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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1960
Page
4
Editorial discusses farming evolving from a life to a livelihood driven by business realities. Ford Motor Company farm division GM and Kansas State scientists forecast reduced farm numbers and new incomes. The piece argues youth should plan to join industry and business after education.
The piece argues Kennedy may appoint Republicans to top posts to reflect cross party voting, citing Dillon and Gates as potential picks. It compares to Roosevelt's war cabinet and notes shrinking straight ticket support, suggesting both parties deserve representation to preserve the two party system and counter independent voters.
A college sophomore told a professor he hadn’t realized the government taxed syntax. The Knight errant who dreamed of a golden charger wasn’t referring to a blonde wife in a department store. An Eskimo family possesses a trained seal, highlighting an odd vignette.
A collection of wry vignettes touches on liquor laws in Missouri, a clergyman's confessions, a northern island dinner, Christmas carnage near the Congo, gold losses, a luckiest man, a bank robbery arrest, and a homestead joke about a missing spittoon. The tone is casual, self aware, and satirical.
Tribune Files recalls a large red fox pelt shown by Frank Miller of Chanute after a trap on Danville creek. J D Williams from Petrolia saw a buffalo skull at The Tribune office and recalled Montana 1880 trips and handling shipments of 100000 buffalo hides. Local shoppers, visitors, and trip notes among Chanute residents. Ne Plus Ultra class meets at Margaret Gallagher’s with listed members.
A collection of brief notes from Wellington News and Hays News includes a Bible verse about peacemakers and a stray human interest line on attracting attention. The entries mention chores around an igloo and a good housekeeping seal, plus a color coded sweater example.
Associated Press analyst James Marlow argues that John F Kennedy at 43 signals a break from postwar leadership. He contrasts Kennedy with aging leaders like Eisenhower and lists contemporaries such as Adenauer de Gaulle Khrushchev Macmillan Tito Chiang Kai-shek Nehru Franco Mao Tse-tung, predicting a shift toward younger rulers and fresh ideas by decade's end.
Washington columnist outlines Arthur Goldberg's wartime OSS role and postwar labor influence. Goldberg helped organize European labor espionage networks, advised CIO, negotiated steel strike settlements, and backed an agency fee to promote a union shop. His strategy drew both praise and AFL opposition.
Chanute Tribune issue details show publishing by Chanute Publishing Company with Dwight McCreight as publisher. Department heads include James Sherman advertising, Dwight Wellingford news, Fay Clopine city circulation, O Ward mechanical, and Dorsey Osborn press. Notices indicate evening publication except Sundays and AP membership rights and miscellaneous subscription rates by county and state.
President elect John F Kennedy's Illinois victory was certified by a Republican controlled State Electoral Board delivering 27 electoral votes to Kennedy. The board found no sufficient proof of fraud in Cook County and Kennedy led by 8,858 votes overall. Nixon held 223 electoral votes with downstate gains offsetting Chicago margins.
A Texas bound airliner with 55 aboard dumped 10,000 gallons of fuel into the Pacific before returning to Los Angeles for an uneventful emergency landing after one of its four engines developed an oil leak.
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A dense list of show times and titles spans Thursday and Friday including Secret Storm Witness Outlaws My Three Sons Real McCoys The Untouchables Gun shows Sports and weather segments plus evening movies. Several channels and times shown for KODETV WDAF TV KOTV and more with cached program lines and classic 1960s era titles.
New York AP story recounts a sidewalk Santa on Fifth Avenue who rings a brass bell from 9 AM to 6 PM to raise funds for Volunteers of America. He notes $17.03 raised, describes stern quotas, a Bowery college for the craft, and window‑shopper crowds at Tiffany’s. He lists gifts requested by donors and who contributed, including a French poodle.
In a two hour address to the Electrical Workers Union Castro charged enemies are equipped by the United States with a new powerful explosive. He denounced union leaders as counterrevolutionaries and warned of decisive action to shake up the electrical industry.
Hereford auction in Hill City saw E P Goddard & Sons bull fetch 1225 dollars, the highest bid, with Thad Doughit and John Keller of St Francis the buyers. J A Schoen of Lenora sold a bull to Lockhart Hereford Farm of Osborn for 1100 dollars. The event featured 65 registered Herefords grossing 34270 dollars, with Schneider Ranch of Stockton presenting the grand and reserve champion bulls and Hereford Farms of Zurich exhibiting the grand champion female.
In Vientiane the U S Embassy was struck by an artillery shell and staff evacuated as the front of the building burned. The U S Information Agency building nearby also ordered cleared amid heavy shelling. one radio report cited four Americans slightly injured without names.
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