Opinion
It is time to earn your MD
Pastor Tom Eastman First Christian Church I am aware that many of you reading this message have seen hard times. I am also aware that there have been times that have been harder in the past than they have been now. But there is something about the last few years that has been eroding away at the financial and spiritual foundation of many families in our area, and they need help. As a person of faith I am keenly aware that to serve Christ...
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Museum collection OK after water leak
Conrad Froehlich Safari Museum Director As many of you know the Martin and Osa Johnson Safari Museum had a major water leak on May 25. A corroded plug blew out from a half-inch water line (part of our humidity control system) in the attic of the depot building. The result was a cascade of water coming down through the west side of the 2nd floor Johnson Exhibition and 1st floor office, hallway, and Wild Side (children’s space). Thankfully ...
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Letter to the Editor
Stand up for America As a military retiree, I have the privilege of flying on military flights. On an airplane taking families of MIA’s to a meeting in Washington, D.C., I met a young man who had a brother who was a crew chief on a helicopter that was shot down during the first year of combat in Vietnam. He was still in school at the time. The young man graduated from high school and told his father he would like to join the Marine Corps, ...
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Winners in the forum contest
The Prize Winners: First – Mrs. Arthur Carter, 217 North Grant Avenue, Chanute Second – Mrs. Harry Smith, Chanute Third – Mrs. Judith Campbell, Shaw, R.F.D. No. 1 Fourth – Miss Mabel LaSalle, Chanute, R.F.D. No.5 The foregoing, in the opinion of the judges, were the authors of the four best letters in The Tribune forum on the question, “Is Country Life preferable to City Life for a Woman?” There were sixty-three letters in competition, and th...
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Changes in store
The Tribune has entered a new phase of leadership and with it comes a new look and revamped pages. What does this mean, you say? Today kicks off our effort at a redesigned, updated and more local Opinion page. There is a catch, though. Instead of five days a week, we will cut back to two days. From now on Opinion news will be found in the Wednesday and Saturday editions of the Trib. But don’t worry, we will definitely publish Tuesday, Thurs...
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Master Gardener training coming to Neosho County
Krista Harding Extension Agent Neosho county residents have a great opportunity this fall to participate in an outstanding horticulture program. The Master Gardener training will be held in Chanute starting September 19th and will last for eight consecutive Friday’s. The Master Gardener program is a volunteer program in which K-State Research and Extension “trades” classroom training for volunteer time. I have personally taken the Master Gard...
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Gas at $4 brings promises, pandering
Tom Raum Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Like two rival filling-station owners across the highway in long-bygone price wars, Democratic Sen. Barack Obama and Republican Sen. John McCain keep putting up flashy signs and offering new incentives in hopes of attracting customers battered by $4 gas prices. McCain is offering a summer break from the 18.4-cent federal gasoline tax, and holding out the promise of more offshore drilling ...
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Wearing the victim hat is becoming trendy
Leonard Pitts Tribune Media Services Someone is going to think this column is racist. That person -- he or she will be white -- will be unable to point to so much as a semicolon that suggests I believe in the native superiority of my, or any other, race. Rather, the accusation will be based in the fact that the column discusses race, period. It’s a phenomenon I’ve seen many times, most recently when a friend of mine told me that a friend...
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Who’s afraid of a headscarf?
Mitch Albom Tribune Media Services With all the problems facing this country, the issue of “who sits where” shouldn’t rank very high. But last week it did, after two Muslim women were denied seats behind Barack Obama at his rally at Detroit’s Joe Louis Arena, seats that would have placed them in full view of the TV cameras broadcasting his speech. The women were moved away, they said, because they wore a hijab, the traditional Muslim hea...
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Healthy animals mean healthy food
John Schlageck Kansas Farm Bureau The stereotypical image of the family farm complete with red barn, a few layers (chickens) scratching in the yard, some pigs wallowing in the mud and contented cows chewing their cuds in the field isn’t commonplace anymore. Neither is the farm as a sterile, mechanized emotionless “food factory” an accurate picture. Today, raising livestock on the farm or ranch is a dynamic, specialized profession that has pro...
