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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1964
Page
1
The piece recounts a simple needle and string test claimed to predict a woman's unborn child’s sex and future offspring. It describes the method, notes skeptical reaction, and cites Tribune reporters’ wives who allegedly found the method accurate for their friends.
Kansas City AP An attorney plans two paths after the Supreme Court ruling backing equal representation in the House. Joseph J. Pizner will seek an early federal hearing and urge Gov Anderson to call a special session to address congressional districts, while the Legislature handles apportionment. The 1962 suit argues the 1961 Kansas reapportionment was biased and population unequal.
An intercepted letter recounts how politicians struggle with dividing the state into equally populated districts. The note hints at political maneuvering and the challenges of precise apportionment amid arithmetic simplicity.
Wider Main Street and a new parking lot are proposed by the Chamber of Commerce through resolutions from the streets and highways committee led by John McMeekin. The package asks the city planning commission to seek endorsement, then council, for widening Main and First Street and for a southwest Main and Santa Fe parking lot with financing split 80 20 between city and property owners and a parking meter revenue bond.
Gov. John Anderson forecast the Kansas House will keep 125 members during the reapportionment special session. He said supporters of reducing to 105 likely cannot muster 105 votes, and the opening day message urged maintaining 125. House and Senate panels began drafting laws as three House plans and ten Senate proposals circulated.
Gov John Anderson said he will not ask the Kansas Legislature to consider congressional redistricting in the current special session. The session opened with House and Senate votes limiting agenda to reapportionment of both state houses.
At Guantanamo Bay Cuba Rear Adm John D Bulkeley ordered the pipeline cut in half after Cuban charges of stolen water. Four Cuban workmen severed the 14 inch line from Yateras reservoir leaving the base independent of Cuban supplies. Tankers bring water from the US while a de salinization plant is built over the next year at a cost of 10 million dollars.
AREA FORECAST indicates fair to partly cloudy skies, cooler air tonight and Wednesday. Low temps in the middle 20s, with Wednesday’s high around 40 to 45. Precipitation yesterday was trace. humidity at 1 p.m. and barometer readings are noted as 29.79 and falling.
Topeka reports mild weather giving way to a strong north wind and a surge of cold temperatures tonight. Skies may host light snow flurries with no major precipitation, and gradual clearing is expected by Wednesday as temperatures drop from highs of 40 to 50 degrees to lows around 20 to 30 degrees.
Atlantic City AP Morton Botel cites 10 to 15 million U S children unable to grasp textbooks and 20 to 30 percent of pupils as hesitant readers. He urges a non graded reading program and a strong library to cut reading delays and boost attitudes toward school.
Chanute JayCees launch campaign to recruit Miss Chanute 1964 contenders patterned after Miss America. Local winner advances to Miss Kansas at Pratt with expenses paid. state winner reaches Miss America. Pageant set for April 4 during Easter break to include students away from home. Scholarships offered. top prize a $100 college scholarship and wardrobe, alternates receive $50 and $25 savings accounts. Contestants must be single, aged 18 to 28, high school graduate by September, Chanute resident or Chanute rural route, and may be amateur or professional. Local students away at school qualify. former contestants may rejoin. Rules call for a ramp, throne, Little Miss Chanute Easter Parade, and $5 sponsor fees. Reigning Miss Chanute is Sydney Naughton. Deadline is the Wednesday before the pageant. Cochairs Jim Fehr and Gary Lantz. numerous subchairs named.
Washington AP Conferees on the tax cut bill agreed to set the lower withholding rates to take effect eight days after the law is signed. Administration supporters said the move accelerates relief for wage earners as the Senate and House edges on 208 changes continue. The bill aims to total about $11.5 billion yearly in cuts with individuals seeing roughly 19 percent averages.
Dallas AP Dist Atty Henry M Wade said they would seek the death penalty for the first prospective juror Hilliard M Stone, an illustrator, who said he could vote for death. Ruby sat between defense attorneys Melvin Belli and Joe Tonnhill as deliberations continued on day two of the trial over the Oswald murder case.
Kansas traffic death log reports 3 fatalities in 24 hours ending 9 am Tuesday for February and 24 for 1964, compared with 52 in the comparable 1963 period.
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