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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1960
Page
4
Four years after networks aired national nominating conventions with high public service value viewers and advertisers faced reduced interest. Networks report uneven sales with Network A sold out and others lagging as Kennedy momentum dulls Democrat events.
The Wichita Eagle notes Kansas received the largest disaster relief total in the nation from 1949 to 1959, with 18.6 million dollars from the Red Cross. It states Kansas accounted for one of every six dollars in these funds, and outlines local fundraising plans and a Chilean Relief Committee for donations in Wichita.
A montage of witty lines from editors across the nation. Quotations cover global tensions, growing up, driving bets, dream tales, surplus sales, youth insight, and conscience as a moral barometer. No single cohesive story emerges. instead a collage of brief humor and observation.
A liturgical verse from John 6 44 notes that only the Father who sent Jesus can draw a person to him and promises that those drawn will be raised at the last day. The line emphasizes divine selection and eventual resurrection.
A string of light observations and witticisms about politics, daily life, and culture. Nelson Rockefeller openness to draft elicits laughter from a draft board, a child bored in summer, a vegetarian trekker pacing 35 miles daily, and taxes hitting 1.9 percent higher with a 10 year dollar drop to 81 cents. Census evasion and famous presidential precedents add to the urban chorus.
A. D. Lawrance and Arlie Biggs of Chanute attend the ninth Kansas Janitor Engineers Assn school in Wichita with other Chanute members. Graduates from Neosho County rural schools are invited to a free movie at Peoples featuring Hold em Yale. Local Royal Neighbors from Urbana visit Chanute lodge. Farmers along the Neosho report flood damage, with crops under water and rotting potatoes. Mrs. William Q. Roberts sails to England for four months, and J. C. Denions of Wichita returns from Erie after visiting relatives.
Khrushchev repeatedly denounced allies and rivals from 1956 to 1960. He mocked British Labour figures, insulted Western officials at a Moscow banquet, toppled Soviet cronies, axed Bulganin, bemused Tito, and publicly mocked Eisenhower Nixon and Adenauer. He criticized Dulles Humphrey and West Germany’s leaders during tours of the United States and abroad.
Washington columnist Drew Pearson reports Nixon to campaign heavily in California to blunt Rockefeller chances, with five PR firms running “grass roots” efforts from prime offices in Los Angeles San Diego and San Francisco. The piece notes the high cost and questions the ethics of coordinating campaign work with public relations firms. Also recounted is a Navy grave mix up where a family learned their son’s body was not in the casket at Arlington National Cemetery.
The Chanute Tribune lists publisher and staff names and explains publication policy. It details subscription rates for Neosho, Wilson and Woodson counties by mail and for four surrounding counties, with yearly and half yearly options and per month rates.
The advanced sewing class of the Buffalo Boosters 4-H Club met at Mrs. O. R. Chapman’s home. Marilyn Chapman demonstrated a set in patch, Susie Jones a hemmed patch, and Sally Jones showed how to darn a sock. Next meeting is June 16.
The police thought I to be he. The correct pronunciation of applicable is uh-POL-uh-kuh bul. Among Opulent optimistic opinionated oppressive ophthalmology the misspelled word is ophthalmology. The word antece starts a fragmented prompt about prior or preceding events.
A scanned TV guide page lists daytime and early evening programs for multiple stations KOAM WDAF KOTV KODE and KJTV with show titles such as The One Tombstone Territory Sea Tales of the Vikings and Weather News plus game and soap opera blocks across Tuesday and Wednesday June 8.
The text lists five items with answers and hints. It identifies definitions or clues for adjectives and terms, including ramification as a consequence and antece dent meaning preceding. It includes guidance on pronunciation and attribution of a quote about police.
AP reports that covering the two major conventions will cost billions to news services and outlets. TV coverage alone may exceed 18 million dollars with networks signing sponsors and wiring costs, while some sponsors push products during the political spectacle lead up in July.
Argentine and Israeli officials claim Adolf Eichmann was not kidnapped but went to Israel of his own will to face trial. A note from Israel described a 15 year manhunt across three continents ending in Buenos Aires with Jewish volunteers handing Eichmann to Israeli authorities.
AP reports 25 year old pianist Van Cliburn plans to stay single for now. He says a man should not marry before 25 and that liberty grows more precious as he contemplates tying the knot.
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