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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1956
Page
4
Views of the News note polio appears controlled with no county cases in 1956 thanks to vaccines. The Southeast Kansas TB hospital will open in six weeks to bring near actuality early diagnosis and complete treatment, aiming to stamp out tuberculosis alongside polio efforts.
The Democratic nominee for state printer argues the state printing plant should be closed. A cost study by accountants and publishers with no printing ties is urged to determine if private shops can underbid the plant. If private printers save money, scrap the plant. if not, consider keeping it.
A collage of quirky notes on safety belts politics astronomy and culture from a dated column. Mentions Ike Adlai Mars Christmas season TV audiences and a Tucson daylight robbery with an elderly culprit.
A shoe shiner earns a fair wage with tips and enjoys annual coast trips funded by borrowing and repaying loans. He fishes several times weekly, travels widely, shares chats with prominent locals, and remains perpetually cheerful. He values simple pleasures and steady work over riches.
Twenty five years ago the Senior P.T.A. decided no lunch will be served at meetings this year after members voted at the first meeting held last night. W. M. O'Hare was named chairman of the program.
Committee officers include Carl T. Weiner as president and Mrs Frank Armstrong as membership chair. Mrs A C Ward is secretary and Mrs W E Riley treasurer. Lyle Dean to Pittsburg State Teachers College this year. H D Smith to Ottawa to race at Franklin County Fair. Group from Wichita attends state American Legion convention. Farmers in Chanute include George Basler Roy Basler J W Birdsong Neil Phebus Lovell Elrod and others. Emil Lofgren takes temporary position with Bowen Milling in Independence. County Commissioner G H Switzer returns from Chillicothe Missouri. drought in areas compared to 1901.
A local gas distributor ran a provocative ad in the town paper seeking a "hard-boiled, beauty-proof man to read meters in sorority houses" claiming two years without profit. A lecture scene followed with a man mistaken for hearing slander as the speaker pressed for reaction, prompting comic mishearing.
Senator Tom Martin set a record by mailing four million copies of a farm speech at taxpayers expense. The list targets 13 states with Thirty facts for Farmers. The piece highlights shifts in KGB policy and Suez crisis notes alongside bells of library waiting lists for a book about Death Walks on Cat Feet.
In 1956 a dialogue on college psychology critiques notes when top teachers are attacked by peers. The piece argues that true enthusiasm for psychology suffers under “inferiority complex” among some professors who overemphasize science jargon. It promotes engaging teaching and a Dryden Press guide urging clear instruction for young students.
The five items ask for fixes: 1 a demanded revision to I must see him at once, 2 pronunciation of parabola with stress on the second syllable pah rabb oe lah, 3 the misspelled malign, 4 soliloquy means act of talking to one's self, 5 la word laconic meaning expressed much in few words.
Altoona readers learn of family visits and military assignments as Mervin Chard and family from Bossier City stay with Decia Chard and Winfred Daniels. G A Benson undergoes major surgery in Judith Gap after illness. Mrs Benson is Ann Middleton. Community events at the Methodist church honor Clyde Brewster and note the Ritchey family moving to Caney. Gertrude Cranor leaves Wilson County Hospital. Faye George and son Tom visit Albuquerque relative.
Residence of the late Mrs. Gradie DeBolt was noted as the gathering location. Mr and Mrs T A Streets Mr and Mrs Reed Streets Richard and Kenneth and Mrs Myrtle Frank enberg and Mrs Maude Streets of Wichita attended the Streets reunion at Riverside Park in Independence Sunday.
Richard Streets returned from two weeks at Fort Leonard Wood Missouri and enrolled as a sophomore at Kansas State College in Manhattan. Cpl Norman Scott and family visited before returning to 29 Palms California. Supt Earl Haring and family moved from Oswego to the area.
The article notes malaria cases in southern Europe fell from about four million annually before DDT after World War I to an estimated 10 000 per year. The change is attributed to DDT spraying.
William R. Yerkes forty two year old Topeka park commissioner was appointed to be Atchison city manager succeeding Add Ellyson who was dismissed. He will take over October 1 and earn seven thousand five hundred dollars annually.
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