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11 a.m. 65 Garden City Telegram Tomorrow's Forecast More of the Some VOLUME 28 GARDEN CITY, KANSAS, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1957 Six Pages WESTERN KANSAS By JOHN FRAZIER Signs of times in Western Kansas last week the area weeklies carried headlines reading this week it's 'MORE RAIN" farmers pushing the big task of seeding their 1958 wheat crop and another big one in where to store their milo with harvest just around the next corner turned up coat collars as the entire area shivers under an autumn preview. Cosh, Please The moral of this item is always check on a check writer, or take cash instead. L. C.

Baker, Scott City justice of the peace, who has passed out plenty of penalties for bad checks, sort of got caught coming and going the other The judge fined a miscreant $80 on a charge and accepted in payment a check, which had the payee space left blank. So he just filled in his own name, endorsed it, and handed it to the county treasurer for the payment. You guessed it, the check bounced and Baker had to go over and cover it -with his personal check in exchange. The Coming Thing Monte Canfield, editor of the Laten Independent and the mayor thereof, manages to keep track of most of the college youngsters in Kearny county. He reports there are 55 students from his county attending colleges, universities and other schools of higher education this fall an increase of about 10 over a comparable time a year ago.

They are represented in 19 schools in Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma, Texas and Washington, D.C. City Ambassadors Leave to Chamber of Commerce men to advertise their cities. And the Grant County chamber down at IJlysses is no exception. The Ulysses group saw a good thing in the Blue Janes (a female barbershop quartet) as capable ambassadors of the community and decided to make them official representatives of the city. The chamber men adopted a resolution commending the quartet the other day, and at a very good time.

Next month the Blue Janes Charlotte Julian, Eileen Nightingale, Rozanne Cechman and Shirley Monroe hope to compete in the international contest at Miami, Fla. Last year they finished 8th in Hie international singing competition. Bumper Block One of those communities that wUl probably be hard hit when it comes to the forthcoming milo harvest wifl be Lane county. There it appears as though fann-f era will have to store the entire crop on the farm. Elevators there report there is no storage spacr available, and with a bumpe' crop of about two million busrae' la the Workshop Here Oct.

15Lesson: How to Land Industries Businessmen and public officials in Garden City will have a chance next month to learn the techniques of promotion and development of local industry. i i i i Officials to Wichita Meeting A industrial workshop sponsored by the Kansas trial Development commission I will be conducted here Oct. 15, Chamber of Commerce manager Bob Long said. Sessions will be at Downing's. The workshop is one of eight being held in Kansas next month.

Others are scheduled at Colby, Pratt, Hays, Clay Center, Newton, Chanute and Lawrence. Chambers of Commerce in each of the cities will be hosts. Invitations are being sent out by KIDC, Long said, and businessmen and public officials will be asked to attend. topics Include plant location factors, industrial surveys, planning and zoning, local industrial levies, advertising the FTOQ Mayw ot Hneu community and organizing indus- bacher and Wichita Commission- trial trips. er James Gardner, he will speak City officials from over Kansas, including six from Garden CHy, will be in Wichita Sunday through Tuesday attending the convention of the League of Kansas Munici-i palities.

The local delegation will include! Everett Miller; commissioners Gregg Shaw and Harold Fansler; City Manager Deane Wiley; City Attorney Lloyd Haag and City Engineer Karl Svaty. Wiley will be on the, program of one convention session.With Topeka Mayor George Five members of the commission will conduct the workshops. They are John H. Stricter, director; John E. McCauley, research director; Clarence Becker, out- state field representative; Gene Steuart, in-statt field representa tive, and Don Richards, publica-i leagues, tions director.

on home-rule as it applies to the state constitution. Delegates will hear a talk by Ben West, mayor of Nashville, and president of the American Municipal which is composed of 44 state municipal Figlht The Flu One Garden City business firm the jump on the Asian flu by having its entire staff inoculated with the practice that may gain momentum in the city. However, a survey of the city's physicians revealed that the vaccine quantity here is limited. Some reported as being out. Meschke's was the first to have its staff inoculated, with five employes receiving the vaccine.

Caesar-Coca on ABC NEW YORK, UP) -Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca, once one of television's top comedy teams, will be teamed for a half-hour show Sunday nights on ABC-TV. The new show, to be sponsored by a cosmetics firm starts Jan. 26 and will be telecast from 99:30 p.m., New York time. The announcement yesterday confirmed reports that Sid and Imogene who parted three years ago, would team up once more. Composer Sibelius Dies HELSINKI Sibelius, a mystical giant among the world's composers, died last night at the age of 91.

