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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1968
Page
4
The document lists numerous employee salaries such as Collins with 247.83 and Adams with 248.34, plus various other staff salaries and retroactive entries. It also catalogs many payments for taxes, insurance, supplies, services, and freight to numerous vendors and firms, including Blue Cross Blue Shield, Colonial Life, Hastings affiliates, and several local businesses.
In Neosho County Kansas a guardian and conservator Les Spencer petitions for court approval to sell described real estate of Nancy Thomas Incompetent to pay debts taxes and admin expenses. Hearing set September 18 1968 at 10 00 am in Erie with defenses due. Listed are distribution and payments including county clerk and various vendors.
Livestock offerings include cattle 6 800 head and calves 200. Feeder steers 550 700 lb mainly 26.50 28.30. 700 1000 lb 25.00 26.85. 750 1000 lb 25.35 95. good 685 1035 lb 24.00 26.50. Hogs 3 500 head barrows and gilts 210 230 lb 20.25. 205 265 lb 19.50 20.00. Sheep 100 Spring lambs choice prime 25.00 26.00. Hides 10c lb glue hides price.
Kansas City AP reports wholesale egg prices firm for large eggs at 80 percent yield and medium eggs at 80 percent yield. Butter prices steady with grade A Tb solid 79 and grade A Ib 30 per pound.
Butter grades rise with a 93 score for AA at 66 percent and 92 A at 66 percent. Eggs show 80 percent or better grade A whites at 41, mediums 35, standards 32, checks 20. Car grades include 90 B at 66 percent and 89 C at 60 percent.
Chicago prices show Wheat No 2 yellow hard at 1.23 percent and No 2 soft red at 1.20 percent. Corn values list No 2 yellow 1.07 and No 3 yellow 1.06 with No 4 yellow 1.03. Oats No 2 extra heavy white 58 percent. Soybeans No 1 yellow 275 percent and Soybean oil 7.70.
Market listing shows Grade A Extra Large at 0.34, Grade A Large 0.34, Grade A Medium 0.30, and Grade A Small 0.18. Prices indicate wholesale or retail retail pricing in per dozen units for Egg grade A.
Five Paraguayan businessmen visiting the United States under AID will attend an area development conference in Chanute. The 10:20 am meeting at the Memorial Building Chanute Area Chamber of Commerce will include Jack Lacy James Garver and Fred Harris. After lunch at the Tioga Hotel they will tour Alcorn Kustom Electronics Screw Conveyor and ILC plants.
Walnut public grade school started Monday with 53 pupils enrolled. Principal and teacher staff include Mrs. Sue Jacquinot as principal and grade teacher, Mrs. Bessie Steele, kindergarten teacher, and Mrs. Bliss. Grade distributions: six in first, eight in second, six in third, four in fourth, three in fifth, five in sixth, and twenty one in kindergarten.
The Chanute Community Theater presents Laugh In a student written variety show Friday at 8 p m in Central Park community building. Admission is free and acts include The Party Weather Talent Time featuring Tiny Tin The Lighter Side of Summer Marriages Chicken Rowtine Henry Gibsons Poetry with cast members Marsh a Record Barbara Hupp Charles Findahl Roger Findahl Patricia Barnhart Anita Stoll and Kandi Vaughn.
Two days of accidents produced extensive car damage with no injuries. A 1964 Mercury driven by Michael D. Beck collided with a parked 1964 Chevrolet owned by Ethel Green, damaging Beck’s car about 1400 dollars and Green’s about 900. Beck cited for careless driving. A 1964 Ford pickup driven by Marion E. Mintz and a 1966 Ford driven by Kathleen Moore collided at Chestnut and Lafayette, with damage to the pickup about 200 and to the car about 300. Police listed other incidents including a car hitting a yard fence and a backhoe incident on Main and Malcolm with no injuries reported.
Erie Neosho County commissioners accepted a bid of 1.12 per gallon from Mid-America Refining Co Inc Chanute to furnish 220 gallons of anti-freeze in four 55 gallon drums. Other bids came from Service Co-Op Association at 1.20 and Montgomery Ward at 1.25, both Chanute.
Army Sgt J C Ronald A Golwitzer of Golwitzer Ogden Kansas listed by Defense Department as killed in action in Vietnam. He is father of Pamela and Rob. The report appears in a Tuesday Defense Department release.
Daily Hospital notes show visiting hours from 2 to 4 p.m. and 6 30 to 8 p.m. with a census of 66 adults and pediatric patients including three babies. Admissions on Wednesday list Ida White in medical, Frank Sicks in medical, and Lou Reinhardt in medical.
Police responded to an incident at the Southeast Kansas Tuberculosis Hospital at 10:30 p m between two male patients in their 50s. One man struck the other with a cane causing a head wound treated by a physician needing stitches.
Notices report the deaths of Mrs. Ella A. Pearson 90 of Delanco N J and Mrs. Martha J Ogden 79 of Erie plus memorial services for Mrs Goldie M Clark. Details cover birthplaces spouses surviving relatives and burial sites. The Erie area includes Cedar Point and Altoona Cemetery with services at Cedar Point Methodist Church and Johnson Chapel.
Mrs Adelia Eloise Dillow 86 died at home 619 West Beach Born March 27 1862 in Oklahoma she married J C Dillow March 20 1901 They moved to Chanute in 192 Bradford Dillow Chelsea Okla Paul Dillow Belle Glades Fla Earl Dillow Harold Dillow Kenneth Dillow Mrs C E Pearl Forbs Maitland Fla Mrs Emma Butler Pittsburg Mrs Ruth Goodwin Pittsburg Mrs Norma Clark Benton Ark 22 grandchildren 27 great grandchildren One son preceded her in death Gibson Koch Chapel will announce funeral arrangements Funeral services Carroll Memorial for Sarah Ellen Carroll were held in Johnson Chapel with Rev Warren M Jones Vilas and Rev A F Salomonson officiating Mrs Warren Jones was organist Don Marple sang In the Garden and How Great</s>
On August 29 1782 the Royal George sank during repairs at Portsmouth killing nearly 1100 people. Also noted are 1778 victory at Quaker Hill Rhode Island 1935 Belgian Queen Astrid died in a Swiss car crash and 1948 Henry Wallace Progressive party candidacy was heckled in Durham North Carolina.
Thank you to friends and relatives for cards calls flowers and prayers during my illness at Neosho County Memorial Hospital Special thanks to Dr J D Gough and hospital personnel for kindness and consideration Estella Shaw.
An advertisement invites families in Chanute and surrounding districts to order over 400 household needs with a Tremendous Special Offer. Written by G. B. Krehl for The W. T. Rawleigh Co. at 223 E Main St Freeport Illinois.
Furniture sale at 601 St Malcolm on Saturday August 31 at 1 00 PM by Mr and Mrs Albert Leon Chard owners. Farm sale on the same day at 12 30 PM located 3 East 1½ South of Humboldt, hosted by Mrs Ed Gerken.
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