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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1964
Page
6
A miscellany of trivia and quips from mid century. Population views on aging contrast with a Harvard study showing a small share of seniors calling themselves elderly. Nuggets cover insurance costs, ocean wealth, and global city life, with jokes and folklore.
In Portugal an electric locomotive plowed into a rear of a passenger train near Santarem injuring 35. It followed two other recent mishaps on the privately owned Portuguese Railway Co, with 89 killed in a July derailment near Oporto and one hurt near Guimaraes last Sunday.
New York AP reports the average American family uses about 1 480 bottles and jars annually the most among rigid containers. Some glass packages are discarded after use while others such as milk bottles are reused many times. Glass packaged products span from sweet milk to sour pickles and beyond.
Erie voters learn the East and West Erie precincts will each have receiving and counting boards named. East Erie lists Mmes. Beard Gam brill Stanley Beech Jacobs Archer Ellsworth Culbertson Harris Wheeles and Watkins directing Good Will Tours travelers. West Erie lists Mmes. Casady Redmond Mahar Ewing Wright and Richardson Baker Naff Shackelton Locke with Watkins directing.
Allen W. Dulles, former CIA chief and Warren Commission member, urged that presidents be shielded by Secret Service and ride in armored cars with minimal advance notice after Kennedy's assassination. He spoke on Opinion in the Capital on Metropolitan Broadcasting. He also noted defenses should be heightened for public appearances.
A two hour riot at the scene of a minor traffic accident in Kansas City left six injured, including five policemen and a Black man. Police dispersed about 1,500 demonstrators with dogs and night sticks. nine arrests were made. One man was shot in the left arm after a brick attack. two cars collided and one plunged into a creek. Driver Margaret Dunaway, 47, had minor injuries.
Lincoln Illinois AP report says Bill Cheesbourg of Tucson Arizona finished 15th in the 1964 Indianapolis 500 but was cited for speeding 76 in a 65 zone on Route 66 near Lincoln. Police towed him and court fined him 11 dollars.
A brief local item from the Chanute Tribune dated August 3 1964 on page six, with limited readable content and no clear event or names available.
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