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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1959
Page
4
The piece argues for keeping Khrushchev healthy during his U.S. visit, asserting a live leader benefits global security. It contrasts this with Kansas merchandising laws, noting the Kansas fair trade and unfair practices acts were struck down, removing protections for sellers and buyers.
A contemporary commentary argues that while retailers will be guided by self imposed rules, competition remains intense with no hyphenated restraint. The piece notes emphasis on hard selling within a supposedly free market while avoiding unrestricted behavior.
A brief verse quotes 1 Peter 2 21 urging that it is better not to know righteousness than to learn and later turn from the holy commandment given to believers.
A collection of offbeat comments on society from do it yourself yard lights to hot topics like city street lighting costs. Notes on Forbes Air Force Base leadership, divorce trends, and public opinion surveys reveal local humor and faint satire about contemporary life and civic affairs.
A collection of humorous clippings from small papers. The notes include stagecoach era dining, a quoted quarrel ending with a quick exit, claims about cigarette filters reducing lung cancer, jokes about hernias from smoking through weeds, and a cheeky note on hotel chefs testing melon ripeness by scent and a nod to drunk driving tests.
Wall Street Journal notes researchers explored novel cigarette tastes and scents such as apple blossom rum cinnamon and carnation. A tobacco substitute cigarette using vegetable fibers is being pitched and may face tax equal to tobacco products. The piece jokes about a hay scented cigarette and a corner paper offering a retro barnyard echo.
About 320 acres of pasture and meadow east of Big Creek and north of K39 burned at noon. Firefighters from between Stark and Chanute contained it. no buildings burned and livestock escaped. A separate Chanute robbery: A. F. VanWickle reports two bandits robbed him of his Ford, $35, and a gold pocket watch two miles south of Chanute on Plummer road.
President Eisenhower and Premier Khrushchev prepare for talks in Europe with Berlin tensions unresolved. Geneva 1955 outlined three key conflicts: German reunification, overseas bases, and disarmament. Washington hopes for understanding rather than full agreements as they move toward September meetings.
British diplomats in Geneva shifted from suspicion to approval of a Khrushchev Eisenhower summit, citing fear of atomic war as the motive. The piece traces this reversal from Fulton to postwar policy, noting Churchill’s earlier push for a summit and Britain’s long anxiety over Russia.
The Chanute Tribune 1915 edition lists Ernest W. Jonneon as editor and publisher with department managers including James B. Sheridan and Dwight Wallingford. It notes mailing logistics, office staff, and classified receipt of subscriptions, along with rates for Neosho Allen Wilson Woodson counties and outside areas.
Savonburg residents and relatives are visiting or traveling in a sequence of family gatherings. Amy Lamb tours her kin in Olson and Finger households, with Jaunt to Iola to see Earl Garrison and Flora Price returns home from Topeka. Eva Lindberg hosts kin in a Sunday gathering, and plans a move to Roseville California with A E Lindberg Susan and Curtis.
A dense listing of TV airings across channels 4 6 7 12 for Thursday and Friday. Programs include westerns news game shows soap operas cartoons and variety hours with shows such as Zane Grey Theatre Tex TV episodes and late night movies.
Weekend guests included Mr. and Mrs. Richard Lowe and Mr. and Mrs. Donald Mitchell from Fort Leonard Wood along with Mr. and Mrs. Sam George and family and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Baker. C. M. Barsby hosted Sunday dinner for student pastor Charles Coble. Mrs. Cora Haworth of Savonburg fractured a bone after a fall and was taken to Neosho Memorial Hospital in Chanute for treatment.
Dr George W Crane recounts Betty Z 28 whose fireman husband died at 31 leaving 1000 life insurance. She buys a 900 funeral. mortician counsels saving 750 for her three children. Betty storms out but the mortician stands firm offering a modest 150 option.
In Altoona notices, local families visit and travel, a funeral for 97 year old Charles King is noted with burial in Altoona cemetery, and a Reader questions the funeral price structure. The piece discusses embalming as a surgical process and mortician duties, including time and real estate investments behind funeral costs.
The piece discusses funeral routines from home to church to cemetery and the role of pallbearers flowers and obituaries. It criticizes inflated charges and argues workers’ wages compare with stockholders, praising morticians who advise grieving families to curb extravagant funeral spending.
Dren of Bartlesville and various relatives visit ill parents in Bartlesville and Topeka. Celeste Brown visits her mother in Ponca City while Sheryll Cranor stays with grandparents in Fall River. Keaton family guests in Cushing. Opal Hoover returns to Topeka after visiting Ernest and Mrs Dunbar. Paul Collins family from Wichita visits, and Lynn Aldridge guests Rolfe family. Irvin Carver from Denver visits Ernest Dunbar. Lorna Smyers vacationing with E. W. Smyers in Kansas City. National Guard members Mustain, Barnhart, and Lour train for two weeks at Camp Guernsey, Wyoming.
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