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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1968
Page
5
Humboldt area groups held meetings and social events including PTA sessions in March with guest speakers and confirmations of officers. Senior Citizens and Methdist circle activities featured music, plays and lessons, along with births, hospital admissions, and a planned Kansas C.E.S. gathering in Topeka.
Mr Zion and Mrs Davis note Mrs Davis broken leg recovery with a stay with her daughter. Wallace Erikson and family attend Chanute Hutchinson junior college game in Hutchinson and visit friends. Tina Carlson visits grandparents Mr and Mrs Arnold Phillips. Nellie Miller hosts birthday dinner for son Willard Allen. Jack Drake visits Mr and Mrs Clyde Cook. Other Cooks visitors include Lloyd Guy Linda, and Walter Gericke. Last week the Cooks and Ralph Guy visit Mrs Rachel Page. Ella Bradford of Elsmore visits Geneva Erikson.
Polk County Commission orders curtain to cover jury boxes after complaints about jurors’ miniskirts. County Attorney John Dowell cites distraction to witnesses and embarrassment for the women jurors as the rationale for the action.
US and Soviet and other agencies report space age soil testers locating gold and silver deposits in Nevada and Barstow regions. Methods detect metal signatures in rock samples, with mobile labs sampling sites on site. Silver finds could total hundreds of millions of ounces. gold probes note potential multi hundred million dollar yields.
Dr Gibbins a 65 year old physician and former medical missionary in India left her 35 year post to pursue new work. She visited Gandhi Nehru and traveled the world four times while remaining in touch with India. She worked in Ambala through 1947 and 1966 riots and war, staying as bombs fell nearby. Her goal remains serving women and advancing health in India.
The Agriculture Department notes total cigarettes smoked rose 1.5 percent last year to 549 billion, yet per person consumption falls 0.2 percent from 1966 and 1.5 percent from 1963. Roll-your-own tobacco remains popular at 31 percent of 67 million pounds used.
In Oakland, a Negro leader endorses Adopt a Cop to show that officers are human and capable of doing community work. He urges inviting police to neighborhood meetings while Oakland Police Chief Charles Gain calls it a worthwhile effort and pledges cooperation where possible.
Columbus Ohio AP reports Rev Dr Sumpter M Riley Jr was named superintendent of the Lima district becoming the first African American to head a Methodist district in Ohio He noted the Lima churches are not segregated and he previously led Cory Methodist Church in Cleveland for a decade.
Mrs Lyndon B Johnson attends a Capitol luncheon marking a reunion of wives of congressmen who served in the 75th Congress. The President was a freshman Texas congressman during 1937 39. The Civil Aeronautics Board forecast a 15 percent hike in domestic passenger traffic on the 11 major trunk airlines this year.
The speaker declined detailed comment on Senator Kennedy's entry, stating only that the development surprised but did not shock him and that he could have made this state- stance clearer.
Kathleen Milligan 18 appeared in Milwaukee County Court on a charge of keeping a vicious dog after her German shepherd allegedly nipped an 8 year old boy. She told Judge Duffy the dog Fang is gentle. fine set at ten dollars and costs.
Pfc John Dighero called his parents to say after his April 10 graduation he will finish army service at Fort Bliss Texas with a field artillery unit on stand by for possible deployment to Thailand. Other local service members include Russell Smith on furlough, Eddie Ray Wolfe returning to overseas duty, Vernon Borchers in Vietnam, and Lester and Bill Matlock aboard the Kitty Hawk. Frances Wolfe and Lena Converse attended an auction in Chanute and visited the Scribners, while Mrs Carol Jean Krentz and children stayed with her parents in Penaloosa. The Borchers celebrated a wedding anniversary on St Patrick’s Day and their son Verlyn in Vietnam sent a camera.
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