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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1961
Page
1
The Chanute Tribune excerpt shows readers debating advice about barbecues with neighbors affecting views, teen dating license rules, and a wife torn between a current spouse and a past love. Letters reveal practical safety, social curiosity, and personal dilemmas with Ann Landers’ replies.
Humboldt reports Methodist and Presbyterian junior high youths will attend camp next week with Cedar Bluff near Coffeyville for Presbyterians and Camp Chippewa near Ottawa for Methodists. The article notes local meetings, visits, and assorted community events including Sunshine gift to Mrs. Edna Barnett and Scouts heading to Philmont.
Local market listings show egg grades with unusual OCR marks. Grade A extra large 30 cents, Grade A large and medium and Grade B large appear. Current receipts and premium cream pricing are garbled but point to standard poultry and dairy market items.
In St Louis KWK radio poll 30 respondents identify astronaut Virgil Grissom. Eleven say he is the astronaut. Thirteen say they don’t know. Three say he is a disc jockey. One thinks he is a radio announcer. One woman claims he lived in her apartment because she received some of his mail. A sleepy woman says she could not care less.
Mrs Kenneth Cole received a financial managers award Friday for efficiency accuracy and promptness in rendering financial reports. She has held the Cole Motor Co book keeper post since 1956 and is one of fewer than ten in the Kansas City Mercury district to qualify for the last five years. Glen Doctor of Mercury's Kansas City division praised her work by phone and suggested a possible award next year.
Mrs L R Rogers reports her husband recovering well after major surgery at Kansas University Medical Center. Many Erie residents travel or visit kin in Topeka Parsons Chanute and Los Angeles, with a 61st anniversary celebration for R L Davis. Guild of Erie CWF held first meeting with fourteen members and planned August gathering at Mrs Killian s home.
Altoona notices brief a hospital admission for Henry McDaniel in Fredonia with son Clare from Kansas City visiting. Kansas flag donation to Lions Club seen with American flag for Centennial year. Nearby family visits include Sedgwick, Hollywood and Wichita relations. Centennial events draw guests from Tulsa, Newton, Topeka, Dalles Oregon, and Chanute hospital treatment for copperhead bite.
Hubert L. Brighton 62 longtime executive secretary of the Kansas Board of Regents died Friday night after a heart attack while visiting at a neighbor’s home. He is survived by his wife Evelyn and three sisters Mrs. M. M. Shoemaker of Independence Illinois, Mrs. Doris Clark and Mrs. Clarence Foster of Longton Kansas.
Heavy soaking rains threaten postponement of opening round games in a 12 team district softball tournament sponsored by the Church Softball League. Four local teams join eight out of town clubs in a double elimination event set to run 11 days barring more rain.
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