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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1972
Page
2
The piece argues that duplicative services waste resources and urges Chanute to pursue shared planning and consolidated facilities. It cites Lyon County moving to a single police force and notes idle meeting spaces as evidence that cooperative use of public buildings could lower costs and improve services.
In a readers letter, Chanute residents challenge city actions moving veterans from the Memorial building. The author cites lack of records, questions about the bond issue, and concerns over fundraising to attract business. He notes WWI and Auxiliary ranks exceed 350 and complains about meeting room accommodations for elderly members.
The term cybernetics is linked to management time where a group’s combined output exceeds individual effort. Brainstorming is cited as a device to foster the cybernetic effect, allowing only positive ideas and prohibiting negative challenge.
An opinion argues that Kansas legislators suffer from narrow self interest and provincialism. It questions whether closer contact helps, urging a shared common cause to raise the state government’s quality and reduce parochial motives.
NBC’s Johnny Carson hosted a second annual social security bracket special featuring Eddie Foy Jr Ethel Waters Gene Sheldon Bette Davis and a chorus of former show girls. Bob Hope offered Nixon China jokes while mov ie sketches puzzled viewers. Nielsen ratings place CBS 20.5 NBC 19.3 ABC 18.7.
Washington reports that American narcotics agents link Panama's foreign minister Juan Tack and the brother of Panamanian dictator Omar Torrijos to a smuggling plot involving hundreds of pounds of heroin into the United States. The minister, described as tough on narcotics, faces serious allegations as investigations unfold.
Federal agents told Rep. John Murphy that Tack and Moises Torrijos may be implicated in the Panama drug traffic inquiry. Tack denied the report as injurious and false while Panamanian official Tor rijos backed him, whose brother Moises is ambassador to Spain.
The piece recaps historical events on March 14 and follows with a political report on Congressman Murphy's secret inquiry into Panamanian drug trafficking involving officials Tack and Torrijos. It notes heroin seizures, BNDD involvement, and looming hearings, plus criticism of Indian education cuts on Pine Ridge and a demand for a full Interior Department report.
Twenty five years ago rainfall filled the Santa Fe Reservoir and engineers at the Warwick Wax plant reported water spilling over the rim into the dry lake bed. Water rose about 35 feet up the pit walls before flowing away. Taxpayers lined the post office building as internal revenue staff processed midnights tax returns. Deadline is midnight Saturday.
A list of evening programs includes West Side Story with Natalie Wood and Richard Beymer, a two part showing finishing Wednesday night, and the 14th annual Grammy Awards with Andy Williams. Marcus Welby, M D explores a custody conflict, while other programs feature Mod Squad, Hawaii Five-O, Dragnet, Cannon, and Nichols. The Venetian Affair airs tonight as well as late night fare like The Tonight Show and Dick Cavett.
The television log lists daytime to late evening lineups across stations KCMO TV KUHI TV KCAM TV KMBC TV KTWU TV KODE TV WIBW TV KTEW TV Chanute WDAF TV and WED for Monday March 18. Programs include The Partridge Family Bewitched The Andy Griffith Show Hogan s Heroes Emergency Green Acres and later Night Gallery Dragnet News and Tonight Show among others.
Chanute library chief notes demand drives hardbound wear and quick paperback rotations. Readers seek current fiction and timely author popularities, with several new titles and a Psalm quote closing the report.
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