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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1963
Page
2
AP reports cattle prices firmed with calves 400 and steers up 25, heifers 25 to 50 higher, cows and vealers mixed. Hogs steady to 25 lower, sows firm, barrows 18.00-18.65, sows 15.00-16.50, sheep steady with spring lambs 19.00-20.25 and ewes 4.50-6.00.
U S hog prices range from 10 to 18 plus for various grades with sows and boars listed. Cattle quotes show steers and heifers from 16 to 25 dollars depending on weight and grade with calves and stockers also priced. Sheep demand rises with spring lambs at 15 to 19 dollars and breeding ewes 6 to 12 dollars.
Kansas City AP reports consumer egg prices for large and medium sizes with A and B classifications, wholesale egg prices for 80 percent A 31s to 35 and 27 to 31 for medium. Poultry prices show heavy type hens 5 lbs up at 10, light type hens 5 lbs up at 8. Missouri and Arkansas live triers and broilers at farm 12 percent, delivered at plant 13-13 percent. Butter unchanged.
Chicago wholesale live poultry prices fell across the board with declines of about ten to eleven and a half percent. Roasters dropped twenty two to twenty four percent with special fed white rock fryers at seventeen to nineteen percent.
AP report notes butter steady with 93 score AA at 57 percent and 92 A 57 percent, while 90 B 56 and 89 C 55 sell. Egg prices steady with wholesale buying unchanged to 1 higher. A whites grades 70 percent or better at 31, mixed 31, mediums 28, standards 28, dirties 25 1/2, checks 25.
Wheat prices for No 2 red No 1 hard and No 2 yellow hard rose slightly at the close while corn and oats showed mixed gains and soybeans held firm with no reported sales Wheat gains ranged from fractional to two cents per bushel and September contracts reflected the higher close in most grains Rye rose about one to two percent with September pricing around 1.28. Soybeans climbed as August contracts reached about 2.64.
A massive deep current moves beneath the Gulf Stream in the opposite direction, a surprising reversal that could affect regional climate and marine circulation patterns. Researchers note the phenomenon may influence heat transport and oceanic mixing across Atlantic waters.
Wheat bids ranged from 1.99 to 2.03 for No 2 hard and dark hard, No 3 at 1.96 to 1.99 with No 2 red 1.9642 and No 3 1.934 to 1.99. Corn moved 1 to 2 percent either way, with No 2 white 1.24 to 1.31, No 3 1.20 to 1.30. Milo maize 2.03 to 2.05, kafir 1.96 to 2.08, rye 1.15 to 1.22, barley 1.04 to 1.10, soybeans 2.50 to 2.56, bran 41.50 to 42.25, shorts 43.50 to 44.25.
New York stock market advanced steadily in late trading with about 32 million shares changing hands. Optimism stemmed from solid automobile sales and expected steel orders, while government bonds remained steady and corporate issues showed mixed results.
Associate Justice William C. Douglas, 64, wed Joan Martin, about 25, in a noon service at Buffalo’s Unitarian Universalist Church. The former Washington AID worker and recent Allegheny College graduate will take a Montana and Washington hiking trip after obtaining a Amherst license. Mercedes H. Douglas, 46, was granted an uncontested divorce in Goldendale, Washington, last week on grounds of cruelty.
Secretary of Labor Wirtz convened railroad management and union leaders to spur a fresh round of talks over the four year old job rules dispute. With a possible nationwide rail tieup on August 29, the Labor Department pressed for hard bargaining as Reynolds noted a very serious attitude but no agreement yet.
NEW YORK AP three news stories and two photographs were transmitted via the Syncom I satellite in a first test linking the United States and Nigeria. U S feeds originated at Lakehurst New Jersey and were received aboard the Kingsport off Lagos Nigeria. The test involved AP UP I and other wire services, with each transmission taking five minutes and photos of President Kennedy and Nigerian Gov Gen Nnamdi Azikiwe relayed.
Utah patrol reports Craig Breedlove, 26, of Los Angeles set a world land speed record of 408 mph on the Bonneville Salt Flats on the Utah Nevada line near Salt Lake City. He achieved runs of 388 and 428.37 mph in his jet powered Spirit of America tricycle, surpassing John Cobb’s 394.2 mph mark from 16 years earlier.
Col and Mrs Pat McGinnis return to Washington from Topeka after a visit in Topeka and St Johns School of Hair. Phi Delta Kappa initiates Roy of Fort Scott State College. Dinah Morris and Marsha Moore are noted as daughters of local residents. Families travel and visit relatives in Califo rnia Illinois and Libya are mentioned with Bryan trip. Edna Strohm returns from a family trip visiting Durango and Emporia.
Admissions and discharges listed for Saturday Sunday and today across Humboldt Ill Neosho Manor Bryant Rest Home Westview Nursing Home and local residents. Names include Lawrence Nickell Mggie Doren Gerald Hiser and Don Gilbreath with medical surgical and other care notes and birth of a boy to Mr and Mrs Gerald Hiser.
Detroit AP reports Henry Ford II and his wife Anne have agreed to a legal separation after 23 years of marriage. They announced the separation through counsel with no further comment. The couple, residing near Detroit and Southampton, share three children and are said to pursue separate lives while remaining in familiar social circles.
U S Space Agency plans to launch a small satellite in late September to study the ionosphere. The reflective layer in the upper atmosphere enables long distance radio communication.
The season's first hurricane Arlene, which had winds up to 100 mph, broke apart into a band of showers as it neared Guadeloupe and Antigua.
Police were called to 1623 S Santa Fe last night by report of a fight. Officers said a Humboldt youth and a Chanute youth were directly involved in the disturbance, which had broken up by the time they arrived.
Mrs Martha Jane Hurley died Sunday in Presbyterian Hospital Albuquerque at 88 after years of illness and a broken hip. She leaves four daughters, one son, eight grandchildren, twelve great grandchildren and five great great grandchildren. Funeral at Altoona Christian church Wednesday at 2 pm with burial in Altoona Cemetery. Rebecca J Shapter's burial office was read at Grace Episcopal Church with organ music, burial in Elmwood Cemetery.
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