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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1957
Page
3
The Legislature abolished the property tax discount, erasing a 1 percent savings that kept taxpayers from paying early. Neosho County faces higher costs for schools and county government. First half taxes due next December will reveal easier or deferred payments and potential delinquencies by June.
The Wichita Eagle recalls a case where Dorothy Moorer of Chanute faced forgery charges. She served 11 months, was paroled, and was later re-arrested amid new forgery allegations. The arrest of Lucille Jones suggested Moorer may have been wrongly accused, highlighting the presumption of innocence and caution in criminal justice.
Observational snippets note a Mexico City earthquake anxiety, a do nothing Congress with Truman absent, Billy Graham’s drought tied meetups, a neighbor’s lazy college-age daughter and a joke about Madison Avenue reruns.
A column notes front yard shower baths as simple entertainment for children using a yard hose sprinkler and water. It praises the low cost and easy setup, contrasts with older routines, and argues showers cool kids on hot days and help them sleep.
Dr. Crane urges public action after alcohol related crashes and 40,000 annual deaths. He cites 9 of 15 Chicagoland deaths linked to alcohol and describes a college coed who became permanently feebleminded after a crash. He warns about narrow bridges and suggests quick roadbed widening with steel rails.
A bemused note recalls a patron who forgot his corkscrew and riffs on restaurant habits. The piece humorously suggests that diners rarely cash checks and calls for clear boundaries between sports and dining. It playfully imagines boxers avoiding baseball crossovers and diamond stars sticking to their own games.
Twenty five years ago contractor Ben Keith suffered a right leg fracture when pinned under a rolling door while inspecting the new division highway building after work. Mary Frances Coomes, 16, near St Paul, fractured both bones of her left leg above the ankle when thrown from a horse yesterday. Mrs. Guy O Gardner hosted a 1 pm luncheon at the country club for visiting Mrs Bodley of Dodge City and others. Exries are coming in slowly for the annual city tennis tournament. Fifty years ago Walter Smith reported a gas well on the J M Smith farm five miles east of Chanute with 480 acres under lease as development continued. C E Conklin and Eugene left to attend the Jamestown Exposition visiting Philadelphia relatives for a month or six weeks. Since Nov 7 the Sailors family endured four fires from Stark barns to Mrs Zimmerman’s house, marking a period of repeated blazes.
Washington report attributes a full page pro Hoffa ad in the Afro American to John Cowling of Wayne County Michigan. Investigations show the Detroit Citizens Civic Committee named as sponsor is unregistered and likely a fabrication to sway nine Negro jurors in the Hoffa trial.
A collage of humorous exchanges and short vignettes. The text includes dialogue between Mrs. Pepper and Mrs. Smythe about youthfulness, a punny Father-son moment clarifying pro and con, a warden and boy exchange over a fish, and a mountain man tale about a hard town ground. Baseball heaven jokes and office banter appear alongside travel wisdom and a folksy warning about auto wrecks.
The 1699 Quaker Meeting House, long the oldest in the United States, has been repurposed as a city community center for children in Newport Rhode Island. The notice also lists AP republication rights and local subscription rates for Neosho Allen Wilson and Woodson Counties.
Kansas City officials say a cracked fuel line likely caused the explosion on a Swope Park excursion boat Sunday night injuring 10 people. The incident prompted emergency response and an investigation into the vessel’s fuel system.
The text lists five grammar and vocabulary queries with corrected forms and pronunciations. It identifies fallen and broken as the proper past perfect idea, gives a phonetic for telescopic with the stress on the third syllable, selects patronise as misspelled among the options, defines formidable as exciting fear and dangerous, and provides ha starting word meaning risky as hazardous.
A packed lineup lists Phil Silvers Last of the Mohicans Wyatt Earp Mickey Rooney Broken Arrow and more across 7 to 10 p m. Includes game shows Beefeater Studio Kitchen and Riverdale style dramas with a dense array of program titles and times.
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