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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1973
Page
2
Editorial notes the Supreme Court upheld the 1968 Consumer Credit Protection Act’s truth in lending rules. It highlights the Fed regulations requiring disclosure of total price and finance charges on installments, aiming to curb hidden costs and protect buyers from outrageous interest.
Displaced Kansan Robert Francis Kane promotes a feature story on New York graffiti and a Kansas subway car. He notes costs of cleanup, quotes Mayor Lindsay, and a youth graffiti artist about self expression, while acknowledging his own limited judging experience.
The Kansas Division of Property Valuation leads a statewide revaluation to standardize farm land values across 200 by 400 mile Kansas. Director Harold Rohmiller warns the task will take years and must progress in a single tax year, despite unknown completion timing mandated by the state Supreme Court. The goal is to prevent value gaps as land prices rise and to avoid county-to-county delays seen in 1963 reappraisal efforts.
Washington residents recall a widening Watergate saga with Magruder Liddy and Dean central to the unraveling. Fresh accounts claim Nixon had no advance knowledge while Ehrlichman Colson and Mitchell faced mounting pressure as the coverup collapsed under internal investigation.
New York AP reviewer Jay Sharbutt previews a CBS documentary about television advertising. The 57 minute program examines FTC actions, major advertisers, counter commercials, and how viewer response is measured while featuring defenses from Archibald Foster and others.
The Senior Y Teen Club plans a March 6 Dimes Walk-a-thon for Saturday May 5. The 13 mile route starts and ends at the high school gym with Susie Wilkes Rhonda Agosto and Sandy York as general chairmen.
Channel guide lists late evening blocks featuring Oliver Twist and The Waltons amid numerous 1950s to 1960s programs. Includes Krafts such as Kung Fu, Petticoat Junction, Dragnet, Lassie, and Gunslinger era specials with stars like Alec Guinness and Henry Fonda.
The Friday evening lineup lists Criss Award Royals Dugout Outdoors and many classics. Major shows include High Chaparral Mission Impossible Partridge Family Love American Style Odd Couple and The Tonight Show amid late night features and specials.
Twenty five years ago Thomas W Williamson Co of Topeka was selected to design and oversee construction of a 50 bed Neosho county hospital. The board favored architectural concrete and approved interior work costing about 4000 with towers priced around 7000. Also St Patricks church to be completed this summer. Kenneth D Jones of Parsons facing multiple charges after police call at 3 am including destroying public property and reckless driving with bond set at 500.
Pittsburg city commission voted to issue 475000 in industrial revenue bonds to build and equip a new Ace Forms Inc plant in the regional industrial park. Ace Forms makes business forms and will staff the facility once completed.
Construction has started on a doctor’s building at West Seventh in Coffeyville. It will house four medical men and is part of the downtown renewal project. The site was purchased from the Coffeyville Urban Renewal Agency and can be expanded to add two more office suites if needed.
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