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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1969
Page
1
In Wichita the inaugural parade featured Buddy Heaton of Hugoton riding his trained buffalo Clyde. Heaton also rode Clyde in JFK’s 1961 parade, while another marcher rode a burro and displayed a balloon reading Docking for president in 72.
In Denver officials awaited word on whether nearly 60,000 striking OCAW members would return to work as California contracts between the union and Union-Pure Oil Co. were approved. The tentative settlement provides a general wage hike of 42.5 cents an hour plus 2 cents for night shifts and 3.6 cents for certain classifications, with extra hospital, pension, and tax savings benefits.
Kansas City St. Joseph Catholic Church diocese school board votes 16 to 1 to close 54 schools serving about 23 000 students effective Sept 1 unless state aid is provided. They urge Bishop Helmsing to seek 50 percent state funding as alternative to closure.
The Zion Lutheran Church will dedicate its new 380000 educational building and youth center at 3 p.m. Sunday with Pastor R C Greene leading. Speakers include Pastor Stanley Jones of Kansas City and Pastor C C Nieman of Independence. An octet from St John College Winfield provides music.
The area forecast calls for mostly cloudy skies and a warmer day with southeasterly winds. Tonight and Wednesday bring a chance of light rain or drizzle with low near 40 and high around 50. Kansas forecast shows 50s to 70s early Wednesday then a cold front with light rain later.
The Chanute Area Chamber of Commerce appointed four directors for one-year terms at a special meeting today. Appointees are John White county attorney Milford Driskill Alcorn director Fred Holmes Personal Thrift Plan manager and the Rev Dale Sneeringer First Baptist Church. Newly elected three-year directors include Dale McCoy KCRB owner Charles Chauncey Western Drilling Tool and Supply Co Ebar Schultz Schultz Realty owner Ralph H Ellis Ellis Dodge president. Officers to be elected next Monday.
Chanute city clerk Bonnie Moffatt urged owners to buy annual dog licenses by March 1 to avoid a 50 cent penalty. Fees are 2 dollars for male or spayed female dogs and 3.50 dollars for unspayed females. If the rabies certificate is not valid all year, a tag cannot be issued.
Adventure Line Manufacturing Co will erect a new building 50 percent larger on its property to replace the fire destroyed plant. Constructing 144 by 350 feet, the 50 400 square foot structure should be ready by March 15. The company resumes defense work on metal gun racks while employing 89 workers, down from 472 before the blaze.
Crude oil from a 22 inch pipeline leaked near Lima causing streets and sewers to fill. Police and National Guard evacuated about 8,000 residents while fire crews and an Air Force Foam team battled the spill. Four factories closed and 1,800 people sheltered as officials worked to stabilize the situation.
The U S Court of Appeals ordered the immediate release of Morton Sobell from a 30 year sentence for passing atom secrets to the Soviet Union. His release date is uncertain, based on good behavior time and credit for 7 months 18 days jailed prior to sentencing in 1951. Sobell, 51, is at Lewisburg federal penitentiary in Pennsylvania. He was sentenced in 1951 with Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and David Greenglass.
A Scandinavian Airlines jet broke apart on a rainy approach to Los Angeles International Airport and crashed into the Pacific eight miles off shore. Of 45 aboard, 30 survived, 4 known dead, 11 remaining unaccounted for or missing as divers and coast guard crews searched through two-foot swells and night darkness. Rescue boats and private vessels ferried survivors to Santa Monica Hospital where 24 were treated in good condition.
Two U S Marines battalions landed 340 miles northeast of Saigon in Batangan Peninsula forming part of an 8 200 man allied force to crush a North Vietnamese sanctuary. Casualties stood at 15 Marines dead and 150 wounded while enemy deaths were about 560 as the assault began to push inland toward allied units. The plan aims to surround an area of eight square miles holding up to 800 North Vietnamese and guerrillas.
Topeka AP Indians from across Kansas invited to a general Indian meeting here Sunday. Walter Cooper president of the Pottawatomie Pow Wow Club said the meeting was called due to numerous inquiries from groups interested in Indian affairs. Presentations by several county state and federal organizations expected.
Sen. Fred Harris of Oklahoma won unanimous election as chairman of the Democratic National Committee. He succeeds Lawrence F. O'Brien who left to join an investment bank. O'Brien urged the committee to focus on the suburbs where many Democrats have moved.
Readers note a fragment about travel habits and air travel versus sea journeys with a casual remark on finishing trips on the water. The line suggests passengers might prefer ships if aware their voyage ends afloat.
The 1969 Kansas Legislature convenes at noon with tax, education, and highway issues ahead. Leaders say committees will be selected immediately under new rules, with fewer but larger panels. Republicans hold top heavy majorities. Gov. Docking faces limited veto overrides. Cal Strowig notes an 84 vote hurdle to override a veto.
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