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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1963
Page
4
The piece critiques U S foreign aid totaling 100 billion over 15 years, noting 44 billion went to Europe and only 6 billion to Latin America. It argues Europe required priority to halt communism, while Latin America faces deep poverty and feudal structures, urging quicker, stronger hemispheric development.
Thousands attended the FAA open house at Martin Johnson Airport while 125 visited the State Highway Commission’s new $195,000 shop at 14th and Garfield. Attendees praised the highway facility though many locals chose FAA festivities, showing pride in regional infrastructure.
The Ganges in Calcutta serves as waterway sewage conduit and cemetery as 64 million residents live nearby. Cremation on the riverbank is presented as a practical, culturally sanctioned practice alongside daily life, trade, and religious customs.
The narrator describes a Hindu cremation ghats scene with pallbearers, families, and cremation pits along the Ganges. He notes photography of the deceased, the ritual use of wood and ashes, and figures such as sadhus and beggar women, framing death as a practical fact.
Twenty five years ago Chanute hoped to revive its rhubarb and strawberry industry with 3 000 rhubarb and 2 000 strawberry plants purchased 35 miles southeast of Neosho Missouri. Local leaders formed a committee to build a new Alcott grade school as oil and gas activity gees into spring with 18 drilling rigs active. Psalm 23 echoes in the closing line.
In the column Dr Mother explains that bathing after a meal is not risky. Cramps from swimming can be dangerous, but a warm bath does not pose drowning danger. If a cramp occurs in a bath it will simply relax. The piece aims to calm readers about postmeal bathing.
The Defense Department announced that 1350 doctors will be drafted this summer for the armed services. The call is due to too few 1962 medical school graduates volunteering for active duty after internship. The last draft of doctors occurred in winter 1961 62 with 850 inducted during the Berlin crisis.
The piece describes Kennedy family ties with Milwaukee and Boston figures, including the Ahlheim and McCormack circles, shaping cabinet and judicial appointments. It notes Gen Immell's closeness to Kennedy and the McCormacks, and hints at Jack Dewitt’s anticipated federal judgeship amid strategic Wisconsin connections and Schlitz beer interests.
Subscripti Allen lists rate details by mail for Neosho Ison Woodson Counties with advertising by John Hovorka Dwight Wallingford and others. The Chanute Kansas publication notes evening issues except Sunday and second class mailing with staff including Mrs Leland Lowe and Ben 8 B Nicholas.
Channel 2 WDAF Channel 4 KOAM Channel 7 KOTV Channel 6 air tonight with listings across stations. Programs range from news to entertainment and sports with time slots noted.
DES MOINES Iowa AP signs posted at the Pun Intended and Rubber Co plant honor James E Trainer Jr manager of the Firestone Tire division. The messages read Happy Birthday Jim Trainer Have a Good Year as colleagues wish him well.
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