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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1960
Page
2
Dr George W Crane critiques student Hal, a college freshman who funds grades and attendance with parental money and paid others. The piece warns parents against mollifying children with gifts and urges teaching earned money and responsibility.
Reports list high school boys Ronnie Daniels Larry Nelson Lester Witt Duane Bauer LeRoy Lester and others at Fort Scott and Pittsburg invitational meets. Boy Scouts attending Southeast Kansas Exposition in Chanute. Numerous residents at church rallies, PTA and post office events. Commencement dates set for May 15 17 and 19 with baccalaureate May 15.
London reports Prince Charles wife Princess Margaret and Antony Armstrong-Jones on the royal yacht Britannia bound for the West Indies for a Caribbean honeymoon. Speculation names Trinidad as a likely port of call amid a day of royal pageantry and a global audience watching Westminster Abbey wedding coverage.
J E Kiser retires after forty eight years as a section laborer and foreman on the MKT Railroad. He began on part time work in 1910 and moved to full time in 1912. He served again during 1918-1920 before returning in 1920 and becoming section foreman in 1922. He lives in Chanute with a large family and plans to fish and garden in retirement.
In Calhoun Missouri an 88 year old woman, Mrs Jennie Border, was blown from her porch during a thunderstorm. She returned inside, later was taken to Clinton Hospital for a double wrist fracture and facial injuries after neighbors assisted.
Jacques Mornard the man who assassinated Leon Trotsky twenty years ago was released from a Mexican prison and whisked to Havana with two Czech officials. Mexican authorities said he would travel to Europe next possibly to Czechoslovakia while Trotsky’s widow warned of a targeted danger.
Wilburton Oklahoma faces heavy damage after a Thursday tornado killed 11 and injured 104. Rescue workers searched ruins while townspeople count losses: 82 homes destroyed, 34 heavily damaged, 22 businesses destroyed, two churches demolished. Red Cross fed 1,300 at the high school as other towns nearby also suffered deaths.
Willing Workers 4-H Club at Hillcrest school elected junior officers for the next meeting. New officers are Mary Neely president Eddie Lindblad vice president Sally King secretary Harry Guy parliamentarian Jill Bath reporter Jean Bath song leader. The group invited Grace Episcopal church for 4-H Sunday with a basket dinner and baseball game to follow.
AP reports Costa Rica launched its first television station on Friday. The station is owned jointly by American Broadcasting Co. of the United States and local Costa Rican partners.
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