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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1955
Page
6
The House fast tracks a bill to raise the pay of 500000 postal workers by about 8 percent, adding roughly 164 million dollars yearly. The measure retroactive to March 1, with minimum 6 percent and larger boosts for supervisors, awaits Senate agreement and the President's signature.
The Past Noble Grand Club switches its monthly gathering from Wednesday to Thursday this week with a covered dish dinner and the quarterly birthday program to follow. Erie residents attended a doubleheader in Kansas City Sunday and local residents visited relatives across a string of towns including Parsons, Walnut Grove, Chanute, and Independence. The report notes hospital care for Albert Deepee after a heart attack and a Carlson-Krone wedding at a nearby Lutheran church with attendees from Osage City and Walnut Grove township.
Martin Kiger, longtime chief state grain inspector, will become director of the Kansas Department of Administration effective June 15. He will succeed Dr. Leonard Axe, who returns to the University of Kansas as dean of the school of business. The note mentions 16 million acres in U.S. national parks.
Rural Homemakers Home Demonstration unit will meet at 2 p.m. Thursday with Mrs Hugh Breiner at 1900 S. Plummer. Other notes include family movements to Wichita and new birth announcements of Kenneth Wayne Chapman and details on Airman Floyd E. Hamilton’s deployment.
In City Park last night the Veterans of Foreign Wars baseball program opened with an 8 to 11 year old game where Bob Talbot's team beat Albert Campbell's 9 to 7. Both sides fielded well with only two errors each and the winners outhit the losers 9-6 while pitchers combined for 19 strikeouts and seven walks through five innings. The teams remained unnamed.
Ad copy touts Thornton Minor Ointment as a clinic tested formula that soothes fast, relieves itching burning and pain, reduces swelling, and is available in ointment or suppository form for one dollar with a request to insist on genuine Thornton Minor Ointment at drugstores.
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