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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1955
Page
4
Labor union welfare funds total about 20 billion dollars and grow by hundreds of millions yearly. While most funds are well managed, congressional probes show some officials looted funds. Union leaders oppose public regulation, claiming laws are sufficient. critics argue for targeted oversight similar to banks and insurance firms.
Glenn Martz talks with an elderly Missouri neighbor who received an old age assistance check. The man argues Truman era generosity lives on while Martz explains taxation and government finances in a plainspoken exchange. The column closes with a cautious moral about government miracles.
A humorous backward year end column notes the lack of Christmas cards and early doll play for girls and boys nearing adulthood. It mocks safe driving trends a tombstone contest idea and a keyboard change on the typewriter. It jokes about economics and a conservative US politician plus draft exemption concerns.
A fragmented line notes a stone figure seeking employment and a remark about punctuation. The odd pairing hints at a humorous or satirical item in a local page. No clear identifiers or contexts are provided to expand beyond the brief quip.
A young couple elopes with The girl’s window propped by a ladder as the father lurks below. The scene captures youthful risk and fear of being caught, set against a small town backdrop through the Emporia Gazette humor.
Charles L. Tolleman was elected master with George R. Sheffler and Carl J. Schickhardt as senior and junior wardens. Other officers include W H Riley treasurer Guy Jeffers secretary Avery Sprague and several deacons stewards a Tyler and a three year trustee. Hazel Ables celebrated her 13th birthday with a party hosted by Mrs G F Siefkin and guests listed. Chamber of Commerce directors to be spoofed in a chamber meeting farce President by Proxy produced by Business and Professional Women's Club at the Tioga Hotel with Merze Wolfe in charge. Mrs Ada Dunaway visited from Tola after staying with the Bourays.
A newspaper critique notes a headline about Chic Sale puzzled younger staffers, many under 35, while older editors understood the reference. The piece recalls Chic Sale, a vaudeville performer famed for his recited construction story act.
The piece traces backhouse and privy terms, recounts Sale’s pamphlet The Specialist, and notes his retirement to two bathrooms. It questions national reaction to 1957 calendar reforms replacing nudity with educational art and Currier & Ives items, arguing calendars’ audience and advertiser reach differ by placement.
Washington reports reveal overheard cabinet remarks at Camp David on Nov 21 22 including a quip about the French UN walkout. Farmers protest perceived neglect of farm issues while Benson sues over drying milk purchases from 1954 aid program.
Dr. Crane explains slang as a fault in a student audience and in tests for sweethearts. He cites 1,100 engaged men on slang limits, warns slang dulls precise thinking, and urges use of exact terms with examples from the word fix and other phrases.
The Red Cross blood recruitment committee met to organize a drive aimed at collecting 150 pints. About 200 donors are needed to reach the quota. The meeting was hosted by chairwoman Mrs Don Abbuehl at 221 E 9th, with members including Mrs Alex Mih Boyd Burns Waugh Brooks Freddie Robertson Al Goodwin Mrs John Mitchell of Thayer and Mrs Joe Hummer executive secretary attending.
Answers list fixes and guidance. The sentence should read none of whom had been there previously. Encore is pronounced ahng kore with the second syllable stressed. The misspelled word is coroner. Sublimation is the process of subliming or uplifting, the product of purification. A fa word meaning jocular is facetious.
A parade of relatives from Arkansas to Wichita and across Kansas gathered for Thanksgiving visits and dinners. Geraldine, Kay, and numerous Glamsers, Coburn Glamser, and other kin joined Mrs. Elmer Glamser, Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Hoffman, and many local households in sharing meals and time with family members including several in Fredonia Augusta Benedict Winfield and Benedict areas.
Andover guests honor Thanksgiving at the Harkrader home in Elk City and Chanute. Morse and Gunther attend a Wichita wedding of a cousin. Rev Perry Hanson who spent 40 years in China spoke at the Methodist church. Flora Kirkpatrick breaks her leg after a kitchen wax job and is treated in Fredonia hospital. Pacific Islands cattle and horses do not thrive despite early European introductions.
Men over 40 are urged to seek non-surgical treatment for glandular inflammation at the Excelsior Institute in Excelsior Springs Missouri. A new free book explains proven non-surgical methods to relieve symptoms and prevent senility and malignancy, with no obligation.
A cluttered TV log lists programs and times from KSWM-TV Channel 12 including Today shows Love of Life The Guiding Light Love Story The World of Mr Sweeney and various dramas comedies and children's segments with times spanning morning to late evening.
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