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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1976
Page
2
The Ottawa Herald reports on rising health costs outpacing inflation and reasons tied to government spending. A House bill earmarks 4.8 billion for health care excluding Medicare and Medicaid with 208 million for planning and research, highlighting bureaucracy over direct care.
A reader disputes John M. Ray's Forum letter about a front page snake photo. The writer insists water snakes are venomous moccasins and warns of biting risk, sharing personal encounters and family knowledge from Kansas rivers and ponds.
Scott L. Defebaugh, native of Chanute Kansas and Mil waukee County Easter Seal Society executive director, was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal after 33 years in the U S Army Reserve. He served in WW II and Korea, later rising to lieutenant colonel with reserve units in Ohio Oklahoma and Wisconsin.
Publication announces subscription prices by mail and carrier for various regions including trade territory outside, area towns with carrier delivery, and Chanute post office boxholders. It notes sales tax amounts, monthly rates, and annual totals, with UP I exclusivity for local and dispatch news.
The House Ethics Committee eyes larger rugs as Wayne Hays and John Young face under investigation. Reports claim the panel aims to exonerate the accused while pursuing Schorr’s source in a costly probe.
MIT researchers Kaplaw and Frank show two mirrors concentrating sunlight on a photovoltaic cell to make electricity and hot water. They expect costs to be competitive in some regions, with a $5,000 home converter slated for 1977. Federal measures plan voluntary conservation and potential rationing if embargoes deepen. New car prices may rise up to six percent for 1977 models per GM and Ford notices.
Georgia farmer-businessman P R Smith heads a National Carter Committee for Food and Agriculture. He says Carter would push farm exports, oppose embargoes, and back commodity reserves while avoiding national welfare harm. Smith notes Carter’s peanut farming background and ongoing farm policy input.
H.R. Haldeman says fatigue and some alcohol misled people to think Nixon drank heavily near his resignation. He notes Nixon never showed a drinking problem and recalls an incident from the 1968 campaign when a worker claimed Nixon was nearly falling down drunk.
Twenty five years ago combines began working in early wheat varieties this week in Neosho and Wilson counties. Officials estimate activity will start next week in Allen and Woodson counties. Fifty years ago the Davis Cigar company relocates from its old location over Dixons to the roof garden over the Ow drug store.
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