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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1955
Page
3
The piece argues against more commissions and conferences to solve Kansas road fatalities. It criticizes past highway safety conferences as yielding little action and urges strict law enforcement, tougher penalties, and updated traffic laws to curb drunk driving, high speeds, and unsafe drivers.
A Washington correspondent laments Pentagon and Sec retary Wilson censorship delaying obituary data and building news. He notes reporters must wait for clearance, stifling coverage and reader awareness amid a drip of top-down orders. The piece condemns censorship as an escalating, counterproductive policy.
The government take from property taxes continues to decline versus other revenue sources as cities seek varied taxes. In 1958 third class cities relied on property tax for 55 percent of revenue, down from 62 percent in 1949, shifting the load to sales, cigarette, liquor, and gasoline taxes borne by those less able to pay.
The Parsons Sun notes a major hit in a Chicago club titled The Parsons Kas Blues. The story ties the tune to Swampeast Kansas, highlighting birthplace associations with the blues scene.
A trio of Kansas newspaper quotes comments on marriage and law. The Kansas City Star jokes about paying the preacher as much as the lawyer, the Emporia Gazette jokes about a man with 12 billion brain cells, and the Augusta Gazette notes that it helps little to sit up and take notice if one keeps sitting.
President Eisenhower privately chastised Health Secretary Oveta Hobby over a superficial briefing on the Salk polio vaccine. The administration row followed by a photo session and gatekeeping on press access. Powell joined talks on colonialism with the President after a Bandung reference and museum talks on race. A later White House meeting touched on bursitis and a soybeans diet as he seeks relief from pain. Separate Senate debate over federal highway wage rules showed a tight party split, with Neuberger’s prevailing wage amendment surviving by one vote led by Democrats Chavez Kerr Gore and McNamara against Republicans Cotton Hruska Kuchel, Thurmond.
Evelyn Currie, 47, a cornerstone of the carnival world, rose from a 13 year old barker to run 10 concessions and lead a crew of up to 60. She lives in a $10,000 trailer, holds diamonds and furs, and credits hard work and risk taking for her success in Rockaways Playland summers and road tours with her husband Harry.
Be prayer for today from The Upper Room reflects on Jesus life and the call to live boldly for the gospel. The passage cites Matthew 16 21 28 and Mark 8 35 as guidance for disciples to risk their lives in service to Christ and truth.
Wichita area telethon raised over $85,000 in pledges for the United Cerebral Palsy Fund during a 16 hour event. The fundraiser, coordinated by local radio and TV stations, also aired on KTVH-TV Hutchinson. Wichita President Sue Elliott forecast a final goal of $102,000 once pledges are processed. A year ago the telethon collected $51,000.
Evelyn, a mink-clad carnival entrepreneur, tours with a gypsy circus and car nival. She favors trailers over fixed homes, longs for a split level with multiple baths, and recalls a wild animal act dream of becoming a lion tamer.
A dense cryptic clue list lists crossword entries by Across and Down with numbers and partial phrases. The page includes a cryptoquip by King Features Syndicate and yesterday’s cryptoquip solution. It features many incomplete words, stray letters, and abbreviations typical of a puzzle page. The vertical clues run alongside the across items, indicating a standard newspaper puzzle layout.
A humor piece contrasts old time dress dilemmas with modern fashion news and wedding gossip. Grandpa Crotty’s shop misadventure prompts jokes about grandfathers, while the piece notes leopard print pants for older readers and a young woman, Joyce DeFord, planning June nuptials with Ra Schanel.
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