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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1957
Page
3
Garden City High School seniors face a key choice as they near graduation. The piece thanks community supporters for a new building, teachers, and parents, and notes that graduates will pursue diverse futures while aiming to succeed with God given gifts and friendships as they cross the stage.
E. W. White writes to defend Valley View cemetery workers after a blizzard of March 22 23 left trees and drifts, urging praise for the boys cleaning up the site and questioning the photographers and critics who blamed them. He condemns the tone of an earlier letter and editorial.
A new committee led by Dr Chesnokov will oversee radio and television, aiming to improve bland Russian programming as Linda Gill directs operations in Oneonta. The effort follows wide complaints about uninspired content and marks a shift in local media policy.
Hal Boyle reports from Manhattan Kansas that rains revive hope across the plains. Farmers, business leaders and editors note drought relief, rising water tables and renewed optimism as patterns shift from a harsh five-year drought to a potentially brighter growing season. It covers Kansas communities, including Lawrence and Kansas City, with quotes from E Lowther and others on economic strain, housing damage, and bids for repairs.
Nancy Alice Alford 21 died in a Baxter Springs hospital after inhaler contents chewed from a pocket inhaler. County attorney says such devices can cause a quick thrill or drink. Dr Bogan cites amphetamine poisoning. contents estimated to equal 50 benzedrine tablets. Jasper County authorities seek federal probes into sale of inhalers at night spots and liquor stores along the state line. Also notes Philadelphia class of 19 women train as meter maids under city police plan to enforce parking rules.
The Garden City Telegram masthead lists Stuart Awbrey as editor and Paul Murphy as managing editor with Marvin Smith as advertising manager. The Associated Press holds reproduction rights for focal news and dispatches. Subscription rates and mailing details are outlined for Kansas and surrounding counties.
A local note hints that the new Chamber of Commerce manager is Bob Long, handsome and single, with a remark about propriety in greetings among women friends. Other light items include a boy saving coupons for a Scout tent, a child’s bed sheet motif, a bakery worker joke, parental pride over a good report, and a query on the Experiment Station’s Miller crop ahead of the 50th anniversary reception June 9.
ARNETT Okla 1 Military and civilian searchers Monday might have found the body of a missing Air Force lieutenant after a B47 bomber crashed Friday near here Lt Robert McIsaac 24 Seattle was located 19 miles south and five east of town his parachute had not opened Capt James Holden 35 and Lt Cox imo Mallozzi 25 parachuted to safety Altus Air Force Base officials returned McIsaacs body to Tucson Town said.
The U S Air Force will cut its Air Rescue Service in Britain by about 170 men as part of a world reduction expected to shrink troop strength from about 4,500 to 2,500. Personnel removed from rescue work will be reassigned until overseas tours end. In Manila influenza deaths in the Philippines total 185, mainly children and the elderly, with the epidemic spreading across the Philippine Islands.
The article recounts visiting U.S. senators meeting Chiang Kai-shek in Formosa, where Chiang claimed he could retake the Chinese mainland. It notes antiAmerican riots in Taipei, mentions embassies, and cites figures like Sen. Monroney, Sen. Hennings, Sen. Knowland, Gen. MacArthur, and President Truman, framing Formosa as a flashpoint in U.S. policy.
President Eisenhower has instructed Cabinet members and top officials to push the administration's $71.8 billion spending program aggressively. White House aides say the effort will intensify even as the budget-cutting tide appears paused, with Republicans urged to close ranks and target Democrats if the budget falters.
A devotional prayer thanking God for Christ as the way and truth. It asks for grace to follow Jesus in life of service on earth and in the blessing of eternal life, offered in the Savior’s name.
New York News reports ABC disavowed statements by ex gangster Mickey Cohen who appeared on the Mike Wallace Show May 19. Oliver Treyz of ABC defended the spontaneity of the program while Cohen dismissed the retraction as spineless.
A dense list of horizontal and vertical crossword clues from a Eugene Sheffer puzzle with numbered entries, cryptic style hints, and a note that yesterday’s solution time was 36 minutes. Mentions Wallach as actor, various words including Italian, love god, and many ambiguous fragments. Ends with a cryptogram and clues about BIKE SKIDDED and BROKEN BRAKES.
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