West is often mentioned as a Tennessee should Gov. Frank possible candidate for governor of Clement seek a national office. Ffoyd Prevo Buys Dodge Packing Plant Floyd Prevo, formerly of Garden City, has bought the Thies Packing in Dodge City and will take over operation Oct. 1, it was announced today. The firm will be known as the Prevo Packing Co.

Plans have been made for remodeling the plant, Prevo said. The firm will continue processing sausage and will do custom slaughtering. Announcement of the sale was made by H. P. Thies of Great Bend.

He had owned the Dodge City plant for 16 months and had operated it and his main plant in Great Bend. The Weather (By U.S. Weather Phone 4313) Partly cloudy and a little -warmer tonight with low in middle BOs. Lteht variable wind. Sunday, fair to partly cloudy with no Important temperature change, and high in the 70s.

Sunrise 6:31 Sunset 6:42 Relative humidity 41. Weather observations ending at 6:30 a.m. (GST) Station Max. GARDEN CITY 56 Dodge City Goodland Liberal Russell Pratt Amarlllo Denver Guymon La Junta Min. 48 50 38 49 46 49 51 45 49 44 Prec.

Trace .06 Trace .02 Trace Number 267 Goes Home- Retreat at Little Rock LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) Gov. Oval Faubus withdrew the National Guard from Central High School last night. Faubus' action came shortly after issuance of a federal injunction commanding him to cease using troops to block school integration. His attorneys immediately began exploring avenues of legal ap- News In Newport governor, in announcing his decision to rtmovt the troops from the school, added with jut- jawed determination that will the federal injunction.

Faubus made the statement NEWPORT, R. I. Kisenhower today called Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus' withdrawal of "As long as this order is in ef- National Guardsmen from a Littla feet and until its certain reversal -Rock Central High School a nec- on appeal, I will comply," Faubus cssary step in the riyhj 'irection." The President said in a statement at his vacation headquarters: "The- action by the governor of Arkansas in withdrawing the de- lachmcnt of Arkansas National troopsfr omth cLitiloRock aGudr Guard troop.s from the Little Rock i MW school is a necessary step in an appearance on a Little, Rock thc ngllt television program last night am eonfldtrrt lhal lhe cilizeils while the troops were pulhnj? out. lhe City of Little Rock and the Less than an hour Inter, a few Slatc ()f Arkansas will welcoma jstate trovers and one automobile this opportunity to demonstrate carrying two L1(M Rock poUcc vthal in lhc ir city and In their state men wore parked besklo the proper orders of a United Stales school.

But the officers said they courl will bc executed promptly not ordered there. "Just hap-'and without disorder jpcned to stop by," they said. The President obyiously was de- I Th. LHHt Rock School Board i igl )y aub Us compliance 'said a few extra night watchmen' 1 1 lfiht a federal court or- were hired, but no policemen. do th a hfl hal with Meanwhile, people in Little 0 1 00 1 in tegration.

The governor Rock are anxiously waiting Fau-i iad been smg Guard bus' next move, and looking to! tro bar mmglmj of Monday morning when classes re- and Nc fo pupUs. sume at Central High School and Eisenhower wa advised of the fhA MO Faubus move shortly after the Kink! the Honey Bear jay Staft The newest'attraction in the Finnup park zoo awakened from his nap long enough to have his picture taken this morning. The little kinkajou, or honey bear sleeps through the day usually hanging sloth-like from a pole. He's a gift from June Schroder of the Brodbeck-Schroder carnival. Cloak and Dagger Microfilm in Hollow Nickel Helped Lead FBI to Spy NEW YORK hollowed- out nickel crammed with microfilm and collected by a youngster on his paper route aided in leading the government to Rudolf Abel, accused Soviet master spy.

James Bozart, 18, said last ni 8ht at his Brooklyn home woman gave him the nickel and other change four years ago as payment for delivery of the now-defunct Brooklyn Eagle. Bozart said he later accidentally dropped the hollowed-out coin and it fell apart, disclosing a piece of microfilm about one half inch square. He said he took the film which contained convicted with the spy ring or her lltl L. I- bers, to police. They notified the FBI.

