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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1955
Page
2
A Cobbleskill pastor Rev. C W Kessler urges May 16 as Soil and Soul Sunday stressing soil as living, essential for health and civilization. He warns that destroying forests and soil leads to social death, eroding democracy and culture as the earth dies.
Returned vacationers report 5000 miles and 10 states in two weeks with 15 national parks and a cache of souvenir stickers. The piece argues idleness is a virtue and urges longer breaks, noting the need for rest for both machines and people.
A teen letter from Garden City urges teens to respect police, drive safely, and avoid risky behavior after local youths, including a 19 year old girl, a teenage boy, and two Juco students, were involved in fatal or near fatal incidents. The author credits the police chief and calls for home guidance to keep streets safe and reduce racing among youth.
Wellington News notes a boy brought home an unusual baseball souvenir by stealing second base. Pratt Tribune questions whether Truman letters will have a special section in the new library. Wichita Eagle ponders where Reds will set up the next geography lesson after Far East troubles are settled.
Washington column by Drew Pearson outlines two backstage facts about Salk vaccine. Cutter Laboratories faced 1949 sterilization fine and later multiple FDA actions while Public Health Service relied on company reports rather than tests to speed vaccine. Inspections and funding cuts hamper oversight amid political pressure from Republicans and Mrs Hobby.
Rev Paul Davis reviews Life Is Commitment by J H Oldham (Harper and Brothers 1952). Oldham argues belief must involve decisive commitment, not mere knowledge, linking science, religion, and democracy. The book explores how to be religious in a modern, scientifically aware age and the duty to relate truth to action.
A devotional fragment cites Titus and Corinthians urging older women to teach virtue and train younger, emphasizing reverence, temperance, and domestic kindness. A brief prayer asks Jesus for gentleness, guidance, and to banish resentment.
Russell B. Brown of the Independent Petroleum Association of America testified before a Senate Commerce subcommittee, opposing federal control over automatic price increase clauses in producer pipeline contracts. He backed a bill to erase the Supreme Court ruling granting the Federal Power Commission authority over the wellhead price of natural gas.
Warren Applegate 32 of Mulvane Kansas was convicted of second degree murder in the death of his 16 month old daughter and sentenced to a state prison term not to exceed 40 years. The state alleged he gave the child poison in soda. The child died in Douglass on Oct 35.
Richmond Virginia construction worker Morris Barber aged 20 fell from a nine story scaffold and brushed another scaffold four floors below before landing in soft earth. He suffered two broken arms and minor cuts.
A lighthearted collection notes family incidents from a Dallas family trip to Denver Icecapades and a first airport experience. Prudy and Jackie Smith, ages 7 and 5, charm with candor and quips about dessert to-go and pay toilets. Local Red Cross swimming teachers Leo Kirk and Betty Droegemueller prepare for summer classes. Grandma Coleman arrives from Fort Scott to visit and help with new grandson Mark Jones and other grandchildren Randy and Sydney Beth Bowling.
A dense list of crossword across and down clues with numeric labels, including theme entries, plus a King Features Cryptogram quote and instructions. It moves through pledge fabrics scale notes Alaska abbreviation and various short-answer prompts. The puzzle ends with a Cryptoquip quote and a previous day's solution.
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