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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1957
Page
2
Rural Grange plans a meeting Thursday at the rural school at p.m. The first and second degrees will be conferred. Pie and coffee will be served by the committee.
Market data from Kansas City shows hog prices rising while cattle slip. Slaughter cows and bulls mostly steady, calves and stockers firm, steer and heifer prices listed for various grades and weights. Hogs 3,000 head active with barrows and gilts up to 10 cents higher. Sheep 1,000 head steady with lamb and feeder values noted.
Late trading shows modest overall decline with steels oils and rails down while missiles and shipbuilding shares rise. Livestock prices firm with hogs and cattle showing gains and grain futures mixed across Kansas City and Chicago reporting markets.
Eleven year old Jimmy Gardner the son of Fred and Mrs Gardner will play in the George Axelrod comedy Seven Year Itch at the Resident theater for ten performances through December 15 Bill Yearout and Jane Murrill star. Also notice of Disabled Citizens of America December meeting at 902 S Garfield and upcoming Jan 7 meeting at Tom Pinkley home. Betty Lister reported missing from Giles Nursing Home wearing tan coat. T Sgt Harry W Fitzgerald Marine Corps recruiter accepting January enlistments. Mrs Evelyn C Woodruff broke her right wrist at home and will return to work tomorrow.
Monday admittances include the Rev George Horn Humboldt medical Roger Tucker 1002 N Garfield surgical Kay Lowe 1318 S Evergreen medical James Redding Humboldt medical Ed gar Chapman 919 N Washington medical Dismissals list Mrs W B Jacobs Eric Mrs Floyd Thus ton and son 722 N Evergreen Rosemary Berthot 817 S Malcolm Mrs Mel Burdett 11 S Steuben Roger Tucker 1002 N Garfield Dismissals today Mrs Dean Swanson Elsmore Julius Riger R 1 Traffic Citation Karston K Naylor 318 S Allen running stop sign $2 bond posted.
Springfield officials and Chamber of Commerce members meet informally to choose an architect for the Osa and Martin Johnson museum. Wayne Johnson of Springfield, son of Mr and Mrs Floyd Johnson, discussed the project. he is the fourth architect consulted.
CHICAGO, M Kay Slade, 17, Stafford Kansas, among 51 state and territorial winners who displayed their own designs in the National 4-H Club Congress dress revue. The stylist models presented their fashion hobbies on the Eighth Street Theater stage before fellow 4-H members.
Obituaries report Melissa Wilson 79 of Kimball dying in Autry Nursing Home and Esther Watkins of Erie as well as Mrs. Luella Williams of Boise and Mrs. June Hall of Newton among others. The Elk City Christian church will host a funeral for Esther Watkins with burial at Oak Hill in Elk City. the Pierce Funeral Home of Erie leads arrangements.
J S Clawson aged 66 of Chanute died at Wadsworth Veterans Hospital. Funeral at 2 p.m. Wednesday. Peter Carl Wolken aged 78 died at home four miles south of here after a short illness. Survivors listed include children and grandchildren. Mrs Martha Farris aged 79 of Elk City died in an Independence rest home after four years illness. Details give birth, marriage dates and survivor names. Johnson Mortuary to handle arrangements.
Southeast Kansas Corner reports W H Loffin rural carrier in Fredonia retires after 51 years. In Coffeyville A M Eckel berry shifts to assistant collector in the utilities department. Oswego faces county funds shortage prompting 96 layoffs in Labette County highway department. Commissioners Westervelt and Haskins announced the move and noted July 1 pay raise and road resurfacing costs.
A Parsons area child aged year old was taken to a physician Monday after swallowing an unknown amount of oven cleaning compound. The lye base caused burns to mouth and throat but the child was discharged to home after treatment.
Candy and wife prepare for trip to the United States as Japan declines to appeal a three year suspended sentence handed to the American serviceman.
Sportsmen bagged eight bison yesterday at the Reynolds Co ranch in the Davis Mountains. A herd of about 200 roams the vast CAMP DREW ranch area. Special permits were issued to 20 individuals and a Japanese party to take some of the old stock.
The Rev. Clifford C. Covington of St. John's Episcopal Church will move to become rector of the Church of the Epiphany in Kingsville Texas following a announcement by Bishop E H Jones. The Covington family plans to depart Parsons December 16 after five years in the community.
Frank E. Gannett, the publisher who built a $3,000 stake into a regional newspaper empire, died today at 5 a m in Rochester New York. He was 81 and had led the Gannett chain for decades shaping modern American publishing.
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