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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1972
Page
2
The Chanute Tribune urges residents to unite for June 6 hearings as the Highway Commission considers routes for a new highway link from north of Iola to south of Chanute. It warns against heated disputes and stresses preparation by community groups to promote one or two feasible routes.
The 1969 freeway law reduces a highway commissioner’s power to decide bond road spending. In the past local ties guided construction. now bond funds follow an agreed formula. Officials say politics will be minimized, making the program a public interest plus and a model for future Kansas highways.
A spring meditation on seasonal renewal and weeds in the yard. The piece muses on April’s fragrances and colors, then shifts to humor about lawn care and a comic tale of a cat with altered behavior after a joke about spaying or neutering.
Prime time schedule features To Die in Paris with Louis Jourdan and The Death of Me Yet with Doug McClure Darren McGavin and Rosemary Forsyth. Also previews Assignment Munich and Assignment Vienna, plus gala concert honoring Rudolf Bing and popular favorites Hee Haw Lassie and Emergency.
A biblical verse notes that Cain left the Lord’s presence and settled in the land of Nod to the east of Eden, Genesis chapter four verse sixteen.
The 1972 Kansas Legislature overhauls groundwater management to form districts, with voting by irrigation users and landowners over 40 acres. Other measures raise brand fees, regulate brucellosis sales, exempt self propelled vehicles from registration, and modify county extension structure while removing goat grass from noxious weeds list. The session also urged meat import quotas and restricted state fair sites to Hutchinson.
On this date in 1945 American soldiers liberated 32,000 Nazi victims at Dachau concentration camp in Germany. Also noted are Joan of Arc’s Orleans victory in 1429 and New Orleans falling to Union forces in 1862. Jacob Coxey’s Army march to compel jobs is listed for 1894.
Washington reports that the Navy’s new Fairbanks Morse sewage system is unreliable on test ship USS Canopus, risking a spill near Holy Loch. Plans to use holding tanks and lighter barges face space and pier constraints, while political pressure to show progress persists.
In Tokyo 16 and 28 former Japanese leaders were indicted as war criminals. A Soviet astronaut who orbited the globe 17 times visited the U.S. A government project to build two prototype supersonic transports received presidential approval. The U.S. would keep a residual military force in South Vietnam if prisoners were not released.
The Chanute Athletics, 1946 champions, start the KOAM season at City Park tonight against the Pittsburg Browns. Festivities include band music, flag raising, pennant ceremony, first ball toss by a city official, and an umpire call to play ball. Wheat and oats fields and fruit trees are budding as spring advances.
TV schedule broadens across channels KUHI KOAM KMBC and more with daytime blocks featuring Cartoons like Bugs Bunny Road Runner Scooby Doo Pink Panther and Mighty JJS. Evening lineup includes Gunsmoke Ellery Queen Here's Lucy Sonny and Cher Bataman Tonight Show and regional news.
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