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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1961
Page
4
Editorial argues small cities must adopt air travel as rail passenger service declines. It cites 1949 and 1960 figures showing airlines growing from 6.7 billion to 30.4 billion passenger miles while railroads shrink, urging Kansas City connections and warning against ignoring air transport for safety.
Word A-Okay emerges after Shepard mission as a catchphrase meaning all-okay and satisfactory. The piece mocks the fad terms and cites other quick jokes about public figures, language, and headlines from politics to publishing.
Tribune Files reports the new City park stadium will finish in about 30 days as city engineer Ralph B. Reeves announced. Frances Hansen is Vilas high school valedictorian and Margaret Kuhn salutatorian. Francis M. Stocker is installed as postmaster at Yates Center. A ladies golf team beat another 361 to 363. Local residents hosted a three course dinner at 215 W Elm. Thayer high will have six graduates this year and 115 eighth graders advance to high school. Louis Breyfogle to graduate from the University of Kansas this spring.
A devotional note presents Ezekiel 32 14 praising divine provision and symbolic waters transformed to flowing oil The verse emphasizes God’s judgment and blessing through waterways and rivers as expressions of covenant faithfulness.
Merely quotes of reader letters and editorials praise American initiative. Alicia Patterson urges action while Drew Pearson highlights diverse citizen efforts from Kiwanis food drives for Cuban refugees to foreign aid projects. Herbert Cobey converts old U.S. horse drawn farming gear for Mexican farmers, shipping repaired equipment to Mexico.
Dr MOLNER reviews epilepsy progress from last decades to today, noting most cases now controlled with drug regimens allowing normal schooling and life. He cites the American Epilepsy Federation for pamphlets, mentions Putnam’s The Epilepsy book, and lists guidance for mongoloid children and cellulitis basics with care steps.
In Oslo NATO allies pledge to meet the Communist challenge, with clear defense of West Berlin but vague plans for wider military action outside Europe. The piece notes reluctance to intervene in Laos and Vietnam, and questions alliance resolve if Khrushchev tests Berlin.
Local newspaper information lists department managers and staff roles, post office classification, and mentions of the Associated Press. It includes subscription rates for Neosho, Allen, Wilson, and Woodson counties and for Kansas outside four counties.
A Wichita Democrat quip notes women needing strong men to steady the ladder while painting. The piece jokes that recording bathtub invention in 1850 and telephone in 1875 change daily life. A light remark on living in 1850 with no phone, plus a women's magazine promoting a bananas based reducing diet.
Channel schedules list Bonanza Donna Reed Fight of the Week Have it Will Travel Make That Spare Surfside Six Gunsmoke Two Faces West Peoples Choice Roaring Twenties Movie Dead Reckoning Wrestling and a late night film. Also featured are cartoons Industry on Parade News and Weather Big Picture Christian Science Through the Porthole New Horizons Western Theater This is the Life It is Written KODE Showcase Catholic Hour Baseball Chet Huntley Bringing Up Datey Walt Disney Presents Lassie Maverick Dennis the Menace National Velvet Jo Sullivan Tab Hunter Dinah Shore G E Theater Jack Benny Loretta Young Candid Camera What's My Line This is Your Life Shotgun Slade News Asphalt Jungle Shrine Crippled Children's Program Thirty Pieces of Silver
The column quotes Coffeyville Journal remarks about a fat monkey and a riff on motorists and filling stations. It notes 200000 stations nationwide and jokes about gas shortages. It adds a quip from Parsons Sun and a remark from Hays News about future nostalgia.
Mrs. Roy Roberts presided as installing officer at the Buffalo Methodist church for the new Women's Society of Christian Service officers. Officers installed included E. M. Kamm as president and Marie Brock as vice president, with duties across secretary treasurer, children's secretary, social relations, literature, missionary education, and youth work among others. A Threefold Pledge devotions were led by Mrs. Ella Wolfe with lesson by Mrs. Claude Krepps.
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