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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1969
Page
2
Editorial argues the City Park shed fails minimum structures code and should be repaired or removed. It notes the city rejected supplying trucks and equipment, as the shed is used for storage and advertising the city image.
A community debates using existing shelters as homes lack basements. Officials fear traffic in opening public buildings, while facilities like the junior college campus offer two shelters. The speaker urges regular siren testing and proactive life saving measures over post disaster response.
Albro B Gregory, longtime Nome Nugget editor, resists state paving plans and urban renewal, arguing residents should choose mud and dust. he hints at funding sidewalks via renewal projects. The piece sketches his Alaska arrival in 1957, personality, and family ties to the Nugget.
Verses note a teaching from Matthew 19 17 stating there is only one good and it is God. The item also provides Tribune phone contact details and a helpline after 6 pm.
A reader asks how a 50-year-old woman with full upper dentures but no lower teeth can avoid malnutrition after choking on meat and abandoning solid foods. Dr Thosteson urges dental care, diet tweaks like pureed foods and baby foods, vitamin supplementation, and medical evaluation for constipation and mouth sores.
The column argues Nixon should enforce the 1965 Voting Rights Act and Supreme Court desegregation rulings. It warns political allies like Strom Thurmond pressure weaken protections, linking law and order to constitutional duties and urging the President to uphold civil rights.
Article reflects on McCarthyism remnants as Madison Capital Times notes fear during 1951 Independence Day event. It cites increased wiretap requests, Nazi-leaning rhetoric, and the Otepka confirmation fight, highlighting senators who opposed the nomination and those who supported it.
NBC airings include Sorry Wrong Number with Barbara Stanwyck and Burt Lancaster at 10:30 on Channel 4, Interlude with June Allyson and Rossano Brazzi, Cash McCall with James Garner and Natalie Wood, and Love in the Afternoon with Audrey Hepburn. ABC Sunday movie Taker Her She's Mine stars James Stewart and Sandra Dee in a protective father tale. Radio and local shows fill prime time across channels with Get Smart and Hogan's Heroes in late slots. Sunday listings note cross-channel programming and color broadcasts.
Television listings show program times for KVOO WDAF KCMO KODE WIBW and others. Featured programs include Laugh In Will Sonnett Here's Lucy The Outcasts Mayberry RFD Dick Cavett Jimmy Rodgers News Tonight Show Joey Bishop Laredo Untouchables and Faith For Our Times.
Vice President Spiro Agnew spoke at the Midwest Governors Conference in Wichita after a private reception. Few Southeast Kansas Democrats and Republicans attended, with the guest list skewed to state party stalwarts and western landowners. A Neosho County resident received a rare invitation tied to campaign contributions.
Tribune Files notes that after Monday’s election four more teachers were hired, leaving four vacancies. The board set aside 3000 of the 30000 CAA-WTS fund for a bus fund and likely will buy two buses at about 2000 each instead of a single large bus. A quiet Fourth of July in Chanute concluded the day.
The Chanute police department reports $1,040 in bonds and fines collected in June after answering 189 service calls. Burglary, grand larceny, and petty larceny cases were cleared by arrest, with multiple traffic and parking violations noted and eight careless driving arrests. The report also covers overtime tickets, accidents, animal control actions, and local war bond activity.
Tanzania mountain guides who serve climbers on Kilimanjaro seek union status. Currently paid per five day trip by two hotels, they hope a union will improve conditions and fringe benefits such as uniforms with support from the National Tourist Board.
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