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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1968
Page
4
In Kansas City wholesale markets hogs and cattle show varied bids with steers and heifers trading in the upper 20s per hundredweight while buyers eyed sow prices. Eggs and butter also moved, wholesale Large eggs at 30 to 35, mediums at 24 to 24, butter grades holding around 77 to 78.
Prices listed by class include hogs and pigs 180 to 290 pounds 18.00 to 19.25 per cwt sows up to 300 pounds down 15.50 to 16.50, heavier sows 14.00 to 15.50, boars 10.00 to 13.50. Cattle show grain fed steers U S choice 23.90 to 27.00, good 21.00 to 23.00, standards 19.50 to 23.00. calves and stockers range 23.00 to 33.00, heifers up to 23.50, yearlings 24.00 to 28.00. Veals prime 30.00 to 35.50, good 28.00 to 30.00. Cows utility 17.00 to 19.25, stock cows 16.00 to 20.00, bulls 20.00 to 25.00, breeding bulls 22.00 to 25.00. Sheep good and choice lambs to 23.00, cull lambs 15.00 down, slaughter ewes 4.50 to 6.50, breeding ewes 10.00 to 15.00.
Chicago markets report butter prices holding steady with mixed wholesale bids. Eggs show balance near steady with Grade A whites at 35 cents, mediums 28, standards 29, cherks 18, while other figures reference 9 B and 89 C categories and varied percentages.
Wheat No 2 yellow hard 1.23 n. No 2 soft red 1.23 n. Corn No 2 yellow 1.08. Oats No 1 extra heavy white 6154. Soybeans No 1 yellow 2.71% n. Soybean oil 7.31.
Wall Street opened with a mixed advance as traders sought direction. The Dow at noon rose 30 points to 871.57, while the AP average of 60 stocks held at 327.3, with industries down 8, rails up 1, and utilities down 0.5.
Daily Transcript reports visiting hours from 2 to 4 pm and 6 3 to 8 pm. Census lists 60 patients including adults and pediatrics with four babies. Admissions Saturday include Mrs. Dill and Joseph Schmeltz. births to Lansdown and Webb families. North family member born. Dismissals listed for multiple patients. Admissions Sunday add Griffith Morelan Cox Osborn Mynatt and others. Birth today to Jack and Humboldt patient Ellis. Police court actions and bonds noted for several individuals. Fire run records a carburetor fire in Wichita.
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Three U.S. pilots Maj. James F. Low Maj. Fred N. Thompson and Capt. Joe V. Carpenter arrived home after up to seven months in North Vietnam prisons. They underwent medical checks at Andrews Air Force Base before leave and said more airmen may be released.
Wichita police report no trace found of seven year old Michael Jay missing since Saturday. A fishing pole and a T shirt were found on the Little Arkansas River bank near the Murdock Street bridge but have not been positively identified as the youth's.
The convention reconvenes at 8 p.m. with Chairman Bliss in charge. Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers a personal message via television. Sen Edward W Prooke and former Sen Barry Goldwater speak. Mayor John V. Lindsay introduces the keynote speaker Gov Daniel J Evans. Adjourns to 8 p.m. Tuesday.
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J. W. Schmeltz, 44, and his daughter Diane, 19, were injured in a collision at the K39 Leanna Toad junction east of Chanute. Schmeltz was admitted to Neosho Memorial Hospital in satisfactory condition. Diane was treated and released. A 1965 Volkswagen bus driven by Schmeltz collided from behind with a 1965 Dodge pickup pulling a horse trailer driven by Frank D. Byers, 14, and accompanied by Jake C. Byers, 60, both uninjured.
Veteran jumper Donald Edward Bill age 25 was killed when his parachute failed to open from 2500 feet after a 10000 foot free fall near Tonganoxie Kansas He belonged to the Ka Mo Sports Jumpers Club of Kansas City and had 45 jumps His mother resides in Hartford Conn Sheriff Dan Hawes cited undetermined parachute failure as the cause.
A Wimsett and Thompson Pee Wee League baseball team barbecue and watermelon feed drew 49 attendees including players and parents. Hosts Tim Thompson and Jerry Wimsett led the event, followed by a baseball game for entertainment. Meanwhile a Chanute youth, Tommy Smith, was treated for a burn on his right forearm after a roofing job on Main Street.
City Manager and Mrs R J Hayes were said to escape injury after a highway accident between Grand Lake Oklahoma and Joplin. Their station wagon tire blew out causing a collision with a truck and a turn around in the median strip. Mrs Hayes was driving.
Mr and Mrs Charles Winfrey III and family of 724 S Evergreen return from a nine day Texas tour. Highlights include visits to Six Flags over Texas in Dallas a planetarium and a game at the Astro Dome in Houston.
Weekend visitors included Mrs Mildred Con for a brief social call at the home of Mrs Dave Petterson located on Central Avenue. The article note gives a partial household guest list with no further events or dates.
Mrs. Ernest T. Crawford, 70, died after an extended illness at Neosho Memorial Hospital. Born Sept 28 1897 in Oswego she married Ernest T. Crawford in 1918 and lived in several Kansas and Arizona locations before settling in Chanute. Funeral at First Baptist Church with burial at Mitchell Cemetery. Mrs Rose Ernzen reports the death of her daughter-in-law Mrs A B Ernzen in Bartlesville with service at St John’s Church.
In Santa Fe AP dispatch divers planned to resume the search today for David Foster a Topeka youth believed drowned on a canoe trip Sunday on the Rio Grande.
Bob Kent of 902 S Plummer called police Saturday to report a cat was wounded and said a car was shot with a .22 caliber gun. A second report noted a minor collision at a car wash or West Cherry with Mrs. Ralph Taylor reporting a backing car driven by Mrs. Mary Garner of 26 W Walnut bumped her vehicle.
Police took Douglas Rucker of Buffalo into custody on a Wilson County warrant charging assault. He was later transferred to Fre Donia. Officers cited him for driving without a driver's license during the arrest.
Police arrested three Chanute youths after disturbances at two locations. At a used car lot 1212 N Santa Fe at 12:45 a.m. Ted Wheeler 18 of 611 E Main faced disturbing the peace and intoxication charges. Walter Akridge Jr 20 of 1019 S Forest charged with disturbing the peace and released on 65 dollar bond. Melvin Willhite 23 of 11% N Grant charged with disorderly conduct after disturbance at Lincoln and Main and released on 25 dollar bond.
Grant Packard, 73, of Parsons sustained minor injuries in a one car crash on highway K57 two and a half miles west of St Paul yesterday around 2 p.m. The Ford driven by Packard's wife struck a bridge when brakes locked. Mrs Packard, 60, was not injured. Estimated damage to the car was $850.
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