Garden City News Highlights Local Socials and Honors
The junior high dance at the Country club featured chaperones Mr. and Mrs. Tate Renick Dutton Anderson and Leavitt plus entertainers Caywood Kopp Austin and Gerber. A 14-year-old Garden City boy received a police warning for window peeping after being caught by Arthur Rudd. Floyd Higgins, USN, returned to San Diego aboard USS Kearsarge after a seven month Far East cruise. Lester McCoy will greet Kansas State College graduates at Manhattan commencement where 711 degrees will be conferred including an honorary Doctor of Agriculture on Clifford Hope. Rev W H Hicks, son of Mrs Hicks, was Baylor’s baccalaureate speaker in Waco.
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Curtis Studio
Garden City Junior College
Bob Wells
J. R. Jones
KIAL
Sublette
Ulysses
Wells
Jones
Juco
Jackie Mize
Bob Atherton
Nancy Lee
Florence Lile
Leland Daniels
Johnson
Roland Tate
Charles Renick
Harold Dutton
George Anderson
John Leavitt
Country Club
Chuck Caywood
Leo Jo Kopp
Bobby Austin
Gleen Gerber
Garden City
Arthur Eugene Rudd
E. Spruce
Rudd
Floyd D. Higgins
USN
San Diego
Calif
USS
Kearsarge
Far East
Seventh Fleet
Lester McCoy
Board of Regents
Regents
Kansas State College
Manhattan
Clifford R. Hope
W. H. Hicks
W. E. Hicks
Baylor University
Waco
Tex
Pulaski Heights Baptist Church
Little Rock
Ark
Bomb Group Vets Recall Old Days Reunion at Altus
About 200 veterans of the 96th Bomb Group of the 8th Air Force gathered at Altus Air Force Base for a three day reunion. The event opened with a British flavored program and a luncheon preceded by British stout. The text notes WWII England service days and mentions a Canary Islands resin dragon tree detail.
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Alus
Okla
96Th
Altus Air Force Base
England
8Th Air Force
Oil firms request June state oil allowable cut
A Kansas independent producer and a Kansas crude oil buyer ask the Kansas Corporation Commission to reduce the June oil allowable due to oversupply. National Cooperative Refinery Assn. cites forced curtailment and potential proration, while Imperial Oil of Kansas seeks statewide cut to prevent disconnections and ensure fair pool access amid unappetized leases in Trego County. The commission will decide next week after hearings and testimony from company officials.
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Wichita
Kansas Independent Producing Company
Kansas Crude Oil Purchasing and Refining Company
Kansas Corporation Commission
J. E. Wilm
National Cooperative Refinery Assn
Imperial Oil of Kansas Inc
Wallace
Imperial
Trego County
Harry Snyder Jr
John Young
Richard Byrd
Don Roberts
Kansas
Roberts
Wilm
Commission
Rhoden
Bull and dog collide in Shelbyville street incident
In Shelbyville Kentucky a dog chased a bull in front of a car driven by Charles Smith. The dog was killed and the car sustained heavy damage. The bull shook his head and ambled away.
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Shelbyville
Charles Smith
Debut Creates a Big Splash on Thames Party
In London a debutant party aboard the Royal Princess ends with two guests diving fully clothed into the Thames after bets. Duke of Kent and Felicity Drew’s coming out celebrate. a lifebelt saves the first diver and a Sea Scouts crew returns him aboard amid cheers. Police monitor the scene as the second stunts unfolds.
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London
Thames
Duke of Kent
Chelsea
Felicity
Penelope Drew
Kent
Duchess of Kent
Newamen
Herbert Whincup
Whin
Cities Service To Pay Refunds
Cities Service Gas Co will refund about 6.3 million dollars to nearly 50 wholesale customers in Texas Oklahoma Kansas Nebraska and Missouri. The refunds flow to customers via distributors after a rate settlement approved by the Federal Power Commission. The company sought a total rate increase of about 17.8 million dollars annually, with limited authority to collect from September 1954. The settlement grants an annual increase of about 10.208 million based on 1955 sales, while returning the extra 6.3 million plus six percent interest.
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Washington
Cities Service Gas Co
Texas
Oklahoma
Kansas
Nebraska
Missouri
Federal Power Commission
Cities Service
FPC
Pickpocket Suspect Claims Keys Helped Escape
Chicago story notes a 19 year old pickpocket, Herman D. Hopkins, who surrendered after escaping the detective bureau lockup. He described seeing a ring of keys on a table, taking them, using them to free himself, and telling Sgt. Thomas Lee he would mail the keys with nine cents postage. The suspect said he hid the envelope in the mailbox.
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Chicago
Detective Bureau
Herman D. Hopkins
Thomas Lee
Lee
Hopkins
Admits and discharges in Garden City area births noted
Hospital admits include Mrs Richard Landon Deerfield Ted Drees and Mrs Floyde Fine Route 1 plus others in Dodge City Holcomb and Scott City. Discharges list Mrs Tresman Miller and several others. At St Catherine Mrs Richard Landon and Mr and Mrs Robert Montgomery are parents of a boy and a girl born Friday. Police brief notes charge dropped in improper driving case.
