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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1972
Page
2
The Chanute community faces rising unemployment as Alcorn reduces staff from 130 to 25 since December amid attempts at reorganization and bankruptcy. Neighbors rely on support programs as local workers seek means to sustain families, with a call for community aid similar to Seattle’s food efforts.
Georgia Rep. Julian Bond says black communities should act to curb drug dealers by immediate discipline if caught in the act. He stresses he opposes vigilante groups but calls drug crisis a crisis that requires community intervention.
Agriculture Secretary Earl L. Butz told the Fargo Farm Forum that recent rises in farm prices including record beef cattle highs are fully justified. He warned of potential agitation to cap agricultural prices as retail counters reflect higher inputs while urging farmers to support the push with grassroots help.
Washington AP The government rushes more W-4 forms after a surge in requests from employers says an IRS spokesman. Officials note zero exemptions no longer needed and urge filing a new W-4 to claim exemptions and the special withholding allowance. Congress raised withholding rates to better match 1972 tax liability. Jesus Christ gave himself for our sins. Galatians 1 4.
The piece argues society is undergoing a national debate as revelation and speaking out become common. It notes turmoil challenging long held roles like the woman's place in the home, warns standards are under attack, and hopes for continued excellence despite trends, citing Andy Warhol versus Picasso.
AP writer notes ABC circus special highlights and the Budapest show. A trained hippo performs with a toy cannon and corpse act while Bill Bixby and Brandon Cruz appear. Feldman’s aborted Marty Feldman Comedy Machine pilot undercuts hopes for a series.
Washington column notes a $205 000 loan from Howard Hughes to Richard Nixon's brother and a later IRS reversal granting a multi million tax exemption to the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. The piece casts the move as a possible mutual back scratching, amid Hughes empire links among Hughes Tool Co Hughes Aircraft Co and the institute.
The 1956 loan of 205000 from Hughes Tool to Don Nixon through Hannah Nixon faced IRS scrutiny and opposition within Hughes. Dietrich warned that approval was not unanimous, while Nixon defended relatives over career. IRS later granted tax exemption to the institute and aircraft plant amid uncertain links.
In Chanute, youths near 8th and Grant celebrate a new outdoor basketball court on a large corner lot built by dads and adult friends. A Chanute High School FFA four man public speaking team won first place at a SEK contest in Iola with 369 points. Six citizens pressed the Board of Education, protesting domestic science art and gym aims and school costs.
FBI Director J Edgar Hoover is reported to have buried seven pet dogs at Aspen Hill Pet Cemetery near Washington. The owner says one grave bears the name Spe De Bozo with dates July 3 1922 to May 24 1934 and a $50 casket. Lyndon Johnson’s beagles Him and Her were cremated there and ashes shipped to Texas.
TV listings show 6 30 PM programs including Love Love Love hosted by 247 Hall of Fame with Mac Davis Helen Reddy Bread and six couples. Also special on Criminal Justice Test and Marcus Welby at 9. 00 PM previews include Hawaii Five-O and on 9 30 PM In The Family This Is Your Life Doctor In The House and Olympics from Sapporo.
Daily afternoon to late night listings for KTEWKT channels with model times and show titles including The Partridge Family Bewitched Mary Tyler Moore and Hogan's Heroes plus Sports and news segments across channels KTEW WDAF KCMO KUHI KMBC KTWU KODE WIBW and more.
Events span 1904 Port Arthur siege and start of the Russo Japanese War. Also noting 1578 Mary Queen of Scots beheading and 1910 Boy Scouts formation. Other items include 1940 Nazi reprisal actions, 1955 Malenkov resignation, 1972 era mentions and Vietnam Laos developments.
The Labor Department released 1,167,000 for Kansas employment training projects. An $800,000 HEW grant supports training for 1,300 servicemen to be discharged. Programs include Operation Mainstream in Topeka for 96 older workers and a Neighborhood Youth Corps for 67 youths. Additional funding covers 74 disadvantaged workers in Wichita Douglass Whitewater and Howard, plus 28 Operation Mainstream positions in Southeast Kansas, 14 at Hutchinson JC, and 24 in Unified School District 270 Plainville.
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