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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1958
Page
2
A satirical editorial notes Americans joke about Sputnik type wonders while fearing a workable disarmament plan. It jokes Sputniks resemble American cars in size and hints the only sane reply is to build larger automobiles.
A Chicago Tribune reader in Michigan City praises railroads over subsidized transport after a heavy snow, praising the South Shore for clearing its tracks without public aid and urging railroads to stand on their own feet without government handouts.
Two Garden City men, friends and business partners, discover they were bidding against each other at a sale and each finally wins a chair when the other notices. A local businessman shaved his beard on his birthday and glued it over his bald head. New Center Street homeowners worry their opaque bathroom glass reveals more than intended. A quip circulates among car dealers to entice purchases before Trujillo acts. A miller statistician notes late-arriving millers due to cool springs, with peak arrivals around June 15 to June 20, predicting a three-week presence this spring.
Editor Drew Pearson reports that the United States has three approved options for crisis in France including moving its atomic stockpile from France to bases in Spain or Germany, withdrawing forces to North Africa, and a potential military intervention with French moderates if the Communists take power. The piece contrasts American policy indecision in the Near East with Chamoun’s frank stance on Nasser and Suez, noting tensions in Lebanon and shifts in Washington policy.
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