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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1955
Page
4
Views of the News notes Santa Fe park has become the season center of social life with families picnicking on cool nights. Groups occupy small tables and a Sunday school sized crowd sprawls across the sloping acreage. Officials may face a demand for more tables and larger layouts to keep up with growing use.
Sewage upgrades appear likely as cities across Kansas weigh monthly water bills to back bonds for new treatment facilities. Caney Parsons Salina and Lawrence have already adopted such fees while Chanute raised rates to retire bonds for a modern plant. With growing concern over river pollution a state water resources board may intensify scrutiny on discharges, prompting many towns to fund major improvements.
The Bruges piece paints a waterfront room in Hotel Duc de Bourgogne and a canal lined with mossy brick facades. Slices of the city reveal clock towers, bells, windmills, and Flemish houses, where past eras seem preserved yet present in daily life.
Twenty five years ago workers at the Santa Fe plant including 60 car department and back shop men begin a five day week as announced by railroad company officials. Memorial services for Odd Fellows and Rebekahs to be led by Rev E H Given tomorrow afternoon. Gilbert Gray promoted to assistant manager at Litwin Department Store in Independence. Earl Hollenshead to resume prior post Monday. J L Geiger shows a 1949 Danish coin and an 1853 half-dime. a 1853 silver three-cent piece owned by Dora Morris for 55 years.
The writer notes Bruges has laws preserving old city design and says the two canal-side houses look very old and newer, yet the city feels authentically Flemish. He praises Bruges for atmosphere though the air is slightly pungent before warmer days.
A collection of humorous exchanges about fashion pastimes meals and pets with a grim joke about a dog and a punchline riddle for New York Fire Department applicants. The bystander elderly man recalls wasp waists while a manager comments on appearance and a husband grieves a lost dog. The fireboat riddle closes the piece.
A columnist notes warm weather prompts a shift from formal wear. The piece jokes about coats and ties, comments on sales trends, and observes men sweating when overdressed in heat. It closes referencing a recent gathering where many attendees wore coats despite the sultry night.
In a breezy overcoat debate, readers contrast coat wearing with shirt sleeves and argue comfort should trump strict dress codes. The writer laments rigid summer attire rules, noting women dress lighter and men suffer in coats as heat rises, declaring coat and necktie days over for now in summer.
Washington sees Belgrade talks showing Soviet weakness and unrest inside Russia and in satellites. Khrushchev dominates policy while Bulganin and Gromyko are viewed as front man and rising figure. Tito resists Moscow influence and firms with the free world.
Dr. George W Crane uses a scales analogy to counsel Marilyn T 17 on resisting a peer pressure to have sex. He weighs benefits of 15 dates against risks such as pregnancy, parental heartbreak, shame, lies, and future relationship obstacles. Marilyn chooses to uphold her rules and ends the romance on her terms.
Seven men faced East German Supreme Court proceedings on charges of being imperialistic spies for West Germany and US counter intelligence and NATO. The ADN radioed details that the defendants were equipped with American radio gear codebooks false IDs and weapons. Names listed include Wilhelm Lehmann Erich Eich Martin Schneising Wilhelm Van Ackern Johann Baumgart Hans-Joachim Koch and Benedykt Szuminski.
In an Edmonton hospital scene a credit manager speaks English to an Italian speaking patient, a painter nearby knows Italian and French, and a cashier uses English and French but not Italian. A chain of communication passes money owed and expected payment through those language barriers.
About 30 investigators from the State Geological Survey at the University of Kansas will work on over 40 projects this summer. They will study ground water, oil and gas, salt, clay minerals and lesser-known values such as bentonites and germanium, with ground water resources chief among them.
Investigations progress in Kingman Sooner and Harper counties with a new study along the Kaw River Valley from Wamego to Manhattan. Groundwater data collection covers Johnson Mitchell Logan and several other counties while reports are prepared for Clay Cloud Decatur Douglas Elk and many more areas. Clay minerals studied by Dr Ada Swineford and Miss Jane Armstrong with an electron microscope. Crude oil samples from Stafford Barton Russell and Rice counties to be examined.
A fragmented Friday TV guide lists numerous shows with times and channels, including Dragnet, George Gobel Show, Love of Life, Guiding Light, and Today. It stacks daytime and primetime offerings, with weather and news blocks scattered throughout.
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