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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1961
Page
2
Kansas City AP reports hogs up 25 to 50 cents with 2,000 head traded. Cattle show steady to firm action as calves and cows hold, choice steers 25.50, high good heifers 24.25 to 25.00, canners 12.75 to 16.00. Sheep insufficient for test. produce unchanged.
Chanute Sub Deb club, a group of teenage girls, will be shown tomorrow at noon on TV channel 12 Joplin in the Teen Hop program. The brief item notes a story hour at 10:30 a.m. in Chicago and lists assorted market quotes and local notices from Kansas City and Chanute.
In New York the stock market edged higher in late afternoon trading with a moderate turnover of about 3.9 million shares. Fractions to about a point gains led advances among key issues while losses remained in a similar range. Bond prices climbed slightly.
Yesterday at Neosho Memorial Hospital Mrs Jack Hively 131 S Steuben had surgery and Mrs Joe Giacoma Jr 1120 S Evergreen and Mrs Mabel Coe at Neosho Manor medical. Dismissals included Mrs Oscar Nelson and Mrs James Lindsay. Birth announced for Mr and Mrs Raymond Vanderford a boy born yesterday. Today admissions include Mrs Alfred Thompson 208 N Forest surgery and Josephine Newman 209 W 4th surgery. Dismissals list Donald Inmai Glenn Doepke Mrs Emma Kjellander. Traffic citation issued to Jean Proctor 319 W 3rd for speeding and muffler issue.
Christmas season events fill Humboldt with church gatherings and social clubs. Lutheran Guild and Woman's Society of Christian Service host services and parties at homes and at Prairie View schoolhouse. Attendees include Mrs. Doris Wilhite, Mrs. Edna Bar nett, Mrs. Norma Daniles, and many members. A drive to pack Christmas boxes for shut ins accompanies caroling and gift exchanges.
Pittsburg State announces its Camelia Bowl lineup with players Richard Beal Harlan Hess Jerry Archer and Mike Brown from Ottawa named for the defense and line positions. The Gorillas travel to face Winfield College of Oregon on Saturday after the Thursday announcement.
Funeral services for Mrs. Walter Follmer were conducted yesterday at the Methodist church in Buffalo with pastors from the Nazarene churches in Kansas City and Buffalo officiating. Choir members and floral attendants were named, and bearers included John Caudel and Kenneth McGuire. Burial followed in Buffalo cemetery under Roy S. Gibson Funeral Home care.
Pittsburg State of Kansas, ranked as the nation’s top small college football squad, placed three players on the NAIA All-Star team. The appointment highlights strong showing for the Gorillas with selections to the all star lineup announced in Sacramento California.
In Kansas City, a man’s unusually neat fingernails alerted Vernon Smith, a clothing store manager, to a suspected theft after a $76.90 payroll check drawn on an electric company was presented. Smith confirmed the check was stolen. The man and an accomplice fled, claiming various electrician identities.
An assistant district attorney shouted during a Criminal Court summing up his case in Memphis Tennessee police court. a juror interrupted asking him to lower his voice. Dwyer apologized and finished his argument within five more minutes claiming he planned a longer address but was curtailed by the juror.
A LaHarpe gathering with the Webb and Strokes families includes Lt Iola Bollinger and numerous relatives from Iola Wichita El Dorado and rural LaHarpe. Attendees listed by Missouri and Kansas connections share a Sunday dinner at the Strokes family home with extended kin from Allen and Harpe areas.
The Past Noble Grand Club held a quarterly birthday party at the VFW hall with committee members Mabel Locke Edna MccGowen Althea Teeter Bess DeBus Edith Clap son Ruth Cragg Vona Brooks and Jean Pugh. The Hi Lo Club met hosted by Mrs Dorothy Snodgrass with guests including Mrs Reta Bauman. Several Erie residents traveled to visit relatives in Denver Wichita Chanute Pittsburg and Great Bend.
Mrs. Leo Gottlieb hosted the American Association of University Women Christmas gathering at 101 S. Tennessee. Executive board members served as hostesses and Sherri Rush performed a violin solo. Mrs. Jones read a Christmas story and Mrs. Stevens offered a reading as carols filled the room.
Accompanied by Miss Rush on violin, Mrs. W. T. Warren conducted games. Gifts for Neo Sho Manor were judged for originality and beauty. Mrs. Harold Anderson won prettiest gift. Mrs. B. A. Mannoni won most original. Mrs. J. B. Hutton and committee served sleigh shaped cake for 30 members and guest Mrs. Bill Dockery.
The Women’s Missionary Prayer Band met Thursday afternoon with Mrs. J. T. Ames. Members answered roll with a scripture including the word gift. They donated to missionary Rev. Mel Pittman in Africa and organized gifts for a rest home. Officers elected: Mrs. Ames president, Mrs. Bruce Brown vice president, Mrs. Henry Ebert treasurer, Mrs. Marvin Adams secretary-reporter, with Mrs. Charles Martin and Mrs. Fern Smith on the flower and card committee.
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