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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1970
Page
2
The best thing about a town the size of Chanute is that it is such a great place to rear children. How good depends on what the smaller towns offer in the way of schools recreation medical services jobs and cultural events.
The editorial warns that President Nixon's veto could cost Kansas over 13 million dollars in education and library funds. It details LSCA Title II impacts on library services, interlibrary loan access, audio visual materials, and library construction projects amid state park and recreation concerns. It mentions Al Guiot proposing park improvements and youth activities, plus the need to address park maintenance and potential zoo plans.
Proposal to shift Chanute from a three to five member city commission faces doubts. Officials cite quick action with current board, scarce qualified candidates, and a benefited city manager and staff in solving issues like the landfill. No change recommended.
A reader notes that a school district employee declined to name area superintendents and directed questions to Mr. Fisher, highlighting caution in agency pronouncements and responses to the press. The remark critiques how information is controlled by officials and their aides.
Governor Docking blasts legislators city officials and school boards as corrupt and beholden to lobbyists. He asserts only he acts in the public interest and urges Kansas voters to back his budget and his governance blueprint.
Alan and Margaret McSurely once aided Kentucky poor and faced sedition and contempt charges. They seek to halt or delay a contempt trial by appealing to the U.S. Court of Appeals as further subpoenas and court actions unfold in a long, contested legal saga involving state seizures and federal investigations.
District Attorney Edmund Dinis will urge the Duke County grand jury to accept the inquest findings that no criminal case can be brought against Senator Ted Kennedy over Mary Jo Kopechne’s drowning. Kennedy testified he was at the wheel when the car left a Chappaquiddick bridge and sank, with Dinis noting brake marks suggest Kennedy was driving.
The page lists Tonight's Top TV with NBC film A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum starring Zero Mostel and Mary Mary with Debbie Reynolds and Barry Nelson. It notes a Sunday 2:30 NFL Pro Game on CBS and various daytime and late night programs including Jackie Gleason and Andy Williams schedules.
Monday evening January 19 schedule lists channels KVOO WDAF KCMO KOAM KMBC KTWU KODE WIBW and KU TV time slots across 7 PM to 12:30 AM with programs including Gunsmoke Mister Rogers Neighborhood Here's Lucy Movie Doris Day Carol Burnett Tonight Show Cavett Merv Griffin Sunrise Semester and News segments. The grid shows station numbers and program blocks across multiple channels.
The Southeast Kansas Library System Board at Tola on January 14 adopted an amendment to allow affiliation of academic libraries. Porter Library of Kansas State College, Pittsburg, was accepted, formalizing a long helpful relationship providing books periodicals and reference aid to public libraries.
Tribune Files notes Chanute dealers doubt a National Association plan to ration cigarettes will work. Most have not studied details, initial reaction is negative, though some may reconsider if feasibility is shown. Also reports Frank and Mrs. Vaughn’s Texas Mexico trip and Grace Episcopal Church finances show clean slate after 1944.
A Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine team reports animal hearts are unlikely to work in humans because red blood cells are too large to pass through capillaries. Calf hearts fail. pigs sheep and a chimpanzee show limited or no function. Rejection remains unresolved and human hearts remain scarce.
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