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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1956
Page
1
Wanda Drees daughter of Mrs Ted Drees of 802 Fourth was inducted into Gown and Gavel at Valparaiso University. Members are chosen for scholastic achievement extracurricular and readership ability. Drees belongs to Gamma Phi social sorority and Sigma Alpha Iota music honorary. ]]>
A nationwide effort to activate millions of Americans in highway safety work moved into the Midwest. About 1500 citizens and officials met with the President's Committee for Traffic Safety, led by Harlow H. Curtice, to plan a 14 state safety army. The meeting included government and citizen representatives from Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota and Wisconsin. This was the third of four regional gatherings.
Minnie Mangum pleaded guilty to a 22 year embezzlement from Commonwealth Building and Loan Assn in Norfolk Virginia to fund a lavish giveaway for family and friends. The 52 year old widow was found guilty in corporation court by Judge H Lawrence Bullock. Sentencing set for June 2 with a $50 000 bond while she remains free.
The Kansas City market page shows wheat and corn prices with varying grades and bid ranges. Livestock receipts include 2,500 cattle and 2,000 hogs with midweek activity, noting steadier steer prices and softer cattle values, plus mixed yearling and calf quotes and hog price shifts.
Wheat fell early with a mid morning selling surge cutting 1 to 3 cents, later recovering most losses as prices closed modestly lower. July wheat 2.0544 58, corn 1.52 5/8, oats 4% lower to 66 1/ metal. Kansas notes show cattle 1250 head, hogs 700, lambs firm to higher. slaughter steers 17.00–19.00, cows 10.50–12.00, lambs 24.50–25.25, ewes 2.00–4.00.
The report shows Ibs 14.25 to 15.75 and 400 to 600 lbs at 12.75 to 14.50, 2000 head of slaughter lambs steady, native choice and prime 25.50 to 27.75, good and choice 23.00 to 25.25, aged shorn ewes steady, utility and good 4.00 to 5.50.
President Eisenhower told a news conference that rivalries among the armed services should be studied in honest search for truth. He warned against using interservice disputes to promote conflict while noting disagreements, tax policy, Egypt’s stance on Red China, Western slippage toward communism, race tensions, and a smaller H bomb yield from a recent B52 drop.
A federal grand jury resumes the 1953 case of missing 300000 ransom money linked to the Bobby Greenlease kidnapping. Expected for questioning are Elmer Dolan, Mrs Costello, and Sandra June O'Day as investigators check discrepancies in witness accounts. The case involves ex police figures and other defendants connected to the Greenlease tragedy in Kansas City. The article also notes a separate estimate on disabling injuries from do it yourself work.
Republicans demand equal time to respond to Adlai Stevenson and Estes Kefauver after their Miami televised debate. Leonard Hall dismisses the appearance as the biggest flop of the year while Stevenson and Kefauver campaign in Florida ahead of the March primary and the Southern test on integration.
Today in Garden City lists hospital admit tances for W M Kells and others, discharges, county deeds and district court appeals, marriage licenses, building permits for a service station and homes, police briefs including a caution light fine and a car window incident. Names include Mrs J H Palmer, Gene Austin, Max L Hudson, A M Cummins, Ester Herdman, Wallace Freed, Phyllis Trullinger, Ralph Belknap, Marion J Cox, Patricia Redd, Loraine McCarty, and Elmer Wilken.
Washington report says a House vote rejected Rep Avery R Kansas a proposal to strike nine million dollars from the civil functions appropriation bill for Tuttle Creek dam in Kansas. Avery argued the project is not justified and opposed by constituents.
Nottingham England Mrs Mary Bettison has visited the local cinema three times weekly for 45 years. She was wooed and wed in two successive marriages in the same seats four rows from the rear aisle. The theater closed and offered to deliver the seats as a keepsake, but she declined saying they cannot fit and her present husband and she have worn them out.
Lawrence woman Ruth Gagliarda was elected regional vice president of the National Congress of Parents and Teachers without opposition. She previously headed the national congress action committee on comics motion pictures radio and television in 1954 and 1955.
At White Sands Proving Ground New Mexico the Army touts an improved surface to air Nike missile and notes a Nike B version with greater range and altitude while withholding many details from reporters. Maj. Gen. Robert J. Wood confirms a unit at Ft Bliss trains crews for atomic warhead delivery and discusses continued guided missile development amid public demonstrations.
Tulsa daily crude oil and condensate production rose by 22 800 barrels to 7 035 690 barrels for the week ended May 19 as a gas Oklahoma use helped, the Oil and Gas Journal survey showed.
W. T. Caldwell, 61, long time resident of Dighton, died yesterday at St. Catherine Hospital in Garden City after about two weeks in hospital. Born August 9, 188?, in Warrensburg, Missouri, he is survived by Edith his widow two daughters Mrs. Bernard Owen of Dighton and Barbara of Hysam Montana a son Bill Bob Caldwell of Scott City and his mother Mrs. W. A. Caldwell of Dighton. Funeral services set for tomorrow at 2:30 p.m. at the Dighton Methodist Church with Rev. Bill Berger officiating Burial will be in the Dighton Memorial Cemetery.
A Ft. Riley soldier Lester Lee Franklin, 17, from Michigan, AWOL 39 days, was recaptured in Moberly Missouri after escaping guards on a train. He claimed he left the train at Keytesville while guards slept and cut his handcuffs with a farmer’s hacksaw request refused, then used a garage grinder to sever the chain.
Five Garden City students and five from nearby towns are candidates for degrees or certificates from the University of Kansas. The 84th commencement exercises are at Memorial Stadium at 7 pm on June 4. Speakers include Gov. Fred Hall, Clement Hall, and Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy. Baccalaureate services Sunday at 7:30 pm feature Bishop G Bromley Oxnam.
Gov. Fred Hall told Clay Center High School graduates that science and technology must be balanced with better human relations and moral principles. He warned that scientific development alone cannot sustain progress without ethical and social improvements.
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