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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1958
Page
4
The Chanute Jaycees receive praise for erecting welcome highway signs and for creating the slogan The friendly town. The piece urges service workers to greet visitors with a smile and courteous service to uphold the motto.
A collage of gags and reflections touches on electricity savings in a Virginia hospital sign, Alaska and USSR distance, Vicuna and mink jokes, Paris Bastille Day, a life insurance note, square cans and round refrigerators, and a Groucho Marx quip about Juneau and the 49th state.
Rand recalls Diogenes the Cynic who sought honest men in Athens after being banished from Sinopes. The piece notes his ascent as a scholar, his return to Synope, and a quip about preferring labor over luxury. It then shifts to a critique of juvenile delinquency blaming parents churches and schools and argues idleness fuels wrongdoing.
A 25 year old note from J H Bartlett links navy beans to wound care while bacteriologist Richard Mc Elliott highlights lima beans in TB research. He cites a costly tripsin enzyme for tuberculosis testing and notes beans may rise in status though common varieties remain plentiful.
Kansas counties along the Neosho River are asked to chart land areas prone to flood encroachment. Plans for flood control as a public works project may proceed, with two dams proposed near Iola and Emporia to impound and release floodwaters.
A collection of brief witticisms from clipped columns. The quotes touch on mulish chaff from a Gazette associate and a traveler joke about a moon mission. A shopper forgets a product name while huming a jingle.
Reverend Tom Cleveland, grandson of Grover Cleveland, works as an Episcopalian missionary in Hokachuk Alaska a remote Eskimo village. He reports life in the new state noting long days short winters and rapid spring growth. he describes unemployment poor beaver prices dog distemper affecting the village dogs and a broken tractor hindering transport.
Judge Wayne W Hinkle of the Jay Circuit Court praises Dr Crane's daily column and its educational booklets. The piece touts vaccination-like social guidance for teenagers to curb divorce and delinquency, while detailing Crane's community work, speeches, and free mail service through Hopkins Syndicate Inc. Mellott Ind.
The notice states the newspaper publishes in Chanute Kansas and is entered as second class mail. It credits the Associated Press with exclusive rights to local news and AP dispatches for republication.
Honolulu AP report says Defense Secretary Neil McElroy arrived by nonstop KC135 jet tanker from Washington D C in 11 hours 8 minutes en route to American nuclear tests near Eniwetok. He joked this is the way to get transported and praised the record flight with Adm. Felix Stump and other officers.
In Los Angeles Barbara Burns 20 daughter of comedian Bob Burns was jailed on suspicion of forgery after attempting to pass a $65 fictitious check at a grocery store. She was previously free on bail pending appeal of a 90 day narcotics addiction sentence.
The Chanute Tribune lists KOAM TV Channel 7 KOTY Channel 6 WDAF Channel 4 KODE Channel 12 with a full daily lineup. Morning shows include Today Captain Kangaroo and Price is Right. Evening blocks feature Gunsmoke Texas Rangers Sheriff of Cochise Restless Gun Zorro Wyatt Earp and Adventure programs with news weather and sportscasts throughout.
Senate Rackets Committee counsel Robert F Kennedy estimated the underworld drains at least $1 billion annually from labor-management rackets. He previewed hearings on gang infiltration across Chicago Detroit New York Philadelphia Miami and Los Angeles as Accardo and three lieutenants invoke the Fifth Amendment amid extortion allegations linked to Allgauer's Fireside raid and $750000 damage.
Mrs. Sadie Brown, 69, a widow from a 75 year old farm, treats tree climbing as a calling. She climbs tall trees of 70 feet or more for fun and cherry picking, without ladders, reflecting a long standing habit and stubborn independence.
In Sandpoint Idaho a 73-year-old man Emil Olkonen went berserk Friday night killing Ruth Tanner 66 who sat at a tavern lunch counter and killed himself. Three men were wounded including Robert Hunter 48 and Sandpoint Police Chief George Elliott. Olkonen barricaded in his home as officers closed in with no motive given.
RELOIT AP The accelerator in Dean Stratton's car wedged at a downtown intersection Thursday night. The car knocked a trash can 25 feet through a store window, bent a parking meter stanchion, and struck a parked car. Minor damage occurred to the vehicles and the Raney drug store window suffered a trashed display. Stratton owns S. and S. drug store across the street.
The piece surveys numerous organizations across society from schools and churches to politics and hobbies. It notes that most people can join multiple groups and many seek leadership roles while a minority avoid responsibility. It mentions a man who was past president of the past president's club.
A long string of visits and dinners links many Independence households including the Bergs Stiles Frasers Frasers French Paynes and Marquardts. A surprise birthday dinner for Mrs Irvin Gibson drew about 50 relatives and friends at Riverside Park in Independence.
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