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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1962
Page
4
Article discusses how many households are affected by stock declines and argues the price drop does not directly reduce earnings. It notes that demand came from insurers and retirement funds, not just individuals, and suggests long term returns may survive despite paper losses. The piece hints policy influence in Washington.
A survivor, Mieczyslaw Kieta, recalls Auschwitz where 1940 to 1945 saw 20 000 per day live and die within 26 acres surrounded by barbed wire. He survived through grit and cunning then endured forced transfers west and an eventual escape back to Poland.
Kieta tours a former camp converted to a museum, showing tattooed prison numbers, gas chamber remnants, hair from corpses, and three deck bunks as he recalls daily executions. He notes prisoners faced starvation and brutal work, while transports endured harsher conditions beyond the tracks.
Twenty five years ago Kansas state sales tax becomes effective and two mill zinc tokens will be used as change for tax payments. Local traders stock the coins and collectors will receive tokens to spend on their next tax. Progress Ice in Chanute to begin sales Tuesday afternoon.
A collage of ribbing and quips from various papers mocks media and public habits. The snippets reference doctors on TV, pollution devices, Khrushchev jokes, car bulges, hogs, pills, church gossip, and New England humor through a chain of clipped captions.
A column warns readers about the dangers of carbon monoxide from car exhaust and enclosed spaces. It explains how monoxide bonds with red blood cells, reducing oxygen delivery to the brain and body, and notes potential short and long term effects and the risk to vulnerable individuals.
President Kennedy plans to name Robert C. Weaver, longtime housing official and Harvard graduate, as the first Black member of the Cabinet. Weaver would join the administration as the Emancipation Proclamation centennial approaches, with Ribicoff resigning to run for Senate in Connecticut. Alf Landon criticizes Republican ties to the Right To Work push, urges a pro free enterprise stance, and cautions Kennedy to avoid the labor-management middle, warning he will be the umpire in major disputes.
A freight train ran a red light and crashed into a Riviera bound passenger express in Voghera killing 61 people and injuring about 70. The freight engineers fled unhurt. a warrant was issued for questioning. National holidays drew crowds and a four day vacation across Italy.
A dense listing of daily programs across KOTV KODE-TV WDAF KOAM channels with midday and evening lineups. Notable items include As the World Turns, Frontier Circus, The Verdict is Yours, Real McCoys, Make Room for Daddy, Untouchables, Route 66, Twilight Zone, and The Tonight Show among numerous news weather and movie slots.
New York AP notes readers may fear many phobias from aerophobia to ballistophobia and autophobia, with examples linking everyday concerns to specific named anxieties. The piece concludes that fearing illness or money is common while normalcy may mask many hidden fears.
A reader asks if a newborn mother should mail printed thank you cards. the answer favors personally written notes. Another asks about multiple wedding gifts and whether to write separate notes or a joint one. The column lists which letters must be handwritten and discusses etiquette around divorcee announcements and dining etiquette for dipping yolk with bread.
The notice lists department managers including John Haworke advertising Dwight Wallingford news Mrs Leland Lowe city circulation T O Ward mechanical and Dorsey Osborn press. It notes publication evenings except Sunday entered as second class matter and postage paid at the post office in Chanute Kansas with subscription rates by mail for Neosho Allen Wilson and Woodson Counties eight dollars a year forty dollars four months two dollars fifty cents a month one dollar for outside four counties and mentions Association of Press and Audit Bureau membership.
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