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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1955
Page
4
Views of the News argues a British sponsored WWII history overstresses Britain's planning role in the Normandy invasion and claims Americans faced chaos. It notes U S arms, equipment, and troops were decisive and predicts future histories will swing toward Allied minimization, paralleled by Swiss historians’ detachment.
A long folk tale warns that borrowing the neighbor’s paper is risky and costly. A stingy man sends his son to fetch a copy, leading to a chain of accidents: bees sting the boy, pants ripped, cow eats corn, churn spills, baby crawls through cream, carpet ruined, daughter runs off with the hired man, dog disrupts fowl, calves chew shirts. The moral remains clear.
A satirical column notes Kansas has a grand new executive mansion with one flaw the piper in the living room. It jokes about national disease groups and a spring fever charity, Ike’s heart attack and a remote cabinet retreat, and recalls Joe McCarthy’s fading memory. It playfully mocks currency and policy while predicting a tele visionary president.
Twenty five years ago Chanute planned a Christmas gathering with free sandwiches and coffee for shoppers and townspeople, plus a free children’s picture show and an afternoon Santa visit. Also reported a hold up at Self Service over cash shortages and lake petition activity.
Do it yourself season prompts decisions from card purchases to gift lists and holiday spending. The piece reflects on Christmas trees cards and the dilemma of responding to gift and greeting habits amid year end bustle.
A Kansas City Kansan dispatch notes a man with five wives and 31 children and questions the baby sitter issue. The Augusta Gazette bitterly mocks teen vanity. The Hartford Courant quips that experts say parents fail to raise children while neighbors often do so.
Washington columnist Drew Pearson argues Democrats hinder probes by touring and focusing on political fences. He notes FCC deintermixture ruling harming small UHF stations and boosting large VHF outlets, with Rosel Hyde and Robert Bartley criticizing the move as detrimental to UHF service.
Dr. Crane outlines methods to aid conception including timing around the 15th day before a woman's next period, vaginal acidity adjustments, and spacing births every 18 to 24 months. He argues that early children stabilize marriage and notes age is less limiting due to modern maternity care.
Chanute Tribune 13-158 Highland Chanute announces consolidation with The Daily Timeset The Chanute Publishing Company by Ernest W Johnson editor and James Fehrenbach advertising manager. Publication remains evenings except Sunday with post office second class status under 1879 act. Awards and circulation notes included.
The item asks five quick language questions. They cover correct phrasing for forbidding contact, pronunciation of arraign, identifying a misspelled word among options, defining prophetic, and starting a word with a given prompt.
A reader quiz lists five prompts about words and meanings. It asks for the word meaning uprightness integrity pronunciation of ah rain with stress on the second syllable and notes prophetic significance related to a prophet or prophecy.
Former stockholders in Black Marshall Oil Co. stand to gain about three million dollars from an appeals court ruling. Attorneys say properties and stock were sold to the National Cooperative Refinery Assn. in 1947 for roughly 15.5 million dollars. Plaintiffs allege misrepresentation after buying shares for 10 to 12 dollars in 1944 45 and selling as high as 52 dollars. The 1953 ruling by U S District Judge Delmas C. Hills was reversed by the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver.
The Chanute Tribune notes that on Thursday December 1 1955 Judge Hill was directed to carry out findings for stock holders and receivers in a court proceeding.
Carter Glass Jr. 62 a copublisher and general manager of the Lynchburg News and Daily Advance died at 4 15 this morning in a local hospital after suffering a brain hemorrhage last night.
A brief reader notice announces the Tribune available by carrier at a weekly rate of 80 cents. It emphasizes affordable home delivery and encourages subscription for local readers.
A fragmented log lists multiple TV programs with times and show titles across daytime and evening slots. It preserves era style with entries like Dragnet George Gobel Today in 4 States and Love of Life, noting various channels or stations and scattered times.
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