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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1955
Page
4
A comic column ponders a national Husband Worship Week as a cure for divorce, citing a Hindu festival where wives wash husbands feet. An older retiree narrator argues such worship would enslave men, while the piece mocks the idea with humor about wives showering praise, contests, and gilded bowls.
Premier Nikola Sulganin announced that Moscow will split the State Planning Commission into two groups. One will handle future development plans while the other directs current industrial planning as the government seeks to raise Soviet industrial production.
Pleasanton Kansas reports a fatal gas tank explosion as two brothers tried to remove it from the city dump. John Arnold, 47, a Pleasanton farmer, died today. Stephen B. Arnold, 45, is hospitalized in Fort Scott with burned arms and hands.
Roscoe W. Lewis will receive his PhD in animal nutrition and his wife Mrs. Barnadine L. Lewis earns a PhD in foods and nutrition at the May 29 commencement. The couple, parents of a 10-year-old daughter, met as Prairie View A&M students in Texas and moved to Kansas State for advanced study.
New studies released at a State liquor administrators conference find high school students drink far more away from home if allowed at home. Nassau County New York youths who may drink at home imbibe roughly twice as much when out, while a Kansas sample shows many teens who drink beer or hard liquor away from home consume about 12 times as much. The researchers Dr Marston M McCluggage, Prof John L Miller, and Prof Matthew N Chappell note that parental abstinence greatly reduces the chance teens will drink.
Massachusetts would become the second state to give 18-year-olds voting rights under a proposed constitutional amendment approved by the Legislature. The plan requires approval from the 1956 57 session and voter sanction in the next state election. Georgia is the only other state allowing 18-year-olds to vote among the 48 states at present.
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