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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1955
Page
7
The Associated Press gathering at the Hotel Parsonian featured a baked Alaska with cherry jubilee and candlelit service. Hostess Mrs Clyde Reed could not eat the dessert, a quirk recalling the Waldorf style. Oscar the hotel chef reportedly never eats his own rich creations.
Kansas wheat health improved as cooler temps and local rains slowed deterioration. Yet authorities warn more moisture is still vital to revive crops across central and western areas. Substantial rainfall in southeast and south central counties aided filling, while heavy rains in the southwest help harvest area but arrived late for much of the crop. Agencies estimate 48 percent of wheat is headed with early maturing varieties in extreme southern counties beginning to ripen.
An Ellinwood man identified as Walter Allen Scott, 28, wrecked his car south of Ellinwood on US 83 at 12:50 a.m. He was unhurt and picked up by Samuel H. Walters of Santona and brought to Garden City. Scott did not know what caused the crash. The car was demolished.
Psychiatrists assert everyday behavior shows odd tendencies in everyone. The joke notes interpretation of phrases like original eccentric and nuts as labeling quirks.
Graduation week begins with baccalaureate on Sunday and commencement Thursday May 26. About 195 students including 130 high school seniors and 61 junior college sophomores will receive diplomas. Valedictorian Beverly Devolld and salutatorian Livonia York lead a slate of honors, with 12 additional seniors at A averages.
First and second graders at Lincoln school crowned Mrs. Mae Williams “best ever” with a going away train ride to Dodge City. They picnicked in Boot Hill and toured the Cowboy Capital before cars meet them back home this afternoon. Williams plans to move to California after the term.
The Board of Education awarded Western Kansas Sporting Goods a contract to supply 1 413 seats for the new school auditorium at a total cost of 31 086. The low bid of 22 per unit features mohair and imitation leather upholstery with cast iron standards. Other bidders included Hoover Brothers at 22 47 per unit and American School Supply at 22 67, with Irwin Seating Company and University Publishing offering proposals on other seat types. Installation will begin after the auditorium is completed.
The Defense Department announced the Navy detonated a small underwater atomic device off the West Coast to advance antisubmarine weapons research. Details on timing or exact location were not released, but officials said there was no hazard to the mainland or island populations.
Topeka reports 20 polio cases so far this year versus 24 at the same point in 1954. No new cases were reported in the past week according to the State Board of Health.
Southwest Kansas dairymen will gather at the Garden City experiment station for the fourth annual dairy field day. The event includes a morning tour of the station and pasture plots, followed by an afternoon of speeches and demonstrations by Kansas State College dairy experts.
County Attorney says investigation into the May 3 fatal one car crash near Holcomb remains active. Victim Vanita Lorraine Creamer, 19, of Deerfield died. passenger Homer D. Brinton, 23, of Lakin survived with minor injuries. Mystery centers on who drove the car as Brinton alternated statements about driving.
Communist officials in Munsan Korea rejected a U S protest over the May 10 Yellow Sea air battle in which two and possibly four Russian built MiGs were shot down. Maj. Gen. Harlan C. Parks said he received a letter from the Communist members.
Warden Charles A. Edmondson of the Kansas Penitentiary was discharged by the State Board of Penal Institutions at Gov. Fred Hall's direction effective June 1. Arthur Hoffman of Oregon State Penitentiary will head Lansing starting June 15, with Walter A. Hunter acting during the changeover. Edmondson said politics prompted the move, while praising staff cooperation and improvements under past administrations. He had been appointed by Gov. Arn in years ago and refused to resign. Hall declined comment.
Larry David Newberry, son of Mr and Mrs H Newberry of 901 North Eighth, born March 28 at St Catherine hospital weighed 1 pound 15 ounces. He later reached 4 pounds 1 ounce by May, after regaining weight from early loss, and doctors expect him to go home soon.
Scott City H H Drilling Co reports the No 1 Popp well in NEC NW 10-19-31W, Scott County, flowed 63 barrels per day on pump test, marking the 54th oil strike this year in Kansas. Postacid perforations at 4,577-4,587 feet produced Mississippian oil after total depth reached 4,669 feet. Other notes include Stanolind awaiting cement on Celona QO Hicks B One in Finney County and Elliott One in Haskell County gauging 2,299,000 cubic feet gas and 36 gallons of acid water per hour.
Clouds hung low over Garden City with only a trace of moisture at the city power plant and slight drizzle at the CAA station. Syracuse reported .25 inch between noon and 1 pm and continued rain after 2 pm. Hail accompanied the storm with NW Kansas towns like St Francis and Oakley recording trace to .83 inch of rain and related notes on graduation ads.
Snag halts progress on a new bridge over the Arkansas River south of Garden City as funds reportedly totaling about 150000 are questioned. State and district officials outline surveys, funding gaps, and a pending plan decision by the state highway commission with construction expected after funding and plans are finalized.
Notestine, a grain elevator operator and farmer from Scott City, was forced to sell his grain elevator and a 170 acre irrigated farm in Pence community to raise funds for Commodity Credit Corporation claims. He was assessed 64,620.74. The farm will be leased to D. A. Herman, with the elevator leased to Standard Milling. The Durrant Seed and Supply company will open a retail outlet at the former Notestine site in Scott City from Christy's ownership.
Sunflower Pipeline's bid to build a 198 mile six inch carrier from Hugoton gas field to Wichita remains entangled in legal action. Connor Creigh, a Sunflower incorporator, says a June 9 hearing before the Kansas Supreme Court is scheduled in Topeka. Competing firms in the industry have challenged Sunflower's application.
Oscar J. McSwain of Detroit faced a combined fine after speeding 35 mph in a 26 mile zone and then crossing a red light while blocking traffic. Traffic referee John M Wise levied $15 for the speed violation and $5 for the red light infraction.
Delegates from six drought area states including Kansas adopted a long range relief program for the Great Plains. The nine delegates of the National Association of Soil Conservation Districts said their proposals would be presented to governors of Kansas Nebraska Colorado Oklahoma New Mexico and Texas and then to Secretary Benson at the Denver drought conference May 31 to June 2. They urged quick completion of the scientific survey of the Great Plains begun 20 years ago and closer supervision of disaster payments. They support revising the federal crop insurance plan to allow sound farming without penalties and oppose non resident or amateur farmers through acreage allotments while promoting easier credit and better land use practices.
PHENIXVILLE Pari Owen J. Roberts, aged 80, former associate Justice of the U S Supreme Court, died today at his home. He passed away at 10 25 a m after retirement from the bench. His widow and his only child Mrs Elizabeth Hamilton were at his bedside.
A train carrying about 1,400 school children in Tokyo struck a stalled U S Marine truck and trailer loaded with inflammable paint. The collision caused a fire and scattering of students. Police reported two seriously injured and at least 31 others hurt.
Washington announced the United States would accept a group of ten Soviet farm specialists as official visitors. The announcement signals easing cultural and agricultural exchange during ongoing Cold War diplomacy and follows prior talks between governments.
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