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Richard Landon
Deerfield
Ted Drees
Floyde Fine
Robert Montgomery
North 8Th
George Lamb
Scott City
George Adams
Holcomb
James Wehkamp
Ingalls
Luke Hipp
Joseph E. Barton
Dodge City
John B. Miller
LeRoy York
Lawrence W. Barlow
Wilfred Herman, Jr
Imperial
St. Catherine
Robert Montgomiery
North Eighth
James Wehkamop
Island Near Sandusky Is Becoming a Resort
An island in Sandusky Bay once used as a Civil War prison camp is being developed into a residential resort. Promoters bought Johnson's Island minus one acre where 206 Confederate officers are buried, and they've sold about a third of the coast line lots. They are negotiating a three mile causeway to the mainland.
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Sandusky, Ohio
Sandusky Bay
Cleveland
Johnson’s Island
Mexico City Supreme Court Frees Man on Attempted Homicide Charge
The Mexican Supreme Court ruled that a person cannot be imprisoned for attempted homicide without proof of an actual attempt. On appeal, Javier Rios Vergara was freed from a 12 year sentence after admitting a role in a fee to kill a local official but claiming no real intent to complete the act. No evidence of any actual attempt was shown.
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Mexico City
Mexican Supreme Court
Javier Rios Vergara
Vergara
Local Manager Opportunity with $800 Month Pay
A Kansas City post offers a local owner-manager position in a well proven business. Requires $1500 cash, Chamber of Commerce membership, and ability to work independently. No experience needed. training provided. partial-time setup leading to full operation. respond with details and phone.
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Chamber of Commerce
Kansas City, Mo
Udall Pauses To Remember Night of Terror
Udall residents gathered for a memorial service a year after the tornado that claimed 82 lives. Mayor Earl B. Rowe praised community courage, faith, and rebuilding effort as 400 residents have moved back, with 136 homes completed and 20 new for construction. The town plans annual remembrances at the main street intersection as the Udall Telephone Co. plant is dedicated with a plaque for Mary Taylor, the night operator killed.
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Udall
Kansas
Memorial
Earl B. Rowe
Rowe
United States
Penn Chambers
Udall Telephone Co
Mary Taylor
Kansas Ordnance Plant to be Reactivated Near Parsons
Rep Myron V George announced to Parsons Sun that the Kansas Ordnance Plant east of Parsons will be reactivated immediately. The Army will survey facilities to convert to guided missile production, resuming 105 millimeter artillery shell production on one line. About 800 workers will be needed, doubling payroll. This marks the first step in a four point plan for southeast Kansas including a defense facility, more Continental Can subcontracts in Coffeyville, and reactivation of an air base at Independence or Coffeyville.
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Parsons
Kansas Ordnance Plant
Myron V. George
the Army
Brucker
George
Parsons Sun
Army
Sec. Brucker
Rep. George
Kansas
Washington
Kansas Sons
Schoeppel and
Army Air
Independence
Coffeyville
Safety Award Goes Begging
CHICAGO For the first time in many years the National Safety Council declined to prevent any state or city from winning its grand award for all around traffic safety performance in 1955 and citing a worsening traffic safety situation nationwide. Minnesota earned the single state award of merit along with four cities Dallas Seattle Oklahoma City and Palo Alto California. Certificates of achievement went to 24 states and 398 cities for various traffic accident prevention efforts.
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Chicago
National Safety Council
United States
Minnesota
Dallas
Seattle
Oklahoma City
Palo Alto
Calif
Traffc
Labor Protests Rise Over Railroad Layoffs in Mexico
In Hermosillo workers react to Pacifico Railroad plans to dismiss 1200 men at the line’s southern terminus Guadalajara. Pacifico president Benjamin Mendes was away when the news broke and details remain unclear.
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Hermosillo
Mexico
Pacifico Railroad
Guadalajara
Benjamin Mendes
Pacifico
Oklahoma Methodists Seek Ban on Liquor Ads
Tulsa delegates to the Oklahoma Methodist Conference urged Senator Monroney to help advance the Langer bill to outlaw liquor advertising. Monroney, on the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee reviewing the proposal, was singled out as the only dry state senator on the panel.
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Tulsa
Oklahoma Methodist Conference
Mike Monroney
Okla
Onroney
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
Monroney
Church Hikes One Budget by Six Million Dollars
The 168th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the USA approved a benevolence program budget of 31,404,003 for 1957, up nearly six million from 1956. Allocations cover foreign missions, national missions, Christian education, ministerial pension, general services, and the assembly, with guidance urging churches to determine their own shares and noting support for councils, theological education, and the American Bible Society.
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Philadelphia
168Th General Assembly
Presbyterian Church
U.S.A
General Assembly
World Council of Churches
National Council of Churches
American Bible Society
Holcomb Woman Held For Drunk Driving
Mrs. George Jess Kees of Holcomb was arrested for driving while intoxicated and transporting an open bottle. Police detained the couple in the 100 block of North Taylor at 7 45 p m. Her husband was charged with drunkenness.
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George Jess Kees
Holcomb
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Canary Islands
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Tresman Miller
Joe Bender
East Chestnut
Don Burdick
North Sixth
Gloria Campos
Taylor
Deborah Hires
North 12Th
Bruce Elsey
Parkwood
John Elsey
W. M. Kells
Ninth
Charles Metz
West Kansas
Adron C. Southworth
Don LaGesse
George E. Harrison
Island
Sandusky
Labor
Louisiana Green Beans
Supper Club
Betsy Ross
Wilson's
Kees
Wieners
van Camp
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