Bozart, enrolled as a freshman at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N. said he never learned woman was self received the nickel In change question of whether the Ne grocs will try to enter, And a great legal tangle appeared in the making. In his televised address, Faubus i said, "I have instructed my attor-j noys to exhaust every legal remedy to appeal this order." He was referring to the ruling yesterday by U.S. District Judge Ronald N. Davics, who said Fan- bus had "thwarted" the plan for integration advanced by the school board and approved by two federal courts.

move shortly after governor pulled the troops away from the school last a few hours short of one week after and Faubus conferred at the Newport White House. James C. Hagerty, presidential press secretary, dictated Eisenhower's statement to newsmen this morning about an hour after the President checked into his office at the U. S. Naval Base at 7:50 a.

m. Hagerty said he went to the vacation White House last night toll Elsenhower about the with- What can Faubus do by way ofjdrawal of National Guard, appeal? One of his attorneys, Kay Mat-l thews, said the exact i is not yet decided but that the'fW appeal probably will be directed to the Eighth Circuit Court of Ap- til Abel, 55, reputedly a colonel Peals in St. Louis Soviet intelligence, operated a Tna is the consensus among photography studio in Brooklyn. He was seized Juno 21 by immigration agents in hi Manhattan hotel room. A Brooklyn federal grand jury indicted Abel on Aug.

7 on charges of conspiracy to transmit national defense secrets to Russia. i Boiart the nickel containing the microfilm actually was two nickels, one fitting over a Big Plans Big plans are in the making down at Sublette for a 16-acre sports field that will include everything from sand boxes to a. miniature golf course. The field' would include a high school foot-! ball field and cinder track, tennis courts, an archery range, parking facilities and volley ball courts. The first step will be to purchase the necessary land, which is hoped to be financed by solicitation.

They also hope to pour the tennis courts next month. The idea will be for various civic and social organizations to take over the development as projects. Efficiency W. H. Johnson up at Scott City in taking shortcuts when it comes to raising vegetables.

It's the usual procedure to raise the crop first and then can it. Not Johnson. He raises it and cans it at the same time. Evidently a squash seed was in a coffee can when it started to grow, it got larger and then overflowed the can before stopping. Pony Express? Shades of Pony Express, sometimes these modern day conveniences don't help out the mail delivery one bit.

Take for instance the discovery made the other day by Roy Ivey at Scott City. Ivey, cutting weeds on the Missouri-. Pacific tracks a mile east of Scott. picked up a mail sack, which was; destined to Scott City patrons! more than a month ago. They 1 finally got their mail at a rate of 300 miles in 30 days- have only 9 left to i ter tor atwHo! 367-lt Ttfcycle Built For Two Jajr Staff Chuck hitches a ride on the rumble seat of brother Marlin's for a fast spin The boys are sons of Mr.

and Mrs. Russell VYelJs, 602 12th. Give Exams for Naval ROTC iilfvcis IHLiriK OVCI" vr i.dituiuai'i; nan vut, Competitive examinations for holl side of the other. jof three directors elected to the She talked th Hypnosis NaVy's Reserve officers train- The Now York DaUy News said board of the county's of Chicago into supervising ing corns will be riven to inter- toda that federal authorities and No. 2 in balloting Monday-to-Saturday "hypnotic legal authorities here.

Write-in Win For Director A write-in candidate was one of three directors elected to the Woman Plans 5-Day Nap CHICAGO A 38-year-old woman, fatigue because she's been getting only four hours sleep a night, plans to slumber for five day straight next week. Impossible? Not under the power of hypnosis, believes Mrs. Fred A. Dust of nearby East Chicago, a switchboard operator and widowed mother of two, She talked th Hypnosis Insti- ing corps will be given ested high school seniors graduates on Dec. 14, luuay lliai leucrai all in 0r ItlCS ant4 tcl1 Ul yesrciuay.

1 ujfuuviv local police confirmed th Kussell, the write-in candi-i hibernation" so she can catch up graduates on Dec 14, according the finding of the''fixed 1 'nickel date, Cliffo A Mayo and all my lost bed time." to Melvin L. Jacobs of the Navy! and that il was one of numerous 'Meekma were elected to 3-year institute hopes to gam some recruiting office in Southwest Kan-l coins by the spy ring alleged, terms on the board. new scientific facts about sleep recruiting office in Southwest sas. Application forms are now available and must be returned before Nov. 16.

They are available all All high schools, colleges and the Navy recruiting office in Dodge City. High school seniors and graduates between 17 and 21 may a p-' ply for the NROTC aptitude test, i Approximately 2,000 men will be; selected to start the corps pro- gram next September. Designed to supplement the officer output of the Naval Academy, the NROTC program makes it possible for a young man to earn coins used by the spy ly headed by Abel. Last Call for Gray Ladies There still is time to enroll in the Gray Lady class which will begin Monday evening, Mrs. Frank Schulman, Keel Cross volunteer chairman, said today.

