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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1969
Page
2
The piece argues downtown Chanute storefront vacancy worries matter more than the post office move. It contends strong retail activity will attract shoppers regardless of location and that the current building could be remodeled for other federal or state use or the Safari Museum.
The piece argues against panic and urges prudent men to continue boosting Chanute's downtown retail strength. It recalls four years of parking expansion and Main Street widening that supported growth and notes nearby cities upgrading their cores with federally funded, no new local cost programs. It advocates planning improvements now.
Terry Murphy argues the Justice Department uses security risk as a pretext for wiretapping. He questions Hoover’s authority and Kennedy era orders while condemning illegal taps on King and related privacy violations. He criticizes misused security rhetoric and warns of rising crime and civil liberties erosion.
A four women committee led by Mrs. Buford Mrs. Chism Mrs. Parker and Mrs. Johnson asked city commissioners for Negro swimming rights in the municipal pool. Pvt Virgil Sutton visiting his sister and family from Camp Carson Colo is on furlough. Town crews plan tarvia patch work on rock streets to mend holes.
The letter explains twilight sleep as a light anesthetic used for childbirth dental work and sometimes mental illness, and distinguishes it from electro convulsive therapy. It also notes TB transmission risks and advises tuberculin testing if worried. The column invites reader questions and notes high volume limits on individual replies.
Channel listings show a June 21 schedule across KVOO KUHI WDAF KMBC KODE WIBW and others with daytime and late night programs including cartoons, westerns, news, sports, movies, and religious shows. Key items include Spiderman Flintstones Bonanza and Tonight Show style programming across multiple stations.
Postmaster General Winton Blount draws headlines for saving taxpayers money while employing his Alabama butler Jethro Butcher as a cook, valet and messenger at the Post Office. Butcher earns 6321 dollars a year and serves in Blount’s private dining room delivering messages to Congress.
Lawrence Walthouse argues the Bible speaks to the church and to individuals, offering personal messages through its characters J eremiah Job Jonah Peter and themes such as trust in Psalm 23 and 1 John 1 8. The devotional piece highlights Scripture as a personal resource guiding courage faith and self reflection.
A Chanute reader objects to green downward arrows placed over the graves of Osa and Martin Johnson on South Santa Fe. She calls the city’s grave markers humiliating and disrespectful, urging a respectful alternative display.
A TV schedule lists NBC CBS and Chs with shows like High Chaparral Wild Wild West Suspense Theater Gomer Pyle Name of the Game The Saint and a CBS movie Kisses for My President plus Judd Maurice Woodruff and Dick Cavett appearances on various channels and times.
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