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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1963
Page
11
Gainesville Mississippi fades as a space age test facility buys 141000 acres to test rocket engines. The 500 million project erases the town once a river trade hub, shrinking it from 35 families in 1962 to ghost town status.
Benedict Forbes and relatives return from California Christmas trip visiting North Hollywood Norwalk and Mexico. New Year gatherings with Thompson and Donohue families. Claremore relatives visit over holidays. Several residents travel or host, with hospital, school, and relocation notes. children enroll in Fredonia and one baby undergoes surgery.
Sixty eight Edmiston store staff from Nevada Carthage Joplin Fort Scott Chanute and Independence gathered in Nevada for the annual awards banquet. Mrs Margaret Brandon Chanute credit manager won first place and a cash prize. Warren McKnight Nevada credit supervisor presented the award. Mrs Elizabeth Hardman Chanute was top Chanute salesperson. long service honors were given to several employees including Mrs Brandon.
In Baltimore a woman customer at a day old bread shop paid a parking meter fine by inserting a nickel after asking whose limousine was parked outside. The shop staff did not know, and she left with day old bread.
Delta Sigma Phi at Arizona State University planned a campus snow event with pledges and trucks for a snow man. With no snow in the state they pivoted, buying 1,800 pounds of crushed ice and constructing an iceman instead.
AAP report notes rising Western and global visitor interest in Petra Cairo and Jerusalem as Middle East sites draw tourists beyond Europe. Jordan markets Holy Land tourism with 210000 visitors this year while Lebanon and Israel expand hotel capacity and accessibility.
Coffeyville resident Jack Brooks was elected president of the Kansas Fair Association at its convention opening in Topeka. He succeeds Mrs. R. B. Riegle of Waterville. Mrs. Edna McLain offers U.S. savings stamps via a loyalty program, trading stamps for a $25 savings bond through a stamp album.
Pittsburg Kansas AP reports Fran cis E Barker, principal of Lakeside junior high and grade school, has resigned after three years to become superintendent of schools at Belleville Kansas. The move names Barker as head of Belleville district and follows his tenure in Pittsburg.
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