Holiday Toll Mounts Steadily Over Labor Day Weekend
Traffic casualties rose as balmy weather drew millions on the roads for a three day weekend. By 8 p.m. EDT 251 died in highway crashes, with 14 boating deaths and 86 in miscellaneous accidents. The National Safety Council warned the toll would exceed 460 by midnight Monday, nearly matching the 1951 Labor Day record.
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Associated Press
Ciuila Annivant
AM Ane Kuguicel Orgs
Cukoul
Lifton
Tex
National Safety Council
Bitak
New Teacher Photo Series Opens In Garden City
The Telegram introduces a picture series showing new teachers to help readers get acquainted. The first two feature a husband and wife team and will appear on Page 2. A letter to Mayor Fansler from car dealer Howard Phifer complains about an overtime parking ticket his wife received. The state attorney general notes it is illegal to give courtesy tickets to out of county or state cars. If paid within 24 hours, fines are 25 cents.
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Telegram
Howard
Garden City
Eisenhower grandkids extend Potomac River cruise
President Eisenhower and his four grandchildren will continue the family Potomac River cruise through Labor Day, with plans to return to Washington later Sunday. On a two-boat trip they fished, swam, and water skied off Rocky Point Maryland, while Eisenhower swapped vessels and children rode the Marty Jean for a youngster. Weather remained ideal with bright sun and a cooling breeze as Barbara Anne and Susie E moved between anchors and a Dahlgren supply run.
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Leonardtown
Eisenhower
Washington
Breton Bay
Potomac
Wicomico River
Rocky Point
John Eisenhower
Marty Jean
Naval Weapons Laboratory
Dahlgren
Kansas City Man Dies In One Car Crash
Liberty Missouri AP reports a one car crash on the U S 71 by pass four miles south of Liberty left one dead and two injured. The deceased was 49 year old Marlin E B Goff of Kansas City.
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Liberty, Mo
U.S. 71
Liberty
Marlin EB. Goff
Kansas City
Weather Today Warm and Fair With Light Southerly Winds
The day brings fair skies and warm conditions with highs in the mid to upper 40s. Southerly winds will range from 10 to 20 mph, limiting any chill.
Khrushchev Visits Helsinki Pressures NATO Ties
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev met with President Urho Kekkonen in Helsinki and then flew to Moscow after an all night talk session. He urged Finland to maintain friendly ties with the Soviet Union and pressed a neutral stance toward Norway and Denmark. The talks touched on Finland joining Western trade blocs while avoiding NATO, amid sharp comments on Germany and Western alliances.
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Helsinki
Finland
Nikita Khrushchev
Urho Kekkonen
Soviet Union
Moscow
Khrushchev
Norway
Denmark
Britain
Sweden
Land
Austria
NATO
Kekkonen
Germany
Cuba Faces Havana Declaration Rally Across Cities
Fidel Castro supporters massed in major Cuban cities to back the Declaration of Havana and normalize relations with Red China. The rallies echoed Castro’s critique of the United States and other opponents. Meanwhile Nationalist China’s ambassador Liu Yu-wan prepared to depart after news of Cuba breaking ties. police reported counter revolution plots crushed in Santa Clara and Rodas with about a dozen Batista loyalists arrested and twenty-two later detained.
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Havana
Fidel Castro
Red China
Cuban Federation of Labor
Castro
United States
Organization of American States
China
Liu Yu-wan
Liu
Bank of
Cuba
Peiping
Santa Clara
Rodas
Las Villas
Fulgencio Batista
Escambray
GOP Campaign Office Opens in Finney County
Republican Party headquarters for Finney County opens Tuesday at 222 N Main in the former Renick Drug Building. The 7 20 p m ceremony includes refreshments and appearances by Clifford Hope Jr Earl C Brookover Harrison Smith Dr James Neumann Lorraine McCarty Harold Swartley Ruth Towles M C Schrader Ralph Haflich and Raymond Oyler with BR 6 4Tdl as the contact number.
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Republican Party
Finney County
N. Main
Renick Drug
Clifford Hope, Jr
Earl C. Brookover
Harrison Smith
James Neumann
Lorraine McCarty
Register of Deeds
Harold Swartley
Ruth Towles
Superintendent of Public Instruction
M.C. Schrader
Ralph Haflich
Raymond Oyler
GOP
Gas Garden Plans Labor Day at Wife’s Disposal
Gas Garden will spend Labor Day at his wife’s disposal. The line hints at a domestic or humorous angle about holiday plans and relationship dynamics.
