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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1966
Page
3
Heloise shares simple tips from readers on recycling empty milk cartons into building blocks, preparing bacon for easy separation, repurposing plastic bottles for cabinet storage, and using a metal door spring to stop clothesline sag. Readers submit ideas on organization, sewing, and cost savings, with Heloise noting she cannot answer all letters.
Thirty-two couples competed in the annual husband and wife 18 hole medal play at the Country Club. The event started September 25 with the final round held yesterday. Winners spanned multiple flights led by Mr. and Mrs. Fred Bloomer in the championship flight. A flight saw Glen Shook and C A Wood win, B flight went to Dean Haines and W C Gausman, and C flight to John Congdon and Jeff Coots. Mixed pairs crowned Arch Allen and Dennis Mills first. C A Wood and others managed duties, with prizes and a buffet close.
The Chanute Cycle Club sponsored a rally at the race track Sunday with Parsons Cyclists assisting. Riders came from Humboldt Chanute Parsons and Independence. Sam Ringo of Parsons won with 33 points earning a camera. Trophies went to Ronnie Magers of Parsons with 32 and Tom Dicks with 31. A watermelon feed followed hosted by Chanute. About 120 attended. Chanute Cycle Club to meet at North Malcolm Community Center at 7:30 PM tonight.
Seventy friends attended a wiener roast and hayrack ride Saturday at the Irvin Umbarger home in rural Thayer. Songs were sung around the campfire.
The Social Calendar lists events for Tuesday Oct 4 1966 including Victory Unit meetings at 125 S Lafayette Welfare Office 7:30 pm Gem and Mineral Society Federation Room 7:20 pm Ladies Auxiliary Patriarchs Militant Itoof Hall 8 pm Rainbow for Girls Masonic Temple 6:30 pm LA to B of PRT Carpenter's Hall luncheon 1 pm Chanute Toastmasters Orchid Buffet 6:30 pm Textile Paint Club North Malcolm Community Center 9 am Modern Study Club 906 S Plummer 2 pm Athenaeum luncheon Orchid Buffet 1 pm Sorosis 11 N Highland 2 pm Round Table Study Club 19 S Kansas 1 pm luncheon Twentieth Century Study Club luncheon Orchid Buffet 12:30 Vilas Homebuilders 1:30 pm Outlook Study Club luncheon 1 pm Chanute Culture Club 301 S Plummer 3 pm.
A family dinner was held at the Evangelical United Brethren church annex honoring Mrs L M Lindsey on her 89th birthday. In the afternoon slides shown by Maj Arthur Mercer recalled tours with Special Forces in Germany South America Panama and Central America at the home of Mr and Mrs John Erickson 107 S Rutter. Attendees included Mrs Lindsey’s daughters Mrs Zola Sodal and Mrs Reno, a son W D Lindsey Sr, and relatives Kathy Jennifer Jeffrey Kristina Kerry Loren Lowe May Mercer and others.
Former Chanute residents Edgar P Coffin and Ethel Gundy Coffin celebrated their golden wedding anniversary in South Gate California with a reception hosted by daughter Mrs Robert Rhodes in Norwalk California. Grandchildren Gary and Robert Rhodes assisted at the guest book while Mrs Fred Kimble served cake. The Coffins have lived in South Gate 25 years and Coffin works for Refining Associates of Long Beach. A nephew H E Wolfe of Ellinwood attended. Also includes a recipe note for heat water pack canned dried white lima beans with onion celery carrot in butter, to serve with smoked tongue or ham.
The piece urges inquiry into MFA's Golden Youth Life Insurance Plan as a potential funding option to safeguard a student's college path despite financial constraints. It emphasizes exploring affordable coverage that could free up resources for tuition and related costs.
The St Martha circle of St Patrick’s Altar Society met in the Junior High library Sunday afternoon to discuss the fall project and enjoy a social hour. Mrs Edwin Weber led the meeting and Mrs Russell Kern served refreshments to 10 members.
Three senior Kays from Cha nute High School joined about 250 boys at the first Kansas Association for Youth Leadership Camp held at Rock Springs Ranch near Junction City. Representing were Darrel Brown Monty Briley and Steve Ashley with Kay sponsor Virgil Akins on staff. Camp director was Nelson Hartman state director of Kays. Also representing KS High School Activities Association were Brice Durbin executive secretary and Wanda May Vinson state director of youth. The camp served as a leadership training workshop.
