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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1968
Page
4
HAL BOYLE offers a playful guide to spotting genuine old-timers by quirks and memories. The piece wryly contrasts aging sensibilities with modern youth while listing telltale habits, tastes, and anecdotes from past decades.
Girl Scouts of Troop 79 and leaders Mrs. G E Roberts and Mrs Wayne Wallace traveled to Kansas City by train. They toured depots and a department store, rode escalators, and enjoyed a tunnel light show and a park train. The trip, funded by cookie sales, included many named participants and souvenirs for memory books.
Esther Ortiz of 1109 S Washington was named chair for the 1968 Chanute Mexican Fiesta at a May 12 GI Forum meeting. Other officers include Mrs Joe Ponce vice chair and secretary Elisa Serrato treasurer Esther Salis assistant treasurer and Mary Sanchez queen director. A follow up meeting is set for Sunday at 4 p.m. in St Patrick church library.
Final arguments concluded in New Orleans as H. Rap Brown faces two counts under the National Firearms Act for transporting a firearm across state lines. Judge Lansing L. Mitchell will instruct the jury on the applicable law afterAttorney William M. Kunstler claimed the case aims to silence a black leader.
The final regular week of classes for the 1967 68 term includes high school and junior college exams this week with exams starting Tuesday for high school and Wednesday for junior college. High school commencement is May 29 and junior college May 30 both at 8 p.m. in Memorial Auditorium. Commencement practice and student activities follow.
The heart of a 17 year old boy beat in Louis John Fierro as the world’s 15th transplant patient and fourth at St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital. Dr. Denton A. Cooley led the 30 minute operation. Fierro, an Elmont New York salesman, was listed in highly satisfactory condition an hour later. The donor Hubert Brandenburg of Pasadena Texas died at 10 35 p.m. He suffered brain hemorrhage and was moved to St. Luke’s from Southmore Hospital. Attendants said Fierro had endured numerous heart attacks.
In Kansas City a Jackson County Circuit court awarded $1,500 to a mother for her two year old daughter bitten by a rat while sleeping. The suit named building owner William Crawford after the Jackson County health department had ordered extermination, with multiple children reported bitten in the same apartment house.
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