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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1957
Page
4
In Cherryvale a lopsided 66 to 187 vote approved a $75,000 bond to fund a medical center. The plan aims to attract a physician, improving access as the town has only one semi retired doctor. The piece notes broader ideas about public investment in private enterprise and public welfare.
A satirical piece compares the Topeka statehouse to a pest invaded by many political factions and then by German cockroaches. The piece mocks locked doors and complex key systems, arguing the building’s security is so convoluted that an infestation seems inevitable and even preferable to worse administrations.
A fragmented satirical column lampoons ads politics and social trends. It notes a mausoleum maker on TV breakfast, a custody dispute, college fashion, congressional burnout, and public spending while poking at politicians and everyday life.
Twenty five years ago city commissioners set September 6 as the bid date for a 45000 bond issue to fund street and sewer improvements. A tank truck overturned on North Plummer, ditch cleanup, 600 gallons of gasoline lost, and a police traffic education program to start next week with officers at three signal intersections. Local residents and visitors from Denver Tulsa Erie Parson s cited in a day’s social notes. Fifty years ago a gas well west of Chanute produced 33780000 cubic feet daily as rural mail carrier A C Williamson was kicked unconscious by his team. John Trammell helped rescue him. More than 100 men work on a cement plant north of town.
A columnist notes that Atlantic City Miss America measurements show only minute differences from last year with predicted bust hip waist figures around 35 42 24 35 4. He laments evolving judging criteria from quick visual judgment to multiple attributes and offers a throwback proposal to three judges and a speedy decision.
Washington report contrasts two Negro press takes on Jimmy Hoffa after his acquittal. Afro American cites Hoffa’s desegregation stance and potential gains for Black workers, while Chicago Defender recounts a 1944 FEPC meeting moment and Hoffa’s alleged hostile reaction to Negro drivers on long hauls. Joe Louis attended to display support.
Dr. Crane urges not to rush into divorce and presents a 200 point set of marriage tests for husbands and wives. He stresses weekly dates, attending church together, daily compliments, and active effort to improve communication to salvage unhappy marriages, especially with children.
The Chanute Tribune publishes locally with Chanute Publishing Company and editor Ernest W. Johnson. It lists mailing rates for Neosho Allen Wilson and Woodson counties, plus outside counties, with monthly and annual options.
Frank Tallman, a 30 year old pilot and former Navy flier, plans a museum in the sky by collecting and restoring World War I to mid century aircraft. He hopes to fly relics at American air shows rather than keep them in a dusty display, drawing on Hollywood stunt work and Europe to build a rare collection of nine planes.
Tallman owns a 1917 Sopwith Camel worth a bundle and once flew it from Hollywood to Washington, praising its authenticity. He notes the Camel had no throttle or brakes and used castor oil fuel, making landings tricky. The plane cost 8000 in 1917, and he would not sell it for 15000.
Nearly half of British Honduras's 60 000 residents live in Belize City, indicating urban concentration and regional demographics.
A shiftless man in a Kansas town slept in after a coon hunt with shoes and clothes on. His wife woke him and he joked he had on his good shoes. A string of neighbors and animals collide in a humorous exchange ending with a tire losing air.
Two young painters visit a modern art exhibition. The first jokes that he cannot paint without using his brains. The second quips that while everything in homes is operated by switches, children are the exception.
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