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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1968
Page
12
AP reports cattle at 28.25 to 29.00 for 600 lb steers, hogs 3,500 head with various bids, sheep at 25.00 to 26.00 for spring lambs, eggs prices for large to mediums, butter steady, corn oats soybeans and oil price quotations shown with unit details and grade notes.
AP notes butter and eggs price marks with grades A AA and B ranks. Butter scores include overall 9 percent, AA 66 92, B 65 percent, Cc 8. Eggs show whites at 60 plus grade A and sizes like 36 mediums 33 standards 30 checks 19. The summary reflects market grading and pricing signals for dairy items in Chicago.
Price ranges for hogs including parsons and sows, boars and stags, with cattle values for grain fed steers, heifers, calves, stockers, and yearlings. Includes U S choice and good quality levels and creep fed figures. Prime and good to choice yeals noted with price bands.
The report lists price ranges for cows bulbs and sheep across categories. Cows cover utility commercial up to 19 75 and shelly and stock cows 11 down to 16 Bulls show commercial 20 to 22 choice 23 to 24 and breeding 22 to 25. Sheep note finished lambs up to 23 50 utility 19 to 20 wool 20 and feeder lambs 18 to 19 with cull lambs 15 and slaughter ewes 4 50 to 6 50.
Wall Street and the Over the Counter Market closed Wednesday for another one day weekly suspension. Exchanges have halted trading each Wednesday since June 12 to give brokers extra time to process backlogged paperwork from heavy trading.
M Sergeant Carl Truman Hale, 81, died of cancer in Los Angeles after 56 years since volunteering for Alaska flying experiments with the Signal Corps. Hale helped form the first Army Air Corps company and retired in 1938 with 30 years of service. He is survived by his widow and two children.
ERIE appeal by Home Savings Association Chanute or its reassessed property evaluation will be heard by the state board of tax appeals Monday in Topeka Neosho County Commissioners will attend the hearing canceling the board meeting they normally would have here The appeal is the only one to the state board from the county wide reassessed values effective this year Representatives of United Appraisals Co the reassessment firm employed by the county will appear with county officials at the hearing
Ed Shiflett 2, 524 S Lincoln, died at home from heart attack. Born Fayette Mo Jan 16 1886, he was a retired city water department pumper and Elks member who lived in Chanute 64 years. Survived by wife Audrey Slane, a son G D Shiflett, a daughter, three grandsons, two brothers and two sisters. Funeral arrangements are incomplete with Johnson Mortuary handling. Margaret Jerome funeral services held at Johnson Chapel with Rev Bert Sutton officiating. Burial at Altoona, bearers listed, interment at Earlston. Mrs Frances Lucille McMillen, 59, died at Neosho Memorial Hospital. she taught school and lived in Chanute most of her life. Memorial service Friday at First United Methodist Church with Dr Duff Wagoner officiating. Burial at Greenlawn Memorial Park. Johnson Mortuary in charge.
Comedian Dick Gregory spoke to more than 1,000 National Student Association delegates at Kansas State University urging them to unravel the nation s political dilemma and demand honest leadership. He warned that without action the nation may burn and criticized leaders for failing to control crime and uplift the poor. He urged students to resist becoming slaves to money and education and to pursue truth even if expelled from colleges.
A Salina girl Deborah Irwin 19 and Abilene man Jerry L France 19 died in a head-on crash three and a half miles east of Salina on old U S 40 Tuesday night. Bernard Bell 19 of Lincoln and his passenger John Gonzales 17 were critically injured. Bell and Gonzales were trapped as rescuers freed three victims from the wreckage.
The notice advises dialing the Tribune after 6 p.m. using the number HE 1 3400 when the person cannot be reached. It directs readers to contact via the provided phone for service or updates.
In the Neosho County Probate Court Sarah E Jones estate George A Gregory files to admit the September 8 1966 will to probate and appoints Alberta Gough as attorney for petitioner requiring written defenses by August 29 1963 at Erie court time for hearing. The petition seeks appointment of George A Gregory as executor without bond.
Reports from Prague say Soviet and four Warsaw Pact forces move into Czechoslovakia to bolster the government as Prague Radio appeals for calm. U.S. officials scramble. President Johnson calls an emergency National Security meeting while Moscow claims its forces act to save Czechoslovakia from anti communism.
Daily Transcript notes visiting hours from 2 to 4 p.m. and 6 30 to 8 p.m. at Neosho Memorial Hospital. Census lists 48 patients including adults and pediatrics with two babies. Tuesday admissions include Ernest Papst Deana Williams Anne C Jordan Mrs Gerald Morrison. Dismissals and births recorded along with district court actions and filings in Chanute including quiet title and contractual judgment cases.
Mrs. Gay Bauer reported her 1968 Pontiac sustained Fender damage after a backing collision with a Wilson county car in the Memorial building area parking lot. A backhoe from Tarbet Construction backed into a 1966 Rambler owned by Thomas H. Smith near 502 E Main. Kansas State College of Pittsburg dean's list members include Mary Catherine Brant Ruth Olson Yarnell Lorella Jackson Le Noir H Rowland Jana Erin Pellusch. Ross Cooper hosted a Sunday buffet for guests including Howard Parsons Les Leighty Don Cooper Steven Mike Shepard Don Kimmel Linda Kimmel Kenneth Royer Phy lis Rover and Jewell Ash.
Patricia Owen daughter of Mr and Mrs Melvin Owen of 491 North Grant has returned home after a year and nine months at the Institute of Logopedics for speech impediment in Wichita She also attended the United Cerebral Palsy Jaycee camp at Augusta the past two summers and will start third grade at Alcott School this fall.
Etta Shepard of 1314 S Grant returns home after a three month visit in Raymond Washington helping Bertia Mannew care for her brother Henry Hatch who has a broken hip.
Airman Chester Lowery 20 of Newport Arkansas drowned Tuesday while swimming with fellow airmen at Lake Afton southwest of Wichita. He disappeared about 20 feet from shore. two companions tried to help but he slipped away before the body was recovered.
Charles H. Black, 84, of Elk City died when his pickup collided with a car on U S 160 north of Elk City. Linda Thompson, 21, of Winfield, the other driver, was treated and released from a hospital.
La vere E. Lurber, 44, of Oklahoma City, was killed Tuesday when his car left the Kansas Turnpike near Cassoday and struck a bridge pillar. He was the sole occupant.
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