and cable damage. Union leaders hailed progress on other disputes while Parke, Davis polio vaccine producer reached a settlement in Detroit.
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Associated Press
Knoxville
CIO
United Auto Workers
Kohler
Wis
Louisville Vs Nashville Railroad
Charles E. Wright
Mount Pleasant
Tenn
Jack Lovett
R. V. Brindley
Nashville
Wright
L&n
Washington
George Dempster
Lear
Southwestern Bell Co
Communications Workers of America
Alabama
Tennessee
Mississippi
Parke, Davis & Co
Detroit
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Texaco
8Th and Fulton
Southwest Carpet and Tile Co
Bhighth Street
Quint
Robert Kirk
Scott City
Earl Brackover
Brookover
Kansas Livestock Association
National ‘Livestock Board
Brockover
Stan Fancher
Manhattan
Kansas State College
Guy Josserand
Dodge City
Phog Allen
Paul Weigel
Department of Architecture
Kansas State
Weigel Foundation
Howard Blanchard
Colorado
Hisenbawan
Tax Board
Patterson's
Moat
Agriculture Department
Briggs Ranch
Schmidt
Garfield
Ethelooper
Garfield School
Kenneth Jacobs
Mary Sue Whitman
Donna Thomas
Robin Oswalt
Darlene Duvall
Jane Graves
Linda McCoy
Curtin Stuidley
Finnup Park
Chamber of Commerce
Children’s Park
Chet
Cleaver
Jim Sloan
Hoy Etling
Sloan
Cliff Hope, Jr
Emil Salyer
Ee Pe Hea
U.S. Weather Bureau
CSTH
Pate
Doge City
Goodland
Great Bend
Liberal
Russell
Ao Pratt
Amarillo
Guymon
la Junta
Lamar
Palmer Jew
National Foundation For Infantile Paralysis
Safeco
Welnemam. Agency
Co-op
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