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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1965
Page
2
Cattle totals around 4 000 head with calves and feeders steady cows up to 25 higher. Slaughter steers 25.75 to 27.00 while heifers bring 23.00 to 24.50 and cows 14.25 to 15.50. Hogs 4 500, barrows and gilts 25 to 50 lower, sows steady. Sheep mixed with prime lambs at 23.73 to 24.50 and feeders around 18.50 to 21.00.
U S No 1 and 2 hogs priced 24 25 dollars per hundredweight across weights with high choice at 25 00. sows and boars range 13 00 to 21 50. Castle cattle show grades from U S choice 23 50 to 25 50 and standards 18 00 to 21 00. veal primes 22 00 to 24 00. cows and bulls with various utility to breeding values. sheep with lamb and ewe prices listed.
AP market bulletin lists consumer eggs with large at 33 to 36 cents and medium at 27 to 29 cents. Wholesale eggs show large at 80 percent yield and mediums at 80 percent yield. Other produce prices are unchanged.
Chicago market reports show live poultry prices unchanged to 4 lower with roasters at 23 1/2 to 25, special fed White Rock fryers 19 1/2 to 20 1/2, few heavy hens 18. Butter remains steady to firm while eggs move irregularly, prices 2 lower to 1 higher, about 70 percent unchanged.
The Chanute Tribune details its publishing staff and mail subscriptions. It lists office roles including Publisher, News Editor, Advertising Manager, Circulation Manager, and other departments. Subscriptions are offered by mail in Neosho Allen Wilson Woodson counties and in Kansas with varied terms and prices.
Wheat prices show slight declines for No 2 hard and dark hard while No 2 red wheat 1.5425 to 1.5944 tops. Corn gains to 1.65 for white No 2 and 1.64 for No 3. Oats ease with No 2 white 69 to 74 and No 3 68 to 73. Soybeans range 2.62 to 2.734. Bran and shorts priced at 39.50 to 42.25 and 40.50 to 41.25 respectively.
Chicago reports mixed grain quotes with Wheat No 2 hard at 1.5954 and No 2 red at 1.55. Corn No 2 yellow 1.28%4n and Oats No 2 heavy white 69'tn. Soybeans No 1 yellow 2.73%sn with soybeans August futures at 2.7254-73. Wheat dips while oats rise slightly and rye falls, as September contracts show varied moves across grains.
Shares traded steadily with about 4.4 million shares by late afternoon as the market drifted within a firm tone. The Dow and partners held gains on a fifth straight advance while bonds mixed and Treasuries fell amid news of stronger July industrial output.
Hopes of finding 50 Argentines alive dwindled as rescue teams battled zero degree cold in the Argentine Andes at Las Cuevas where 40 buried were feared dead. Six rescued with injuries. 10 missing and feared dead in Puente del Inca. In Chile a national disaster was declared amid blizzards and floods killing nearly 100 and wrecking farmland and towns.
Funeral services were held at Johnson Chapel for George Francis Morehead with Dr. Duff Wagoner officiating and Nada Wagoner singing. A requiem mass was conducted for Mrs. Bessie OConnor Young at St Patrick's Church with Rev. Vincent Brown presiding and organist Dave Petterson. Burial followed in Elmwood and St Patrick's cemeteries.
Daily Transcript notes Monday admissions for Mrs Ot to Meek Carl Yates Eileen Stover John Park Hill Mrs Ethel Brown Claud Hesler and others. Dismissals include Mrs Gerald Hill Harold Wolfe Mrs James Farrell and son and several others. Births report a girl to Mr and Mrs Clark Gifford at 717 S Steuben.
The Power Commission granted Transwestern Pipeline Co of Houston a temporary authority to sell 100 million cubic feet of natural gas daily to Cities Service Gas Co of Oklahoma City. Cities Service cited a critical winter demand to serve customers including Gas Service Co of Kansas City.
Milo Gibson of Portland and former local resident will attend the Nut Growers national convention in Columbia Missouri and deliver the keynote address. In other notes Linda Colleen Whitcomb was born June 26 to Mr and Mrs Charles R Whitcomb of Lone Elm with Ellen Wilson as former name of the mother. Grandparents Verne Wilson and Mel Whitcomb are listed. Ed Carpenter and wife returned from a Nebraska trip visiting their son Ralph in Lincoln and sister in Wichita. A found billfold containing money with no ID was kept for owners to claim.
A 76 year old great grandmother chased a purse snatcher for five blocks after he nabbed her wallet as she boarded a Baltimore bus. Willie A. Carman said she would have caught him if she were 20, while shouting for help and noting no one assisted. The thief escaped with $4, eyewear, and diabetic medicine.
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Mrs. Shirley Allen reports her daughter Judith five was bitten by a monkey while feeding the animal at City Park pens Sunday. The girl received medical treatment.
Raymond Dutch reports to police this morning that a radio antenna on his car, parked at his residence last night, was broken. He is 17 years old and from S. Highlands.
Police conducted a radar speed check on South Santa Fe from 6 a.m. to 7:20 a.m. today. One driver, Mrs. Cecile Stone of 14 W 10th, was cited.
A pickup camper blew a tire and overturned on I-70 about 10 miles east of WaKeeney Kansas killing Elizabeth Bagley 22 daughter of Ben Bagley Huntsville Alabama. Her sister Sharon 9 was injured and the parents escaped injury.
U S crude oil and lease condensate rose by 30 900 barrels daily to 7 88 100 bpd for the week ended Aug 14 Oklahoma averaged 568 100 bpd up 27 000 Kansas 289 500 bpd up 2 900 The Oil and Gas Journal reported Tulsa Okla AP
The Chanute Toastmasters met at the Memorial Building with President Harry Patterson presiding. Royce Wells acted as toastmaster and Bill Lee gave the invocation. Speakers included Harry Steeves and Bob Wilson with Steeves voted most improved and Wilson best speaker. A nominating committee of Wells Wilson and Joe Strobel was appointed.
The chief engineer and assistant engineer at the Kansas Neurological Institute in Topeka have been dismissed in a disciplinary shakeup following an investigation led by superintendent Dr W E Sigurdson. No further details were released.
Gary Ehrlich, 15, of Russell died Monday after a single vehicle accident on a county road four miles north of Russell. He was thrown from the car, according to sheriff’s officers.
David Doherty, 17, of Chetopa, Kansas, died Monday after a collision between his motor scooter and a car on U.S. 69 near Chetopa. The crash occurred in the Columbus area with authorities investigating the reckless or negligent driving factors.
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