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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1959
Page
4
An editorial notes Kansas cities like Salina Hutchinson and Independence eye boundary changes before the 1970 census. It argues expanding city limits to include suburbs can boost population figures for the next decennial count, urging action this year to influence official rankings.
A brief quotation from Amos 5 24 urging moral justice to flow freely as a cleansing, enduring standard for daily conduct and community life.
The piece surveys Dublin’s scale and sights from the Liffey to Trinity College. It notes a vast park, busy harbor, Georgian public buildings, and a stagnant economy with little postwar rebuilding. A 50 000 strong Pioneer Total Abstinence parade marks a rare lively moment amid a aging, exporting nation.
Chanute police active Friday in the nationwide hunt for John Dillinger after a sighting in Iola. Chief J E Lindquist said officers watched physicians' offices and highways but had no chance to claim the $10,000 reward. Local warnings followed telephone tips from Iola authorities.
A collection of humorous quotes from multiple papers details golf as a quizzical Scotland origin, optimists and pessimists on teen car dates, a county jail visit with a witty reply about liquor, courtroom banter on character witness limits, a boat pennant joke about a wife aboard, insects responding to kindness, and a jab at keeping up with the Joneses, each reflecting local tone and wit.
The Supreme Court issued mixed rulings on individual rights vs government authority in contempt cases involving Uphaus Barenblatt and Watkins. Decisions varied 9–0 and 6–3 or 5–4, reflecting statewide sedition questions and committee investigations into communism while stressing pertinency and national interest.
Washington reports says Governor Earl Long is gravely ill with strokes and remains under hospital care. Despite medical advice, he holds frequent press conferences and plans campaign activity while scrutiny grows over his release and potential political maneuvering against Speaker Sam Rayburn.
The listing outlines a dense broadcast slate across KOAM KOTV and WDAF channels with programs such as Wagon Train Death Valley Days Tales of the Texas Rangers The Price is Right and Mr Wistriet Attorney. It includes a mix of dramas game shows news weather sports and films featuring numerous series like Gunsmoke Bat Masterson Lawless Years Sea Hunt and Zane Grey Theatre with late night movies and variety acts.
Three teenage reformatory inmates, Larry Rector 16 Rog er Moore 16 and Patrick Jarrell 17, were captured within five hours of escaping from Prun toytown state school. They kidnapped Sandra Lynne McKeen 18 in New Martinsville, demanded food and money, and were stopped ten miles south by Sheriff Westerman and officers. McKeen was unharmed. The trio face preliminary hearings before Magistrate W C Lawson. their escape and actions sparked a police chase across the Ohio River frontage.
In Carl Junction Missouri a 21 year old Weir Kansas man Duke Buster was fined $60 and costs in police court Tuesday after.
City Marshal Elmer Wilson accused Buster of trying to run him down during a speeding stop in a 30 mile zone. Wilson said he attempted to overtake the driver, then stood in the street flagging with a flashlight and fired two shots as the car nearly struck him. Buster later appeared and pleaded guilty in police court.
Sen Andrew F. Schoeppel led a group of 52 senators voting to cut 300 million dollars from Eisenhower's foreign military aid request. Sen Frank Carlson supported the cut while Missouri's Dems Thomas Hennings Jr and Stuart Symington opposed it.
In Wichita a day-long family drinking bout ended with an argument and a shooting. Four officers subdued 23-year-old Tommy R Tucker after the incident. Stepfather Joe Doty, 35, was critically wounded by a .25 caliber bullet hitting the chest and lodging in the back. Mrs Doty, Tucker’s mother, is mentioned among those involved.
The Board of Zoning Appeals of Chanute Kansas will hear Robert Pennington representing James W Kensett Jr and Leno Re Kensett July 15 at 7 30 PM Memorial Building Chanute Neosho County. The applicants seek Section 6 interpretation and a possible special exception for a 1315 West Ord Street office use.
A Carnegie Public Library branch in San Antonio returned a book titled Castle Blair about five months before Peary reached the North Pole in 1909. It had been overdue since January 4, 1909 and would have racked up a $472.50 fine, now placed in a collection chute. The note ends with a historical aside about Pompeii’s burial by Vesuvius in 79 A.D.
Chanute Tribune publication details list editors and staff positions and note mailing and circulation information. The notice includes postal registration, association memberships, and subscription rates for Neosho and Woodson counties with various term options and prices.
In Neosho County Kansas the heirs request a court ruling on the descent of Jennie May Wible's real and personal estate including Lot 3 Block 1 Royster's Addition Chanute. The hearing is set for July 2 1950 at 10:00 AM in the Neosho County Courthouse with defense due.
Detectives Floyd Hannon and Dave Acuna said Tucker shot his stepfather and pistol whipped Mrs. Voty after a day of drinking with the Doty couple and Dotty Weaver, Tucker's girlfriend. Tucker was booked for investigation of aggravated assault. The woman had a forehead laceration requiring nine stitches.
Oklahoma Alcoholic Beverage Control Board members moved into their new offices on Tuesday and found no beverages. Water fountains had not been turned on.
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