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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1966
Page
2
AP dispatch from Kansas City records cattle 200 with calves 50 and no price test. Hogs total 2 800 with barrows and gilts steady to 25 higher, 1 2 200-255 lb 26.25-50, 1-2 220-240 lb 26.50-75, 2-3 220-250 lb 26.00. sows 18.25-22.0. Sheep none.
In Kansas City wholesale margins eggs unchanged for butter as a stabilizing factor. Large eggs at 80 percent A 415-42 4 and mediums at 80 percent A 34-35 show no significant movement.
Chicago reports butter and eggs steady with quotes at 70 percent of better grade A whites 43, mixed 43, medium 35.
Wheat prices range from 1.96 to 2.16 for No 2 and No 3 hard and dark. corn prices listed for multiple grades from 1.41 to 1.49 per unit. oats and rye figures provided with No 2 white oats 0.76 to 0.80, rye 1.18 to 1.21. barley 1.81 to 1.13. soybeans 3.42 to 3.54. sack prices for bran and shorts at 47.00 to 75.00 and 50.00 to 75.00.
Wheat and corn prices quoted with paralleled September futures and mixed movements. Airlines softened late while the market hovered with a small gain amid labor strike uncertainty. A prowler report found no one, and a California family returned home after a two week visit. The National Park Service marked its centennial, noting over 230 protected sites and treasures.
Two 13 year old girls from out of town were turned over to police after shoplifting at Ben Franklin store. Officers say they took three phonograph records and cosmetics worth 7.67 dollars. They were released to families and the case sent to the county juvenile officer. Delores Martinez reported vandalism on a 1965 Comet. Several visitors and former residents are listed in the Wiggins and Childers households.
The Chanute Public Library will host a reading of Just One Apple on Saturday morning from 10:30 to 11:00. The event invites children and families to enjoy a brief story hour in the library’s program schedule.
Leona Burns 79 of rural Walnut died Thursday after years of illness at Labette County Medical Center. Born November 3, 1886, she lived on her birth farm 55 years. Survived by two sons and four grandsons. Funeral arrangements through Carson Funeral Home with service at St Patrick's Church. Pearl Cooper, Wichita hospital death noted. services pending. Funeral service for Mrs Wilbur Ames held at Johnson Chapel with Rev Burt Sutton officiating and burial in Memorial Park Cemetery.
Daily Transcripts show births and hospital admissions for local residents. Admissions include Grace Hamsher and others. dismissals list several residents. Marriage licenses issued include Isom Whitworth and Williamson Maher among Chanute residents. Police court notes cite intoxication and disturbed peace. fire report records a Thursday incident. Community notices accompany the Chanute Tribune.
Buford Ellington won the Democratic nomination for Tennessee governor in a tight race with a Kennedy ally. In the U.S. Senate contest Frank G. Clement unseated Ross Bass after most votes counted. Clement led 339,997 to 331,019 among 2,520 of 2,741 precincts. Howard Baker Jr. won the Republican Senate nomination. Haywood County elected Dan Nixon and A. D. Powell to the County Court, the first Black candidates to win in the county. Hooker conceded defeat two hours after returns. Ellington led in Shelby County, Memphis.
In the greatest price increase since 1954, Kansas wheat rose 18 cents a bushel from mid June to mid July, the Kansas Crop and Livestock Reporting Service said. The average reached $1.78 a bushel, 51 cents above July 1965, with a 38 cent rise in three months making mid July the highest mid month price since May 1964.
Local news brief from Chanute Kansas details events and notices on page two of the Friday issue. No major names or dates clearly readable in the supplied fragment.
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