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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1957
Page
4
The article notes a city directory signals research value rather than casual reading. It cites R L Polk's Chanute volume praising up-to-date listings and urges advertising as a driver of business, from reviving dull commerce to securing tax payments.
The region produced two presidents from Missouri and Kansas and will gain from their legacies. The Truman Library was dedicated in Independence, Missouri, and a similar Eisenhower Museum library is planned in Abilene. Both will house rare documents spanning early atomic era history for Kansas students and researchers.
A collage of quirky lines on TV exchanges with Russia, inflation bells, taunting creek headlines, palm leaf fans, steel price hikes, and reflections on old time Sunday school. The piece riffs on modern quirks, media, and social habits with humorous asides.
Scientists test radiation fallout effects on dogs amid Nevada human tests doubt. Norton Telegram comments on safety and bears near Old Faithful, Yellowstone Park, with a warning rug remark. Goodland News notes foreign translations of the song Houn Dawg and Milly’s remark.
A two-vehicle collision two miles north of St Paul left Mrs M B Shirley with a broken collar bone and Mrs W S Barnes with a fractured right wrist and bruises. Barnes drove the car. their daughter Mary Virginia and Bobby Shirley were uninjured. Also hurt were Mrs Grant Bond from roller injuries. The piece notes visiting Leila Butin and Joanna Fitzwilliams from Alaska with Dr James A Butin family nearby.
A light column notes Elizabeth Taylor and her marriages draw public fascination similar to Elvis Presley enlistment chatter. It laments ongoing celebrity coverage while defending media freedom and criticizes persistent tabloid focus on famous names.
Dr Crane in his Worry Clinic recounts Edith L a 16 year old formerly shy high school student who gained dozens of friends and dating after applying proven social techniques. He urges teens to memorize social strategies and present themselves with enthusiasm, noting that popularity comes from personality and confidence, not mere looks. Edith now feels self assured and can expect to make friends quickly anywhere, even at a summer camp.
Washington notes Ike may invite Marshal Zhukov to Washington as Russian defense chief, signaling Kremlin rise. Andrew Mellon heir Richard Mellon eyed for treasury post, but balked. Cabinet abolition of smoking cited by quartet. Wilson and Brucker censored speeches. Burke, Burke and Army officials often gagged.
In Topeka the Kansas Industrial Development Commission intends to sell its four place airplane. The 1957 legislature refused aviation division funding and the plane will be disposed of as nonessential. The craft cost 15176 dollars several months ago and is now valued at about 12000 dollars by KIDC.
The answer set includes multiple items. 1. Correct: I am sure that he will succeed when he makes that experiment. 2. Debris pronounces deh bree with stress on the second syllable. 3. Uproarious is misspelled. 4. Senitive as noun means that which soothes. lenitive pronunciation is lehn i tiv. 5. Magnify is a ma word meaning to enlarge.
Erie and vicinity report a busy week with street painting by the Rock and Roll Home Demonstration Unit, a July 8 birth at Mercy Hospital to Merle and wife, and numerous visits. Local residents, out-of-town guests, and business changes appear among the community notes and coming and goings through Erie, Walnut Grove, Nowata, and nearby areas.
A brief notice details a day spent in Chanute by a Wichita resident who visited his mother Mrs. Vivian Hoagland. The item appears in the July 11 1957 edition of the Chanute Tribune on page four.
Hubbardstown police resignations leave town of 1,162 without protection. Chief Howard Taylor and three patrolmen mailed their resignations to the Board of Selectmen, citing clashes with hot rodders and alleged parental noncooperation in enforcing rules. State police patrol the town after the mass resignation.
Dallas postal officials report eight dog bites in June, down from 24 in the same month last year, attributing the improvement to the city's leash law and increased pet control.
Peter I of Russia introduces a beard tax to modernize the state and fund reforms. The measure requires foreign-born officials and guards to shave or pay, signaling a shift toward Western attire. The policy affects clergy and nobles, provoking debate on tradition versus modernization.
The page lists a dense TV schedule with programs such as Bob Cummings Dexie and Harriet Playhouse 90 Lux Theatre Dragnet and News blocks plus serials like Our Miss Brooks Brighter Day and The Edge of Night across various start times leaving late night slots and music features noted.
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