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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1971
Page
2
Editorial notes farmers face rising input costs and unstable income even in strong harvest years. It argues for modern farming methods and greater credit access through a Farm Credit Act to expand land banks, intermediate banks, and associations to include rural housing loans and related financial services.
Farm Credit One advocates removing the 65 percent cap on land bank lending to boost new farmland access. Chanute Production Credit Association plans $10 million in loans this year, roughly double a decade ago, as economists foresee $3–4 billion in extra rural credit yearly and $250k–$500k capital needs per family farm by 1980.
Nine county plan faces mixed support with four counties backing the project and Bourbon deferring final decision. Montgomery hints a possible conversion of a tentative no. Center could be scaled down to serve four counties while costs stay the same. Cherokee Crawford Labette and Neosho endorse the need, citing lack of treatment options for first offenders and avoiding Hutchinson finishing school.
Elvie Kaplan, 67, heads the NAACP since 1966 while belonging to five Jewish congregations and one Christian church. He recalls a 1932 Miami Beach incident that spurred his commitment to civil rights and notes mixed reactions to a white president in a Black-led organization. His family, including grandson Jeremy Joshua Kaplan enrolled as a life member at birth, reflects a life of service over wealth.
Tribune lists a slate of classic films and premieres for Saturday and Sunday evenings. A Patch of Blue stars Elizabeth Harman and Shelley Winters with Sidney Poitier. Return of The Fly features Vincent Price. The River's Edge follows a killer fleeing with loot. Imitation of Life stars Lana Turner and Sandra Dee. The Jackals pairs Robert Gunner with Vincent Price. Stage to Thunder Rock features Marilyn Maxwell and Scott Brady. Portrait of Jennie stars Jennifer Jones. Tanganyika stars Van Heflin and Ruth Roman. The Harder They Fall features Bogart and Steiger. Sunday offers Judith with Sophia Loren and Peter Finch, Way Out with Jerry Lewis and Connie Stevens, Villa with Brian Keith, and Steel Town about a steel heir.
A dense guide lists multiple films with air times and casts spanning 1940s to 1960s. Titles include Thunderhead Lust for Gold Carousel Appointment with Danger Romanoff and Juliet Bachelor Flat City Beneath the Surface Fear No More Jet Storm Mara Maru Made For Each Other Shenandoah The Raging Tide The Angry Breed and more with stars such as Howard Duff Ann Sheridan Ida Lupino Glenn Ford Gordon MacRae Shirley Jones Alan Ladd Sandra Dee and James Stewart.
Nixon era policy curbs in Turkey push opium production to Burma Laos Thailand border area. Lebanon Iran Iraq show rising drug activity per Rep Seymour Halpern on a spring narcotics tour and a draft Foreign Affairs Committee report. He warns a hydra headed menace as curbs in one country push traffickers to others.
Halpern accuses Deputy Naif El Masri of hashish cultivation and a guarded landing strip on his property from which a Martin 202 aircraft carried 670 kilos seized by Greece. Other figures Sabri Hamadeh and Gen. Yusuf Shu’s son Fares Shumayt linked to drug activity. Syria tied to opium routes via Baathist tolerance.
Chanute Public Librarian Jean Gray reports Gwendolyn Brooks, Pulitzer Prize winner 1949, electrified a capacity Kan sas Library Association audience at Kansas State University. Brooks read from her poetry and highlighted the need for fuller home collections with her Selected Poems.
Rep. Ervin Grant of El Dorado asked emergency funds after a legislative committee inspected migrant and low income workers in western Kansas where hail damaged sugar beets left many stranded. Governor Docking said aid must come from existing welfare programs.
A columnist criticizes Kansas leaders for giving emergency aid to cattle during a blizzard while neglecting hungry humans. The piece recalls Sen. Bob Dole's air-dropped hay relief and questions why aid is withheld from migrants and poor residents. It contrasts past cattle relief with current human need.
A packed Friday night features Mission Impossible rescuing a liberated African figure via a pill, plus Val Doonican in London and Horace Heidt’s variety hour. Also on are Hal Holbrook as a clueless zookeeper, Boston Pops with Tchaikovsky, and ice stars in Headliners on Ice Palace.
Daytime programming for Monday through Friday on KCMO KUHI KOAM KMBC Chanute includes games, dramas, game shows, talk shows and news. Noted entries cover Let's Make a Deal Misterogers Neighborhood Gunsmoke The Newlywed Game Comedy Theater Here's Lucy It Was a Very Good Year Mayberry R F D Realities Weekend at Dunkirk City Beneath the Sea Bachelor Flat Romanoff and Juliet Doris Day CBS News Weather Merv Griffin Dick Cavett News The Great Victor Disbarred among others.
Erie reports Rollin schoolhouse and district property auctioned with items listed: building 320.50, coal house 13, pump and pipe 5.50, piano 5, toilets 15. Rollin patrons consolidate with North Valley school. Butter markets show prices from 64 to 85 cents per pound with cream prices up 14 cents. Chanute Construction Co. lands part of Ottawa waterworks project worth 100000. Chanute Country Club defeats Pittsburg 18 1 2 to 5 in golf.
A stationing notice states that the Associated Press holds rights to republication of all local news and AP dispatches printed in the newspaper and acknowledges member rights under the audit bureau agreement.
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