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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1966
Page
4
Editorial argues Republicans will oppose the $1.75 billion authorization for OEO, accusing mismanagement and sloppiness. It notes the GOP as minority party should offer constructive alternatives rather than only criticizing. It questions proposed alternatives.
The alternative would fund 1.4 billion in federal money with local and state matching to total 1.98 billion. It relocates Job Corps and Neighborhood Youth Corps to Labor and leaves CEO with Community Action programs and Domestic Peace Corps. Opponents say it echoes the same plan and raises overall cost, underscoring partisan mimicry.
A reader asks about keeping a sick child in a dim room during illnesses. Dr Molner advises quiet rest to prevent spread and reduce complications from measles and mumps, emphasizes measles vaccination, explains valley fever forms, and notes Pap smears do not detect cancer elsewhere.
The narrator recalls old Sunday School picnics held about five miles from town with grove and creek, hay-rack arrivals, quiet teacher shade, and simple play. Food featured fried chicken and peach ice cream, with teachers ending days by burning paper plates. The creek incident with the superintendent remains a memorable whoosh of mayhem.
Twenty five years ago flood waters crest at Chanute and move toward Erie while Neosho falls here and rises at the county seat. Edwards levee south of Erie fails flooding 800 acres as 30 men sandbag to shore it up. Katy fright train uses Santa Fe tracks to dodge high water. Birth at Johnson Hospital to Koenig couple. Humboldt band opens 75th season under G W McCreary.
Washington column reports the Senate ethics committee pressing a probe into Sen. Tom Dodd while House Speaker John McCormack resists forming a House ethics panel. It highlights Rep. Abraham Multer and banking ties, plus pressure on the Federal Home Loan Bank board and questions of influence over banking legislation.
Ann Landers urges help for alcoholics through Alcoholics Anonymous and the National Council on Alcoholism as alcoholism grows a health issue. The column includes excerpts from AA materials on loneliness, the first meeting, and community support, plus a note to readers to send problems to The Chanute Tribune.
A clipped editorial from Blue Rapids Times urges readers to listen attentively and observe carefully as a path to understanding. The piece emphasizes thoughtful listening and careful looking as practical civic habits.
The Chanute Tribune for Saturday June 4 1966 features local news briefs sports notes and community notices from Chanute Kansas. Includes city events school updates and public announcements reflecting mid decade life in the area.
Friday night guide lists color 6:30 program on channels 2 and 7 with Flipper at 6:30 and news weather at 7. Jackie Gleason’s show airs 7:00 on channels 2 and 7 plus Jeannie on 4. Lawrence Welk at 7:30 and Get Smart at 8:00 on channels 2 4 7. Movies and The Loner follow, Smothers Brothers, Gunsmoke, and Grand Ole Opry later with News weather and sports noted. Sunday listings referenced in Friday’s paper.
TV listings show a dense Monday lineup across stations KVOO WDAF KCMO KOAM KMBC KODE WIBW with programs including Today Show Eye Guess Love Lucy The Andy Griffith Show Dennis theme evenings, sport and game shows, dramas, cartoons, and late news. Local channels list morning through late night time blocks with varying show names.
Tonight on Channel 4 Indianapolis 500 coverage features the race for the crown with guest host Joan Crawford and performances by Joanie Sommers and others. Hollywood Palace leads into Gunsmoke at 9. Sunday lineup includes Ed Sullivan with The Beatles and a CBS movie Warlock starring Widmark Fonda Quinn Malone.
New York AP profile on George and his changing looks. Inventor Mark Traynor created full sized wigs for men as a joke on Johnny Carson and quit make up work to run a growing wig business serving blondes redheads and gray haired men including rock musicians seeking disguise and convenience.
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