This date notes Washington declaring a day of general thanksgiving in 1789 and Lincoln proclaiming Thanksgiving Day on the last Thursday of November in 1863. It also recalls Israel’s 1956 boycott of the Israel Jordan mixed armistice commission and a 1961 Ford strike nationwide.
Mrs. William Fairis of San Jose Illinois announces the engagement of her daughter Karen Sue Fairis to Claude Thomas Crawshaw son of Mr and Mrs Arlo L Crawshaw of Altoona. Miss Fairis is a San Jose High School graduate and works as a receptionist in the Trust Department of the First National Bank of Peoria. Crawshaw is an Altoona Rural High School and Kansas State University graduate with a BS in Agricultural Engineering and is employed in Caterpillar Tractor Companys Research Department in Peoria. A spring wedding is planned.
Cub Scouts from Pack 225 met at the fire station for Fire Prevention Week observances. Dave Brotton led the tour with visits to the police station where Police Chief Lige Matlock gave a department tour. Refreshments were provided by Brian Dent. den mothers Mrs. Paul Dent and Mrs. Otto Bright accompanied the group.
In Wyandanch New York the new elementary school was named for Milton L Olive an 18yearold black paratrooper who died in action in Vietnam last year. Olive threw himself on a hand grenade saving four comrades earning the Medal of Honor last April attended by about six hundred people. In Caldwell New Jersey twins mark a family distinction born Sunday in a police patrol car to Maria 30 and John Bryant 27 The mother and babies were reported in excellent shape at Mountainside Hospital Montclair The Bryants have four other children and Bryant says the eighth set of twins includes his two daughters. In Tokyo Prime Minister Eisaku Sato will receive treatment for about 10 days at Tokyo University Hospital for a kidney ailment announced by his spokesman. In Hollywood writer producer Cy Bartlett’s $110 000 home suffered mud from a water main break filling most rooms and coating furniture Bartlett who authored the book and film of 12 Oclock High previously lost a home in a 1959 mud washout.
Seaman Terry L. Donovan USN son of Mr and Mrs Leo W Donovan of 330 W 6th serves aboard the Tutuila now the primary support ship for Operation Market Time patrols from An Thoi Phu Quoc Island. The Tutuila acts as mother hen to US Navy Swift Boats and Coast Guard Cutters countering infiltration of Viet Cong men and supplies into the South Vietnam coast on the Thailand Gulf.
Mr and Mrs Lester Cation from Ottawa Mrs Maude Campbell of Iola and Mrs Ina Kelley of Humboldt were Sunday visitors of Mr and Mrs Lester Bragg at 818 West Elm.
Mr and Mrs Johnny L Robertson and their son Doug left Saturday to establish a home in Garland Texas. Robertson will be employed by Intercontinental Manufacturing Company.
George Wilson reported finding a woman's wristwatch at Main and Highland today and is holding it for identification by the owner, police said.
Mr and Mrs Frank Sandbothe of 414 N Evergreen announce the birth of a daughter Tamy Christine on Friday at Wilson County Hospital Neodesha. Maternal grandparents are Mr and Mrs Virgil Petty of 1918 S Edith and paternal grandparents are Mr and Mrs Vincent Sandbothe of Neodesha.
Mr and Mrs Dean Geeding and Mrs Beulah Stewart attended the World War I district three meeting at the new American Legion hall in Overland Park Sunday. Approximately 150 people were present from Chanute Barracks and the Auxiliary.
Mr and Mrs Kenneth Cummings 711 E Allen and Mr and Mrs Charles Cumings and Russell 512 E 15th have returned home from a trip to Reno Nevada where they visited Mr and Mrs Glens Leatherman They also visited Mrs Elsie Harris Sacramento California and Earl Fritz and Herbert Cumings San Francisco
Guests of Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Finney at 301 S. Plummer included Mr. and Mrs. Charles Smith of Westmoreland, Mr. and Mrs. Chester Smith of Wamego, Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Finney, Mr. and Mrs. P. O. Brass, Kat Brass, Ray Smith, and Mrs. Gus Carpenter of Topeka, and Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Davidson of Leawood. A family reunion dinner was served Saturday noon at the Orchid Buffet.
A company-wide walkout occurred during the firm’s twenty years of dealings with the United Auto Workers Union. The strike centered on non economic issues such as production standards. A year earlier President Johnson signed the immigration bill in a ceremony at the Statue of Liberty.
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