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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1957
Page
8
Police traffic bureau issued a summons to a motorist for failure to pay a parking ticket. The returned summons carried a defiant note about appearing in court. The car owner was a sailor stationed at Atlantic City Naval Air Station and the summons was sent to his post in French Morocco.
In New Delhi the Asian influenza outbreak shows 2800 new cases and its first death yesterday. Earlier reports cite 3000 cases on Thursday and 3000 previously as the spread widens across the region. In Hong Kong, authorities discuss creating two new autonomous regions with provincial status.
About 80 000 Japanese people are affected by a nationwide influenza epidemic as 1 300 schools suspend classes across 36 prefectures and the Tokyo area per Welfare Ministry. The government records widespread disruption across education and public health measures.
In the French Cameroons of Africa ballots display candidate names and symbols such as a rooster a spider or a half moon to aid illiterate voters in casting their ballots. The practice pairs visual cues with text to improve accessibility in the voting process.
A Kingston Oklahoma fishing resort restaurant displays a sign reading God does not deduct from man's allotted time those hours spent fishing. The quote emphasizes leisure time spent fishing as non deductive from life.
FBI agent J. I. Hart of Idaho Falls spoke on crime at the Rigby Rotary Club. A thief took his hat but Hart later recovered the headgear in Rigby Idaho.
Five years ago optician Robert S. Valentin posted a note in his office window reading Closed for Day Wife has Twins. Two years ago a sign said Closed for Half a Day Wife has Only One Baby This Time. Recently a message announced Closed for an extra hour at lunch time to see wife and baby. Can't afford to close for any longer with four children to maintain.
St. Matthews Kentucky patrolman E H Burnett suffered plaster in the eyes after leaping through a church window to investigate voices. He landed in a huge box of plaster workmen had mixed for repairs and was splashed with plaster as the boys escaped.
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