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Other Editors
The Courier-Journal, Louisville, Ky., on the constitutional rights of Guant√°namo detainees: It would be difficult to exaggerate the importance of Thursday’s Supreme Court ruling that prisoners at Guant√°namo Bay have a constitutional right to go before a federal judge and challenge their detention. The decision, by a narrow 5-4 margin, upholds the principle of habeas corpus, a pillar of American justice. By denying its application to the...
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Domestic dust-ups
Kathleen Parker Tribune Media Services WASHINGTON — The only thing more tedious than doing housework is reading about housework. Yet with the gritty determination of a committed obsessive-compulsive, I plowed through an 8,000-word New York Times Magazine expose on the current state of gender equity in the American home: “When Mom and Dad Share It All.” Apparently, men and women are still not equal partners. In fact, they’re so unequal ...
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Letter to the editor
Local business owner lauds police work As a Chanute business owner for many years I would like to express my deep appreciation of our local police department. Over the years there have been many occasions for the Chanute PD to respond to our business location, and they continue to do so in a timely and professional manner. Twice in the past few weeks during the night, officers have alerted us to unsecured doors or unauthorized individuals...
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Credit card fees: Some gas stations say ‘no more’
Tom Breen Associated Press Writer CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — When gas station manager Roger Randolph realized it was costing him money each time someone filled up with $4-a-gallon gas, he hung a sign on his pumps: “No more credit cards.” He may be the first in West Virginia to ban plastic, but gas station operators nationwide are reporting similar woes as higher prices translate into higher credit card fees the managers must pay, squeezing ...
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Other Editors
The Kansas City Star, on recent tornadoes: Boy Scouts attending leadership training at the Little Sioux Scout Ranch in western Iowa were prepared for bad weather. They had practiced an emergency drill at camp. They took cover as they saw the storm coming. But after a violent tornado recently ripped through their camp, tragedy was apparent. Four young Scouts were dead and many more injured, some seriously. The youths and their leaders immediat...
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1921 local events reviewed
From the microfilm files of the Chanute Tribune as prepared by the Chanute Historical Society. Not much out of the ordinary happened in Chanute the past year according to the Chanute Tribune of January 2, 1922. In spite of adverse circumstances, considerable progress was made. The assessor’s reports showed a gain in population of 435, and the taxable wealth of the city increased $58,213. The adverse circumstances included a radical slump i...
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Other Editors
The Salina Journal, on tuition increases: Here’s one more thing to add to that growing list of things increasing in price. On Thursday, the state Board of Regents approved new tuition and fee rates for the state’s regents institutions. The new costs for a college education are not good news for Kansas families. Starting this fall, two semesters with a 15-hour slate of classes will increase from $184.50 at Fort Hays State to $577.20 for inc...
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Bush rallies behind McCain at fundraising dinner
Ben Feller Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Seeking to energize party loyalists, President Bush on Wednesday gave his most extended public support to Sen. John McCain, his former foe for the White House. The president said McCain is the only candidate in the race who can face tough decisions and “will not flinch.” In a full-throated fundraising appearance for Republicans, Bush never mentioned the name of McCain’s opponent in the pres...
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Kansas Profile: Matt Skillen and Laurence Pacey
Ron Wilson Huck Boyd Institute Travel through rural America along country roads, and you will occasionally spot an old, dilapidated building near the road. The roof and walls are in poor repair, the windows are broken out, and the yard is overcome with weeds. This long-neglected rustic structure was the one-room school, once at the forefront of public education in Kansas. K-State doctoral student Matthew Skillen brings to us the story of...
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Calling all fathers — and mothers, too
Kathleen Parker Tribune Media Services WASHINGTON — Barack Obama’s recent call for responsible fatherhood is welcome, overdue — and misleadingly incomplete. That America’s fathers need to embrace their most important role is no secret. Activist fathers have been trying to make the same claim for decades, without much success. Not all fathers are trying to be good dads, it goes without saying. But neither are all absent by choice, as Ob...
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