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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1958
Page
4
An unassuming junior high teacher with spunk and personality, Jeanette Wickstrom known as Vicky, has just graduated into retirement after years of exceptional proficiency in teaching. She leaves with lessons learned many times over and a cozy farewell from the school community.
A short devotional note cites James 4 8 urging readers to seek closeness with God as the verse promises divine nearness and blessing through faith and reflection.
A column blends jokes and opinions on airliner crashes, budgets, and public figures. It notes Kansas State College plans a veterinary hospital and a medical clinic, comments on oil leadership, Stassen, and de Gaulle, then honors a longtime junior high teacher renowned for service and career dedication.
Critics of American education contend many students struggle with reading. A local summer reading improvement program enrolls 73 pupils using varied methods to teach decoding and foster a love of reading. The effort aims to boost enjoyment and comprehension among attendees.
The observer shared the program with Governor Frank C. Clement in Aurora at an Illinois State Bar Association event. Clement’s engaging style blends oratory and entertainment as radio and TV shift platform technique. He’s described as a persuasive, personable figure whose early legal work included a memorable mule theft case.
Tribune Files recalls 25 years ago when 133 Senior High School graduates received diplomas at Monday night exercises with the theme Training for Citizenship. Valedictorian was Mary Ella Jones and salutatorian Cecil Irene Anderson. Memorial Day saw half of Chanute’s Civil War veterans attend Elmwood Cemetery as Rev. Ernest A. Ham gave the address. Winter oats 63 inches tall were shown by M E Wiggans. A theft at Owl drug store yielded $30. Five decades ago poles were installed to extend city electrical service into Chanute’s north ward and lighting as far as Sycamore.
A Coffeyville Journal clipping recalls a school marketing a short course in accounting for women and a later note to the director stating there is no accounting for women. A Coldwater Star quip adds a remark about teenagers realizing they know more than their parents.
Rotary through Bucharest, Drew Pearson notes Romanian crowds praise U S friendship despite official tension. He cites a State Department misstep in a Romanian exile crafted release and argues popular bonds exist in Romania, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary that outlast governments.
Dr. George W. Crane argues God provides millions of advantages and free will to humanity, framing humans as partners who apply science to improve health and happiness. He cites Jenner, Edison, Marconi, and Gutenberg as examples of active discovery. Children’s curiosity is encouraged as a path to eternal verities.
Chanute Tribune rates listed for Neosho Allen Wilson and Woodson counties with monthly and yearly options. Publication information shows evenings except Sunday and editor publisher names Ernest W Johnson and James E Sheridan.
Washington AP reports a swallowable radio capsule for GI pressure monitoring. Doctors Farrar and Bernstein describe a plastic pill with a tiny transmitter and diaphragm that records intestinal pressures as it travels, transmitting data to a outside receiver for permanent printing. In a trial of 16 subjects it enabled prolonged recording in hard to reach GI areas.
President Eisenhower spent Memorial Day weekend at his Gettysburg residence. He played nine holes at Gettysburg Country Club after arriving by helicopter from Washington. Mrs. Eisenhower joined him by car and they planned to return to Washington on Monday.
A dense listing shows Perry Como Top Dollar Gale Storm Have Gun Will Travel Gunsmoke Ted Mack Your Hit Parade Texas Rangers Sheriff of Cochise and more across KOAM KOTV WDAF and KODE stations with morning through late night airings and multiple channel options reflected.
United Air Lines accepts Air Force denial that a B47 pilot deliberately buzzed a UAL jet carrying 62 aboard near Salina Kansas. Maj Eugene Mathis says he maneuvered to avoid collision with the DC 7. The complaint was withdrawn. Crews praised for saving all on board.
Bids on 35 miles of state primary and county secondary road work will be opened at Parsons on June 12 and at Topeka on June 17. Parsons bids include 12.4 miles of grading and two bridges for U S 54 west from Eureka and 0.7 miles of concrete pavement on U S 59 Parsons linking project. Topeka bids cover 1.5 miles of concrete paving for a new U S 24 roadbed toward K-18 west of Manhattan and asphalt surfacing for city links on U S 36, U S 77 at Manhattan and K-9 at Fort Scott.
In Honolulu a naval officer said it was a miracle eight officers and 84 crewmen escaped the submarine Stickleback before she sank after being rammed by the destroyer escort Silverstein. Captain Paul C. Stimson, commander of Submarine Squadron, noted the peril.
Ralph Medlin 62 of Oakley, Kansas, state bank commissioner, died in Wichita on Friday likely from a heart attack. He was visiting his daughter Mrs. Lee Berry when illness struck. A former Kansas Bankers Association president and Farmers State Bank of Oakley leader, he was appointed bank commissioner in 1956 by Gov. Fred Hall. Medlin collapsed at the Kansas Bankers Association convention in Kansas City recently and had been briefly hospitalized.
Arkansas City Kansas AP Mrs Thaine Cook a member of the Arkansas City School Board is ahead of her sons in schooling after becoming a student herself to help with homework. On Thursday night her son Dennis earned a junior high diploma Walter earned a high school diploma and Mrs Cook earned a junior college diploma. She plans to enroll at Southwestern College in Winfield this fall to stay ahead of the youngsters.
Tongano xie postmaster George Lewis Baker 53 died in a Leavenworth hospital. He had lived in Tonganoxie 47 years. A recipe note suggests mixing brown sugar cinnamon and chopped walnuts or pecans to sprinkle over muffin batter before baking.
The piece extols Memorial Day as a national tradition honoring all loved ones who have died. It urges visiting resting places, recalling faults and virtues, and drawing inspiration from those who influenced our lives. It calls for reverence, sentiment, and hopeful reflection on past, present, and future.
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