24 Jul 1972
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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1972
Page
1
Peking dispatch notes a shift away from massive Maoist propaganda. De-emphasized display of Mao badges, statues, and posters as cultural revolution cools, with officials and public adopting a calmer, more normal appearance.
In Washington AP report, Democrat and Republican vice presidential hopefuls trade barbs as Spiro Agnew defends Nixon record and Eagleton attacks in TV and campaign events. Democratic chairman Jean Westwood says party finances improve for 1972 but debt from 1968 remains, with $6.3 million from that cycle. The party aims to settle much of the $9.3 million total debt while noting the 1972 convention costs are paid.
Four queen hopefuls were introduced by the Mexican Fiesta Committee at La Rosa de Oro. Karen Lowe Jessie Meza Rachel Sanchez and Cecilia Negrete contend for the crown based on tickets sold for the Queen's Dance with 20 points per ticket. The Dance on August 26 at the National Guard Armory will announce the 1972 queen and prize certificates of 50 35 and 25 dollars await the top four. Dances will be priced 2 dollars Friday and 3 dollars Saturday during the fiesta set for September 7 8 and 9.
In a rainstorm five miles north of Ottawa a Greyhound bus skidded into a ditch and turned onto its side at about 6:30 a.m. Ten passengers and the driver escaped through a broken windshield and were treated. Mrs Iola Shuck of Gary Indiana daughter of Mrs Martha Mc Carty was hospitalized with a fractured collar bone in Ransom Memorial Hospital Ottawa. She was en route to Chanute to visit her mother.
A dubious claim from a reader letter suggests a sofa bed as an ultimate cure for sleepwalking. The missive argues the furniture aids movement control while asleep and promises restorative rest and safer nights for sufferers.
Two candidates seek the Democratic nomination for sheriff of Neosho County to face incumbent Republican Sheriff David Kern who is unopposed in the primary. Dale E. Powell 26 of Erie and assistant manager at Chanute QuikTrip, a Chanute native with Army Vietnam service, outlines service to all residents and community trust as keys to the job. Curly Lesher, 42, longtime Chanute resident and Foodtown worker, proposes to move to Erie for central location, extend jail staffing with a couple living in the jail and a night officer, and run a tighter operation while keeping the jail housing.
A $176 million NASA ERTS Earth Resources Technology Satellite launched from Vandenberg into a polar orbit to observe the globe every 18 days. Equipped with three television cameras and a radiation sensor, the craft will map crops forests fish stocks water and grasslands to aid resource planning and mineral and oil discovery.
The White House report notes hundreds of millions of dollars in local currency kickbacks from the U S Food for Peace program to South Vietnam, South Korea, and Cambodia for military purposes. Vietnam received 742.7 million, Korea 593.1 million, and Cambodia 7.4 million in local currency under the program.
Santa Ana California police report an 18 year old man named Thomas Burdelas became trapped in a sofa bed when it folded up as he slept. A friend could not free him and called fire department units who rescued him with no injuries reported.
The Associated Press reports Syria faces pressure to expel Soviet military advisers following Egypt's lead. The Syrian Communist party threatens to quit the government if action is taken, with Nasserite groups in the Baath coalition urging expulsion as solidarity with Egypt. Syria backs Egypt and Libya in the Federation of Arab Republics, and pro-Egyptian parties hold eight of 28 cabinet posts.
Antiwar senators plan new amendments to Indochina policy and Pentagon spending. They aim to attach end-the-war provisions to either the $1.8 billion foreign military aid package or the $20.5 billion procurement authorization. No votes set on the procurement bill. the aid measure faces a late tonight vote.
Jane Fonda arrives in Paris after a Hanoi trip and calls President Nixon a traitor. She wears a Vietnamese red tunic and black trousers with a conical straw hat and defines traitor as one who commits heinous crimes, naming Nixon as the traitor.
Rescue workers drilled a five inch hole into the burning Consolidation Coal Blacks ville No 1 mine 650 feet underground hoping to reach nine trapped miners since Saturday evening. No word has come from the mine as 31 maintenance workers escaped minutes after the blaze began.
AP reports longshoremen halted all major British ports to protest the jailing of five London dock workers for defying the labor court. Thousands in miners printers and drivers joined in sympathy as PM Heath met with Trade Union Congress leaders to seek a resolution.
South Vietnamese forces pushed toward the walls of Quang Tri Citadel in the north while recapturing a second district town on the central coast. Paratroopers faced heavy artillery and breaching fire as they closed on the fortress, with officials noting substantial casualties but not releasing numbers.
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