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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1962
Page
3
Dear Ann Landers answers three letters about naming a newborn Junior after a previously married father. She warns against duplicating the name across generations. The column also debates telephone etiquette and a teen’s library night outing, offering blunt parental guidance and urging readers to submit woes to the page.
The Social Scene lists numerous meetings across churches and groups on January 16. Activities include United Presbyterian Women Executive Board 1:45 AM, Colfax Baptist Missionary Society at 2 PM, ACT Council, Roosevelt PTA study group, and multiple Women’s Christian Service circles with times from 1:30 PM to 3 PM. The St Cecilia Music Club met yesterday at the Memorial building with hymn, folk, and classical pieces performed by members and guests.
The Duplicate Bridge club gathered at the Tioga Hotel last night. Notable scores included Mrs. Bob Allen and Mrs. Charles Broadwell at 56 to 42, Mr and Mrs. Bill Seay at 45, Bob Ward and Fred Foster at 44.2, and Mrs. F G Hooker with Mrs. Cecyle Munger at 44.
Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Byers celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary with a Sunday noon dinner at their home 215 S. Denman. Attending were relatives from Wichita Kansas City and local towns. an open house from 2 to 4 30 p m drew 57 guests. The couple married January 9 1936 at Erie.
Mrs. Ervin Brune hosted the Peace and Progress Home Demonstration Unit with 16 members and three guests including Shelby Wells and Mrs. Max Tharp. Mrs. Charles Bidding presided and announced committees, lesson on Fiber Facts For You, and upcoming Home Economic Days at Kansas State University. The next meeting is set for Feb. 8 with Mrs. Davis.
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The Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary met in the Memorial building with Mrs. John Oglesbee presiding. District officers from Cherryvale attended. Reports from December and January were read, and a Cancer Society notice announced two free films on January 24 with an afternoon and evening show.
The Women's Missionary Society of the Church of God met Thursday afternoon at 1015 S. Santa Fe hosted by Mrs Randall Bell. Nine members attended as group singing opened the gathering and Mrs Gene Miller led devotions on Eternity's Quality of the Love of God. The circle donated 5 to support the Christian Brotherhood Hour radio program.
Kenneth Swiler presided as members answered roll with a demonstration or exercise. Lynnta Swiler led group singing with Jeanne Guy, and plans for a model meeting and a square dance on 4-H Day were set.Ronnie King spoke on tractor care and Judy Boecker on photography. Harold Sale demonstrated judging eggs, Harry Guy and Jim Neely showed how to make an extension card holder, Marty Barnhart covered health protection. Swiler gave a safety talk on horses. Timmy Goltry presented cartoons. Refreshments were provided by the Barnhart and Sale families for 27 members, 14 parents, and three guests.
Scout Troop 4 and Brownie Troop 34 met Monday in the Murray Hill lunch room with Debra Lock presiding. Members shared Christmas gifts, dues were collected, two new patrols formed led by Elaine McCown and Gayle Defenbaugh, and a game titled Pass This Shoe was played. Gilda Ranz closed the meeting.
Kimball EUB church held a special Sunday morning service to install officers for 1962. Fred Hayen becomes Sunday School Superintendent with Marion Page as assistant, Jewell Clements as secretary, and Mrs Milford Page as treasurer. Mary Cook is pianist and Jan Hayen chorister. Family style ham and beans with corn bread and salads to follow in the church basement.
The Soviet government agreed to release a Belgian airliner that landed Monday in Armenia on a Tehran to Brussels flight with 27 aboard. First Deputy Foreign Minister Kuznetsov told Belgian Ambassador Cools that all passengers and crew are safe and staying at a Grozny hotel after the plane was forced down, while a protest over Soviet air space violations was filed.
A wedding shower for Mrs. Joe Turner was hosted by her daughter Mrs. Ray Colvin at 622 S. Kansas. Attendees included Bertha Fairbanks Sherry Colvin Emilune Geissler Bernice Colvin Alberta Wagner Mmnes Alva Richards William Colvin Ed Hendrix Carl North Herman Colvin and J D Evenson. The Turners wed December 30 at Lee's Summit Missouri.
The Federation of Santa Fe Women met Monday afternoon in Carpenter's hall with Mrs. George Wilson presiding. January birthdays honored for Mrs. W. S. Kessinger and Mrs. V. A. Woodring. Hostesses were Mrs. H. O. Older and committee. A poem was read and a Name That Tune contest led by Mrs. James Tindle and Mrs. C. H. Van Gundy. Prizes to Mrs. H. M. Bauer and Mrs. Fred Brown. New members Mrs. Brown and Mrs. L. F. Lawrence introduced. Tea table decorated blue and silver. refreshments served. Mrs. W. H. Wegman attended as guest.
Acres of crops remain in the fields as farmers look for several more favorable days of weather to complete harvest and field work.
Dr. Alan Nunn May, once the Western world’s first atom spy, is named special professor of physics at the University of Ghana. The 50-year-old British scientist, who helped on Canada’s wartime atomic program, was jailed in 1946 for passing secrets to the Soviet Union and released in 1952 after serving part of his sentence.
In Vientiane the rightist Lao government called U.S. pressure to join a coalition intolerable and declared the Lao people would tighten belts. The United States postponed aid delivery after Vice Premier Phoumi Nosavan rejected Ambassador Winthrop Brown s urging that the rightists drop demands for defense and interior posts in a coalition with neutralist Souvanna Phouma and pro Communist Souphanouvong.
Latin American diplomats report Argentina opposes any collective sanctions against Cuba. They cite proposals sent to President Kennedy Frondizi, with the Argentine stance inferred from dispatches and diplomats' expressed attitudes.
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