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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1966
Page
2
Kansas City market notes show cattle 2 700 head and calves 225 with feeder steers high to 28 1 0 per cwt and feeder heifers up to 26 50. Hogs 2 200 head with barrows and gilts 50 to 75 lower, sows mixed. sheep 100 steady with spring lambs at 24 25 to 25 00. Egg prices vary by grade from 20 to 36 cents per dozen.
Kansas City AP reports wholesale egg quotes with large eggs at 80 percent A 40 41 and medium eggs at 80 percent A 39 40. Butter prices remain unchanged.
Chicago AP reports butter prices hold steady to firm with no change. Egg prices show small gains up to two cents, with 70 percent or better grade A whites at 41 1/2 cents, mixed at 40, mediums 39.
Chicago sees Chicago closing Wheat No 2 hard at 1.95 and No 2 red at 1.89, Corn No 2 yellow 1.53, Oats No 2 heavy white 77. Soybeans No 1 yellow 3.80, Soybean oil 14.40. Wheat down to 1/2 cent, corn down 1 1/2, oats down 4 to 1/2, rye down 2 to 2 1/2, soybeans down 2 to 7 cents. September contracts show corresponding declines with each grain.
Kansas City price sheet shows wheat values for No 2 hard and dark, No 3, and No 2 red with slight changes. Corn bids hold steady for No 2 white and yellow mixed, with No 3 showing modest shifts. Mile Maize top quotes at 2.17 to 2.18, rye 1.19 to 1.22, barley 1.04 to 1.12, soybeans 3.54 to 3.68, sacked bran 50.00 to 50.75, sacked shorts 53.00 to 53.75.
Dr. Donald Wilcox says there are no confirmed human encephalitis cases in Kansas while an Ottawa woman undergoes autopsy at KU Medical Center as a suspect case. He notes suspected horse cases in Kansas and warns encephalitis spreads only via mosquito bites, contrasting with a Texas outbreak.
Wanted full time clerk aged 18 to 35 with previous sales experience. No flower shop experience needed. Must be high school graduate and able to type. Apply in person at Hans Wers 1000 S Central Chanute Kansas. No phone calls.
The New York market opened with gains but soon fell as glamor shares led declines while blue chips eased. Volume was about 5.9 million shares versus 7.05 million the prior day, marking a pause after an eight session rally.
Kansas teachers will seek legal recognition as a profession in the 1967 Legislature. The Kansas State Teachers Association aims to pass a professional practices act to classify teaching as a profession like medicine and law. Mrs Vera Osborne said Kansas schools open with at least 750 fewer teachers than needed.
Federal grand jury in Topeka returned 31 indictments. Jack Lee Lemburg and Robert Kenneth Keegan face murder charges for slaying inmate James Lawrence Bass at Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary. Garland Lloyd Jefferson charged with assault with intent to kill. Other cases involve escapes from the honor farm, theft of a government pickup, and robberies or burglaries in Bird City Edna and South Mound.
The Chanute Tribune details staff roles with publisher Dwight McCreight and editor John Hovorka. It lists subscription rates for in territory and outside, with carrier and mail options, and notes Associated Press rights for local news and dispatches.
A Mulberry resident places a Pittsburg Headlight and Sun notice thanking his wife Gladys for thirty years of marriage and two children. M. C. Sleeth, Mulberry, Kan.
President Johnson signed a law targeting the theft and trafficking of pets for sale to laboratories. The act licenses animal dealers and lets the agriculture secretary regulate animal handling. Violators face fines up to 1000 dollars and up to one year in prison.
Instructions urge readers to contact their Tribune via phone if unavailable. If the listed contact cannot be reached, callers are advised to dial HE 1-3400 after 6 p.m. for assistance.
Fireman Apprentice Gerald J. Yeager USN son of Mr and Mrs Robert B DuPre of 1205 S Garfield serves as a crew member aboard destroyer USS Taussig which has operated for two months off the coast of Viet Nam. Emporia State College awards last week include Herbert Ysusi Sanchez bachelor of arts Bonnie Roma Colwell DeMeritt and Barbara Ann Foxx Loy bachelor of science in education and Edwina Jane Swope master of science all from Chanute.
A report to police at 4 a.m. stated an unknown vehicle struck and knocked down a soft drink sign at 217 W. Cherry. Officers describe the vehicle as a truck and checked trucks but found no results.
Police reported a boy was stung by a yellow jacket from a nest in the city parking lot at Main and Highland. The street department was notified to destroy the nest.
A 1965 Chevrolet left rear fender was scraped in a lot at Main and Evergreen by an unidentified vehicle. The incident involved Mrs. Ben Nicholas, 802 Allen, and was reported to police today.
Mose Shirley of 713 West Main has returned from a three week visit with his daughter Mrs. George Krapes in Denver where he spent much time in the mountains. Justice family members, including Mr. and Mrs. Robert Justice and Hazel Rickel, greeted him on return. Mr. Justice retired from Federal Mogul in New York City and will relocate with Mrs. Justice to Playa Del Rey California, their former home.
A 63 year old Wichita man Burton V. Brown owner of a local tool company was found dead in his car after it ran off a south Wichita roadway Investigators ruled the death a heart attack based on initial findings.
Wednesday reports show William Rensick Humboldt and Fred Reno Yates Center among medical admissions with Mrs Loren Lee and others in hospital. Births include a boy to Mr and Mrs Charles Ross and a girl to Mr and Mrs Ronald Wiltse. Dismissals list multiple local residents. Court actions involve several defendants with bonds, fines, and guilty pleas in city court.
Clyde Sanders 47 of Beaver Kansas died when his car struck a tractor on a county road about 15 miles northeast of Great Bend. Driver of the tractor Bill Schiller 54 of Hoising-ton Route 3 suffered minor cuts and bruises and was hospitalized at Lutheran Hospital in Hoisington.
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