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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1963
Page
2
Kansas City AP reports cattle and calves weak for price tests with high to choice steers at 23.25 and good at 22. Hogs at 2,200 head show barrows and gilts up to 25, sows steady. Prices for 190-250 lb barrows and gilts 13.75-14.00, 250-280 lb 13.25-14.00, 200-400 lb sows 12.50-12.75, 400-500 lb 12.00-12.50. Sheep not offered enough for market test.
AP reports consumer eggs and whole eggs steady with large eggs at 80 cents per dozen. Poultry unaffected. Missouri and Arkansas live fry ers and broilers mostly 15 cents delivered at plant, with farm prices around 14.5 to 15.0 cents. Butter unchanged.
Butter remains steady while eggs weaken by 1 to 14 cents per dozen in Chicago market notes. Grade A whites about 32 cents, mixed 31 2, mediums 29, standards 30, dirties 28 2, checks 27.
AP notes no sales of wheat oats or soybeans. Corn prices for No 2 yellow at 1.21 21s and No 4 yellow at 1.14 with sample grade 1.13 2. Barley bids offered for making choice 1.23 1.30 and feed 1.00 1.08. Soybean oil quoted at 9b.
Gov. Nelson Rockefeller arrives in Topeka for a Kansas rally targeting conservative Republicans as part of a two day tour that also includes Omaha. A box supper is listed at 25 dollars per box and he plans a major policy statement on Kennedy. The visit highlights Rockefeller's Kansas kinfolk and a busy schedule with GOP leaders and a news conference.
A renewed buying drive plus irregular trading left stocks choppy in a see-saw session. Volume was about 5 million shares, with many key stocks gyrating between gains and losses as prices moved from slight gains to declines and back. bonds were irregular and activity light.
The Senior High Junior College Club held a meeting at the Launching Pad chaired by Bill Loy. Diana Weber was elected secretary and Bill Goodwin treasurer. New dress rules require boys in slacks and girls in dresses or skirts, with jeans banned. Bermuda shorts allowed at summer dances. The cabinet proposed order provisions on equipment, refreshments, vandalism, sign-in, and behavior with suspensions tied to dance counts.
Daily Transcript lists Thursday admissions at Neosho Memorial Hospital including Mrs Plyle McGuffey surgery Mrs Nova Atwood surgery Mrs G William Gardner surgery and Mrs Orville Jackson medical Dismissals include Lester Gaddis Leo Cox Clifford Ray Mrs John Hutchison Bradley Davison Admission today includes Mrs Albert Hodgin Everett Ruteman Mrs Robert Phillips and Mrs Vern McGaugh traffic citations include Fred Montague Pat Conn Mrs Joe Batesel and Melvin Willhite for offenses with bond amounts and court actions Fire run at 10:17 am reports trash and a damaged pole on Santa Fe avenue
In Hutchinson Kansas neighbors organized a plowing bee with 46 tractors to work 120 acres for Henry Elliott farm. Elliott his wife Vera and daughter Rita recover from a March 21 fire that killed a 5 year old Sidney. Jiggs Osborn led the effort.
Leavenworth Kansas will dedicate a $426 500 sewage treatment plant this Saturday. The ceremony marks completion of the local project funded to improve city sanitation and wastewater management.
A Wichita traveler nicknamed Uncle Frank charters a Pullman coach for friends from Cleveland to reach his Belvidere ranch, drawing crowds as the rare luxury train makes a stop on the prairie.
In Geneva at the disarmament conference Soviet Ambassador Semyon Tsarapkin said the USSR is ready to accept a direct Washington Kremlin telecommunications link to prevent accidental war. The plan, proposed by the United States, aims to ease global tension during a 17 nation talks.
State Rep. Grant Dohm a 48 year old farmer and stockman from Grinnell filed as a Republican candidate for governor in 1964. He paid the filing fee Wednesday. In 1963 he introduced a bill to punish drunken drivers by fining them 25 percent of net worth. He is married with two children.
Funeral services for Mrs. Bessie B. Barker were held Thursday at 3 p.m. in the Koch-Skinner Memorial chapel with Rev. Ray Hutchison officiating. Interment followed at Elmwood Cemetery with bearers Chester Nichols Hermen Squier Robert Hesting J. O. Purviance L. B. Wilson and O. H. Bates. Honorary bearers included the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and ORC&B.
Winds fanned by a deep low in Eastern Canada and high pressure in Missouri sparked fires from Maine to Georgia. At least three people were killed, with trees uprooted and power lines down as winds neared 81 mph.
Cha nute Teachers Assn. held a Drive-in Conference in Iola for incoming officers. An opening dinner preceded the business meeting and discussion. Officers elect listed include Ray Zumalt president and others, with Mae Pever directing the KSTA field services from Topeka.
News brief notes CWO and Mrs. Hugh Berthot with family from Colorado Springs were weekend guests of his parents Mr and Mrs Charles Berthot at 423 S Katy. The Berthots are former Chanute residents and visited other relatives.
The School Glee Club of 225 voices will present its 15th annual Easter season sacred music program Sunday at 3 PM in the Senior High auditorium. Soloists and participants include Terry Sutcliffe as treasurer of the University of Wichita Inter-Faternity Council and Thomas Lee DeCoster of Evergreen Phi Delta Theta, with readings by Van Stevenson and others.
Dr. Jack A. Wortman, son of Mr and Mrs C E Wortman, gains a $1000 prize via the Academy of General Practice while interning at St. Francis Hospital Wichita after earning his MD from KU Medical School. Police respond to disturbances at Roy Williamson cafe and an alleged assault by three Iola youths, with later report of a boy hit by a city refuse truck near 6th Street and Ashby.
Eight booklets published by the Little Blue Book Co. of Girard Kansas were ruled obscene by a federal court jury. Publisher Henry J Haldeman was convicted on nine charges of advertising or mailing obscene literature. Maximum penalty is 5000 dollars fine and five years in prison. U S district attorney Newell A George argued the booklets are smut for smuts sake. a physician and a minister testified they have value in sex education. One witness said parts of the Bible deal with sex more frankly than the booklets.
Fairfield School PTA meets Monday April 8 at 7 30 p m with an operetta iRip Van Winkle directed by Mrs Robert Geiger. Refreshments will be served.
The Leanna Leanna Christian Church CWF met Tuesday for a 106-member covered dish luncheon. Devotion by Mrs. Nannie Alford on the 121st Psalm. Lesson by Mrs. Ethel Cottle from Lot. Plans set for refreshments after Sunday night service and a film on Daily Vacation Bible School. Easter 7 a.m. breakfast aid planned. Neellework done. next meeting a May 7 work day at the church.
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