Garden City Honor Orchestra Concert Tomorrow Night
Garden City High School's 54 piece honor orchestra will perform tomorrow at 8 p.m. in Hope auditorium. Directors Don Threlkeld and Loren Crawford share conducting duties for a two part program featuring classical to popular numbers. This marks the group's second appearance after earlier school assembly and at McPherson high school. A farewell dance for graduates will follow at the Civic Center.
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Garden City High School
Hope Auditorium
Don Threlkeld
Loren Crawford
Crawford
Threlkeld
McPherson High School
Civic Center
Unknown Soldier Selected and Bill Aims Surplus Uses
A proposed bill by Rep. William H. Avery in Washington would authorize a 50 million dollar first year and 100 million per year thereafter to fund research into new uses for surplus farm products. The measure directs the Agriculture Department to study industrial uses and provides grants to state agricultural stations and universities.
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Epinal
France
Washington
Department
William H. Avery
Secretary of Agriculture
Rioters Burn U S Library Amid Lebanese Unrest
Rioters sacked and burned the U S Information Agency library in Beirut as anti-government demonstrators strike crippled the capital. A second USIA library was damaged in Tripoli during a three day flare up fueled by Arab nationalist sentiment. one person killed and security forces imposed order as transport halted.
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Beirut
Lebanon
U.S. Information Agency
USIA
Tripoli
North Lebanon
Unknown Soldier of World War II to be buried at Arlington
The body of a third World War II serviceman, among 2,687 in Europe and North Africa whose identities were never established, will be placed aboard a destroyer and sent to Arlington National Cemetery to lie beside the Unknown Soldier of World War I.
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Edward O'Neill
St Albans
Atlantic
Canberra
Navy
William R. Charette
Ludington
Mich
Will
Washington
Rep
Coyal
Knutson
D-Minn
Wil
Arlington National Cemetery
O’neill
Europe
North Africa
Pay Raise For Military
The House approved compromise legislation to raise military pay at an estimated cost of 576,438,000 dollars. The measure moves to the Senate, expected to be signed by President Eisenhower for June 1 effective pay scales. Also, 128 high school seniors departed Scotpark for their senior sneak day trip led by seven instructors, with several chaperones and supplies.
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Washington
House
Senate
Eisenhower
Scotpark
Five Drug Firms Indicted Over Polio Vaccine Sales
A federal grand jury in Trenton, New Jersey indicted Eli Lilly Allied Laboratories American Home Products Merck and Parke-Davis on antitrust charges for conspiring to fix prices and stifle competition in polio vaccine sales to federal state and local governments. More than 205 million cc valued at about 12 million dollars were produced through 1957, with roughly 104 million cc sold to public authorities under the 1955 Poliomyelitis Vaccination Assistance Act allocating 53.6 million dollars in federal funds to states. The firms face fines up to 50,000 dollars per violation under the Sherman Act.
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Washington
Atty
Rogers Today
Trenton
N.J
Eli Lilly & Co
Indianapolis
Allied Laboratories, Inc
Kansas City
American Home Products Corp
New York City
Merck & Co
Rahway
Parke, Davis & Co
Detroit
Birthday Money for 75th Celebration Fund
The birthday party fund total stands at 2952 dollars with a 5000 dollar goal. The contribution drive, led by the Chamber of Commerce, supports the 75th anniversary and the upcoming 4th of July celebration. Businesses and individuals are urged to donate promptly, with firms giving one dollar per year of operation, minimum ten dollars and maximum seventy five.
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Chamber of Commerce
Garden Sass Compiles Top Highway Dangers
A brief note highlights three dangerous highway factors dubbed hic hike and hug as a light yet cautionary reminder to drivers. The item treats these as common risk patterns, urging increased attentiveness and safer driving habits on roads.
Gas Price War in Hugoton Spurs FPC Action
In a long running dispute over Hugoton gas pricing, royalty owners led by the Southwest Kansas Royalty Owners Assn seek a precise method to apply a Supreme Court ruling striking down Kansas minimum interstate gas prices. The Federal Power Commission sets a May 27 deadline for comments as pipelines contend with past contract rates and potential retroactive refunds dating to 1954.
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Wichita
Cities
Cator Oetande
Anit Moana
Colorado
Hugoton
Southwest
Kansas
Panhandles
Texas
Griehonia
Ely Cares
Ae Tags Commission
Alenus Tees
FPC
Federal Power Cout
U.S. Supreme Court
Kansas Commission
Supreme Court
Graham
Something Wrong at Home Billy Graham Tells Crowd
Billy Graham told a Mothers Day crowd of 16,300 at the Cow Palace in San Francisco that the nation is only as strong as its homes. He warned there is widespread unhappiness, urged wives to subordinate to their husbands, and said marriage is a sacred lifelong vow.
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Billy Graham
San Pranciscom
Billy
Graham
Dulles Advocates Foreign Aid Amid Budget Cuts
Washington reports show Foreign Affairs Committee advancing a 3.603 billion dollar foreign aid program for fiscal year starting July 1, 339 million below Eisenhower’s request. Secretary Dulles urged the plan in Minneapolis, warning Soviet moves to subvert underprivileged nations.
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Washington
House
Foreign Affairs Committee
Eisenhower
Benson optimistic on farm prices aiding election outlook
Secretary of Agriculture Benson said farm prices are up about ten percent from a year ago and income should rise five to ten percent this year. He told Newspaper Farm Editors Assn. that agricultural gains may not become the dominant issue in the November election and warned against demagoguery on farming. He voiced stronger optimism about the farm outlook than in years, during a two day Washington conference.
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Washington
Benson
Farm Editors Assn
Garden City
Dodge City
Trace Goodland
Emporia
Close Hearings On Defense Plan
The House Armed Services Committee closed its hearings on Eisenhower's defense reorganization plan after rejecting GOP efforts to hear more witnesses. Chairman Carl Vinson said the committee has sufficient information to decide. Gubser of California and Gavin of Pennsylvania secured permission for representatives from groups like the American Legion and U S Chamber of Commerce to inspect statements in the record.
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Washington
House
Armed Services Committee
Eisenhower
Secretary of Defense
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Carl Vinson D-Gay
Republicaine
Leon H. Gavin
Pennsylvania
Charles §. Gubser
Callifornia
Gubger
American Legion
U. S. Chamber of Commerce
Satanta Days Celebration Draws Large Turnout
Satanta hosted the annual Satanta Days with a parade buffalo rodeo and bicycle dancing as crowds gathered for the youth division events. Brooks won first prize in the ten cycle class while Hackett tied for second and Dean Crone led as Satanta Chief. Local residents Jim Cornell and Mary Anderson were honored, with honorary Chief Satanta named and Cub Scout pack 143 contributing to the parade and grand entry.
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Hackett
Buffalo
Jim and
Mary
Cornell
Satanta
Mile’ Anton
Susan Satanta
Anderson
Wichita
Allen
Steve Shouse
Dean Crone
Satanta High
Satanta and
Regava
Fargo Springs Tradings
Orlin Crone
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