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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1971
Page
2
The April city election bitterly split Chanute officials with two commissioners pledging a purge at city hall. The purge is completed or should be with time, but it raises questions about responsibility and authority. Progress requires clear limits on commission intrusion.
The piece weighs on whether city managers can end intrusive behavior as Chanute moves forward under the city commissioners. It urges commissioners to determine leadership direction and to press the capital improvements program while avoiding petty politics and personal intrusions.
A Citizens Research Foundation study links big money to Nixon’s 1968 victory noting he spent 35 million, twice his opponent's autumn funding. The piece argues reform efforts are blocked by Nixon and his administration, allowing contributors influence over ambassador appointments and campaign accounting, threatening democratic principle.
Cuban church life appears to hold its own and even gain ground under Fidel Castro's Marxist regime. A U Missions official notes meetings across Cuba occur with limited harassment. Catholic bishops report stronger parish communities with more lay participation, though preaching outside churches remains restricted. Baptists in Havana say baptisms and memberships rise in the decade since the revolution, and most imprisoned pastors have been released.
A reader vents about aging 1966 model car issues, noting repeated spent on replacing the exhaust resonator and ignition switch. The piece reflects frustration over maintenance bills, escalating costs, and recurring part failures.
The piece argues consumer discontent over repair costs and perceived obsolescence. It critiques manufacturers and dealers for shoddy parts, notes Congress backing consumerism, and sees a reckoning ahead for auto firms and agents.
Hal Kanter, famed TV writer of Julia and Corey Baker era, discusses his new novel Snake in the Glass. The book satirizes Hollywood and Madison Avenue types, with harsher dialogue and explicit scenes, a departure from Kanter’s gentle comedies. He notes writing it was a personal labor of love and that a book is self-contained unlike can’t-ship film projects.
The page shows a detailed daytime and weekend TV grid from KCMO TV to KUHI TV with channel lineups and program blocks. It lists shows across morning, afternoon, and evening, including cartoons, news, sports, dramas, and church programming for Saturday June 26 and Sunday June 27.
The Woodson school district earns a $2 029 Elementary Secondary Education Act Title II grant. It allocates $503 to Yates Center High School, $1 326 to the elementary school and $200 to Piqua school for books film strips recordings slides and other audio visual equipment upgrades per Supt W H McMurray.
The House approved a bill extending the draft until March 31 next year with a 259 to 110 vote. It allows induction of non fathers ages 19 to 44 and caps service at 18 months. Meanwhile, the old McClanahan barn on Main Street is being torn down for lumber to aid Fort Scott housing.
Washington notes lawmen fear a violent summer as unemployment, heroin addiction, and disillusionment rise in black urban ghettos. Militants trained for violence, pockets of crime, and poor city finances threaten social stability nationwide.
Tonight features High Chaparral at 6:50 and 9:00 with crime plots and family drama including gun selling in Mexico and a freight depot heist. Also on air are Partridge Family Europe tour, Nanny and the Professor, Brady Bunch, Misterogers Neighbors and late movies Curse of the Faceless Man and Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake.
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