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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1959
Page
4
Readers and neighbors, led by Mrs. Harold Beach and seven others, commend Tom Morehead for his police service. Letters and calls reveal strong support for his impartial enforcement, with emphasis on his proven investigative methods and success in solving crimes.
A collage notes rising race attendance while baseball wanes, hints of Nixon stepping in for Eisenhower, and price changes for haircuts and meals in Buenos Aires London Paris and New York. It praises Morehead, critiques Luce Morse and Monroe, and ends with Menninger predicting prison reform.
Biblical verse notes Jesus leading disciples to Bethany and lifting his hands to bless them as he departs. Luke 24 50 recounts the final blessing before the ascent. The text underscores Jesus’ farewell act and divine blessing to his followers.
The column lampoons a legal settlement remark by Mrs Blake and jokes about fashion trends. It notes a designer calling a spring breathes life into a daring low neck line and mocks bra and girdle advertising.
The city commission approved an ordinance creating three voting precincts in Chanute covering wards two three and four, increasing total city precincts to eight and Neosho County to twenty nine. A swimming pool project moves forward with a diving tower and slide for the upcoming season.
James Marlow notes prospects at Geneva and with Khrushchev remain limited. He outlines why broad disarmament is unlikely and explains points about nuclear bans, Berlin, and East versus West Germany. The piece stresses distrust and the risk of false promises if stocks are hidden.
Senate foes press that Adm. Lewis Strauss would shade facts as secretary of commerce. Pearson notes two questions on deception and executive privilege, citing Strauss refusals to disclose Dixon-Yates details and White House communications.
Chanute Tribune staff and publishing info listed with editors and department managers. Rates for subscriptions in Neosho, Allen Wilson, Woodson counties and outside areas shown for various term lengths.
A federal grand jury indicted seven people including Marvin M. Wilson of Topeka and attorney John C. Hampage on 11 counts of mail fraud. The group, operating as International Enterprises Inc. and American Distributing Co. Inc., allegedly sold defective vending machines and related battery gear at inflated prices, mailing sales letters to Dodge City, Larned, and Chase residents.
Detailed daily TV guide listing a March dominated schedule with times for Orrie and Harriet Whirly Birds Original Amateur Hour Phil Stivers Show Bob Hope Show Lax Playhouse Bold Venture Lineup Person to Person M Squad Saturday in the States Western Theatre Off to Adventure Cartoon Carnival Captain Kangaroo Trouble With Father Howdy Doody Ruff and Ready Mighty Mouse Fury Heckle and Jeckie Circus Buy Robin Hood Little Lulu Cartoons True Story Detective's Diary Baseball Triple Treat Western Basie Looney Toons Preakness Sat Teen Party Top Ten Dance Party Popeye Wrestling Jet Jackson Johnny Kemm Bowling Queens Gospel of Christ Builder's Showcase Through the Porthole KOAM TV Channel 7 various programs Evening Perry Como Show Three Stooges Meet the Press Wanted Dead or Alive Lone Ranger Face of Danger Air Power Walt Disney Presents Cimarron City Lassie Have Gun Will Travel Gunsmoke Jack Benny DA's Man Steve Alien Show Man Without a Gun Ed Sullivan Pete Kelly's Blues Chevy Show Alfred Hitchcock Country Style Lawrence Welk Millionaire Rendezvous Frontier Loretta Young Show Jubilee Richard Diamond News Sign Off Ow Snow Sign Off Sunday May 17 9 00 a m Herald of Truth 9 30 a m Homestead USA
A grand jury in Kansas indicted Evans John Johnson on charges of posing as a federal agent and hunting counterfeiters in Baxter Springs on January 14 and transporting a forged check across state lines. Johnson is jailed in Wyandotte County Kansas City.
Five state attorneys volunteered to defend Dixie Ann Gottfried 30 a former Miss Colorado Jaycee in a Denver suburb case. She is charged with armed robbery of a drug store with 131 dollars and narcotics. Defense chosen by Dist. Judge Harold Harrison.
In Detroit a guard detained four girls aged 11 and 13 after they spread modeling clay over paintings and statues. Two were returned to parents while two went to juvenile authorities. No damage estimate given yet.
Billy Glenn Newhouse 28 Desloge Mo pleaded guilty to first degree murder in the fatal shooting of his uncle James L Huskey 58 He and three other prisoners tunneled from St Francois County Jail in Farmington Newhouse surrendered later that day saying he was lonesome for Mom on Mother's Day Judge Joe Swink gave a 30 year term per the prosecutor's recommendation Newhouse showed no emotion his mother heard the sentence without comment Two escapees remain at large
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