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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1962
Page
4
An editorial urges readers to stay positive during deep winter by using time at home for reading, family activities, correspondence, and tax returns. It suggests planning summer travel, enjoying popcorn and games, and limiting TV to avoid boredom while travel remains restricted.
Gov John Anderson proposes moving driver license exams from highway patrolmen to Motor Vehicle Department staff to expand patrol duties. Democrats label it a back door attempt to grow the patrol. The writer favors local examination by public schools and teachers to reduce cost and improve access.
A fragmentary clipping blends moral quips about brides and doctors with a Cairo child discovering 288 gold coins and a note on a $6 billion currency safety pool among nine nations. The tone resembles a humorous, reflexive historic newspaper cull.
The column notes Sam Heller’s appointment to a Kansas Legislature vacancy and quips about there being too many Hellers in legislatures. It critiques income tax forms with a folksy front message and suggests a big nonparalyzing strike as variety. A winter report of a man’s fatal heart attack while shoveling snow is mentioned as not yet reaching desk.
A flu epidemic spared Chanute and Neosho County, health officer Dr. A M Garton reported. Golden Rule club met at Mrs J F Richman’s home with several ladies present. D A Kuhn visited Chanute on Ridge Store business. Herbert Johnson earned ribbons at a National Poultry association fair in Dodge City. Max Green began work on the Trade School building.
A devotional line quotes Thessalonians urging vigilance and temperance, advising readers to wakefulness and clear-minded living in daily faith practice.
Washington columnist Drew Pearson reexamines Democrats for possible conflicts of interest noting John A. McCone in the CIA owns substantial Standard Oil stock. The piece links oil interests with CIA actions in the Near East including coups, the Suez crisis, and arms deals affecting U.S. policy and Israel.
Reader tips advise using a hot water bottle and weight to flatten bulging linoleum areas. For pie crusts, bake the shell briefly before adding fruit to keep juices from sogging the crust. The column includes quips about gravity and tame humor from various papers.
Education column urges students to begin each course with a concrete plan. Create an outline of the first chapter, learn key new terms aloud to form mental pictures, sketch maps or diagrams as memory aids, and revise a one page course outline. Stay up to date and seek help when needed.
Daytime and evening grid across channels KCOTV and affiliates list morning programs such as Continental Classroom Light of Life Today Popeye Captain Kangaroo Say When Love Lucy The Price is Right and News at eleven. Evening lineup includes Danny Thomas Thriller Ben Casey Jack Paar and local news with continued soaps.
A dense listing outlines daily programs from noon through late night. Include midday farm news, soap operas, game shows, Westerns, cartoons, and movies featuring The Falcon Strikes Back and Eve Venus, along with news weather and sports updates.
Mary Jeannette Begole the Iranian born adopted daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar R. Begole of McPherson was naturalized as a U S citizen in a January 5 ceremony in Wichita. The four year old, formerly Khatoon Chirin Chad, entered the United States as a child brought to Iran by her father worked with the National Iranian Oil Co. and later adopted by the Begoles after a long legal process. Mary excited for starting school next fall, has a story linking Iran, the Philippines, and wartime years in a Japanese prison with her family.
Mrs. John Kenning recalls the unusual accident in Spring Valley Minnesota as a car left the road after a turn and crossed a highway, skimmed a lot without hitting 1962 models, squeezed between a pole and guy wire, and ended by crashing into a garage. The only mark on its record is the garage impact.
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