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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1960
Page
4
Editorial urges active participation in Kansas elections despite no presidential preference primary. It explains how delegates to national conventions are chosen through county and district conventions and urges voters to attend meetings or contact precinct officials to express candidate preferences. The piece emphasizes shaping party direction even without a direct primary vote.
A viewpoint letter argues that a Parsons high school head’s ban on steady dating is a futile gesture. It suggests teachers should guide youth with kindness and support steady dating by arranging supervised seating rather than prohibition.
A brief devotional item cites Matthew 12 36 warning that every idle word will be accounted for in the day of judgment. The verse emphasizes careful speech and moral accountability for readers.
A fire between 7 and 8 P.M. destroyed Pleasant Ridge school, located a mile west and two miles south of Kimball. A defective flue was blamed. 16 pupils attended the 39 year old building, with no arrangements yet for continued classes.
The article notes prominent academics will teach at a nearby university where about 40 percent failed the last English proficiency test. It discusses political figures, media bias in Kansas, and international remarks on policy and diplomacy with references to dockings and Khrushchev.
A compilation notes two distant relatives vanish with better transport and hints Congress may approve 290 billion dollars to pay the national debt. The piece looks ahead to a new decade noting changes since ten years ago and remarks that some girls are now five years older.
AP analysis notes Democrats control Congress and prefer a moderate civil rights bill this year to avoid a party split. Sen. Lyndon Johnson pressures Northern liberals while Southerners resist strong measures, aiming for a bill achievable without alienating key blocs. Johnson previously steered a cautious 1957 measure through.
Washington reports reveal repeated Bolivian requests for closer US coordination with ICA and Bolivian officials. Ambassadors and aides offered help, but delays and missteps kept meetings from happening, illustrating strains in U S Latin American engagement and trust.
Chanute Tribune announces subscription rates for Neosho Allen Wilson Woodson counties and surrounding areas. Rates vary by duration with annual eight dollar options and fifteen dollar yearly outside counties. Evening publication schedule excludes Sundays.
Washington AP reports the AEC faces phone call confusion when four members share the name John A McCone chairman Dr John H Williams scientist member John S Graham and John F Floberg. McCone is called Mr Chairman or Mr McCone while Floberg is Jack and Williams is Doc or Johnny. Graham jokes he is the only real John.
Howard White, 12, used Boy Scout training to save Douglas Poplin, 7, and David Staley, 9, who fell through ice on a city park pond. He reached them with a pole, slid on the ice, and kept them afloat until passers-by pulled them to safety. White’s father, Robert Lloyd White, is a scoutmaster.
A fragmented TV schedule lists shows and times from Cheyenne to Dallas, including The Texan, Father Knows Best, Tales of Wells Fargo, Peter Gunn, and The Modern equivalents. It also shows daytime and nighttime slots with programs like Today, The Price Is Right, Love Lucy, Guiding Light, and The Tonight Show style entries.
Pvt. P. J. Cahill began the Concordia weather office path in 1885, making it Kansas second oldest bureau after Fort Leavenworth. The piece traces early staff, shifts from Signal Corps to Weather Bureau Service, and 1930s aviation ties and river work, noting how forecasts reached stations via telegraph and postmasters.
Bertrand R. Duhamel, 22, of Woonsocket, faced a district court appearance for driving 100 mph. He claimed an agitated chase with his beloved’s rival caused the burst of speed as state troopers intervened. He was fined $10.
In Durban South Africa a mob in Cato Manor killed nine police officers and wounded another as crowds barricaded homes. Police reinforcement and armed patrols restored order after a radio message pleaded for help. An unofficial report cites murder of a man as the trigger for the violence.
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