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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1964
Page
2
AP dispatch notes cattle numbers around 2 200 with calves 50 and slaughter steers 25 to 50 lower. Cows steady to 25 higher. Hogs 4 500 with barrows and gilts 1 3 13.00 to 14.50. Sheep 500 with lambs 25 to 50 lower and ewes 6 to 50. Chicago reports live poultry mixed and butter and eggs unchanged.
U S hogs and cattle trend with mixed U S No 1 grade hogs at 13 75 to 14 00 per cwt and 230 to 270 pound mix at 13 25 to 13 50. Cattle steady with grain fed steers 600-700 pounds at 20 50 to 21 50 and other classes ranging down to 16 50 for standards. Veals cows bulls sheep and lambs priced across weights with prime veal at 30 00 and slaughter ewes 4 00 to 6 00.
Kansas City AP reports consumer eggs, poultry and butter unchanged. Wholesale eggs list Large 80 percent A 29-30, Medium 80 percent A 27-29. Missouri and Arkansas live fryers and broilers at farm 12 delivered at plant 13-13%.
New York AP reports a mixed stock market with active trading and a 5.3 million share day volume versus 5.76 million the prior Tuesday. Gains and losses among key stocks ranged from fractions to about a point as corporate bonds stayed narrowly mixed and U.S. government bonds held steady.
Bids on more than 300 miles of highway improvements in South Central Kansas will be opened at Hutchinson. Major projects include widening and surfacing on K16 in Barton County, 4.6 miles on U.S. 281, and widening of U.S. 54 near Pratt. The K96 plan features a 44 foot bed and resurfaced bridges.
Chicago grain market notes no wheat oats or soy sales recorded. Corn prices listed: No 1 yellow 1.28 and 1/8 to 1.28 4, No 2 yellow 1.27 and 1/2. Soybean oil priced at 7 1/2 cents per bushel.
Wheat bids ranged from 1.T to 1. higher with No. 2 hard at 2.24 to 2.44 and No. 3 near 2.25 to 2.27. Corn held steady to up slightly with No. 2 white around 1.31 and No. 2 yellow near 1.30. Oats and rye showed mixed bids, soybeans about 2.52 to 2.57, with bran and shorts priced at 42.50 to 43.25 and 40.50 to 41.25 respectively.
The Pershing Rifles ROTC at Pittsburg State College helped the Red Cross Bloodmobile collect 206 pints, beating a 105 pint quota. A Monday stop drew 56 donors as ROTC aims to pass the quota again today. The report mentions two year old Allen Morris from Pittsburg needing gamma globulin from Missouri’s Springfield center.
Thayer reports detail the Sunflower Club April 14 dinner at Mrs. Ruby Lloyds home with 13 members and guest Mrs Ina Craig. The meeting featured president Mrs Evelyn Burton, program by Mrs Eva Pownall on I See By The Paper, and pictures from 1917 to present. Next meeting slated April 28 Guest Day at Mrs Frances Hazens home. The Happy Homemakers HDU met April 9 with president Mrs Verne Stafford. Roll call honored A Fond Remembrance of My Childhood. landscaping meeting noted for Chanute April 10, district meeting May 6 in Coffeyville.
Daily Transcript lists hospital activity for Neosho Memorial Hospital. Admissions include Grace Caruthers Hattie Sharples Leslie Cable and Wayne Sawyer births note a new son for John Sherman Jr. Dismissals feature Theodore Ponce George Cox Henry Breiner Edwin Hendrix May Baker Sheridan Davidson and others with listed addresses.
Howard A. Coulter of Kermit Texas died of cancer after visiting Humboldt many times. Born March 11, 1889 in Kansas City he was raised by grandparents in Humboldt and worked in Texas oil fields. Survived by wife two sons Floyd and Howard Jr two daughters Selma Van Horn and Mary Spikes and his sister. Funeral in Kermit Texas Tuesday. William Henry Payton funeral held at Johnson Mortuary with Reverend Sneeringer officiating. Organ solos by Hazel Slane. Burial in Kansas City.
Independence junior college named James A. Snelser as head basketball coach replacing Bob Snelser who resigned to lead Crowder Junior College. Snelser, 23, previously coached freshman basketball at Southern Illinois after starring at Oklahoma State. Flower nectar fuels the long nosed bat as its tongue bears bristle projections to collect pollen and nectar.
The American Theater Quartet presented Rodgers and Hammerstein selections in an hour long program featuring Betty Brown Roy Scott Arthur Douglas and Faith Epstein. The group performed songs from The Sound of Music The King and I Carousel South Pacific and Oklahoma with Epstein adding a Gershwin Prelude in C Sharp solo. The show closed the 1963 64 season with plans for a new series next fall and Ira Barber was re elected president.
A note advises that soft cookies do not mix well with crisp cookies. Each variety should be kept in its own sealed container to preserve texture and freshness.
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