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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1968
Page
2
The Tribune urges Harman as the candidate who can pass needed programs in Topeka. It criticizes Gov. Docking for failure to work with the Legislature and argues Harman would break logjams, though supports higher taxes and warns on equity for lower income groups.
The author contrasts Bob Seagren’s celebratory stance with Tommie Smith and John Carlos’s Black Power gesture. He argues the athletes’ backgrounds shape reactions to racism and opportunity, and suggests the actions reflect deeper social tensions beyond propriety. Smith and Carlos acted from a different lived reality.
In a New Hampshire view, Senator Thomas J. McIntyre calls The Star Spangled Banner unnerving and proposes Congress sponsor a competition to select a new national anthem. He notes SSB’s unpopularity and urges an alternative that fits a peace loving nation.
Tribune notes the first day of issuing 1943 ration booklets went smoothly under OPA guidance. Local hunters plan prairie chicken shooting while geese honk in the background. Lt. and Mrs. Juan Hidalgo depart for Fort Sam Houston after training in Washington and New York. Taxpayers in Chanute Thayer and St Paul district 93 face lower taxes. raises slated for Galesburg Erie St Paul district 14 Stark Earlton per county figures. Brown Mel Roberts mentioned.
Washington column by Drew Pearson notes vacation trends in Communist and Western Europe. He describes Hungarians touring the Danube, Black Sea resorts in Romania and Bulgaria, and New Yorkers funding New York subway entrances while praising Vienna and Moscow cleanliness.
The verse urges believers to clothe themselves with God’s armor to stand against the devil’s schemes as described in Ephesians 6 11. It emphasizes readiness and spiritual protection.
A night skydiver Dean Heath misjudged his landing and touched down on the grounds of a pipe manufacturing plant in San Bernardino California. His dive damaged two power lines and triggered a burglar alarm drawing police to the scene.
William A. Herron a Republican candidate for the state legislature denounced the Steelworkers Union Education Committee endorsement of his Democratic opponent Kerron as a crowning insult He is a longtime member of Steelworkers Local 3937 and chairs its safety committee and objects to dues supporting political ads in opposition to him.
Evening lineup shows Olympics coverage at 6 6 30 and 9 7 7 30 8 9 with sit coms and dramas including Gunsmoke Peyton Place Here's Lucy Mayberry R F D Hemingway Spain and Family Affair plus a Movie and Billy Graham Carol Burnett and a late news bulletin at 10 00.
TV schedule details for KVOO Chanute WDAF KCMO KUHI KOAM KMBC KODE WIBW and others on Tuesday October 22 with morning daytime and late night lineups including Today Show Hallmark daytime soaps Jeopardy Edge of Night Dark Shadows Perry Mason and The Tonight Show plus news updates and Sunrise Semester entries.
NBC airs Bahar the Elephant at 6 30 p m from Jean de Brunhoff stories. CBS presents Gun Smoke at 6 30 p m and Big Valley at 9 p m with Nick haunted by a nightmare after a cougar attack. Hemingway's Spain airs on ABC at 8 p m as a documentary on Ernest Hemingway and his influences.
London AP reports Sotheby’s auction of 74 veteran, vintage and horse less carriages. Highlights include a 1914 Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost Continental Tourer with German bullet marks, a Maharajah of Rewa’s 1920s Lanchester, and a 1912 NAG two seater linked to Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines.
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