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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1971
Page
7
A Chamber of Commerce survey of 325 members found 89 percent favored expanding the city commission from three to five members. Fifty four members replied about 17 percent. Chamber President George McCune said the survey shows strong interest in the change and believes the outcome favors enlargement.
A year into operation at the University of Kansas Medical Center the emergency medical training program has 322 graduates including 162 highway patrolmen as of June 30. The course funded in part by the U S Department of Transportation offers 40 hours of training covering medical topics and emergency care.
Daily Transcript lists visiting hours from 2 to 4 pm and 6 30 to 8 pm. Census shows 53 adults and pediatrics with three babies. Today lists Mrs Geneva Woods and multiple other local residents including Harlin Lovett and Sally Fulps. Police citations include Freddie Markham for failure to yield right of way and profane language with a $25 cash bond, and Jim Crowl for driving without a license with a $10 bond. trials dates set in Sept. 1971.
NATO and the United States accept losing their naval headquarters on Malta. The alliance offered money to Maltese Prime Minister Dom Mintoff to move the headquarters and keep ports and airfields open to the West. The Malta HQ is to relocate to Naples.
St Louis hosts Houston in preseason game as Charley Johnson returns to Busch Stadium. Johnson, ex-Cardinal and Oilers QB, asserted this will be his best year. Houston boasts two preseason NFL games to St Louis one. Jim Hart named starter for the Cardinals opener.
Los Angeles AP report notes Jack Gardner, former Kansas State and Utah coach, elected to the United Savings Helms Hall College Basketball Hall of Fame. The article also mentions Malta negotiations with Britain over naval base rents and NATO aid discussions.
Frank L. Piley, 72, Humboldt, died Thursday at Neosho Memorial Hospital after an extended illness. Born August 3, 1899 in Alexandria Indiana, he moved to Humboldt in 1954 from Okemah Oklahoma. Survived by daughter Angeline Fasion Bethany Oklahoma son Buster Piley Tulare California mother May McGuinn Humboldt sister Jane Murphy Emporia brother Joe Piley Lawrence and 10 grandchildren. Funeral at Price Funeral Home Humboldt 1 p.m. Monday with Rev. Leroy Foreman officiating Burial in Pleasant Ridge Cemetery Olpe Kansas.
Egg listings show Grade A Extra Large at 34 cents and Grade A Large at 33 cents per dozen. The market references current receipts and local pricing amid steady supply conditions.
The Chamber of Commerce will host a reception for City Manager Kenneth Sanborn from 9 30 to 11 a m Monday in the Chamber office. Hans Herold chamber president said the event gives Chanute residents a chance to meet Sanborn over coffee and the public is invited to attend.
Red Cross regional safety programs director Bob Fisher of Wichita will lead a series of safety talks in Chanute. He starts at 9:15 a.m. with water safety instructors at the Municipal Pool, then 11 a.m. at Ash Grove Cement on electrical shock treatment and injury checks, 1:30 p.m. with Neosho County Community Junior College on student first aid, and 4:30 p.m. with the Red Cross first aid instructors at the junior college.
The Massachusetts Classic at Pleasant Valley Country Club sees 55 players par or better after two rounds as leaders John Schlee and George Johnson share 136 eight under. Tom Weiskopf 137 and Sam Snead 144 pace a field missing Palmer Nicklaus Trevino and Player with Boros at 143.
The Kansas Attorney General tells the Board of Health it must publish yearly abortion counts from state hospitals while preserving patient anonymity. Eight thousand five hundred forty nine therapeutic abortions were reported in the first year under the law. The board also schedules seven ambient air hearings across seven cities and orders seven businesses to report pollution data within 60 days.
All Nippon Airways reported a near miss over Shimonoseki at 5000 feet when a Japan Air Self Defense Force T34 trainer crossed within 800 meters of ANA Friendship 274 from Kitakyushu to Osaka. The incident prompted a JASDF investigation.
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