03 Sep 1971
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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1971
Page
1
About 1 500 camping units and 5 000 to 6 000 people converge on Santa Fe Park for the Kansas Camper Association fall state convention. Attendees from Arkansas Oklahoma Missouri and various Kansas chapters join activities over three days with elections and committees meeting.
Nine Chanute and area firms join a downtown showcase Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. tied to the state campers convention. Exhibits include campers trailers boats bicycles and motorbikes plus an antique car show. Wrestler Boats and Motors sells and Mobile Manufacturing exports a mobile office on Evergreen to Forest.
The District 413 Board of Education will meet Tuesday at 7 30 p.m. in the administration building to decide on wage price freeze effects on USD 413 salaries. Also on the agenda are hiring for a part time teacher and two custodians, enrollment report, lunch costs and free reduced price guidelines, Drug Abuse Committee recommendations, sealed bids for motor vehicle insurance, a 12 passenger van and bus conversion, and the high school athletic budget. A dinner for board and new teachers is noted at the Orchid Buffet, and the meeting was moved from Monday due to Labor Day.
In case of emergency campers should proceed to the south shelter house where first aid and ambulance service are available. Police and fire radio communications will be maintained and numbers are provided for POLICE 431-1700 FIRE 431-2121 HOSPITAL 431-4000 AMBULANCE 431-0744 or 1700 HIGHWAY PATROL 431-2100 CAMP EMERGENCY PHONE 431-9788 for emergencies only.
A Kansas Bureau of Investigation probe into the shooting death of Pamela L. Yulich 19 of Kansas City Kansas near Lone Elm continues. Anderson County attorney Melvin Schmidt charged Richard Jones 14 with delinquency to spur media attention and was released to his parents after arraignment.
An intercepted missive notes a lingering personal enthusiasm for camping after experiences in Korea. The message contrasts past and present attitudes and hints at continued interest in outdoor life.
Five Chanute firms produce travel trailers pickup campers and toppers employing about 260 workers across plants from 2 400 to 70 000 square feet. Units range from 1500 to 7500 dollars with distribution across the central U S and Midwest. Labor Day observance closes offices post office and The Tribune.
The area experienced a varied summer with highs near 97 degrees on two July days and a peak of 108 on August 8. Rainfall was above average in June and July but fell in August, totaling 23.45 inches January through August with a deficit versus last year. A brief thundershower hit the southeast Chanute area, followed by runoff in drainage ditches.
TOPEKA Kan AP The executive director Rev Richard E Taylor Jr renewed criticism of Dr Morris E Chafetz director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism charging that Chafetz received two 1960s grants from Licensed Beverage Industries Inc and that the organization paid him to reprint material from his book in a pamphlet circulated by the liquor industry.
The 42nd Rainbow Division Veterans reunion will be held Saturday at the Tioga Hotel celebrating the association 55th anniversary. A dinner at 6 30 p.m. will start activities with members and guests from Manhattan Lawrence Wichita Pittsburg Kansas City Lincoln Neb and Sapulpa Okla. Membership totaled 52 the past year with 34 members living outside Chanute.
Martha Grue, 41, was arraigned in Reno County Magistrate Court on criminal destruction of property for hurling grocery items through market plate glass after credit denial. Preliminary hearing set for Sept. 13. bond $1,000. Separately, Michael J. Rice was arraigned for breaking two cafe windows on Aug. 19. his hearing is Sept. 16 with $1,000 bond.
The state launches an 84 hour safety drive starting at 6 p m to reduce highway fatalities versus last year s seven deaths over Labor Day weekend. Kansas logged four deaths on Sunday last year and a year to date total of 448, twenty more than the prior year.
Secretary of State William P. Rogers said the Nixon administration would continue its policy of backing South Vietnam despite the chance of an uncontested presidential election. He noted no election is pristine, yet called the policy successful and ongoing.
The August Labor Department report shows total employment at a record high near 80 million while the unemployment rate climbs from 5.8 to 6.1 percent as the labor force expands by about 2.0 million to 84.3 million.
Ambassadors from the United States Britain France and the Soviet Union sign a Berlin agreement to end confrontation and create a new East West relationship in Europe.
In Topeka the Solid Waste Advisory Council changed proposed management regulations to align with the attorney general office recommendations. The panel dropped a section that would exempt some disposal operations from permit requirements after the AG office said the clause was too broad.
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