The first session for the class will begin it 7:30 p.m. Monday in th probate courtroom at a commission "white studying a.t the court house. Marvin Hersey, terms on the board. 1 Forty-seven ballots were casti and relaxation as a result of the in the election, Jane Collins, coun- marathon nap. ty clerk, said.

uuit came to the institute (. JvJllV. JJalU V.MIIIV tu ii 1C iittfbiLUtv Three names were on the ballot i with the suggestion after her Mayo, Meekma and Gerald G.jtor advised her to take a long rest Finlcy. becauso at norvonsneiis nnrf The vote, according to the county clerk's report: Mayo, 25; Meekma, 45; Russell 25; because Of nervousness and rest lessncss. Since she had only five dayi vacation coming, she figured hyp- Finley.

20; Henry Mai, would be an excellent way Don McMillan, 1, and L. EJ cram a lot of sleep into a short a college that has an NROTC unit. In Jacobs said, for those who apply and qualify, immediate assignment fo flight training is possible. Further information on the program may be obtained from the! recruiting station in the post of-1 fice building at Dodge City, or in I Garden City every Thursday 1 from 1 to 5 p.m. at the post office.

Norway's King Is Dead at 85 area field representative for the Red Cross, will be the instructor. Sessions set for Sept. 30 and Oct. 1 will be taught by Dprothy Gebhart of the State Welfare department. Enrollments may be made by calling the Red time.

i Mrs. Dust says Mat since the death of her husband in an accident last year, she's been going "full supporting her two children, keeping up her home an taking on a couple of outside interests. The children, Mary Ann, 15, and Fred, 11, ar all for the experiment. They'll stay with Mrs. Dust's mother during the five-day rest period.

Mrs. Dust, something of an amateur hypnotist herself, says she considers that she an ex! cellent subject. "1 go under in seconds," she says, "and always jcome out perfectly relaxed. i "Somehow, life's problems al- i ways seem a little lighter ward." Mrs. Dust will take all her 100 Jaycees and their fashion show, local president Dale meals under hypnosis.

She will wives are expected here Sunday I Gillan said. undergo electrocardiagrams, blood Worf, 3. Chamber Ooen The Chamber of Commerce office at Main and Fulton will remain open from 1 to 5 p.m. today to accommodate persons wishing to siqn up for lucky numbers which may win them prizes during the Fall Festival Thursday night. A coupon which may be exchanged for a to a on Page 4 of today's Telegram.

Expect 100, ond Jaycees Here Sunday Towns in district two are Gar- chemical tests and other examl- Dotlge Cily Urned and i ations by a team of medical AWOL to attend the quarterly meeting of Jaycees in district two. Sessions at the Warren hotel begin OSLO, Norway Wl King 2 p.m. and end with a dinner akon VII of Norway, an old sailor) a 5:30 o'clock who rode out th storms of inva- sion to reign for more than half Ith nUpso atf a century, died early today in the i aycHee resident royal palace. He was 85 and the the djnner world's oldest reigning monarch. Jaycees will meet in discussion A uaraen uuy man was sen-(for a fine for another offense.

The king had been growingjSroups during the afternoon andjtenced yesterday in district courtj James Robert Finn of Hoising- weaker in his fight against a cir-! tneir wives will attend a tea to the reformatory in also appeared in Judge dilatory ailment. Death came; pleading guilty to writing ajand Tate's district court Givin will meet in discussion! A Garden City man was sen-(for a fine for another offense. shortly alter heart trouble de veloped at 4:30 a.m. (9:30 p.m CST Friday). Crown Prince Olav, regent of the realm since his father broke a thigh bone in a fall in 1955, immediately became the new king.

V. SCISS no-account check. Leonard Austin charge of" 'writing no-account 21, got a sentence not to checks. He was sentenced from The Office Bolshevik five years tor writing to 5 years on two counts and idea ot inoculating employes no-account felony check for 530. paroled for five years, against Asian flu as just a subyer- Kiehl, AWOL from his army Finn had written two Setooy sive new plot by management; hejpost at Riley, had given the Checks for $20 each and one mis- was looking forward to having a (check to county court Judge M.l demeanor check for county few days off.

Schrader last November to pay attorney West said..

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