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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1973
Page
2
A Peoples Forum letter argues the city commission must police the city granted CATV franchise. It notes equal time was given to cable reps, upcoming public hearings, and promises improved service after the Feb 26 meeting. The writer urges focus on essential municipal duties and respects subscriber choice.
Weather woes and odd incidents color a Kansas City area report. Blood samples froze en route to testing, a car sank on an ice lake, and a widow fended off intruders with a pistol. Dentists push preventive care while Vermont officials mock a mis-spelled chart in a tense hearing.
The piece criticizes GOP leaders pushing for income tax rises to fund property tax relief, including a 1.5 percent top proposal and a voter approved local option. It argues the plan is cumbersome costly and inequitable and could hit wage earners hardest while suggesting alternative property tax relief methods and careful tax definition to avoid loopholes.
NBC aired a poignant segment after President Nixon announced a Vietnam cease fire set for Saturday at 7 p.m. EST. Ed Evans, a former Marine from Waco Texas, reacted to the news on NBC.
Four Vietnam veterans in a Houston VA hospital ward spoke to NBC from beds and wheelchairs. One veteran expressed relief at the cease-fire for POWs but lamented that it did not come five years sooner for him.
Senator Paul Fannin of Arizona avoided a drunk driving conviction after prosecutors say key evidence was kept from court. An assistant prosecutor complained the file was moved and a judge dismissed the DWI charge by motion on December 22, 1972.
New York humor and reflections mix with a Michigan crime note as Hal Boyle sketches Manhattan chatter and a travel center theft. A modern prospector steals a pyrite nugget worth about $3 from a New Buffalo information center before lighthearted banter with coworkers about reincarnation and family ties.
Twenty five years ago a survey was set to assess local farmers willingness to buy stock in a proposed cooperative cannery with tomatoes as the main canned crop. Fifty years ago in 1923 Fort Worth firemen build a 48 foot drill tower at the station for wall climbing and exercise. Police seek escaped prisoner Ronnie Shiffer after he flooded with transmission fluid and escaped through a duct in Benbrook.
Channels release advance schedules showing 7:00 to 10:50 programs. Highlights include Mission Impossible, Little People, Ten North Frederick, Circle of Fear, Dragnet, Hollywood Squares, and masterful films like The Unsinkable Molly Brown and The Yellow Rolls Royce.
A short scripture quotation from Romans 13 8 emphasizes owing nothing to anyone except to love each other for love fulfills the law. The note frames daily devotional use and focus on Christian neighborly duty.
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