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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1958
Page
4
The piece argues a proposed 10 percent national guard cut would hit Kansas as 16 percent, with about 1000 fewer guards in a 6434 force. It critiques pay cuts in Parsons Naval Reserve and warns that trimming now hinders rapid growth in emergencies. Continuous culling is reasonable. wholesale hacking is not.
A devotional note quotes Galatians 4 7 declaring believers no longer servants but sons and heirs to God through Christ as a spiritual reflection for the day.
A satirical recap notes soda fountains disappearing from drug stores and the irony of relief for proprietors versus hardship for many high schoolers. It jests about fashion, coffee tastes, sociability, and a Topeka talkathon record while musing on miniature golf's comeback against frozen custard stands.
Rand notes at Geneva in 1928 seeing the US as an eavesdropper behind the scenes and laments isolationism. He argues America later moved to internationalism, compares Syrian and Egyptian history to past empires, and cites a Good Samaritan parable as a metaphor for foreign aid.
Captain Hodgman spoke at an open air Salvation Army meeting claiming liquor flows freely in Chanute homes and that he cannot distinguish between open sale in businesses and private home use. Other notes report a girl injured at Humboldt, tax returns, road work contracts, a Chanute school population gain, and a Business and Professional Women delegate elected to the election board.
Local farmer laments a tough summer with hail, grasshoppers, storms and a field fire while clinging to hope for salvage. Various towns sprinkle humorous lines about youth, car nights and pennywise prices in a collection of clipped quips from multiple papers.
Washington column reports Lloyd Farr, a private detective, and Roger Robb were involved in eavesdropping in hotel rooms for Fulton Lewis Jr. The piece recalls Robb’s prior bugging at the Burlington Hotel in 1953 and notes others connected to the Goldfine case, including Jack Lotto and Jack Anderson.
Dr. Crane explains how fear speeds heart rate and oxygen use during emotion, affecting Jim T a 16 year old Boy Scout who struggles with breath hold in water. He offers Houdini style techniques to extend underwater time and urges readers to practice, then write to Dr. Crane in Mellott Indiana.
The Chanute Tribune lists Highland Chanute Kansas as its base with consolidation notes to The Daily Timesett. Published by Chanute Publishing Company Ernest W Johnson editor and publisher James E Sheridan advertising manager, published evenings except Sunday and registered second class mail matter.
The notice lists subscription options for Neosho Allen Wilson and Woodson counties with Mall rates for one month three months six months and one year. It also provides outside county mailing rates and notes AP republication rights held by The Associated Press.
The piece notes concrete’s return in new forms challenging curtain walls and brick or stone. Precasting speeds construction and cutting costs, with Cassi-Crete bubble panels from Pacific Materials weighing 110 pounds per 32 by 20 by 6 feet 8 inches, vs 455 pounds for same volume of regular concrete.
A dense TV guide fragment lists 8 to 9 p.m. and 6 a.m. to midnight programming across stations KOAM TV7 KOTV TV6 WDAF TV4 KODE TV12, including Disneyland Decoy Tombstone Territory It Could Be You Price Is Right Truth or Consequences Hotel Cosmopolitan Love of Life Guiding Light and other daytime and late night shows with placeholder notes on news weather sports and theatre blocks.
An increase in old age Social Security benefits and a payroll tax hike gained momentum in the House Ways and Means Committee. Proposals favored would add 100 percent or at least $5 to current pension checks, with quick approval anticipated by both houses, following a two-year pattern since 1952.
About 200 car owners in Louisville watched as painters spraying a warehouse with aluminum paint released a silver cloud onto cars in a nearby parking lot. Special paint-removing crews restored the original colors. In Campton Kentucky Curt Akers 16 survived a rattlesnake bite after his father wrapped the snake around the boy’s leg and he hiked for help. He was reported in fair condition. Fitchburg Mass report continues.
Charlton brothers Robert E. and Francis J. contend for the same Massachusetts House seat with opposite party endorsements Rob ert seeks the Republican nomination while Francis runs as a Democrat. Vernon Conn. town officials cancel an anniversary event over whisker protests and a Baltimore case involves Sgt Judd and two others wiring evidence in a numbers case.
In Sumatra's American financed oil fields workers need snow tires and chains to move trucks over muddy tropical roads.
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