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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1976
Page
4
The piece argues the Postal Service proposal to have carriers walk on lawns for deliveries is wasteful and infringes property rights. It predicts complaints, questions savings, and notes carriers oppose it as a route-cutting move to shrink staff. The editorial urges genuine efficiencies to address deficits.
Gov. Robert Bennett was urged to close Kansas State College of Pittsburg and move state aid to Washburn University in Topeka, but the idea failed to gain support. Officials argue Pittsburg college remains essential to southeast Kansas despite population gains elsewhere. The 1975 data show a net gain of over 6,000 since 1960, with several counties increasing since 1960 and by 1975.
The group cleared Main to Walnut crossing of paper, glass, cans and debris using rakes and hands. Residents praise the effort and urge continued citywide cleanup to foster a City of Pride.
A neighborhood robin repeatedly bangs its head against windows for three days, a behavior that worries the writer. The column shifts to a cooking note about Crunchy Granola, including a Chanute adapted recipe with oats, Grape Nuts, wheat germ, raisins, sunflowers, nuts, oil, honey, and brown sugar baked then served with bean paste on tortillas.
Barbara Kihm shares a guacamole based dip layered on bean paste with grated cheese and bacon bits. She notes freezing avocados, several cooky sheets, and storing in brown bags, plus a meatless tostado dish and heating instructions from the box.
New York Assembly investigators reveal Information Digest aided police in compiling confidential dossiers on celebrities and politicians including Eddie Albert Candice Bergen Leonard Bernstein Dick Cavett Dustin Hoffman Shirley MacLaine Carl Reiner Richard Widmark Ralph Abernathy Ramsey Clark John Lindsay Leonard Woodcock and Congress members The report links the sheet to Rep Larry McDonald and a researcher in his office and notes police sharing of the material with little verification.
The Crop Reporting Board projects a nearly 1.5 billion bushel winter wheat harvest for 1976, aided by rains in the Great Plains and higher southern Plains prospects. Spring wheat may add up to 100 million bushels, with carryover stocks boosting overall domestic and export supplies and potential restraint on food prices.
Chanute newspaper notices show pricing for mail and carrier delivery with annual and half year rates. The United Press International and UP News dispatches are rebroadcast, with local staff and circulation details.
Kansas House members largely supported overriding President Ford on a 125 million day care bill while Sen. Dole upheld the veto. Debate touched on federal vs state control and welfare reform. Other notes include Sebelius debt proposal, Dole on grain inspection, and postal closures bills.
City officials announce dawn start for aerial spraying to kill elm tree worms and mosquitoes if weather permits. Fifty years prior, motorists faced detours on the highway north of town with barriers and red lights.
A brief devotional note cites Psalm 45 1 describing a heart full of a good theme and a tongue like a ready scribe. It presents a literary Bible verse as a reflective header.
New York Times journalist Hedrick Smith and his family sue Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger claiming government kept and used transcripts of private family and business conversations. Smith cites 89 days of taps and seeks damages to be donated to promote a free press.
Crawford County’s oldest building, the St. James once Girard’s Hotel built in 1881, will be demolished next month to make way for a new office building due to severe structural defects said owner Clayton Adair.
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