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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1959
Page
3
A festive cranberry stack cake blends white cake layers with sweetened whipped cream and cranberry sauce. Bake nine inch white cake layers, create thin sub-layers, spread whipped cream and cranberry filling, then assemble and chill for 12 to 16 servings.
A Chanute Tribune page presents a Reader Criticises Ann Landers advice to an unwed mother along with personal letters and a henhouse of crafts ads. The item notes pattern sales, a 1958 copyright, and requests submissions to The Chanute Tribune with a self addressed stamped envelope. Institutions and people named include Ann Landers and Zoo Keeper.
Mrs. Lloyd Rensing was elected president of the Leamona Home Demonstration unit at a Thursday meeting. Officers include Mrs Harry Briley as vice president and Mrs Luke Lasley as secretary treasurer.
Mrs. Hazel Slane, recorder for the Royal Neighbors of America, was honored with a skit It Could Be You at a Thursday meeting in Carpenters hall. 24 members and three guests attended as District Deputy Vernon Noel and two Neodesha members joined the event.
Saturday at Alcott School the Do-si-do Square Dance Club hosts a dance in the afternoon. Sunday features the IOOF hail event at 2 30 p.m. with the rt and B of RT groups listed.
A morning surprise birthday party honored Mrs. Verlin Smith on Thursday. A 9 o clock coffee, card, and hankie shower took place at 1202 S. Plummer, the home of Mrs. Kenneth Cummings, with guests including Mrs. Earl Hunter, Mrs. Carter Willis, Mrs. Ben Cunningham, Mrs. Earl Patterson Jr., and others.
Mrs. E. L. Olson entertained at a party for her daughter Connie who will turn seven Sunday. Assisted by Patricia and Nancy Legge, guests played games and enjoyed ice cream cake and pop. Favors were lolipops and bubble gum.
The Women's Missionary Prayer Band of the Bible Baptist Church met at Mrs. J. T. Ames's home on 301 S. Rutter. Mrs. Andrew Erickson led in prayer and Mrs. O. F. Young presided. A thank you note from Mrs. Edwin Van Til was read. Members read a Scripture verse starting with H and heard a missionary story before devotions. The next meeting is at 2 pm November 5 in the Fellowship building.
Mrs R W Good of 204 FE 9th led the Alpha Chi chapter gathering with Mrs Forrest Steeves and Mrs Kent Blackwood assisting. Barbara Hugill introduced Martha McGuffey who read her poems as 11 members and three guests enjoyed refreshments. The next Ritual of Jewels dinner will be hosted by Mrs Brinkmeyer at Humboldt.
The Rainbow Home Demonstration unit hosted 12 Elk River Independence members at a Santa Fe Park covered dish luncheon. Mrs. C S Eckard led games and Mrs. A O Dimon read Pity the Poor President. Guests included Charles Ross J H Wright Harry Allred and others.
Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Korphage announce the engagement of their daughter Gesena to Walter Galetti of Greenfield California. The wedding is planned for October 31 at St Patrick's Catholic church in Chanute. Gesena attended local schools and Mount Carmel School of Nursing in Pittsburg and has worked at Neosho Memorial Hospital and O'Connell Hospital in San Jose.
Through Sept. 26 there were 3,728 paralytic polio cases, up from 1,798 for the same period in 1958. The 1955 milestone after Salk vaccine reached 7,405 paralytic cases by this point.
Hurricane Hannah, still dangerous to ships, curves northeast of Bermuda away from the US coast. In Rhode Island, three horses and hundreds of birds on a game bird farm died of encephalitis. no humans affected. At a New Jersey outbreak, 14 members die as PEO Chapter CD meets with 24 present and a luncheon at the Maple Leaf.
Polio paralytic cases totaled 304 last week, the third highest weekly figure of 1959, though 28 fewer than the prior week. The Public Health Service reported revised figures showing 332 paralytic cases in the preceding week.
Sodus New York AP report says Donald Fisher recovered his sleeping bag eight years after it was lost during heavy fighting in Korea. The bag was mailed from Newton Iowa and Fisher wonders how it ended up there. The story also notes New York AP reporting on rising alcohol abuse with 5 million affected nationwide and 200000 new cases yearly.
A 30 million dollar link was celebrated for Interstate Highway 35 connecting Ottawa Kansas and the Kansas City metropolitan area. Gov. George Docking Sen. Andrew Schoeppe and Rep. Newell George attended with mayors and local delegates. A caravan tour along the 55 mile route marked the ceremony despite rain. The four lane highway extends from the 18th Street Expressway in Kansas City to Ottawa.
Denver and other Colorado cities called for assistance as five people died in a wintry storm. Mayor Dick Batterton said Denver faces millions in damage while Lowry Air Force Base assigns 50 men to aid cleanup and Forest Service brings in equipment to remove fallen branches.
The notice advertises Pattern 9433 a stylish slim youthfully styled shirtwaist by Marian Martin with printed pattern details for half sizes 14 through 24 and yardage for 39 inch fabric. It notes mailing costs 50 cents and requires the purchaser to send name address tone size and style number to The Che wute Tribune Pattern Cent New York.
Actor Edmund Gwenn who died September 6 left an estate near 4000 dollars. His will filed for probate on Thursday leaves equal shares to his former wife Minnie Terry and sister Elsie Kellaway of England.
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