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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1955
Page
4
Views of the News discuss bypass needs for heavy traffic in Chanute and Erie. Erie has an established right of way for US59 around the town, while Chanute lacks such provisions for US169, complicating plans. The piece suggests starting right-of-way purchases now to permit a future limited access route away from development.
The Civil Aeronautics Board traced an American Airlines crash in Missouri to an improperly repaired cylinder and failed inspection. Investigators showed how a sequence from factory to repair depots allowed a faulty part to threaten flights. The piece argues safety improves as investigators uncover human error and fix procedures.
The London column surveys a warm weekend before Christmas with mid 50s temperatures, notes on future skyscraper plans and resumed Thames tunnel work. It mentions cultural items, a rise in homophobia arrests, Royal and political tidbits, and UK views on American politics.
A car owned by Eithel S. Cofer was stolen and found wrecked and burned near West Line. Fire destroyed gifts at J O Pinkston home when a small tree burned. Christmas Day saw 17 county jail inmates and one city lockup inmate fed turkey dinners. Myron McIntyre and Henry Powell injured when their car overturned near Barst on the way to Chanute. Kimball W F Marsh built a new barn after losing the prior one to fire. Fifty Years Ago planners to form Neosho County Medical Society with about 40 physicians invited. Chanute doctors already organized. Mrs M R Martin and children returned from Christmas with relatives in Galesburg.
A civic club dinner conversation recalls a string of travel mishaps and near accidents. Members joke about a Mexico trip, misread peso conversions, and a Los Angeles scare as they reminisce and drift into memories of friends and turnpikes.
A fragmentary note describes a mink wandering to heaven and seeking St Peter. The saint, surprised, recalls no prior mink visitors and remarks on the creature's good conduct before the fragment ends.
Congresswoman Frances Bolton of Cleveland journeys through 20 African countries at her own cost. She survives a dramatic bull elephant encounter in the Belgian Congo and suffers a finger injury from a car door. She notes admiration for Ike in Nigeria and meets the Queen Mother of the Watussi.
Lonzo J. age 73 overcomes reluctance to use a hearing aid after his daughter persuades him. Dr. Crane emphasizes penny wise, pound foolish behavior among aging parents, urging investment in hearing, eye care, and dental aids to secure 10 extra years of better life. The piece advises nagging elderly parents to spend on themselves and explains cataract surgery costs and local anesthesia. It ends with instructions to contact Hopkins Syndicate Inc. for Dr. Crane booklets.
The text lists five questions about English usage and spelling. Answers include removing up and down, pronouncing tied as tie night with stress on first syllable, amendment as the misspelled word, visualizing meaning to picture mentally, and adducible as a word meaning capable of being brought forward as a reason, followed by the directive to read the advertisements.
Mr and Mrs Brooke Collison and David of Lawrence visit his parents in Buffalo en route to Liberal Kansas for Christmas with Don Immerman family. Orey Apt returns via Springfield Missouri with Howard Lambs party from hospital stay after a car crash. C E Justice heads to Tulsa for holidays with daughters and Jane Justice. Jim Blackwood celebrates 13th birthday with eighth grade friends. G D Blackwood supervises games. Death announced for Rev George Taylor at Methodist Home Topeka. funeral held. survivors include widow Bertha and two sons, Rev Gene Taylor Humboldt and Rev John Taylor California.
The Chanute Tribune issue dated Tuesday December 27 1955 lists Chanute publishing staff Ernest W Johnson editor and James Fehrenbach advertising manager. It notes publication schedule evenings except Sunday and post office filing and AP affiliation with subscription rates for nearby counties.
The teachers sponsored a Christmas program at the high school auditorium featuring band music a grade four play two violin solos by Gomer Watson and grade pupils singing carols. Readers included Linda Carlson Georgianna Sprague and Jim Blackwood. Supper guests were Mrs. Marjorie Englebrecht and John Allen at the W T Swinney home.
An illustrated schedule lists tonight’s programs from 7:00 p.m. to after midnight including Bob Hope, Hollywood Star Playhouse, The $64,000 Question, Badge 714, and Ernie Kovacs Show among a block of daytime shows and news broadcasts.
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