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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1973
Page
2
Editorial warns harvest season brings risks from rain hail and fuel shortages. Modern varieties resist shattering and faster machinery helps, but fuel and railcar shortages loom. A Rome dispatch notes FAO red alert due to drought in 28 countries, risking food shortages and malnutrition worldwide.
A reflective essay recounts a St Paul party with high officials and police, then shifts to concerns over Army recruiting fraud and lax standards. It notes doctored records, fake diplomas, and relaxed physical and residency rules, amid shortfalls in meeting enlistment goals. It closes with a World War II anecdote about a soldier with ulcers drafted despite medical advice.
Luther Nutter 20 took a county bulldozer blade down a 20 mile zig zag route from Oklahoma into Kansas after a dispute with his father. He knocked over signs mail boxes a filling station and fences before the machine bogged in mud by the Cimarron River. He faces unauthorized use of a vehicle felony.
The White House covertly dispatched Anthony Ulasewicz, a former NYC detective, under John Ehrlichman to locate Donald Nixon Jr. at a California hippie commune. Ulasewicz, funded by a GOP secret account with Kalmbach oversight, earned 22 thousand dollars annually plus expenses.
The piece traces Donald Nixon’s altered path after a White House lecture and his shift to work for Robert Besco amid indictments of Mitchell and Stans. It notes Failor’s rise to head the Census and Social Statistics Administration and questions about political manipulation of data. It also comments on Melvin Peterson’s appointment as head of the Federal Crop Insurance Corp and concerns over industry influence.
TVS Television Network in New York will televise eight Sino American basketball games from mainland China starting next Wednesday at 8 30 p m EDT on about 125 U S stations. The first match features U S college stars against China's national men team with a John F Kennedy College women's team from Wahoo Nebraska also on tour to face China's women. TVS has government permission to tape the game for U S broadcast and plans Moscow coverage of the World University Games August 15 25 including basketball fencing gymnastics and wrestling on about 175 stations.
Pittsburg aims to expand its municipal airport northward. City Manager Marty Stricklan states negotiations are under way with three property owners. One owner seeks to sell all holdings, while the other two wish to sell partial parcels.
The notice outlines subscription pricing for Mall in Trade Territory covering Neosho Allen Wilson and Woodson counties with Kan 3 percent tax. It lists annual six month and three month rates with taxes for mail outside territory and local carrier delivery including Chanute post office boxholders and Chanute carrier. It also notes AP republication rights and that the Associated Press is the exclusive local news distributor.
A Chicago columnist offered new clues identifying Eden Ahben the Nature Boy as George McGrew of Chanute. J. W. Arnett departed for Colorado Springs for an outing and to visit friends.
Television guide shows updated channel schedules and a mix of programs. Notable items include Dr Kildare and The Waltons, Petulia starring Julie Christie, and a late night lineup featuring Raiders of the Seven Seas, Laugh-In Special, and The Tonight Show.
Tribune listings show KTEW Channel 2 Sanford & Son and Hollywood Squares top the lineup at 6 30 with George Kirby. Channel 3 offers The Naturalists at 7 30 while Circle of Fear and Masterpiece Theater appear later. Several stations carry Brady Bunch at 7 00 and Tonight Show at 11 30 with late-night specials and film titles noted in the grid.
Gershon Legman, American author based in France, has compiled over 60 000 dirty jokes for his study The Rationale of the Dirty Joke He argues dirty humor reveals hostility and anxiety and profiles jokes by audience culture His work spans multiple languages and regions while a separate report recommends two new sanitary landfill sites in Montgomery County to meet regulatory waste disposal needs.
Glen C Brewer is named president of Foodtown Stores, Inc. succeeding Walter Piatt who moves to Buddies Super Market in Fort Worth. Brewer arrives from Kansas City after 15 years with Associated Grocers where he served as assistant manager of the Kansas City division.
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