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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1972
Page
2
A professional touring theatre company from Kansas State University performs the modern farce See How They Run in Chanute on February 7. The live show offers an affordable alternative to local television and movie options, drawing praise from Kansas audiences and plans for future visits.
Neosho Valley Arts Council presents a non profit show Beat the mid winter blahs by offering tickets to Some Came Running on February 7 at 8 p.m. at Chanute Senior High. Tickets cost 1 for students and 150 for adults to encourage broad attendance and break even with 700 tickets available. For tickets call 431-4199.
A Kansas speech by Dr. Don Paarlberg of the Agriculture Department criticizes critics of Earl Butz and defends small farmers. The article notes a 6.2 percent farm population drop over a year and argues that failed formulas resurface as new cures, questioning who will feed the nation as farm decline continues.
The local library fills shelves with new additions donated by patrons and a generous benefactor. Notable titles cover nature, occult topics, and travel, including The Closing Circle and The National Atlas of the United States. Additional gifts include Adventures into the Psychic and Born Again, plus history volumes like Vantage Point and Jennie the Life of Lady Randolph Churchill.
City officials report no word from Alcorn Com bustion Engineering or Tube Fab about the status of the Alcorn plant since the December 6 public notice. The city, acting as agent in a $600,000 revenue bond, awaits updates and potential default actions if needed. Alcorn officials declined comment.
Tribune TV schedule lists Saturday film lineup headed by A Degree of Murder and A Man Alone followed by The Astronaut Vanished and multiple late night titles. Featured cast includes Anita Pallenberg Ray Milland Monte Markham Susan Clark Richard Widmark and Ell. Concludes with Mondays Vanished and Bombers B 52 and The Iron Mistress among others.
I told Old Timer I arranged a loan to pay his income taxes. He declines and says he is selling the farm and house to move to Florida seeking a new life. He mentions Nixon’s plan and waiting at a gate, hinting at a bold future.
In a terse exchange the Old Timer argues Congress backs a costly $5.5 billion space glider while neglecting Earth problems. He predicts a moon colonization push despite fiscal hurdles, urging practical solutions remain scarce amid political inertia.
Senator Moss asks the Senate Consumer subcommittee staff to probe reporters and editors accepting favors from advertisers. He cites auto real estate and food coverage as prone to corruption and notes travel and gifts are common in the industry.
The national press corps faces scrutiny over press agentry masquerading as journalism. Moss criticizes automotive and food editors for echoing industry press releases, urging hearings to expose advertisers' influence on news judgment.
The item notes Newberry's store offers chocolates at 60 cents a pound with oil cloth at 49 cents a yard and handbags at 97 cents. Brady's Shoe Store employees force a hitchhiker to remove boots after he paid with a bad Enid bank check. Neosho County rural schools plan a winter spelling bee, and the Salvation Army holds its first open air meeting at Roof Garden headquarters.
Local Friday listings preview top shows across networks including Bobby romance tale and a Dick Van Dyke flashback episode. News special on privacy and credit reporting airs at 9 pm. Other programs feature Cade's County Lassie Gilligan's Island Hogan's Heroes and Mission Impossible among bold lineups.
The Tribune’s Monday Evening lineup lists Hee Haw Dick Van Dyke Petticoat Junction Sportsman's Friend Lassie President's Corner Let's Make a Deal Hogan's Heroes Laugh In Here's Lucy Vanished Murderer's Row Doris Day Sonny and Cher Legally Speaking Sports Challenge President's Corner Tonight Show Iron Mistress Bombers B 52 View From Pompey's Head Dick Cavett Merv Griffin News Religious Town Hall Beyond the Blue Horizon.
This date marks 1815 Battle of New Orleans victory over Britain, Galileo's death in 1642, La Salle at Niagara Falls in 1679, Wilson's 14 points in 1918, Ruhr occupation in 1923, De Gaulle presidency in 1959, a 2000 Dutch train collision death toll, Israel Syria fighting, and a U S apology for a bombing near a Soviet building.
Air Force Captain Timothy T. Rule, son of Mrs Marvin Bicknell of 818 S Lafayette, completed pilot instructor training at Randolph AFB Texas. He will serve as a T 37 jet trainer instructor at Williams AFB Arizona, within Air Training Command. Rule served a year in Vietnam after earning a 1963 Chanute High School diploma and a Purdue MS in aerospace engineering in 1968 through ROTC. His wife Judy is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Roy Cody of Forest Indiana.
Biblical verse Galatians 5 25 appears with a church style call to walk in the Spirit. A Chanute post office box and mail rates are listed for subscriptions and payments. The text notes AP exclusive rights to local news and AP dispatches.
Hilton novel Time and Time Again follows Charles Anderson a British Foreign Service officer. The work spans London rural England Paris and South America shaping Anderson through memory and his relationships with his father son and three women. The reviewer finds it restrained yet thought provoking.
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