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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1973
Page
2
A sample of headlines shows public concern from high wheat prices to Nixon era spending. It questions FBI inquiry effectiveness and executive power, while lampooning meat rationing and gas shortages. The piece envisions a children drafted TV code as a counterpoint to grim times.
Kansas patrols a spike of violence across the state with five unsolved killings near Garnett Ottawa and Olathe and a Gardnette area. The latest victim Wilma Jean Willoughby a 41 year old nurse from Wellsville whose skeleton was found after she vanished July 19. Authorities caution motorists to stay vigilant on the highway amid reports of hitchhiker cases and deadly violence.
A reader recalls a Kansas City weekend of dining at Bretton's for prime rib Majestic for steaks Gaine's Colony for trout Plaza II for steak soup Patch's 210 for rack of lamb and the Savoy Grill for lobster. A dinner with friends at Nantucket Cove fell short and lobster tails ran out.
Three months before Lyndon Johnson's death he invited Bobby Baker to the LBJ Ranch for a private reunion marking their first contact since Baker faced corruption inquiries in the 1960s. Baker recalled the warm meeting as they talked over old times.
NBC ABC and CBS push season previews as premiere week nears on Sept. 10. Promos feature orchestras, flashes of new and returning shows, and slogans while CBS stresses 17 years of top Nielsen ratings despite a writers strike that delayed production and promotions.
Monday through Friday daytime lineup lists Thicker Than Water with Julie Harris and Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour guests Mike Connors and Jean Stapleton. The schedule shows many programs from 6:30 to 12:35 including The Partridge Family Hee Haw Dracnet and The Tonight Show with Dick Cavett.
Advance schedules force publishing limits. Channel lineups list programs for KC and nearby stations. The page shows Thursday evening airings including The Waltons Lassie Dragnet and The Moon Fleet, plus sports, talk and variety blocks across KTEW WDAF KC10 KMBC and others.
A quirky column notes a bumblebee queen receives a longevity reward as her subjects die in winter, leaving her to start a new generation. It also highlights the Washington Monument resisting settling, with 56 million visitors and a six inch shift since 1834. It mentions a new Business Founding Directory listing birth dates of nearly 10,000 firms.
A pink granite corner stone was laid in the new consolidated grade and high school amid a large ceremony with hundreds of spectators from neighboring communities. Aldous Mills joins The Tribune as reporter after studying journalism locally and working for Pittsburg Headlight. Australia’s ambassador Alan Renouf returns from Paris as France’s nuclear tests draw protest and may leave a vacancy in Canberra’s Foreign Affairs leadership.
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