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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1968
Page
4
The Kansas State Parks system aims to broaden access after attracting 3.9 million visitors last year. Officials expect at least five million this year and foresee doubling within five years. Expanded facilities will require more funding, but are viewed as a profitable investment for the state economy and a boost to domestic tourism.
Personal tale about how a woman fixates on dieting and experiments with multiple weight loss plans. She sees tiny changes while the narrator discovers his own scale is lighter, suggesting misperception and irony in dieting fads. The piece mocks appetite trends and endless pamphlets.
John Hargrave was sworn in as Chanute mayor succeeding B. M. Dunham after the regular city commission meeting. The town later filled seats at Memorial auditorium for a junior high concert and a war loan drive kickoff as $38,000 of the $114,296 bond quota was contributed. Local notices mention visits and trips by Paul Villepigue W. C. Penfield W. W. Kaney and an illustrated war talk by Albert T. Reid at the Peoples theater.
Washington columnist Drew Pearson reports J Edgar Hoover has lobbied Congress to require FBI training authority for city police as a condition for federal crime funds. He reportedly sent agents to key lawmakers while Attorney General Ramsey Clark and others resist such a national policing model.
Overview of myocardial infarction concepts including artery involvement and attack severity. Includes reader letters about itchy feet from chilblains and migraine headaches with doctor recommendations and a plea to request Dr Molner's booklet on heart care.
A Chanute Tribune clipping from 1967 features multiple Ann Landers questions about marriage age gaps, a 19 year old suitor with a steel head plate, a critical 13 year old and the reader’s 5 month pregnant dilemma. The unsigned notes echo column dynamics and parental concerns.
The effort is backed by Sen. John McClellan of Arkansas a key judiciary committee member and Rep. Emanuel Celler of New York who chairs the House judiciary committee aiding the top police chiefs.
In Bluff Utah a 70 resident town uses saddle battery powered lights on a horse to deter cowboys driving home after Saturday nights. The post operator and justice say the tail lamp and front light provide protection during late hours. The lights run off a saddle battery.
A brief notice instructs readers to call the Tribune for phone access and provides an after hours contact number HE 13400 after 6 p.m.
TV tonight offers a mix of movies comedies and dramas across channels. Prime time features 7 9 12 movie blocks plus news at 10 00 with sports and public affairs programs including Gordon Parks weapon docs and fair housing discussion.
Channel listings for Chanute Wichita KVOO WDAF KCMO KOAM KMBC KODE WIBW KUHI and more show a dense morning to late night lineup. Notable events include Sunrise Series, Today Show, game shows, soaps like As World Turns and Love of Life, and prime time movies and talk shows.
National Geographic special profiles Portuguese fishermen who spend six months at sea to feed the country. Jerry Lewis Show features Count Basie and a surprise headliner. Good Morning World. N.Y.P.D.. and The Weapons of Gordon Parks round out the NBC CBS and ABC lineups with crime vigilante themes and a Parks biography.
Key events on this date include Lenin returning to Petrograd in 1917 and George Washington’s 1789 presidential inauguration preparations. Also noted are 1862 DC slavery abolition, Truman’s 1945 address to Congress, and the 1947 Texas City disaster that killed over 500.
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