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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1957
Page
4
Governor Docking and the 1958 Kansas Legislature confront a persistent budget imbalance. Options focus on higher property taxes or a broader sales tax, with prior efforts to shift sales tax residue blocked. A refresher review by the Legislative Council is urged to equip lawmakers for an election year tax decision.
Twenty five years ago more than five thousand dollars, unexpectedly to most recipients, will be distributed in mid next month as the final dividend to depositors of the Fidelity State Bank which failed June 14, 1926. Other local items note poultry meetings on farms, extended business hours in Cananute, a robbery incident, a barber shop opening, KGZF radio readiness, and regional notes on last decade events.
A Pennsylvania woman births her third set of twins and a 102,000 foot balloon flight an Air Force doctor undertook hints at lofty risks. Bernard Baruch's early wealth shows youth prosperity and longevity. A Russian spy’s fate draws sympathy while cigarette myths persist. Changing times appear in mail rates youth spending and kitchen gin recalled.
A hotel shuttle question leads to no bus service being offered. Two chorus girls discuss Ruth and George with mixed signals about engagement and letters. The prosecutor labels the crime as the work of a master criminal while the defendant refuses to confess.
Literary column notes several vintage titles and author opinions. Crusoe is mocked as the original DIY man who talked to himself amid isolation with pets while modern readers balk at slow pacing and lack of sensational content. Other works are dismissed for length, lack of sex, or outdated themes.
Senator Margaret Chase Smith of Maine led a battle to block promotions in the Air Force, questioning 11 officers including Jimmy Stewart and GE executive John Montgomery. Her scrutiny, aided by assistant Bill Lewis, highlighted record edits and double standards in reserve training and led to an Armed Services Committee confirmation under courtesy to Lyndon Johnson.
Dr Crane says men rarely marry more than once unless freed by death or divorce and that wives fuel jealousy by neglect. He urges wives to boost husbands ego with affection and seek marriage guidance, promoting a booklet on sex differences in marriage with a stamped envelope.
Kansas City Power and Light Co and about 2000 striking workers enter a fresh round of negotiations aimed at ending the four day walkout. Missouri Mediation Board chair Daniel C. Rogers called yesterday's sessions constructive and expressed hope for a quick agreement. Wages dominate the dispute with the union seeking 8 percent and the utility proposing 5 percent. Supervisors operate generating stations during the strike. Today's note mentions the National Park System administering 182 parks monuments and sites.
Erie and vicinity notes report the Kiwanis weekly dinner at the Christian church basement with 18 members and a talk by Ralph Wilson about the federal soil bank program. Other items note property modernization by James Pierce, Shriners at the Central States Shrine convention in Tulsa, hospital and family visits, and the Wilbanks family moving to Arizona for a ranch teaching job.
The Health Education and Welfare Department approves a project to extend and remodel the Dodge City sewage treatment plant. The program covers expansion and modernization funded as part of an announced total cost figure.
The Chanute Tribune notes a major sewage project with a total cost of $595,000. Federal participation is estimated at $178,000, supporting local public works. The report appears in Chanute, Kansas, referencing county and regional coverage.
In Woodstock Ontario three masked gunmen in railway worker outfits boarded the Toronto Windsor mail train at dawn and held eight postal workers at gunpoint for about two minutes. They looted the mail car of an estimated 5 000 to 6 000 dollars in cash and payroll money before escaping at Ingersoll. An inside job is suspected and investigators chase leads across southern Ontario.
A dense listing of channels and times shows a full night of programs from Bob Cummings to Dragnet and Late movies. Notable items include House Party Matinee Theatre Big Payoff Queen for a Day and Your Time with a long sequence of soap operas dramas comedies and variety hours across the afternoon and evening.
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