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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1971
Page
2
The Bulington editorial notes Marine Corps League awarded the Iron Mike to the aging actor and Veterans of Foreign Wars honored Wayne with the National Americanism Gold Medal. It questions the link to Iwo Jima and asserts Wayne was never on such battlefields.
The piece argues Ronald Reagan and John Wayne profited from battlefield heroism in film while having not served in real combat. It contends veterans groups praising them as real fighting men insults true veterans and reflects a broader confusion between cinema fiction and real war.
Four summers into the war on rats federal funds reach multiple years with HEW distributing 14.8 million for 1969 and 12.7 million for 1970 while Congress has approved 15 million for 1971. in New York City South Bronx cleanup crews kill 110 rats amid towering garbage as Abzug and delegation press for more support.
UN interview highlights estimates of 10 million people in various forms of involuntary servitude. Col Patrick Montgomery notes the 1956 Geneva Convention bans chattel slavery debt bondage and related practices. He cites cases in Africa Asia and the Americas and warns of servile marriage and child exploitation despite legal bans. In Kansas City a grand jury will review the stabbing death of Horace Humphress with a female suspect released without charges.
AP analysis notes mixed international and domestic responses to lower taxes floating dollar higher import duties and a wage price freeze. Foreign officials fault deficits while U S leaders face AFL CIO and Hodgson opposition to controls creating a split view on inflation remedies.
A humorous social column excerpt describes a hostess planning a bash for hundreds with a pig and turkey theme and a husband joking about leftovers and mismatched party ideas. The narrator extols chaotic prep from freezing odd foods to repainting the house and gathering glasses. The piece ends with a quip about not turning 30 pounds of hamburger into a silk purse.
Tonight features Gunsmoke and Mayberry programs across several time slots with Carol Diahann Carroll and Liza Minnelli on a Newley special. Other entries include Let's Make a Deal Mister Rogers and a range of talk shows and late movies with casts listed.
Television log lists channel by station with morning to late night times across multiple networks. It notes shows from Today and Jeopardy to The Tonight Show and CBS News, including soap operas, game shows, and kids programs, reflecting a dense weekday lineup.
Washington lawmakers allege IRS probes targeted them during a vote on funding a data processing center. In a secret session, Chairman Ken Gray condemned pressure tactics and cited requests to review his family’s tax records as part of the wider investigation.
A digest of hearings and political developments shows Congress scrutinizing the IRS data center audit timing, a State Department analysis warning of Nixon's Asia policy shifts, and confirmation wrangles for Federal Railroad Administrator nominee John Ingram amid a costly redecorating move. Dock strikes and Vietnam drawdown plans face ongoing tensions as Kissinger signals changes and troop withdrawals proceed.
Notable events include King George III declaring open rebellion in the American colonies in 1775, Columbus’s arrest in 1500, Ten Nights in a Barroom opening in 1858, the Church of Christ, Scientist charter in 1869, Japan declaring war in 1914, Marseille captured in 1944, Margaret Truman’s Hollywood Bowl concert in 1947, Ranger 1 launch a decade earlier, Red Guard in China five years earlier, and Abba Eban named Israel’s chief envoy a year ago.
City commissioners plan loading and unloading zones on downtown side streets to smooth meter installation. In Paris Ukraine warned the peace conference Balkans may ignite world peace fears. Chanute sent 100 delegates to a county Christian Endeavor rally in Thayer, with 500 attendees. Thayer residents fed the crowd homegrown watermelons at McLachlen Park.
Glen Campbell and Dionne Warwick rehearse in Hollywood as Campbell returns for his fourth CBS season. The show competes with Mod Squad and Ironside, prompting changes like breaking concert segments into shorter parts and experimenting with an opening from the studio audience.
A television star who spent years in the music business argues that many talented young musicians hit a success briefly and then vanish. He says they quit schooling, rushing to perform without learning how to entertain beyond singing and playing.
The note states that the Associated Press holds exclusive rights to republish all local news and AP dispatches printed in the newspaper. It declares AP’s exclusive entitlement to distribution and rebroadcast of the paper’s local coverage.
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