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Early the next morning the President and the governors got down to the serious business of the drought at a breakfast-table conference (see below). There was no letup in the breakneck schedule. After the conference, Ike flew to Salina, Kans. and a triumphant homecoming to Abilene. For 40 miles around, the schools had been let out for the occasion, and cheering kids and high-school bands lined the streets as the presidential motorcade flashed by. At his old home, Ike spotted some pink and purple cornflowers in the garden. They reminded him of his mother, so he picked...
...suddenly ordered his chauffeur to stop the car when a woman broke through the crowd and dashed into the street. The President greeted her with a warm kiss on the cheek and announced that she was Mrs. Gladys Brooks, his high-school sweetheart. On the way back to Salina, Ike halted the motorcade once more at a drive-in melon market. He enthusiastically accepted a dripping slice of cantaloupe from the flabbergasted proprietors, bought two watermelons to take along with...
Turnabout. In Salina, Kans., George P. Kubach, 70, put his store up for sale in a newspaper ad because he was retiring to a farm, explained: ". . . For thirty years my place has been filled with farmers playing pool and drinking beer. What am I going to do on [my] farm? I am coming to town every day to play pool and drink beer. That's the life...
...international competition wound up in Spain, the U.S. broke another record. Dick Johnson, a Mississippi State graduate student who already holds the world distance record (535.1 miles from Odessa, Texas to Salina, Kans., set last August), sailed along over an 80-mile course at a 66.8 m.p.h. clip, for a new speed record...
Package Deal. In Salina. Kans., a prowler stole $20 worth of fishing poles and reels from Claude W. Peters' garage, then borrowed a spade and dug for worms in Peters' backyard...