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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1973
Page
2
The piece argues for updating Chanute parks, noting benefits for recreation and business. It explains the $75,000 plan cost is manageable for taxpayers and calculates potential ten year property tax impacts for typical valuations. It concludes that ultimately voters must decide how much a Saturday afternoon is worth.
Dodge City hosts Eat More Beef Week amid high meat prices and a beef economy led by 150000 cattle in local feedlots. The Chamber of Commerce supports the promotion but dinner during Beef Week features an old menu with Cornish rock hen as the planned choice. Chamber manager David Ross jokes the menu may become chicken due to the irony of the week.
A Chanute reader laments worsening traffic on east west routes and Lincoln from 1st to Elm during rain. He recounts congestion and a flooded subway at 3rd Street, worries about fire access, and rails another piece on punishment in prison.
Channel listings reveal prime time blocks with Gunsmoke The Scarecrow A Lovely Way to Die and The Rookies among choices. Other programs include The Adventures of Petticoat Junction Laugh-In Way to Die and Enter Laughing plus late night Talk and Variety segments.
Tv guide style snapshot listing weekday daytime programs across multiple stations with shows ranging from news and children's programs to dramas and game shows. The page notes times for Morning through afternoon blocks and includes long lists of network lineups and featured hosts and programs.
James McCord provides a written memo to the Senate committee claiming John Mitchell John Dean Gordon Liddy and Jeb Magruder held the first formal discussion of bugging and related operations in Mitchells Justice Department office in February 1972. The statement outlines a clandestine meeting involving the Nixon era figures.
The account outlines Liddy Mitchell and Jeb Magruder planning a bugging operation with a February meeting at the Justice Department. McCord says funds were used for charts and that Dean advised deniability, leading to later assertions of approval. Six others, including Hunt, were later convicted.
The 51st NAB convention in Washington urged Congress to extend broadcast licenses to five years and tighten renewal rules. FCC probes into obscenity prompted NAB to back self regulation. NAB president Wasilewski said Congress will likely defer and industry should fix its own issues.
The Fort Scott City Commission enacted a fair housing ordinance and named Merle Young as temporary equal opportunity officer to recertify the workable plan by the Department of Housing and Urban Renewal. The measure prohibits discrimination in sale or rental of housing and the officer oversees minority access and contracts over $10,000 involving state or federal funds.
Twenty five years ago the Chanute Chamber of Commerce discussed forming an Industrial Development corpora tion after Burlington Manufacturing Co of Kansas City signaled interest in locating a branch plant here if space and labor could be provided. A. D. Toland plans to move from 8 S. Lincoln after 28 years as his shop is to be torn down for the Lapham block extension.
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