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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1968
Page
2
An editorial jokes about a businessman finding a multi million dollar industry from a bill board in Miami on New Year’s Day and a sports writer praising Kansas after a free booze event. The piece underscores how decisions should not rely on billboard chatter during holidays.
The Hutchinson News labels a Kansas Chamber of Commerce expenditure of 10,000 dollars on billboards and hospitality suites as in Kansas and questions its wisdom. The piece argues smarter ways exist to advertise Kansas during the Orange Bowl festivities in Miami Florida.
The piece argues the sky is not falling but warns against ignoring real threats from nuclear weapon spread. It urges faster nonproliferation treaty passage, critiques Nixon’s slow pace, and questions the danger if unstable regimes gain capabilities before Cuba’s Fidel Castro stockpiles.
The piece profiles Gordon Langley Hall later Dawn Pepita Hall a British aristocrat adopted by Dame Margaret Rutherford. After hormone treatments and sex reassignment surgery he now lives with her former chauffeur and butler as common law wife, planning formal marriage next year.
S Sgt Ellis Nelson son of Mr and Mrs C D Nelson and S Sgt Robert Harmon son of Mr and Mrs Charles E Harmon met by chance. Nelson serves with air ground personnel while Harmon is with a bomber unit. Charles Chauncey moved from Tulare to Gardner Field Taft to begin basic cadet training. Bouray family and Mrs M C Stone donated blood in Kansas City. Pvt Harold Rush of Fort Lewis on furlough visits. Fifty Years Ago section notes twenty nine births.
Pearson and Anderson argue Thai insurgency mimics Vietnam tactics with North Vietnamese support and Laos border incursions. They note 45,000 U.S. troops in Thailand, their training of Thai forces, and the risk of wider war while avoiding direct American combat roles. The piece contrasts Thai and Vietnamese dynamics and questions Nixon's future approach.
Terry Murphy argues the Kansas Legislature should not regulate medical practice through abortion law. He condemns extending church influence and cautions that licensing standards and medical judgment must guide care, not statutes. He supports letting physicians decide and a law easier for women to choose abortion.
NBC aired the Supremes and Temptations in a music hour titled TCB, followed by a Gettysburg reconstruction on ABC. The programs showcased visual spectacle and narrative drama, with narration by John Secondari and readings from soldiers' diaries. NBC led the ratings race with 20.6 versus CBS 20.5. ABC trailed at 14.8.
Prime time listings feature Pete visiting his old neighborhood with legal trouble, the Jory Lewis Show guests Dionne Warwick Totie Fields and the Osmond Brothers, and Lancer at 6 30. Bren da Scott stars in a shady scheme on CBS. Ozzie and Harriet guest on Red Skelton NBC movie Sound of Anger stars Burl Ives. Doris Day on That's Life at 9. 60 Minutes covers prison sexual assault. It Grows on Trees movie closes the night.
Channel listings show 6:30 block with Jerry Lewis Mod Squad Lancer Julia Guide to the Swinging Bachelor Red Skelton. 8:00 movie. 8:30 Doris Day N Y P D movie. 9:00 That's Life 60 Minutes News.
The Tribune prints a daytime schedule listing programs from 7:30 a.m. to 12:05 p.m. with channels and titles including Peyton Place Green Acres Jonathan Winters The Tonight Show Sunrise Semester and Burke's Law among others.
Hal Boyle argues parents overemphasize a quick career choice. He notes youths face many options with about 24 000 occupations. The piece urges guiding children to fit talents and desires for a wholesome, fulfilling life rather than rushing to the first secure payroll.
A biblical verse from Proverbs 27 10 prompts reflection on friendship and proximity. It urges not to forsake a faithful ally including a family friend and suggests a nearby neighbor is more reliable than a distant brother.
In Los Angeles, 49 year old Dow Jones, manager at the Dan ford Corp plant, says he only learned of the other Dow Jones when he was 14 or 15, reflecting a distant interest in the stock market.
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