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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1957
Page
4
An editorial laments government approval stamps on Christmas trees and toys. The piece imagines safety and age labeling expanding to decorations and gifts, warning of excessive bureaucratic cost and restricting playful development for children.
The piece notes Colombia's unique twist in which both major parties receive half of congressional, legislative, and municipal seats. The measure aims to quell factional violence by fixing team alignments for 12 years, with observers wondering if it will reduce stray bullets or simply entrench rivalries.
This column notes wealthier Chinese millionaires in Singapore living amid poverty and gangster watch, with ransom cases and nonviolent abductions reported. It highlights concerns over political shifts, tax avoidance, and moves to protect fortunes by shifting funds abroad to avoid disruption.
E Lawson May presents a snapshot of Southern attitudes on integration after informal talks with newspapermen and leaders. He notes a Northward shift of the Negro population, NAACP blame for Little Rock trouble, and white resistance to quick change. He reports economic squeeze, machine picked cotton, Mexican labor, and growing Negro trade.
Dr George W Crane claims toll superhighways across northern Indiana reduced traffic deaths to 9 in 9 months versus 63 on parallel routes. He argues reallocating foreign aid and cutting bureaus could fund 4 lane divided highways coast to coast, saving thousands of lives and billions yearly.
Fragmentary remark discusses Trinidad in the West Indies as a preferred location and notes Chinese attitudes to kidnaping threats as minor annoyances tied to wealth. It contrasts this with the Communists being "something else."
Twenty five years ago a section of an M K T train uncoupled inside Erie causing a wreck that piled five freight cars on tracks and damaged stockyards. Four cars carried crude oil distillate kerosene and coal but no fire. About 300 feet of track torn out. A 16 inch gas main exploded at Petrolia nearby causing shattered windows and a tremor. Local oil production averages 500 barrels daily with a price cut reducing local revenue to about 59 cents per barrel based on 31 gravity oil. Erie George Keefauver elected worshipful master of the Masonic Lodge with a slate of officers.
Washington reports a rift among Ike, Dick Nixon, and aides Jim Hagerty and Sherman Adams over NATO. The White House fray contrasts with Manhattan labor strife as the subway strike stems from skilled workers breaking from CIO unions. Police still sort $11,200 found in a Brooklyn taxi tied to Tammany leader De Sapio’s era, with Carmine denying involvement.
A new aardvark with a long snout arrives at the Bronx Zoo. Officials fear the shy animal may be missed by visitors. The Kenyan creature lived by night and fed on ants, prompting plans for a glass-front box-like display.
The boyhood home of Stephen Collins Foster, famed composer of southern songs, is located in Towanda Pennsylvania. The article notes Foster's early life and ties to the town.
The Chanute Tribune announces its publication schedule and staff credits. It lists editors James E. Sheridan and Ernest W Johnson and notes Evening edition except Sundays along with AP affiliations and broad circulation areas. Subscription rates are shown for Neosho Allen Wilson Woodson counties and surrounding regions with monthly and yearly options.
A collage of brief witticisms from local papers including lines about love and money, Uncle Joe’s speech, social circles, weddings fading to “Why Did I,” and a Briton in a tax office with a loaf of bread. The remarks blend humor with period attitudes in a snapshot of everyday wit.
Answers include suggesting rewording to blame a person for a thing, specify second syllable pronunciation for preamble, identify the misspelling as contagious, define banal as commonplace with pronunciation bay-nal, and provide vendetta as a ve starting term meaning blood feud.
Fragmentary TV guide items list show titles and times such as Guiding Light Liberace Tex and Jing Cartoons Garden Gate As the World Turns Farm News and Markets Liberace Howard Miller Eat the Clock House Party Art Linkletter Bride and Groom Matinee Theatre Big Payoff Studio Kitchen Verdict is Yours Queen for a Day Brighter Day Secret Storm Edge of Night Modern Romances Showtime Matinee Comedy Time Movie Matinee Rogers Autry Hour Afternoon Theatre Visit With Santa Crusade Rabbit with various, unclear times.
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