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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1969
Page
2
The Tribune thanks drive chairmen solicitors and Scouts for their hard work in the house-to-house campaign that reached the United Fund goal this year.
A grateful message thanks The Tribune and radio station KKOY for publicizing and backing a campaign. The note credits the community with generous time and money and calls the effort united and worthy.
The Chanute Housing Authority agrees to let architect Blessing and Barber retrieve plans for housing under a conventional building approach. An authority member notes a preference for the conventional method while a federal funds freeze blocks the route. Blessing seeks time to find a workaround, with a decision expected soon and alternatives possible if no fix is found.
Red Cross workers announce Chanute will host 15 to 20 American soldiers from Independence Army Air Base and 24 Royal Air Force personnel in Mi ami Okla for Christmas Day. St Cecilia Club presents Christmas music at Presbyterian Church Monday night under leaders D A Finney Kenneth Brown John P Nation and Dave Petterson. Kansas oil activity shows eight new wells last week boosting production by 1065 barrels daily, up from four wells for 862 barrels daily the prior week. Fifty years ago city commissioners met to discuss bids for electric plant expansion and spray pond excavation.
Senator Robert Dole delivers a mock classroom tirade to Republican colleagues urging loyalty to the Nixon agenda. He blasts opponents, praises party discipline, and jokes about a Water Boy of the Month award as a Dixiecrat mishap disrupts the session.
A NIH spokesman said 290 primates slated for death due to cancer-virus program cuts will be shipped to four regional primate centers to be used as breeders. The animals, valued at about 500 dollars each, show no cancer signs or virus spread and may yield more monkeys later.
Former entertainer June Collins alleges Korean troops in Vietnam used battlefield tactics to raid American PXs in Saigon and at division camps. Reports describe lookouts, radio dispatches, and large seizures of radios TVs watches and other luxury items. The piece notes a broader crackdown after Senate revelations and mentions Patton III and the Chicago Black Panthers in a separate roundup of wartime and domestic tensions.
NBC offers The Virginian at 6 30 with a tale of vengeance in Medicine Bow. At 8 00 Music Hall hosts Steve Lawrence Eydie Gorme with Sid Caesar Sonny and Cher and The Carnival. Then Came Bronson follows at 9 00 featuring Don Drysdale as a scout. Hawaii Five-O pits a beachboy against a playboy in a card game.
The page lists a television schedule with channels and programs including Bewitched It Takes a Thief The Tonight Show and The Merv Griffin Show among others plus news and late shows. Entries show times like 9 10 12 12 30 and 1 2 3 4 with short program notes and network designations.
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