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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1961
Page
4
The Food for Peace program signs a pilot with Peru to provide 184 tons monthly of bread flour shortening cornmeal and powdered milk to 30,000 drought affected school children. Peru covers lunch program operational costs as U S aid supports hunger relief.
The Rev Claude E Pittenger of Nazaren Church denounces pornographic promotion and radio advertising for Butterfield 8 as corrupting youth and weakening family standards. He calls for self critique, prayer, and media responsibility to uphold purity and Christian values over profit.
A reader letter laments very low turnout at the Senior High band concert in Chanute and urges community support for school activities, praising the students and teachers for their hard work and entertainment value. The piece reflects local concern over rural attendance and civic encouragement.
A Senior Citizen recalls how wealth once promised work, while military tech outpaces missiles and space stories fade. The piece lampoons shifting economics from past wages to presentors and jokes about repurposing silos for silage as tech and labor norms evolve.
From Tribune Files twenty five years ago Myra Powell of Chanute was elected regent of the Southeast Kansas district of the D A R at the annual meeting in Parsons on May 2. Mrs Minnie Carter and Mrs John W Henaman attended the state encampment of the G A R in Salina and other Chanute residents joined the session.
The verse from St. Matthew 10 37 urges readers to prioritize devotion to Jesus above loving father or mother and son or daughter. It reflects a religious instruction stressing exclusive commitment and spiritual allegiance. The text appears as a devotional line for daily contemplation.
Dr Molner discusses 900 calorie diets detailing safety, use, and monotony. He warns dietary tricks can work if followed with doctor approval and warns against overreliance on liquid or single food plans. He stresses add bulk from vegetables and roughage and notes risks of cheating.
Washington column suggests Adlai Stevenson won a diplomatic skirmish over John F. Kennedy regarding a meeting with Nikita Khrushchev. The piece traces Kennedy policy signals, Kremlin reactions, and the influence of Stevenson as UN ambassador in shaping early Cold War diplomacy.
A dense listing of channel lineups and programs across NBC KOTV KOAM WDAF channels with times and show names. It enumerates noon to late evening airings including Burns and Allen The Millionaire The Verdict is Yours Back-to-back dramas and westerns plus news and weather segments.
The Chanute Tribune, published by Chanute Publishing Company, lists editorial and advertising staff and informs readers of subscription pricing. Rates apply for Neosho, Allen, Wilson and Woodson Counties with separate Kansas outside-four-counties pricing.
A quirky collage of jokes and quips from multiple papers. It notes the Georgia peach with nine husbands as a freestone, psychiatrists profiting from sanity, aging grocers with long licorice sticks, a telephone misfire joke, and a note that Kansas now exports barrel staves from bur oak to Scotland for whisky containers.
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