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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1957
Page
4
The state's tax collections rose by 1.2 million dollars from the previous year due to old non ad valorem taxes and forthcoming revenue from severance tax and higher income rates. Officials say the gain signals continued prosperity, improved collection, and a reduced need for immediate tax hikes such as a higher sales tax.
Journal recalls Hurricane Audrey devastation along the Gulf with hundreds dead and thousands homeless. Officials fault Weather Bureau forecasts while residents refuse to evacuate, leaving many washed away. Mass graves hold nameless white and colored victims separately, reflecting harsh social divisions.
A collection of brief observations and wry takes on public figures, law, manners, and media. It includes remarks on a New York municipal baseball team, Jackie Cooper’s court appearance for speeding, bootleggers in Texas, and the Supreme Court ruling on indecent literature, plus notes on prison labor pay and physician costs.
Alfred M. Landon of Independence, Republican governor candidate, will spend all day tomorrow meeting voters in Neosho County. Miss Mary Ellen Soulis is due home tonight from a visit with friends in Topken. J. T. Ansell travels to Independence to take a 10 day Santa Fe passenger engineer job. Chanute’s Kiddies Bathing Beauty review at Peoples Theatre features children aged 2 to 12 with contestants including Jean Jensen and Mary Margaret Brickler.
Five decades ago items list young people named as pages including Barbara Blair and Sally Fees among others. Mr and Mrs D M Rankin return from a Ozarks honeymoon. A Chanute note recalls a fly-chaser incident with shorts and spray. Also mentions a lack of Fair this year and the Ash Grove Cement plant project north of Chanute with 2500 barrels daily.
The article explains how promotional months arise with publicity campaigns run by industry PR men. It traces Hot Dog Month origins from the 1904 St Louis Exposition and a cartoonist coinage of the term hot dog by Tad Dorgan.
A guest at Clips and Quips dinner applauds a hostess who plays a Chopin nocturne. After a long pause she asks an elderly gentleman if he wants a sonata before dinner. He replies with a light, surprised consent, mentioning he had already had a couple elsewhere. A senator nearby begins a political speech.
A collection of lightדי hearted quips from residents and neighbors in Chanute Sublette and Augusta. The lines touch on love marriage dancing music sunburns vacations and a gossiping cat phrase. The tone mimics a small town conversational column with playful jabs and local flavor.
Former President Truman spoke in a bouncy mood about world affairs and his plan to internationalize key waterways from the Adriatic to Morocco. He cited Suez and the Dardanelles as strategic rails and urged solutions for Iran and Egypt to prevent further wars, recalling talks with Ibn Saud and wartime diplomacy.
A physician praises Vitamin R as religion, recounting Howard G a 47 year old Miami patient once prone to health anxiety. After reading Dr Cranes book he joins a church, sleeps better and gains heart stability using gospel inspired hypo oxygenation while acknowledging ongoing medical needs.
In London Ontario a motorist forced to sell his $100,000 hotel for $4 after a crash left six injured and a judgment of $88,595 against him. His liability coverage was $20,000. with $4 extra he could have had $100,000 limits. The piece urges checking cap insurance to avoid such losses.
The Chanute Tribune and The Daily Timeset consolidated under Chanute Publishing Company. Ernest W. Johnson serves as editor and publisher with James B E Sheridan as advertising manager. Published evenings except Sundays and entered as second class matter.
The notice lists subscription prices for Neosho Allen Wilson and Woodson Counties with mail options for one month three months six months and one year plus outside four counties rates. It includes Associated Press republication rights and credits.
A patient reports relief from insomnia and fear of heart attack after embracing church attendance and singing. The individual calls Vitamin R a great medicine and says congregational involvement reduces loneliness and previous fears.
Mrs. Marjorie Dunham was honored as state Legion auxiliary chaplain at a reception in Erie Legion Hall. The event featured This Is Your Life sketches with Mrs. Richard Salb as narrator and Mrs. Frederick Swan as vocalist. Attendees included 35 auxiliary members and several committees assisted.
A poem by Ella Jerauld compares a child's mind to a clean slate and a temple where early influences linger. It urges gentle approach by parents teachers and caregivers to avoid lasting marks and to foster quiet, wisest entry into a child’s inner world.
Penter and contractor here. His home is on North Webster. Mr. and Mrs Foster Babbs, formerly of Erie, now Borger Texas, arrived Thursday to visit relatives and friends. Mrs John W Pittser travels to Texas and Oklahoma for two weeks to see kin. Frederick Swan of Swan Brothers has bought the Moody store furniture and fixtures and is moving them to his store to enlarge and improve the dry goods department.
Washington report says Senator Hennings Democrat Missouri is in good condition after gall stone surgery yesterday. His appendix was removed, and doctors expect a hospital stay of about a week to 10 days.
A dense log lists day by day broadcast times and programs led by Mystery Theatre Gunsmoke Whirlybirds People are Funny and late night news and variety shows. It catalogs morning to late night slots with channel numbers and program titles across a broad slate.
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