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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1957
Page
4
This department withholds commencement comments to graduates arguing editors avoid echoing endless cheers. The piece cites four reasons: graduates are busy, many speakers already dominate the podium, further words repeat old messages, and graduates seem wiser than commencement speakers.
Jim Cornish leaves The Telegram and Pratt Tribune to become editor and publisher of the Post in Tex a small town weekly. He believes a weekly paper can influence state and national affairs as strongly as a metropolitan daily, and Kansas friends wish him success in the new venture.
A Kansas ESA group thanks the Garden City Telegram for coverage of the 14th annual Epsilon Sigma Alpha convention in Garden City April 26 to 28, 1957. Letters from Hazel Hayes and Chas I Zirkle praise reporting and a note on local services, with a playful poke at a Sunday shop.
In Washington, Senator Styles Bridges privately warned Senator Wayne Morse that White House pressure would shape his floor speech about Morse’s Detroit speech. Eisenhower, amid private scolding of Adm. Radford over disarmament talk, signals a push for a cautious path with Russia while aiming for peace within his term.
Daily average crude oil and condensate dropped 55 550 barrels to 7 429 000 barrels in the week ended May 25, per Oil and Gas Journal survey.
Bonn Germany Chancellor Adenauer told the Soviet Union he would consider a demilitarized zone in central Europe if Russia agreed to German reunification in freedom. He said Germany would accept legitimate Soviet proposals guaranteeing a free reunited nation, but would not concede on key terms. The remarks reflect cautious openness to bilateral security concessions amid postwar tensions.
A truck rolled backward and crushed Farris Lindsay, 36, of North Kansas City, dying seven hours later. A separate note mentions a $2,000 payout if twins were produced, while odd fragments speculate on a tornado aftermath and curious kitty as Spring Hill reports sightseers in a tornado-hit area.
Britain's home fleet steamed out to North Sea calm to greet the royal yacht Britannia as Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip return from Denmark. Two lines of warships met Britannia off Inver Gordon as the couple prepare three days with the fleet before returning to London.
Gladys Drussel claims a sure-fire method to make extra kittens popular as doll bottle feeding proves successful. Her teen-age son shopped for nursing bottles as local girls place kitten orders, while a Garfield classroom accident ends with a finger cut from a paper cutter. In Plymell, country mother seeks town moves as rural term lags.
A devotional prayer affirms God as daily reacher who grants sincere desires. It admits human weakness when relying on self and gratefully accepts Jesus Christ as Savior and Friend, closing in His name Amen.
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