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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1972
Page
2
Editorial notes strange lights across western Kansas fueling renewed UFO interest. Explanations range from aurora borealis and stars at altitude to a reentering Russian satellite and pranks with six foot weather balloons.
In Arizona a man asked to be crucified by a woman in a bizarre ritual. Nails through the hands and one foot, weight on a ladder, a two hour ordeal. He was hospitalized and released. The woman surrendered to police after the act. He claimed his family had left him and hoped to win them back. The incident drew local shock and questions about motive.
The column critiques corn genetic tinkering by Corn Refiners Assn and plant geneticist Dr. Alexander, noting risks of disease susceptibility and unknown long term effects. It cites waxy-maize starch uses and consumer interest, then shifts to TV schedules, film, sports, and local notices from Chanute newspaper.
TV networks released advance schedules making it impossible to publish last minute programming changes. Viewers should expect substitutions and shifting air times as channels finalize lineups for upcoming broadcasts.
A dense daytime and evening grid lists KCMO Channel 5 KUHI 16 KOAM 7 KMBC 9 KTWU 11 KODE 12 WIBW 13 KTEW 2 Chanute 3 WDAF 4 with cartoons sports and religious programs. The page includes long hour by hour entries from morning through Sunday messages and credits a Bible verse at the end.
President Nixon pushes tax credits for parochial school parents to win Catholic votes. Treasury tax experts repeatedly rebuff the idea in confidential memoranda, revealing internal policy clashes over the plan.
Parochial critics warn tax credits would complicate the code hinder enforcement and escape control. President Nixon, listening to political advisers over economists, keeps the idea alive for perceived political gain amid memo warnings from John Erlichman and Edwin Cohen noting advisability concerns in 1969 and 1970.
Report covers clashes between youthful demonstrators and police during the 1972 Republican National Convention. It details incidents at 17th Street gates, injuries, gas, and ambulances, with observers noting 3000 Youth for Nixon as paid supporters and Nixon and Eagleton topics discussed by Cohen on tax credits.
The Chanute board of education won authorization to levy 2.5 mills above the legal limit and sent the budget to the county clerk. Supt James B Hutton said all teaching staff positions are filled with J A Knight taking the commerce and mathematics instructor post. Fifty years earlier, in 1922, work on paying North Steuben would begin next week as contractors unload machinery and prepare to start Monday.
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