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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1963
Page
2
A neighborhood hardware owner thanks Ann Landers for a column about teen phone talk. Mothers buying egg timers after the piece report better limits on calls. A shopper also buys a power lawn mower, and another pays an overdue bill. The merchant sends best wishes.
Prairie Queen reports include many visits from relatives traveling through the area. The Switzers, Harshfields, Brileys, Lasleys, Riddles, Muellers, and Webbs were seen with local families, plus a Fairfield Grange event drew attendees from Rural and Sorghum Valley Granges. A Chanute Tribune problem page is included with reader questions on marriage, teenage fashion, and advice from Ann Landers.
Urbana residents join a series of social visits in Erie including Mrs Mabe and Mrs Heilman. The Heilmans and Nordstedts hosted calls. 4-H activities involve Mrs Fickel leading a district home economics judging school and Doug Fickel with Ronnie Heilman attending county camp at Rock Springs. George Nordstedt hosted Wichita relatives and a Kansas City outing with Star Light Theater and a Yankee game.
Mrs Roy Robertson and Mrs Ron Bumstead left July 15 for a School of Missions week at Baldwin. Guests from Shreveport Oklahoma and Toronto joined local families including the States, Sutterfields, and Robertson cluster. A surprise birthday for Jane Rice in City Park on July 16 drew many relatives and friends from Burlington North Carolina. Lonnie Cox recently visited the Rice family in Burlington and Oklahoma City visitors joined Jake Cutler’s circle. The Summersville family left July 18 for a Denver vacation via Ellisworth N. C. and Wyoming trip notes.
The SeKan Area Council covers eight southeast Kansas counties with 107 units serving 3,799 boys and 1,246 leaders in the past year. Trained scouters guide volunteers, while Cub Scouts and Explorers build leadership, teamwork, and civic service. The program aims to improve citizenship, fitness, and personal growth through active, service oriented activities.
Kansas City AP reports department store sales in the Tenth Federal Reserve District rose two percent for the last week versus 1962, lagging the national four percent gain. For four weeks ending July 13 the district rose seven percent, matching the national pace. Year to date the district up five percent, ahead of the nation. Albuquerque up eight percent last week, Denver Wichita and Kansas City six percent, downtown Kansas City down nine. For the year Kansas City and Albuquerque up eight percent, Tulsa six, Denver five, Oklahoma City and Lincoln four, Omaha three, Joplin two, Wichita one. Downtown Kansas City down five, Topeka two, St. Joseph one.
TOPEKA AP Former State Revenue Director John E Kirchner of Atwood Kan will become acting district director of the Wichita office of the Small Business Administration July 29 Frank Theis Democratic national committeeman for Kansas said Thursday the White House had informed him Kirchner will succeed Vernon Coss whose resignation becomes effective on that date.
Kansas farm loans rose sharply in 1962 per the Kansas Bankers Association. Non real estate farm loans reached 355.6 million, up 13 percent, while farm real estate loans were 41.2 million, up 21 percent. Kansas was among 11 states with insured commercial banks holding agricultural loans on Jan 1, 1963. Carl Bowlman said banks are increasingly active as a credit source for agriculture.
TOPEKA AP reports the Crop and Livestock Reporting Service says 265,000 cattle and calves were on feed in July in Kansas. Of these 150,000 are on farms and 115,000 in commercial feedlots. Producers expect to market 145,000 head for July September, 53 percent more than last year.
Manhattan Kansas Dr Coretta Hoffman dean of the Kansas State University college of home economics has departed for Paris to attend the International Congress of Home Economics July 22 to 27 She is among 85 American home economists planned to visit the Soviet Union in August to inspect institutions connected with family life
The Florida Baptist Association adopted resolutions condemning efforts to force racial integration as morally wrong and criticizing the Supreme Court for outlawing enforced Bible reading in public schools. The body, meeting in Jacksonville, represents about 100 Baptist churches in Florida.
A reader explains that memorial associations are not simply non profit benevolence but businesses with paid leadership. Enrollment fees and service charges cover transportation and cremation without embalming. The piece notes some families choose cremation with later memorials, available through local funeral homes at modest cost.
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