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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1966
Page
5
A reader argues that true freedom requires discipline and warns against unchecked demands for personal liberty. Panelists from several states discuss how discipline shapes freedom, ethics, and societal order, urging restraint, responsibility, and shared guidelines.
The FBI reports a 6 percent rise in the national crime rate for the first quarter of this year compared with 1965. Rapes jumped 14 percent, with 22 percent in the north central states and 18 percent in larger cities. suburbia up 9 percent and rural and big city increases also noted. Violent crimes up 7 percent. property crimes up 6 percent.
A construction worker named Will Parks, aged 55, died after being stung by wasps from a colony in a hedge trellis beside his home. He collapsed shortly after the attack on Saturday, five minutes following the swarm.
Ottawa announced that Canada will sell the Soviet Union $600 million worth of wheat in the largest single commercial grain transaction in history. Trade Minister Robert Winters announced the agreement during his Moscow visit.
The Supreme Court bans retroactive use of new confession limits in first degree murder case of two New Jersey men, Sylvester Johnson and Stanley Cassidy, awaiting execution for a 1958 Camden slaying. Chief Justice Warren writes the rule covers trials started after the ruling. dissenters argue for broader protections.
AP reports organized volunteers wrapped up efforts in Topeka tornado areas as 75 volunteers from Valley Falls Nortonville and Atchison plus 50 Boy Scouts aided cleanup in East Topeka and Oakland. A small group of Job Corps men stayed until Tuesday to finish work.
The Outdoor Writers Association sets a $500-a-year scholarship for college students pursuing outdoor writing and conservation studies with an August 1 application deadline. Two similar scholarships exist at Kansas State University and Michigan State University.
Buffalo delegates Bob Peterson and Lonnie Cox attended Boys State at Lawrence. Lonnie served as city clerk and played in the band while Bob worked on the Boys State newspaper. The Buffalo Peewees coach Steve Yarnell defeated Tom Peterson’s team 19 to 5 at the community field. Clay Braman won on the mound with Stephen Stanfield catching.
The National Baseball Congress approves use of a bright gold baseball for the annual non pro tournament in Wichita. The decision highlights equipment tweaks for the event and affects teams and officials preparing for the Wichita competition.
Dr. John Edward Wickman was appointed director of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Library in Abilene Kansas, replacing resigning director Dr. William D Aeschbacher. Wickman, an assistant professor of history at Purdue University, will begin July 1 and earns a salary of 17000 dollars annually.
Keith Coates a Michigan State track team miler ran 4 08.5 outdoors to establish a Big Ten record as a 1965 sophomore.
Washington AP reports Kansas members of Congress, all Republicans, were recorded on recent roll calls. In the Senate, on passage, the vote was 49 to 20.
The proposal to finance a cotton industry support program with producer contributions of $1 per bale advances, with Pearson voting for the bill and Carlson opposed.
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