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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1973
Page
2
The Chanute Tribune notes the session produced a productive image with a compromise ending stalemate and providing property tax relief. The paper cautions this relief may be temporary due to rising service demand and inflation, urging awareness that agencies spend available funds and seek more, echoing a family budgeting pattern.
A farmer voices outrage over housewives boycotting meat, claiming net farm income hit an all time high since 1947 and urging consumers to reverse the trend. He suggests punishing boycott supporters and argues food takes precedence over goods like carpets and TVs.
The narrator travels from Manhattan to Council Grove and back via KS177 US56 and K99, noting bare grass, burned vistas, and a lingering mild illness. He critiques US 75 from Lyndon to Topeka as an abomination, praises Santa Fe Trail era US 56, and warns rural roads vary in condition. He prefers home for true rest.
Washington scrutiny reveals a sedentary, "Flabby American" majority as the Presidential Council on Physical Fitness funds a nationwide survey via Opinion Research Corp to measure Americans' activity levels. The study shows many adults seldom exercise beyond casual movements, highlighting concerns over public health and fitness trends.
A survey shows 60 million Americans exercise with 44 million walking for fitness and 18 million riding bicycles. It notes years without physical education link to inactivity, contrasts gender motives for exercise, and highlights swimming as the favored pastime with golf and bowling ranking next. It also reports Filipino servants at the White House and Smithsonian efforts to restore the Dentzel carousel.
City crews prepared the park base ball field for the 1948 KOM league season which opens May 8 with the Chanute Giants vs Miami Owls. Altoona-Walter Johnstone drills a test oil well on the Mullen farm. Nazarene church to dedicate its new house of worship at Washington and Cherry next Sunday led by Rev. Chester A. Harris.
Channels release advance schedules with last minute changes. Highlights include Hamlet starring Nicol Williamson and The Haunted West following cowboys and long drives. Other items feature Kung Fu and Stand Up and Cheer with a mix of dramas, comedies, and imports across prime time blocks.
Friday schedule lists programs across channels including Dragnet Mission Impossible Partridge Family Myriad entries from 6:30 pm to 4:35 pm with titles such as Circle of Fear Merv Griffin Love American Style and The Tonight Show across KTEW WDAF KUHI KMBC KTWU KODE WIBW KOAM and others.
New York AP column recalls a tired housewife overwhelmed by PTA, world events, and domestic duties. Jokes show her husband and children, martinis, diapers, and dinner plans shaping a funny domestic vignette.
A series of domestic questions and tensions surface in a morning exchange. Topics include money, work, pet kittens, women's liberation, dinner cravings, clothing, and a parental reluctance to engage with an X rated movie remark. The passage ends with a biblical proverb about returning rewards.
CBS presents The Haunted West a National Geographic special exploring cowboy life Yaqui religious practices and self employed miners in the modern West Bruce Shepherd and a Paradise Valley cattle crew highlight the rugged independent spirit The program balances hardship and humor and offers strong photography and storytelling for an hour of visual and emotional engagement.
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