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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1975
Page
2
The Salina Journal condemns U S covert actions in Angola arguing arms shipments to back a Soviet backed faction risk widening conflict. It urges detente with Russia and calls for restraint and transparency from leaders and Kissinger.
A two man team led by Dale Bohannon of the Kansas Department of Corrections has toured about 90 percent of the state's jails. Reports urge closures in 10 cases and push for improved sanitation and facilities. Local officials largely accept the intrusion as a needed corrective, though it exposes long neglected conditions in county lockups.
Tribune Peoples Forum credits Chanute area residents and organizations including Allen Van Alstyne Carl Smith Jim Mishler Chanute Manufacturing Co Harold Barnhart RoAnn German Euphemia German Janet Lassman Orpha Miller Norma Coble Alcott school Elizabeth Pieper Elizabeth Cooper USD 413 Bill Bodley Rev. David Mack Tanh Tran and the Jaycees for assisting a new Vietnamese family. The writer highlights broad local support enabling a joyful settlement.
Midtown musings recount a viewer's reflection after an ABC TV film The Bermuda Triangle and Beyond about a World War II destroyer escort entering Hamilton Bermuda harbor. The piece notes Berlitz The Bermuda Triangle cataloging 19 ship disappearances and 16 aircraft vanishings off the U S southeast coast. Cdr Eddie Duchin, division sonar officer and famed pianist, is mentioned in connection with the era.
The columnist recalls a Christmas pilgrimage that intertwined with a Bermuda Triangle mystery. A missing Liberian freighter sparked a sleepless night and led to reading Kusche’s investigative work. He links memory, media, and Eddie Duchin’s fate, noting Duchin survived Okinawa but died of leukemia in 1951.
Rates shown for area towns with carrier delivery and Chanute post office boxholders include sales tax and postage. One year 19.57 by mail area towns, six months 10.30, three months 6.16. Chanute boxholders one year 27.81, six months 13.90, three months 6.95. Chanute carrier 2.25 monthly plus tax in advance.
United Press International holds the exclusive right to republish local news from the paper and all UP dispatches. Member Audit Bureau of Circulations.
Washington charges focus on gas industry schemes to create shortages to deregulate prices. The piece cites Nov. 22 1974 warnings, government surveys, industry ties, and a surge in supplies after deregulation. Also notes Arab boycott disclosures and named U S firms facing inquiries.
United and National strikes disrupt holiday travel with hundreds of thousands seeking seats. Pan Am Braniff Trans International and Evergreen gain emergency routes to ease the crisis as National flight attendants vote again on a contract proposal.
Twenty five years after the call for adopting needy families at Christmas the drive remains slow with 37 families still waiting. The report comes from the Chamber of Commerce headquarters. Also noted is a 1925 item about J F Brinegar killing a four feet four inch hawk near his home southwest of the city.
UPI reports Supreme Court gains 101st justice John Paul Stevens of Chicago, a judicial restraint advocate, replacing William O Douglas who favored an active court role. Stevens wins unanimous Senate confirmation.
President Ford signed a bill to aid New York City with federal relief. A Treasury official traveled to New York to arrange the first transfer of funds to empty city bank accounts. The initial check totals 130 million dollars to cover today’s payroll.
Government economists say food and energy costs will drive the cost of living through late 1975 and into 1976. Labor Department data show food price increases moderating after a 0.7 percent October rise, with shelter and energy shaping the annual inflation near 8.4 percent.
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