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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1973
Page
1
The 1974 Feed Grain Program allows farmers to raise output with no set aside, no planting restrictions, and no conserving-base limits for 1974 77. Barley joins the program, with 1974 allotments at 89 million acres for feed grains about 68 percent of base acreage. Payments based on full allotments, target prices set, loan rates specified, and a $20 000 lifetime limit across programs.
Mrs. Cora M. Coomes of St Paul, 74, died Sunday at Mercy Hospital Fort Scott after a Friday two car crash east of St Paul at the K3 K57 junction. The other vehicle occupants were not hospitalized. Coomes sister was treated for minor injuries. Funeral arrangements set at St Francis Church with rosaries noted.
About 300 people gathered in Elmda le Kansas over the weekend to back a tallgrass prairie national park. Dr E Raymond Hall proposed 60 000 acres for a prairie reserve to shelter bison golden eagles wolves and other native species. Rep Larry Winn said his July bill to fund a prairie park faces uphill fight.
Don and Evelyn Abbuehl display paintings and sculptures at the Tioga Hotel Chanute show titled The Tip of the Iceberg. Works include oils waters colors charcoal drawings and sculptures on loan with two pieces donated to the new museum.
Vice President Spiro T. Agnew privately fears his career is ruined by publicity but publicly fights back against accusers. A federal grand jury in Baltimore probes Maryland contractor kickbacks. Maryland Gov Mandel creates a task force on noncompetitive contracting. Newsweek reports White House lawyers discussed a deal to pressure Agnew to resign and plead guilty.
Partly cloudy tonight with a chance of fog forming toward morning. Lows in mid to upper 50s. Partly sunny Tuesday with a chance of fog during morning. Highs in mid to upper 70s. Winds light and variable tonight.
Peanut butter Sunday raised 1171 for the Kansas Jaycees Cerebral Palsy Ranch near Augusta. Ninety workers and drivers canvassed the city despite rain, with Lucinda and Christina Brazil and Nancy and Allison Guinette leading the top sale at 185 dollars.
James Wilkins, 19, 318 N Steuben, remains in serious condition at Neosho Memorial Hospital after a motorcycle crash Friday. His bike struck the car of Ida V. Miller, 77, and he was forced into traffic, then hit by another car driven by Marcia Lauback, 18, on South Allen between 9th and 10th.
Police may have found the inert gas machine reported stolen Friday from Kenneth Keas oil lease east of Chanute. Chief Lige Matlock said a machine matching the description was located in Ardmore Oklahoma and reportedly sold to a local company. The machine is valued at $23 000.
A fragment reads an intercepted letter noting the weather dull and a girl waiting for a calendar to fall into her hand with a casual closing Yours.
Hordes of monarch butterflies flocked into Hutchinson on Sunday. No danger or alarm, the insects are simply migrating through the area. The butterflies appear nearly invisible with wings folded, though a loud honk could trigger a fluttering mass in surrounding trees.
The Interstate Commerce Commission cautioned Judge John T. Fullam against ordering a Penn Central shutdown while offering no fix for the railroad's financial troubles. The remarks come in the ICC report demanded last July during the carrier’s bankruptcy reorganization.
Jewish refugees from the Soviet Union continue arriving at the Schoenau transit camp in Vienna despite the Austrian government pledging to shut the camp. The pledge was made to win freedom for four hostages held by two Arab terrorists who kidnapped them on Friday.
Washington reports that the Soviet Union is supplying a small number of supersonic bombers to Iraq. Pentagon analysts warn the move could shift the balance of power in the oil-rich Persian Gulf. This marks the first instance of such advanced aircraft supplied to an Arab air force.
The Senate Appropriations Committee takes up a historic more than 30 billion dollar domestic spending bill for Labor Health Education and Welfare. The full Senate plans a 21 billion dollar military procurement authorization vote calling for overseas troop reductions.
Washington AP reports presidential energy adviser John Love predicts gasoline prices may climb as much as 15 percent over six months. He cites rising demand and says supplies will not increase for three to five years.
A Democratic party committee in Gaithersburg Maryland debates how to replace last year’s quota system for delegate selection. The panel, after three days of meetings, plans further talks next weekend to resolve the division.
The Senate Watergate committee canceled its Tuesday session after two witnesses refused to testify. Dwight L. Chapin and Robert M. Benz were set to be questioned about campaign dirty tricks with Donald H. Segretti slated for Wednesday.
Solomon and New Cambria residents returned home as Solomon and Smoky Hill rivers retreated to normal beds. Roads reopened to New Cambria for the first time in three days after flood cleanup and a tornado last week. London AP report notes poet W H Auden, age 66, died in Vienna.
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