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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1961
Page
4
Editorial urges a rainy week Paint Up Fix Up Clean Up project focusing on common home dangers. National Safety Council notes one third of accidental deaths occur at home. Readers are asked to inspect cords fuses rags stairs carpeting rails heating storage and avoid gasoline for cleaning.
Freddie Markham appeals to readers after a county commission oversight leaves a vital road unnamed and impassable during floods. The route links Chanute, Humboldt, and Rose, affecting buses, milk haulers, and oil field workers. He notes delays in service and warns of broader impacts if unaddressed.
A political column mocks cabinet friction and calls for Udall to consider a new interior secretary. It urges feminists to push airline pricing fairness for heavy luggage and critiques Senate seniority versus competence. The piece notes consumer confusion about car models and jokes about a car-washing cash register.
The text jokes about a small car, a bald barber, and a local businessman claiming $50,000 earnings. It critiques higher minimum wages costing jobs, claims a Treasury official is shortchanged on taxes, and ponders college-age attitudes and reunions.
Tribune Files recalls Chanute history with two watering troughs kept as flower boxes and eight Civil War veterans listed for Memorial Sunday at Grant Avenue Baptist Church. Petrolia high school graduates named along with five seniors.
A quotation from Acts 10 28 emphasizes that God teaches Peter not to regard any person as unclean or common highlighting a shift in Jewish customs toward inclusivity and fellowship with all nations.
Washington reports circulated that CIA may have assisted arms shipments to Fidel Castro during his Sierra Madre guerrilla war. The link centers on Samuel Cummings and his International Armament Corp, a player in CIA related operations including arms to Guatemala and later to Cuba. A Senate inquiry was urged amid claims the State Department corroborated the connection.
Dr Molner reassures a cancer patient about cobalt-60 radiotherapy and its risks. He explains radiation sickness is possible but often manageable and urges continuation when surgery isn t an option. He notes focused cobalt beams and X rays deliver similar rays and highlights a 1/3 cancer cure rate with surgery or radiation.
President Kennedy grants Attorney General Robert Kennedy sweeping authority to take steps to quell Alabama racial unrest. The President remains informed and aims to avoid Northern and Southern political backlash while RFK deploys hundreds of U S marshals to protect bus riders. The piece compares to Eisenhower’s Little Rock stance and ponders whether stronger talk would have curbed mob violence.
A collection of brief overheard lines from various papers including an insurance agent exchange about life, a telegraph pole incident remark, a jab at civilization’s thin coating, and a wry note on alcohol.
A Tuesday and Wednesday TV guide lists primes from KOTV KODE TV WDAF KOAM with shows like Father Knows Best The Rifleman Dobie Gillis Wyatt Earp The Rifleman and Alfred Hitchcock plus news weather and movies. It also notes late night programs including Jack Paar and The Garry Moore Show and ongoing day parts with price is right and truth or consequences.
The Chanute Tribune in Highland Chanute Kansas lists publication practices and staff roles including Dwight McCreight publisher and department managers. It notes second class mail status, AP membership, and annual subscription rates by mail for Neosho Allen Wilson Woodson counties and across Kansas outside four counties with special pricing.
Answers cover common errors and definitions. 1 The correct sense is excuse not alibi. alibi means being elsewhere during the act. 2 Pronounce ruse as root. 1 syllable. 3 The misspelled option is illicit. 4 Similitude means resemblance or likeness. 5 A word starting with ba meaning dull commonplace style is bathos.
Readable excerpts cover removing stains with ammonia diluted water to treat carpets, erasing marks with art gum, bulge repair on wallpaper using razor and paste, greasing nails to ease driving, and using hose supporters to keep blankets in place for babies.
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