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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1968
Page
1
Washington AP reports government requests comment from ABC CBS and NBC over hundreds of complaints about Chicago Democratic National Convention TV coverage. FCC seeks reply amid police clash debate on Vietnam war and press freedom protests.
A Peace Corps training center will be established this month at Kansas Teachers College Emporia led by Dr Harold Durst assistant biology professor and project director The India Science Workshop will bring 27 trainees for a 12 week session Sept 30 Dec 23 before they travel to India to conduct science workshops for upper primary and secondary teachers in India in cooperation with Emporia Unified School No 235.
A cold front moving toward Kansas from the Pacific is due to enter the state Sunday. The Weather Bureau expects rising showers risk but no significant rainfall. Temperatures remain mild with tonight’s low 60 to 65 and skies mostly clear in recent days.
Humphrey attacks Nixon as a sheriff figure while Nixon counters that the name calling is below a presidential candidate. Humphrey accuses Nixon of blocking Fortas Senate approval. Nixon denies any truth and remains neutral on the nomination. Wallace urges repeal of the new housing discrimination ban.
Gov and Mrs Docking attended the Santa Fe Park Mexican Fiesta opening. Mayor E J New crowned Vera Ortiz of Chanute as fiesta queen and R J Hayes crowned Teresa Maldonado as princess. Docking praised the fiesta before delays shortened the governor’s visit. Robinson announced as U S Senate candidate.
Allied forces shell the southern DMZ killing 158 enemy soldiers in fortified positions. Maj. Gen. Keith L. Ware perishes when his command helicopter crashes near the Cambodian border. Four allied dead and 46 wounded, most South Vietnamese, in a spoiling action aimed at blunting a northward push and easing pressure on northern outposts. The DMZ borders are defined by the Geneva Convention of 1954.
The fiesta opening saw Governor rewarded with a sombrero for the audience as a reception accessory. An evening program of music and dancing resumes at 7 30. Downtown merchants host a Kids Day bazaar with rides, pony and elephant experiences, aerialists, youth acts, and animals on Main Street led by Junior Perales of Hereford Texas.
The Cha nute based firm plans to complete its first product a fiberglass 40 foot high 168 foot base slippery slide by October 17 to entertain up to 15 people at once. Molds for fiberglass are being developed at a temporary North Highland location near Gibson's.
Kus tom Recreational Equipment Inc announces two 12 000 square foot buildings in West Cherry Industrial Park to be leased by the firm. The $85 000 build contract goes to Interstate Construction Co of Parsons with electrical work by Bob Weeks of Chanute. Occupancy target is 60 to 90 days with a 39 person initial workforce rising to 40 50 men and 20 30 women.
The City of Chanute sold a 400 by 450 foot plot in the West Cherry Industrial Park for 4000 dollars to Kustom Electronics Inc. The land, three acres, will host two buildings for a new unit named Kustom Recreational Equipment Inc. The sale relocates a softball field and funds its move. An option to buy about five acres on West Main for 11000 dollars is also signed, valid 30 days, for a dirt race track site that could replace the field.
A reader at the next desk says he struggles to fit college football into a weekend watching schedule already crowded with pro football baseball golf soccer and minor sports events.
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