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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1970
Page
2
Chanute Housing Authority weighs taking available turn key housing or waiting for conventional allocations. Officials note conventional offers local control and site choices, while turn key may be cut off by federal spending. The group considers its mission to meet local housing needs and urges selecting what is available.
U.S. businessmen face waning favor in Latin America due to resource plundering accusations and ties to corrupt officials. Investment shifts show slower gains in Latin America from 1960 to 1967, with nationalization moves, bank ownership rules, and attacks on American firms fueling investor caution.
The Social Security Administration in Kansas says beneficiaries need not apply for the 15 percent benefit boost signed into law. The Topeka district manager Howard Slaydek said the change will occur automatically, with the first new checks in early April affecting about 25 million Americans. The average retirement benefit will rise from $100 to $116 monthly, and the average couple’s benefit for two aged 65 or over will go from $170 to $196.
The piece argues Congress should require complete accounting of politicians' finances to reduce corruption concerns. It cites unions and big business, recalls the Teapot Dome era and Hoffa trials, critiques the obsolete Corrupt Practices Act, and warns that conflicts of interest demand strong, transparent disclosures rather than symbolic reforms.
University of Chicago psychologist Bruno Bettelheim describes Israeli kibbutz youth as well behaved and noncompetitive. Children live communally, share possessions, and join in democratic decision making with no private property. He notes no fighting, drug use, or promiscuity among about 100,000 kibbutz children.
President Nixon signed the Housing for Small Towns provision of the Housing Act to aid rural home building. The Farmers Home Administration says it will grant conditional commitments to builders to finance new homes through FHA loans, enabling tract development and self help groups to share costs. The FHA projects financing for about 80 000 dwellings next year and 50 000 last year across farms and small communities.
In a 1970 assessment, prominent leaders aged in their seventies influence Congress, the courts, and federal agencies. Speaker John McCormack and FBI Director J Edgar Hoover are highlighted as aging powerhouses whose grip on power critics say hinders adaptation to a changing political and social landscape.
Sunday schedules feature Lassie in a San Francisco amnesia episode and Green Acres reruns. The lineup also lists a Glen Campbell hour guest segment with Walter Brennan Joey Heatherton and Norm Crosby. The page notes daytime listings published Fridays and carrier call details.
Mon evening listing of channels KVOO WDAF KODE WIBW and others shows Muppets The Music Scene Gunsmoke Lucy Movie Survivors and Mayberry RFD plus news Weather Tonight Show Cavett Griffin Harvey and Sunrise Semester with trailed late film lineup.
Chanute Public Librarian Jean Gray reviews the year noting the 1969 moon landing and praises Eisely's The Unexpected Universe. The article lists new religious, American history, and current affairs titles plus fiction such as The Compleat Werewolf and Valley of the Shadows, with Christmas books arriving in time.
Tribune Files recalls that Selective Service directed full enforcement of farm worker deferments for ages 18 to 25. In Neosho County about 100 to 150 men hold agricultural deferments, with no board instructions on changes. Beer licenses drop to 18 shops, down from 20 at year start 1944, amid hops shortages and fewer taps and bottle coolers. A Rifle Club shot event at the Elks gym used five targets at 70 feet under national rules. Psalm 84:11 is cited.
The notice lists subscription pricing by mail and carrier within trade territories including Neosho Allen Wilson Woodson and Chanute. Rates show one year ten dollars six months five ninety three months two dollars and some missing figures.
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