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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1966
Page
6
The Mexican company Ballet Folklorico brings 75 dancers and singers on a tour of Australia using pink snack-style luggage. A crew member notes the distinctive color helps keep group cohesion and luggage tracking during travel.
A fragment notes luggage described as horreed peenk and states it always comes back, according to director Madame Amalia Hernandez.
The Kansas Medical Society reports an increasing shortage of doctors across Southeast Kansas. The Associated Press writer notes growing gaps in medical staffing affecting patient access and rural health services in the region.
In southeast Kansas rural areas face a critical lack of physicians. Executive director Oliver E Ebel says while most of Kansas medical needs are met, shortages persist in the southeast and some western regions. Efforts to recruit are hampered by internship and mandatory two years of military service for doctors. He notes factors drive where doctors practice.
Neosho County Kansas public notice states a meeting on August 1, 1966 at 1 30 PM in Erie to hear objections and answer taxpayers questions about proposed tax levy changes. Virg il Lowe clerk Kenneth D Casper chairman. The docket includes indebtedness valuations tax levies and total expenditures.
Grace Episcopal Church hosts a Sunday Folk Mass at 7 PM sung by parish youths and friends. The service uses traditional Holy Communion with choral parts by teenagers in a contemporary folk style, featuring guitars and syncopated rhythms. A watermelon feed in Sawyer Hall follows, benefiting the youth group.
In Hollywood the wife of Batman sidekick Burt Ward has given birth to a 7-pound girl. The child is the couple’s first, not yet named, with Burt Ward and Bonney Ward married in Pocatello Idaho on July 19 1965.
In London Kentucky two teen-agers fashioned a miniature moonshine still inside the city jail using coffee and tobacco cans copper tubing and other odds and ends from their cell. They prepared mash by mixing water with crumbled cornbread and sugar salvaged from meals.
On this date in 1858 the first transatlantic cable connected Trinity Bay Newfoundland to Valentia Ireland marking a landmark in communications. Subsequent notes recall US aid to Latin America in 1956 and Cuban currency reform in recent history.
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