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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1955
Page
4
Lester T. Sunderland known as L T and Sunderland to Cha mute residents steered Ash Grove through decades of growth. He died at 87 in Kansas City after shaping payrolls, research, and plant expansion. He pushed hospital construction here and built a lasting community presence.
The essay discusses a recurring fashion shift from flat styles to curves, noting broader shoulders and six piece dresses with a new Y line. It argues women seek uniforms in style yet fear bold departures, while highlighting the fashion industry’s economic stakes and men’s reactions to wardrobe changes.
The column cites Hoover asserting crime is waning since the war as a natural trend while noting varied forecasts in business and society. It highlights GM's potential 1955 profits reaching $1.3 billion, describes long expanses like King Ranch, and wry observations on fashion, religion, crime, pageantry, and future safety belt use.
McCune Herald reports a travel trip where things broadened then turned flat with the journey described as all right overall.
A jumble of short notes and quips on social events and courtroom whispers. The column mocks public manners with snippets about dress, cheering, baseball optimism, domestic disputes, and a Chanute anecdote about a patent medicine.
Twenty five years ago a large barn at FE H Tanquary farm three miles southeast of the city burned with hay grain a Ford car harness and other equipment. An explosion during a well deepening operation seriously injured E R Doc Thurman who was in a nearby area. His condition was critical at the hospital. A harmony grange concert will highlight the annual ice cream social at Harmony School House near Chanute Thursday night. Mrs Robert Douglas recovering after Chicago hospital operation. Arthur Strobel spent weekend in Eureka.
The piece notes rodeo performers endure harsher conditions than football or daredevil stunts. It describes crowd behavior shifts, family attire, and the seriousness of cowboys who must follow strict rules while maneuvering bucking horses and lassoing calves.
The piece notes a rift in the Democratic Party between Senator Alben Barkley and Speaker Sam Rayburn over the Natural Gas Bill. Rayburn's push split the caucuses as he secured passage by a slim six-vote margin, aided by absences and defections, amid broader party tensions and court/regulated gas policy debates.
Dr. George W. Crane extolls U S industry as the nation’s wartime backbone and a driver of town growth. He cites case studies from New York and Monessen and urges communities to form a Compliment Club to recognize local plants.
Answers address five questions. 1 The phrase Mr and Mrs Brown should omit back and omit his wife. 2 Rendezvous pronunciation is ran de voo with stress on first syllable. 3 The misspelled word is Tonsilitus. correct is Tonsillitis. 4 Embellish means to beautify or decorate. 5 A word beginning with lu meaning clarity is lucidly.
Gov. Fred Hall reappointed Harold N. Clausen of Topeka to the Committee on State Purchases for the State Welfare Department.
Legal notice announces bids to build eleven blocks of curb and gutter and paving 1% blocks of concrete paving and five blocks with asphaltic mat surface. Bids due by August 1th at 1 P M. Specifications on file in City Clerk's office. Howard Parbons, City Clerk.
New York columnist notes Europe lacks ragweed due to full tilled land while the United States has unused fields. Dr. Rudolph Mayer links ragweed pollen to hay fever and predicts rising cases as European land use changes and modern prosperity grows.
Biweekly sale featuring beds tables chairs dressers divans and bedding plus kitchen ware lamps a Philco radio a Victrola and garden tools Also a 1938 Ford a 1942 Ford a 1940 Plymouth boat sewing machine ice boxes and new silk dress material We buy and sell.
The Chanute Tribune notes Dr Mayer, who arrived in 1942, as an exception in the country. After 25 years studying allergies, she worries hay fever and remarks it's not trivial. Tribby carrier rate listed as 80¢ weekly.
The page lists TV listings for channels 4 6 7 12 with a dense schedule of programs from morning to night. It notes cartoons, serials, game shows, dramas, variety hours, news, weather, and sports segments across multiple time blocks and stations.
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