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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1962
Page
2
AP dispatch from Kansas City notes hogs firm to as much as 35 higher, while cattle and calf classes show mixed moves. Cattle numbers include steer and heifer activity with varied shifts, cows and vealers steady to weak, feeder bids easing. hogs led by barrows and gilts. Sheep and lamb markets hold steady with lambs near 18 to 19.50 and ewes 4.50 to 6.00.
The page lists livestock prices for Hogs Cattle Sheep and notes a stock market update from Wall Street. Prices span various grades weights and ages with ranges for U.S. grades and stocker calves. Also reports a 1 pm stock snapshot and a historical anecdote about John V. Singer shipwreck and cattle raising on Padre Island.
Police responded to the A&P Food Store after a 13 year old boy was found with eight candy bars and two packs of gum and released to his mother with the case sent to juvenile authorities. Also: Chamber of Commerce directors plan a 7 am breakfast at the Tioga Hotel. Blood usage at Neosho Memorial Hospital totaled 48 pints for November. The Jehovah's Witnesses assembly in Webb City featured H. C. Good's lecture.
The Kansas City AP market report lists consumer eggs by grade and size with price ranges: large 34-38 cents, medium 25-30, small 18-22, unclassified 18-22. Wholesale eggs large and medium at 80 percent yield 35-38 and 2-30 respectively. Poultry prices include turkey hens over 10 lb at 24, toms over 20 lb at 21, young geese 18-20, heavy hens 5 lb up 14, light hens 5 lb up 8, hens under 5 lb 6, capons 8 lb 18, capons 7-8 lb 16, ducks over 5 lb 15. Missouri Arkansas live fryers and broilers at farm 13, delivered at plant 1342-14. Butter grade A solid 67 per lb, grade A quarters 63.
Chicago markets show live poultry 32 lower to 1 higher with roasters 2142 to 2544 and 24 specials red white rock fryers 16 to 18. Butter steady with 93 score AA at 5734 and 92 A 57 percent. Eggs mostly steady to 1 lower with grades A whites 36 or better and mixed di standards 33.
The Chicago Board reports no wheat or soybean sales. Corn values show No 2 yellow at 1.11 and No 3 yellow at 1.06 to 1.04, with other grades around 1.00 to 1.03. Oats list No 1 extra heavy white at 75.1 and No 2 at 75.0. Soybeans at 8 percent, barley choosing 1.25 to 1.32 and feed 0.86 to 1.02.
Wheat fell to 2 4 higher with No 2 hard and dark hard at 2 24 2.38 per bushel. No 2 red 2 21 2.25. Corn eased to 2 88 with No 2 white 1 18 1 20. Oats quoted around 70s to 80s. Soybeans around 2 39 2 44 per bushel. Bran and shorts bid up near 46 00 47 75.
Wheat futures end narrowly mixed as December contracts trade around 2.07 per bushel with gains of about 14 to 12 cents. Corn and oats slip, while rye climbs to about 1.22. Soybeans hold steady near 2.47 with minor moves.
Robert A. Finney of the Humboldt Brick and Tile Company was re elected a director of Structural Clay Products Institute at the SCPI convention in Hollywood Florida.
Burglars pried open a back door and broke through a vault wall at the First National Bank in Golden City and stole an estimated $2,000 in coins. Bank president H C Viets estimated the loss. burglars did not reach the inner vault with currency or safe deposit boxes.
In Marietta Georgia a derailed Louisville and Nashville freight train carried special AEC materials with five couriers. two couriers were slightly injured. An AEC spokesman in Albuquerque said the materials posed no health or public hazard and contained no high explosives or bombs. The shipment likely originated near Albuquerque and may head to Oak Ridge Tennessee.
A reader asks how to handle an aunt who lost self-respect after a lavish lifestyle and a widow mother who enables him. Ann Landers advises addressing the issue to his wife and recognizing emotional problems behind sloppiness, not shaming the aunt.
TOPEKA AP Police believe a mother killed herself and her four children in their home Friday. Anne Fitzgibbons 27 and her children Billie 4 Tommie 3 Jeffrey 2 and Kelly 1 were found by the husband after he returned from work. A note was found and a 14 inch butcher knife was discovered near the scene. The coroner and A T Roth chief of detectives ruled no foul play.
Medical and surgical admissions listed for Saturday and Sunday including Charles Griffith and Russell Walker among others. Dismissals cover multiple residents in Humboldt Thayer Franklin and Ark City with names and addresses. Birth notes report a boy for Mr and Mrs Myr Ford R 2.
Roy K. Cheney of Humboldt arrested Saturday for intoxication with a $15 bond posted and forfeited. Leon Dickerson, rural Humboldt, facing a disturbing peace charge from a disturbance weeks ago with a $15 bond posted. Dwaine L. Whitworth, 818 2 W Main, cited for failing to observe a stop sign at 1:05 a.m. Sunday with a $5 bond posted.
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