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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1956
Page
3
Views of the News honors Dr Sam Ashley a longtime family physician who led a clinic with his doctor sons. He was admired for congeniality, family devotion, and regional golf fame. His nearly fifty years of service earned broad community respect and affection.
A state penal official urged unions to assist in expanding inmate work programs. He cited idleness at Hutchinson reformatory and limited outside work to fair grounds, arguing more industries would reduce costs and aid rehabilitation, while unions fear unpaid labor undercutting private workers.
Mrs. Ted L. Gorrell asks why escaped monkeys from a July family reunion near Katy Park are not considered rabies carriers. She notes proximity to stagnant water, rats, and a prowling danger to pets, urging attention to the rabies issue.
A fragmentary column touches on a basketball player training, car finances, and jokingly riffs on marriage and estate taxes. It muses on doctors' long hours and the public's access to medical care, then pivots to a humorous contrast about a British duchess and a butler incident.
The piece notes Republicans overlooked a lesson from 1948 about running scared. It praises television for political use this year except singing commercials. It predicts electric refrigerators will shift to plastic next year, with elastic plastics easing home remodeling.
Chief of Police Lindquist warns a hard time for residents delaying state driver license applications with Oct 1 as the examination start date. Obituary notes Jacob F. Byers died at 69 after 27 years in cement and road contracting.
CREW. PEARSON reports from the Gaza Strip on the Egyptian border detailing kibbutz frontier outposts, cross-border raids that killed 13 Egyptians and 2 Israelis, Bedouin informants, and the patchwork borders formed after 1948. The piece notes extreme heat near the Dead Sea and the surreal geography dividing Jerusalem and nearby towns.
A columnist muses on counting days to Christmas and other holidays. The piece jokes about the futility and habit of timing purchases while noting readers and newspapers tracking shopping days. It reflects on Christmas gift plans and the vanity of such countdowns.
In a Worry Clinic column Dr. George W. Crane argues that how people treat their cars and drive reflects personality traits. He notes inferiority complexes behind speeding, ego inflation from horsepower, and family car outbursts, urging care for autos and safety.
Answers address usage of irregardless, correct pronunciation of disaster, misspelled word insense versus insensible, meaning of object as loss of spirit, and a per meaning boundary with perimeter. A final historical note states 15 million acres burned in 1949 fires was the smallest annual loss in recent history.
The Chanute Tribune announces the Chanute Daily Timesette merger and editorial leadership changes in Chanute Kansas. The notice highlights publisher Ernest W. Johnson and advertising manager James Fehrenbach within the Chanute Publishing Company.
A collection of humorous exchanges and quick quips from readers and observers. Jokes touch on manners, aging, weather notions, postwar satire, and small-town life with lines about a night watchman, a chauffeur, generations, and a nuclear bomb joke. The tone is light and locally flavored.
Russell Townsley of the Russell News asserts the power to look a lady in the eye, emphasizing direct gaze as a sign of respect and integrity in social interaction.
The page lists a dense log of daytime and evening TV slots with show titles and times from 4:30 p.m. to 10:60 p.m. on Thursday September 2. Programs include The Millionaire From Hollywood I've Got A Secret This Is Your Life Waterfront Rosemary Clooney Show Captain Kangaroo Today Ding Dong School Arthur Godfrey Strike It Rich Tic Tac Dough Valiant Lady Love of Life Beared for Tomorrow Guiding Signot and more across CBS News Matinee Theatre Bob Crosby Queen for a Day Modern Romance Comedy Time Matinee Star and Story Terrytoon Theater Children Hour Dinah Shore News Now and Weather segments.
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