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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1969
Page
1
The Chanute survey reports 28 percent return rate on renter forms and varied rent. Industrial workers show many with 100 plus weekly pay. teachers also high earners. Miles to work and home ownership patterns featured alongside a Frankfort Apollo note and a Fort Scott family profile.
Woodson County Rural Water District No 1 begins service to 137 customers in eastern Woodson County including Neosho Falls and Piqua. The system uses a Neosho River plant with two towers and 70 miles of pipe financed by Farmers Home Administration.
Israeli warplanes bombed Arab commando positions across the cease fire line after an ambush on an Israeli army vehicle near Kibbutz Gesher in the Jordan valley. Flames and smoke were seen at the abandoned Arab village of Ktes as planes returned after the 7:15 a.m. attack with no Israeli casualties.
Temperatures today at 10 a.m. are 26 high and 17 low with yesterday 20 and 13 and year ago 38 and 22. Highest on this date 68 and lowest 19 with humidity 52 and barometer 29.27. Sunrise 7 37 sunset 5 23. Area forecast calls for fair to partly cloudy and warmer through Sunday with highs 35 to 40 today and around 40 Sunday. Tonight lows 20 to 25.
Intercepted letter expresses concern Woodson County may exhaust Neosho water before reaching them. The brief note warns about water allocation and potential shortages affecting downstream users.
Negro militants defied evacuation orders at Brandeis and Swarthmore while unions of students remained in occupied buildings. Brandeis faculty approved Afro American studies despite protests, as Swarthmore held firm for concessions. Columbia trustees faced a conservative lawsuit alleging campus disturbances harmed nonradical students.
City records show meter revenue fell about 900 dollars in 1968 from 1967 to 14 520.56. City Clerk Bonnie Moffatt notes funds repay bonds for three lots and cover maintenance. Lower downtown activity and new off street parking may explain the decline. monthly totals range from 799 in January to 1 584 in December.
House Democrats push two bills to repeal or amend Taft Hartley section 14B allowing right to work and to extend NLRA protections to farm workers. Rep John Conyers and Phillip Burton sponsor measures amid uncertain support and prior Senate filibuster blocking.
The 1969 Kansas legislature faces debates on constitutional revision criminal code civil service pay scales collective bargaining for public employees a state minimum wage law and the right to work. Leaders emphasize taxation highways and education as priorities with liquor by the drink abortion and other issues stirring emotion.
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