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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1956
Page
2
Wisconsin report describes a farm numbering plan to help fire departments ambulances and doctors locate rural homes quickly. Each farm would receive a permanent number and luminous signs mark farms and roads. Master county maps would list all farm numbers for police sheriff and emergency responders.
By The Bushel argues for replacing wheat acreage allotments with bushel allowances to stabilize income during dry years. It notes producers would store excess wheat for drought periods and contends bushel limits could eliminate the 15 acre exemption fueling surplus.
Two young airmen from Lowry field robs a taxicab driver, taking 12 dollars. Judge James Noland sentences each to 8 to 15 years in the Colorado penitentiary with four years before parole. He warns that leniency breeds crime and backs old fashioned law and order.
Mike Etrick complains about the Optimist Club fishing hole at Finnup Park. He cites hundreds of dead fish and debris along the shore, unsafe conditions with swimmers present, and lack of lifeguards. He urges restoring a clean, natural appearance for the park area.
Briefly quoted lines from three Kansas papers joke about property titles, Marilyn Monroe biography notes, and a quip on fads. The items reflect light local wit and editorial tone across Buffalo Blade Wellington News and Dighton Herald.
Pan American Airways has hired three influential figures, Milton Eisenhower Jr, Robert Murray, and Roger Lewis, as it seeks the Great Circle route to Japan. The moves come amid CAB hearings and past White House reversals favoring Pan Am over Northwest Airlines.
The Moscow radio quoted E. P. Slavsky as saying Russia has the prerequisites to build an air plane with an atomic engine soon and will work on atomic reactors and engines for sea vessels land vehicles aviation and other transport Great prospects will be opened up in atomic transport
Bids totaling 2,915,555 were submitted for a Kansas Turnpike link project in Kansas City. The Muncie Boulevard expressway will be a 1.8 mile limited access four lane roadway with grading paving seeding and seven bridges.
In Cherokees in North Carolina Walter Jackson and 11 Tribal Council leaders urge Uncle Sam to treat American Indians as a foreign nation under aid programs. They cite a history of treaties, forced removal, and current efforts including a 55,000 acre reservation, 3,500 members, and the Cherokee Historical Society project Unto These Hills which employs 350 and pays salaries totaling a million dollars. The eastern Cherokees highlight diabetes as a major health issue and stress self sufficiency through capital for industry and tourism debts repaid ahead of schedule.
A newspaper puzzle page shows horizontal and vertical crossword clues from Shaffer with many numbered entries and an instruction about solution times. It includes a note on yesterday's puzzle answer and a crypto quote phrase distributed by King Features Syndicate. a cryptogram line follows with uppercase letters.
Swinley Corman of Tescott Kansas reports a remarkable cow output over three days with four cows delivering two single calves, one set of twins, and one set of triplets, creating a bovine jackpot for the farmer.
A young girl suggests moving Valentine Day to May Day so both holidays can be delivered together and Christmas could be extended. Dr Lloyd Haag reports a mobile chest X ray unit may visit counties in December or January with free screenings. State Health Board offers a pamphlet Why Some Women Stay Single along with other family guidance titles. A mother’s best friend is humorously listed as the washing machine repairman after a doctor and a plumber.
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