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Newspaper
Greeley Daily Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1956
Page
14
The Agriculture Department announced higher price support rates for feed grains under the new law signed by President. Parity set at 11 percent of parity for 1958, replacing 70 percent level. Increases include oats 63 cents a bushel, barley $1.02, rye $0.27, grain sorghums $1.97 per 100 pounds, with grade distinctions noted.
A red racing car lost control at a drag strip near Paradise Mesa San Diego injuring 12 people including five children. Witnesses say the car swerved into the crowd after a race ended at 47 miles an hour. Bonnie Burke and her eight month old daughter were among the injured with Bonnie suffering severe arm and leg injuries. The baby Carol Lee had a cut finger.
London radio said on its home service Sunday that Soviet President Klementi Voroshi lov Premier Nikolai Bulganin and Communist Chief Nikita Khrushchev signed a get well message to President Hisenhewsz. The note reflected official sympathy from Moscow.
Gustav Will a founder of the first sugar factory in the area and a noted athlete wrestler and bicycle champion died at 83 after a varied career from brewing in Wriezen near Berlin to homesteading east of Eaton and building a large seed corn trade shipping to seven states He survived by his three sons four daughters and many grandchildren and great grandchildren with ties to Greeley Cornish Fortuna and Tacoma His life reflected early industry athletic achievement and pioneering in agriculture with a later move to Golden Colorado.
Manchester report says Hugh Gaitskell dissociated the Labour Party from Britain's Cyprus line. He urged solving the Cyprus conflict by reopening negotiations with exiled Archbishop Makarios or by handing the issue to NATO. The piece notes American domestic scheduled airline traffic has doubled since 1900.
Estes Park hosts Colorado Young Democrats who urge the Legislature to raise state income tax to fund a statewide education program. At the two day meeting they pass several resolutions to boost state aid and ease local property tax burdens, elect new officers and board members, and back soil bank use to aid drought struck farms in eastern Colorado.
Walter of Pennsylvania announced Sunday that the House Committee on American Activities will investigate the Fund for the Republic at public hearings starting May 27. The fund, set up with the Ford Foundation, is under scrutiny to determine if it supports anti communist efforts or hidden influence. Hutchins, president, said the group sponsors studies on the Communist threat to American institutions and will be invited to attend.
Organizers of a Western states rally in Denver for Gov. Averell Harriman of New York said they expect 80 to 90 delegate votes in the national convention to attend. The rally is set for next Saturday in Denver.
In McCook Nebraska over a few months Diane Remington a kindergartner Donte a second grader and their father Doran underwent appendectomies. Their Weir family mother had hers removed a couple of years earlier.
Sheriff said no danger of Hart Lake Dam near Dotsero despite heavy runoff and severe strain from impounded waters. Colorado Game & Fish Dept reported the dam under stress as officials inspected the earth structure completed last October at a cost of 160000 dollars after unprecedented spring runoff in the White River National Forest.
The Very Rev. Paul C. Reinert and Dr. Leo W. Bortree received honorary doctorates at Colorado College’s 75th commencement in Colorado Springs. President Louis T. Benezet announced gifts totaling about one million dollars including the Rastall estate settlement, a Ford Foundation grant, and an Loomis bequest. Also noted were leadership changes and local grain elevator developments in Grover, Wyoming.
Reports from oil drilling list a yet undrilled Pierce field well and a Blake Union in Navall company. A Pacific railroad at Hereford, Colorado, is noted with tests in Kimball County Nebraska and Willis Joralion in NENW 23-13-58. Lyons sand wildcat near Fort Collins shows surface pipe setting. Alonisano Chemical hires Bill Sterling as scout trainee for the Denver district.
Fitzsimons Army Hospital in Denver marks its 38th anniversary on Saturday. The facility, where President Eisenhower recovered after his heart attack on September 24, and where his convalescence began, traces its founding to the early years.
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