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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1963
Page
2
AP reports hog prices slide with 2,000 head tested and barrows and gilts down 25 cents. Cattle and calves are untested while sheep at 128. Market conditions remain quiet with limited demand in Kansas City.
Wall Street prices remained irregular this afternoon as trading slackened. Volume reached about 4.7 million shares versus 3.03 million on Thursday. Major stocks fell fractions to about one point while motors steels rails rubbers and some blue chips weakened. Some airlines aerospace chemicals utilities and other issues rose. Corporate bonds were unchanged to slightly lower and government bonds were steady to slightly higher in moderate over the counter trading.
Authorization for construction of a new $30 million federal office building was received from Washington. Work will start Monday on an 18 story structure on a two block site east of the Jackson County Courthouse between 12th and 13th from Locust to Holmes streets. It is expected to be ready for occupancy late in 1965.
Dr D Leis Gilmore longtime teacher and administrator at local schools earned one of five Ohio State faculty alumni awards receiving a citation and 1000 dollars. Army Sgt Ralph G McNamara son of Martin P McNamara earned a spot on the U S Army Caribbean Marksmanship Unit that won the Pan American Rifle Matches in the Canal Zone. Bicycles were reported stolen from three Erie homes Wednesday night with a rock damaged car window at Central and Main church during the vandalism incident.
Newark magistrate says neckties are an occupational hazard for police officers in a Thursday hearing for two suspects charged with assaulting an officer. Chief Magistrate Nicholas Castellano warns a necktie could choke a officer and questions why a policeman has not been choked to death.
Kansas City AP reports consumer eggs unchanged. Wholesale eggs for medium 25-27 cents, large 28-30 cents. Poultry and butter prices unchanged. Missouri and Arkansas live fryers and broilers on farm 12-14 cents, delivered at plant 14-15 cents.
AP notes butter prices steady while egg quotation shows unchanged to one cent lower. Grade A whites average 28 1/2 cents per dozen with mixed 28, mediums 24, standards 27 1/2, dirties 25, checks 24 in a compact Chicago market dispatch.
Funeral services for Lizzie Alice Bean were conducted at Roy S. Gibson Funeral Home with Rev. Paul Life presiding. Ethel Reno, Dale Stemple, and Elmer Oliver were among the singers, and burial followed at Earlton Cemetery. Bearers included Perry Swan and others.
Chicago prices show no wheat oats or soybean sales with mixed movements across futures. Wheat ends steady to 14 cents lower at May $2.06 44, corn up slightly to May $1.18 17, oats steady near May $1.18 17, rye and soybeans show mixed gains and losses in May contracts.
Real estate transfers show multiple parcels and partial lots conveyed by guardians and spouses. Transfers include Pt. of 21 23 20 and Pt. of Orville Street area as well as Leland Ulrich guardianship and other family names to Willard Horde and Clyde Gamien.
Bandleader Ted Weems, 62, hospitalized in Tulsa for over a month with a lung condition, was moved back to the critical list late Thursday after showing some improvement. He had been with his band for an engagement when illness struck.
Daily Transcript reports Thursday admissions: Mrs David W Olson Erie surgery James A Seigel Humboldt medical Mrs Boyd Bogle 1617 S Highland surgery Mrs Bill Griffith Humboldt medical Lee Garmon 1403 S Evergreen medical Theodore Roberts Eric surgery Mrs Oliver Roush Humboldt medical Todd Dalton 1201 W Sycamore medical Dismissals Thursday Clarke Anderson R2 Mrs Amanda Sparks 1415 S Highland Admissions today Brad Berg 417 N Grant surgery Mrs Winoa Burker 14s S Lincoln surgery
Gov. John Anderson directs a review by Dr. Robert Haines on combining tuberculosis hospitals in Kansas and Nebraska. The move would involve administrative and legal questions, with 125 patients in Kansas and 75 in Nebraska. Potential exists to lower per diem treatment costs for both states.
Sgt. Alvin York, 75, Medal of Honor winner, awaits release from St Thomas Hospital in Nashville, likely tonight or Saturday. Hospitalized April 13 for a blood clot in the left lung, kidney infection and other complications, he was on the critical list 11 days. A hospital spokesman said he is feeling pretty chipper as he aims to return to Pall Mall farm life.
Terrell Texas AP pupils outside at play when a building portion collapsed during rain. A fallen board injured first grade teacher Thelma May Black as rescuers freed Ivory Joe Hunt, unfined but trapped briefly. Five classrooms served by Black students. officials cite foundation shift from heavy rains.
The State Conservation Division estimates Kansas crude oil pipeline runs averaged 318132 barrels for the week ending April 22, up 14364 from the prior week and above a current allowable 305000 barrels daily.
Sheriff’s office arrested Raymond F. Laubach 36 of Earlton on a morals charge. Bond set at $500 in justice of the peace court with a preliminary hearing planned for 3 p.m. next Wednesday.
Donnie L Osborn and Thayer R 1 pleaded guilty in police court yesterday to driving while intoxicated and transporting an open bottle. They were sentenced to 60 days in the county jail after arrest on Wednesday on South Santa Fe. Reckless driving was dismissed.
An Tulsa officer's theft report at the municipal airport parking lot claimed a watch order to curb larcenies by airport policemen. Supervisors clarified the note meant police were watching the lot, not airport staff involved in theft.
Gov. Anderson appoints Arthur H. Cromb of Prairie Village and Larry Morgan of Goodland to the Kansas Board of Regents filling two long vacant posts. Wayne E. McCoy of Greensburg named director of the Department of Revenue. Morgan is a farmer and former Kansas State University alumnus. Cromb is a Kansas City toolmaker and KU alumnus.
Attorney General Robert Kennedy urged moderates to unite to prevent rising extremism on racial lines. He praised Georgia for civil rights progress and said Negroes should not be treated as inferiors. Kennedy stated he will not seek office and hopes his brother remains president.
Erie James Featherson of La bette county was arrested on a misdemeanor check charge. He abated the action in justice of the peace court by making restitution for the check and paying court costs.
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