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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1962
Page
5
Humboldt residents celebrate as Mr. and Mrs. James Millholland win first prize for a lit Nativity scene. Second place goes to Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Wilson at 620 N. 10th for a bright display with choir and organ, third to the J. H. Rutledges for a large greetings card feature with a blinking star.
W Alvin McCarty of Augusta Georgia returns each December to Pittsburg Kansas for a two month horseback riding vacation. The 57 year old rider favors tall horses and rides Champ a 17 hand bay gelding now nearing 20. He and his wife Mary kept horses when moving to Georgia in 1950 and visit relatives across southeast Kansas each winter.
Prairie View hosts Albert Lassman and wife dinner guests of Henry Lassman Humboldt. They called on Hal Lassman Cherryvale. Francis Barnett and family dine with Charles Morrison LaHarpe. Neal Glasco and family stay with Ross Van Hout en Independence Mo. Sally Lassman visits grandmother Pearl Lassman. Ladies Aid plans Christmas boxes for shut ins with Mamie Birger.
William Russell Pethick, 69, slated for release after 47 Christmases behind Illinois bars. Convicted in 1915 for the knife slayings of a Chicago woman and her 2-year-old son, he was denied multiple times before the Pardons and Paroles board granted release if he finds a home and a job. He plans to visit his parents’ graves in Chicago.
Canberra AP reports Australia’s March 31 livestock peak with 157,715,000 sheep and lambs and 13,021,000 beef cattle. Daily cattle numbered 5,046,000 and pigs 1,653,000, while the population stood at 10,660,750 amid a widening gap between people and stock.
Scout news reports Brownie Troop 54 held a Christmas party at Murray Hill school with mothers as guests. A gift table and serving table featured a Christmas theme and treats made by Mrs. Glenn Shockey.
Troop 35 of Junior High held a fireplace wiener roast Thursday night at Mrs. G. B. Wall's home 209 N. Plummer. The girls later caroled at nursing homes and hospitals. Back at Wall's, Frank Frieholtz gave a leathercraft lesson. assistant leader Mrs. Leo Cox received a birthday cake and hot chocolate.
The Transit navigation satellite launched last Tuesday failed its radio and electronic systems and is electronically dead. The Navy aims to launch another satellite soon and have a four satellite navigational system in operation sometime next year.
In 1918 President Wilson designated Katmai National Monument in Alaska near valley areas. Knife Peak was renamed Mt Griggs in 1959 to honor botanist Robert F Griggs who brought attention to the area.
Kansas reports a pig crop of 1,496,000 head, up 6 percent from last year, with spring and fall crops projected to rise further. Spring pigs totaled 1,230,000 and the fall crop 1,028,000. sows farrowing this fall up 5 percent, pigs per litter averaging 7.34, above 1961 and the 10-year average. Dec 1 hog and pig population on Kansas farms pending list.
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