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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1973
Page
1
The Associated Press reports a week long meat boycott as high prices push households to skip beef pork and lamb. Some restaurants report strong demand while Detroit stores note shoppers avoid meat counters. In Missouri cattlemen bought Eastgate IGA out of meat and gave it away to customers.
A fragmentary message reflects a wry exchange where a sick man asks what he can eat and a poor man answers nothing. The note ends with a sign off Yours, leaving the social bite and hardship of hunger as the sole readable context.
The Tulsa district will charge recreation use fees at 27 Corps of Engineers lakes starting May 25. Fees apply to boat ramps and access areas while some sites like highly developed day areas carry higher charges. Golden Age Passports reduce fees by 50 percent for eligible seniors. Elk City Lake Fall River and John Redmond are among affected lakes with varied camping and day use rates.
Polls open 7 am to 7 pm as Chanute voters decide two city commission seats and portions of school and junior college boards. Three bond measures include a $75,000 park plan with half funded by federal aid and a $100,000 mobile asphalt plant for streets, plus a street budget levy option. Voters also choose candidates across four City Commission, six junior college district trustees, and six district education board spots. Returns expected after 8:30 pm with Tribune office handling results.
Kansas investigators continued interviews in Ottawa Iola and Lawrence as they probe the killings of Hazel Avery 53 of Lawrence her son Steven Avery 22 of Iola and Gary Longfellow 23 of Lawrence shot multiple times with a suspected .38 revolver authorities said.
Air Force Col. James H. Kasler says more than 100 U.S. airmen were killed by North Vietnamese militia and civilians after downings. He also cites 12 to 15 POWs who disappeared after interrogation and three ill men who died from neglect amid a May 1969 escape purge.
The Supreme Court let stand a lower court ruling blocking construction of the Trans Alaska oil pipeline on US land. The court declined to overturn the circuit decision citing right of way width limits under the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920. The case leaves Alaska’s pipeline fate to Congress.
The city allocates 54898 for Santa Fe Park improvements if voters approve on Tuesday. Paul Keller of the Recreation and Parks Commission notes missing shelter houses and play equipment, with two shelters in poor condition including a north section donation from Santa Fe Railways in the mid 1950s.
Weather forecast notes a cloudy cool pattern with scattered showers or thunderstorms developing tonight. Lows reach the upper 30s to low 40s, with northerly winds 10 to 25 mph. Tuesday brings more cloudiness with intermittent rain or scattered thundershowers and highs in the low to mid 50s. Probability of precipitation is 40 percent tonight and 60 percent Tuesday.
Play School in Chanute invites children to enroll for the next term at 7 30 p m Wednesday at 402 S Central. State certified cooperative program for preschoolers ages three by September 1 or four not yet in kindergarten. Mothers assist at least four times a year and pay 15 a month for thrice weekly sessions or 10 for twice weekly. Sessions run 9 11 30 a m and 1 15 3 45 p m.
Richard Cory, 28, who escaped Tuesday from a San Jose prison work furlough, was arrested at San Francisco International Airport after an FBI tip. He answered a phone paged message and was detained by airport police. In California, Thieu meets Nixon and is to seek assurances of continued American aid amid ceasefire tensions.
The last American prisoner of war in the Philippines, Army Captain Robert T. White, arrived at Clark Air Base for processing and showed a satisfactory condition after his first sleep in freedom since 1969. A brief malaria case may delay his return by a day while freed POWs across the United States received emotional welcomes and expressed joy at home.
AP reports that activists and the federal government reached a preliminary consensus on more than half of 10 Indian demands in talks led by Assistant U.S. Attorney General Kent Frizzell. He said progress was made and the confrontation could be close to a settlement.
Senate committee chair Sam J. Ervin Jr. said President Nixon’s offer to have White House aides testify informally in secret sessions is unacceptable. He asserted the Senate can subpoena witnesses on its own terms and punish refusals, insisting White House aides should not be elevated above the public.
South Vietnam announced a boycott of the Joint Military Commission until Communist forces lift their siege of the Tong Le Chan ranger base, 50 miles north of Saigon. A military spokesman said Saigon proposed a joint team of majors and colonels to the encircled camp to solve the problem.
Defense Secretary Elliott L. Richardson warns the Cambodian government would struggle to survive without U S bombing support unless the Communists quit. He says the fall of Cambodia could threaten South Vietnam’s Thieu government, remarks made Sunday.
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