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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1957
Page
3
An editorial criticizes Hutchinson school officials for delaying teacher appointments and raiding smaller schools after contracts are signed. The piece urges a binding contract system and a gentleman's agreement to prevent late decisions and protect both teachers and schools.
The piece condemns the federal budget as exposing lawmakers idiosyncrasies amid protests by business groups over subsidies. It notes lavish subsidies across housing, banks, auto makers, steel and electrical firms, and mentions transport costs for top House leaders and a Senate lunch price subsidy, criticizing hypocrisy in spending scrutiny.
A reader laments parole system politics in Southwest Kansas, fearing an unstable officer assignment. She notes delays due to budget cuts and warns that many parolees, including herself, risk violations without timely supervision. A parole officer for the region is later named.
Teresa Szewska, Poland’s Kan al star and Cannes second prize winner, laments government support, meager pay of 12.2 zloty monthly on return, and lodging money shortages. In Paris embassy interview she accuses Poland of poverty while praising fame.
Jean Carter of Garden City now living in Denver, mother of nine, rejected an automatic dishwasher offer. Her father Alonzo Finnup offered one, but she replied she would use the appliances coming to her home. The diary-like reflection muses on dishwashing as a path to life lessons and contemplation over daily chores.
The actress, touring with a film sold to many countries, says the government paid nothing yet the scholarship may be revoked for earnings abroad. She fears selling her ring to survive and recalls past detention by Poland’s security police, insisting she is unfazed in speaking out. In Taiping, the Chinese Communists bombarded Quemoy with the heaviest attack since May 10, firing 243 shells.
A dense cipher puzzle page by Eugene Sheffer presents a cryptic crossword with vertical and horizontal clues. It lists word fits like instrument or tool, conical mass of coiled thread, and various thematic terms. The bottom features a cryptoquip with scrambled phrases and a tease about a Saturday solution.
President Eisenhower told GOP leaders the United States would seek a U S court martial for Sgt Williams Girard, charged with fatally injuring a Japanese woman on a firing range near Maebashi. The case tests status of forces pacts and U S Japan relations.
A four story brick building aged nearly a century collapsed with a roar, killing Mrs. Susan Johnson, 63, whose body was recovered 17 hours after the cave in. Three others escaped death, asleep in rear portions, as the front half fell and survivors climbed the fire escape and were rescued by firefighters.
A brief religious meditation cites Romans eight one and asks God for grace and care. The prayer seeks divine help for faithful living through the Spirit and ends with the Lord's Prayer benediction in faith.
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