Units Rehearse Defense Plans for Inter-American Conference
In Bogota police and Army units staged a security drill ahead of the inter-American economic conference opening Monday. The action followed reports that Fidel Castro urged Colombian labor groups to protest. Soldiers and armored vehicles guarded strategic points as officials recalled the 1948 riots that left over a thousand dead and helped spark the OAS. Castro was linked to those riots but was expected to attend the talks.
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Bogota
Columbia
Fidel Castro
Organization of American States
Castro
Cuba
OAS
Costa Rica
Navy man flies bomber to Shreveport in unauthorized dash
Navy enlisted man Robert H. Swain of Norfolk pilfered a four engine Neptune P2V5 bomber from California and flew halfway across the country before landing at Shreveport Municipal Airport. He was arrested, and Navy officials warned any statements could be used in administrative action. The bomber, damaged and carrying sensitive material, was kept under guard at the airport.
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Shreveport
Robert H. Swain
Navy
Swain
Norfolk
California
Air Force
Barksdale Air
Maj
George T. Fay
Barksdale Afb
Whch
Kennedy Ends Tour Of Alaska
Senator John F. Kennedy wrapped a whirlwind Alaska tour with a Labor Day speech in Detroit and planned campaign stops across Michigan and the Pacific coast. Nixon, recovering at Walter Reed, aimed to begin a six day, 9,000 mile swing after Sept. 12. Eisenhower and family spent Labor Day fishing on the Potomac as Meany urged activism against communism.
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Associated Press
John F. Kennedy
Massachusetts
Alaska
Detroit
Mich
Richard M. Nixon
Washington
Kennedy
Anchorage
Motor City
Michigan
Pacific Coast
Nixon
Herbert G. Klein
Waller Reed Army Medical Center
Seti
Two Garden Citians First To Get Social Security
Two Garden City residents, Charles R. Platner and Elmer Fowler, are among the first 28,500 Americans to receive Social Security checks since the program began in 1940. Platner, 86, started with $21.20 monthly benefits in 1940. his amount later rose to $62.00. Fowler, 84, began with $15.05 for himself and $7.53 for his wife, totaling $22.58, with his benefit now up to $50.00 after increases. Both consented to public release of their records to mark the 25th anniversary of the Social Security Act.
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Charles R. Platner
Elmer Fowler
Kansas
Plotner
Fowler
North Main
Plot
Ner
Schulmann Apartments
Norman Ehrlich
Dodge City
Congo Kasai Invasion Report Echoes Katanga Tactics
A column of Albert Kalonji volunteers advances in Kasai against Patrice Lumumba’s forces while another column retreats toward Luputa. The larger force, about 250 rifles and Belgian automatics plus 250 porters, may join later with Kalonji’s youth movement as Katanga clashes loom. Reports note local tribes leaning toward Lumumba, but no opposition to the invaders is confirmed. In Bakwanga Lumumba’s forces hold the diamond center amid tribal harassment, with Katanga wary of a northern Congo invasion. Olympic sprinter Armin Hary seeks acting work in Germany with Gloria Filmverleih.
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Elisabethville
the Congo
Albert Kalonji
Kasai
Congo
Patrice Lumumba
Katanga
Luputa
Lumumba
Kalonji
Kalanji
U.N
Joseph Ngalula
Congo Army
Bakwanga
David Odea
Regin
A Schopf Elected ASC Committee Head in Finney County
A Schopf of Holcomb was chosen as chairman of the Finney County ASC committee with G W Meeker named vice chair and Frank H McClure as regular member. Gene A Kern and George H Brett named alternates. The panel will oversee USDA programs including price support acreage allotments quotas ACP and other schemes. The new body convened Thursday with ASC fieldman M M Downtain in attendance.
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Schopf
Holcomb
Finney County
ASC
G.W. Meeker
E. Hathberry
Frank H. McClure
Imperial Rt
Gene A. Kern
Eminence Rt
George H. Brett
U.S. Department of Agriculture
A4sc
Inney County
M.M. Downtain
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Howard Phifer
Ulysses
Nikita
GOP Campaign Office
Klein
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America
Afl-Cio
George Meany
Meany
Darrell Morrow
Telegrom
Charles Plofist
Kasai Province
Munich
Armin Hary
Frankfurt
Gloria Filmverleih
A. Schopf
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