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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1956
Page
4
Views argue the 1956 Kansas budget session produced a woefully short harvest. Without new revenue the state faces hardship next year and may have to tax heavily to fund essential services. Governor Hall proposes a workable revenue plan. lawmakers risk delay and empty options.
The state highway department may replace painted center lines with reflector buttons to extend visibility for drivers. While not preventing all crashes, the reflectors could be seen two or three times farther ahead, helping reduce edge and center lane misjudgments and resulting accidents.
This column mixes weather notes for Monaco with rumors about Monte Carlo’s Casino styling and Grace Kelly’s engagement. It comments on Marilyn Monroe, a Jacob’s coat five-tone model, bread-brimmed hats for sheriffs candidates, and a light political year forecast. It also references Bud Wilkerson, the Communist menace, and Franklin Pierce as a historical aside.
A local sign at a Kansas filling station urges politeness while noting the need to adjust attire. A diner waiter interaction is sketched with humor about cold soup and hot replacement. An employment interview line ends the fragment with a humorous tone.
A jokey exchange riffs on unlikely careers and odd pride in home life. A psychiatrist in a porcelain factory begs a laugh as the applicant claims he "took care of the cracked pots." A Buffalo Man quips that only his wife made a brilliant marriage, a playful slice of local humor.
Twenty five years ago Frank H. Reed of Neosho Missouri proposed building a wading pool for children in Chanute if the city furnishes the construction site. Commissioners weighed tearing down the Central Park pavilion to provide a site for the pool.
A survey notes a decline in tobacco chewing among youth while older men still chew. The piece contrasts tobacco chewing with cigarette smoking, citing cost and social stigma as factors. It observes younger generations favor cigarettes, with lifelong costs from smoking and lower financial burden from chewing.
Dr. Crane discusses a self analysis method through the Tests for Husbands and Wives. He explains collecting opinions from 600 wives and 600 husbands to identify 50 common merits and 50 faults, encouraging readers to measure themselves against current American couples. He promotes obtaining the tests by enclosing stamps and a fee.
In Floyd Virginia two young moonshiners Ray Shelton and Wilson Hall fled a federal raid as agents closed in at a barn. Shelton explained the still uses rye sugar and water, while Col. Tom Bailey notes moonshiners bluff and run, with light sentences keeping cycles of crime.
Altoona residents and visitors are listed from Bartlesville Tulsa Neodesha Wichita Independence El Dorado Oklahoma City and Dodge City in a roundup of family visits lodge events wolf drive and social gatherings. March of Dimes kickoff announced with container placements in schools and businesses.
Rates listed for Neosho Allen Wilson and Woodson Counties include one month three months six months and one year prices. Outside four counties the rates show one month three months six months and one year with prices varying.
The article traces washday evolution from pre dawn fires and manual boilings to modern automatic washers. Early routines used two wash boilers, home made soap, and hand wringers. Over time motors and electricity reduced labor, ending with today's automatic washers and dryers.
The prompt asks for grammar guidance and pronunciation fixes. The sentence contains awkward phrasing connect up at that place and the archaic thence. The correct version: The two railroads join there and one goes to Smithville.
A compact airing list shows 7 pm to 10 pm programs including Perry Como, People Are Funny, Ford Star Jubilee, Your Hit Parade, and later morning and afternoon shows like Today and Captain Kangaroo with News and Weather sprinkled through the day.
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