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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1962
Page
6
The Chanute election shows how a handful of votes decide outcomes. With 2 204 votes from 5 527 registered voters about 40 percent turnout, the piece argues an 80 90 percent turnout would have changed the result. It calls for voting procedure changes to reduce human error in vote recording.
The text argues that recounts may alter totals but not relative standings, criticizing easy challenges to voting records. It suggests modernizing primary recount laws without solving the root causes and assigns responsibility to winning candidates to reform the voting system after elections.
The narrator recalls a Westward trip to Samarkand, Uzbekistan, describing ancient monuments rebuilt under Tamerlane, blue tiled tombs, and mosques rivaling Istanbul. He contrasts Arab influence with lingering Islam against Communist modernization, and depicts local dress, language, and people from old turbans to knee-length western outfits.
Tribune Files recalls 25 years ago when the four-county area including Neosho Allen Wilson and Woodson would gain about 2 million as August crop estimates from federal and state agencies projected increased wealth. WPA plans for Chanute sidewalks and oil well counts are noted along with births and deaths.
A collage of brief items notes stray rumors and light gossip across multiple papers. Mentions include a Western Union style reference to a fall publication and a joke about a space telescope project in West Virginia. The reports mix light local chatter with broader media trends and unclear claims.
The article explains metastasis as the dangerous phase of cancer spreading through the blood or lymph systems, notes that this makes treatment urgent, and cites that about one in three can be saved with timely care. It discusses primary versus metastatic bone cancer and mentions Dr. Meiner cere and treatment aims.
Drew Pearson recalls a return to Pec in the Balkans where past wars shaped the town now under Tito. He describes the Turkish house, a garden, a lamb, and a chance handshake with Ymer Luta who remembered him as Pearson from Philadelphia during a visit with American Quaker aid workers.
A Baltimore AP report notes temperatures around 98 degrees while a Bellona Avenue sign near Lake Roland still reads Icy Road. The scene mixes summer heat with a frozen warning in a city street setting.
Prairie View residents listed visitors and callers over the weekend including Mrs Clair Barnett and Linda Allen Barnett, Mr and Mrs George Klotzbach, and families from Joliet AL. Chris and Sandra Lakin visited their Kansas City grandmother. Lois Brenger and Melvin Bruenger and family visited Albert Lassman’s household Monday evening.
An item noting the Tribune newspaper is advertised by carrier delivery at a weekly price of 35 cents.
Chanute Tribune published in Highland Kansas by Chanute Publishing Company. Dwight McCreight as publisher with department managers listed. Circulation by Mrs Leland Lowe. advertising by John Hovorka. news by Dwight Wallingford. press by Dorsey Osborn. Postage paid at Chanute. Subscription rates shown for Neosho Allen Wilson Woodson counties and outside four counties.
TV guide style rundown lists channels and prime time lineups for Saturday and Monday with programs like Perry Mason Gunsmoke Have Gun Will Travel and Dr Kildare along with daytime offerings The schedule includes 4 States Daily news weather and various game shows and soaps across stations KOTV KODE TV WDAF KOAM and more with time blocks from morning until late night.
Raymond Auger in New York operates an electronic painter that uses a perforated paper roll to drive a clamp brush system. For $2 he activates the machine which dips brushes in four colors and spins on a stand, producing shifting abstract impressions that amuse passersby.
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