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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1966
Page
2
Hints from Heloise offers practical tips for home care and storage. Readers share using nylon net squares to blanch vegetables without losing texture, two back to back cotton gloves kept clean, distributing conditioner with a hair brush, triple duty paper placemats, drying apothecary jars in a pilot light warmed oven, and converting a cigar box into a jewelry box for kids.
An adv shows STOP ITCH product at Casey's Rexall Drugs promising instant relief from itching caused by chiggers and mosquitoes.
AP reports that in Castro's Cuba, words like gusano gorila caballero and imperialistas acquire different senses. On Havana radio in Miami the terms mean non communists Americans and a military coup by non communist officers, with Caballo used for Fidel in opposition dialogue.
The 100 year old cottonwood on the Statehouse grounds in Topeka withstood a recent tornado. Kansas State University professors L R Quinlan and Charles Parks inspected the historic tree and expect it to live for several more years. Before the storm it stood about 90 feet tall with a 200 foot spread. It is now smaller but alive and in need of some care. A local legend says a cottonwood strip was driven into the ground to anchor construction ropes and grew into a large tree.
In the 1880s a landscape artist urged cutting the tree but Topekans pressed to preserve it. By 1891 another artist advised removal as the tree appeared to die. It remained standing and alive despite the recommendations.
The Kansas Forestry Fish and Game Commission estimates more than 500000 ducks spend winters in Kansas. Mallards are the most numerous among them.
The Chanute Tribune lists staff positions including publisher Dwight McCreight news editor John Hovorka and advertising manager Fay D. Clopine. It also details subscription rates by mail and carrier in and outside the trade territory.
In southeastern Kansas farmers embrace metal reflector posts and coated wire that light up when car headlights strike them. Demand runs high with dealers reporting 5,000 posts weekly for five straight weeks. Many hedge posts are being replaced as hedge declines and metal posts offer easier installation at moderate cost.
Savonburg and Chanute residents attended family gatherings this Sunday. Earl Albert and family joined relatives at Hillis Krokstrom Sr. home in Chanute. a birthday party honored Mrs Swanson at Arnold Swanson’s residence. Attendees included multiple Wentz, Price, Munson, Johnson, Bolinger, and Daniels families plus others from Topeka Moran Parsons Rialto and Daleville. Travelers Jack and Pauline Jordan and Mrs. Hawkinson’s trip updates noted.
On June 18 1812 Congress declared war on Great Britain over interference with American ships. Ten years earlier Soviet Foreign Minister Dmitri Shepilov offered Nasser a loan for the Aswan High Dam project.
The items note a dam on the Nile River and recall a Strasbourg to Paris express derailment five years ago that killed 24 and injured over 100. It also mentions a Titan 3 rocket launch from Cape Kennedy a year earlier, sending its final stage and a 21,000 pound dummy payload into orbit.
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