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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1964
Page
2
AP dispatch details livestock prices with hogs down 25 to 50 cents for barrows and gilts and sows up 25 to 50 cents, cattle calves and sheep mixed with declines noted for steers and heifers. Prices for various weight ranges and grades listed, including Eggs wholesale prices steady to down, with grade A whites at 32 and other grades around 26 to 27 cents.
Hogs U S 1 and 2 grades 190 240 lb fetch 16 50 16 90 per cwt while larger sows and bears range down to 7 00. Cattle include grain fed steers and heifers at 21 50 22 50 for U S choice and 14 00 18 00 for standards with calves, yearlings, veal and cows priced across multiple grades.
AP reports Kansas City market figures for consumer eggs and wholesale eggs with grade A butter prices. Prices note large eggs 28 31 cents, mediums 21 26, small 18 19, wholesale large 33 35, mediums 28 29, live fryers at farm 12 13 percent, delivered at plant 13 14 4 percent, butter grade A solid 69 and quarters 70 cents per pound.
Chicago AP reports live poultry wholesale prices steady to down by a penny. Roasters ranged 23 to 26 cents per pound with special fed white rock fryers at 16 to 19 cents. Butter wholesale prices described as irregular in Chicago markets.
Chicago market notes show no wheat or soybean sales. Corn No 3 yellow at 1.275, No 4 yellow at 1.20. Oats No 2 heavy white at 78. Soybean oil at 11.70.
AP reports mixed grain trading at Kansas City with wheat down to 2 cent loss on select futures before closing, No 2 hard and dark at 1.58 1 63 per bushel, corn steady around 1.57 1.61 for No 2 white, oats bid 74 81 for No 2 white, rye around 1.12 1.15, soybeans 2.77 2.88, bulk bran 48.50 49.25, bulk shorts 49.25 50.00 per hundredweight.
Wall Street prices firmed slightly in moderate trading as of late this afternoon with about 4.1 million shares traded versus 3.58 million on Thursday. There was no sign of a yearend rally, while corporate and Treasury bonds declined.
Corrects a recent report of moves in The Tribune references Mrs Jessie Steele remaining at 114 East Third. Utilities records show 120 East Third owned by her with accounts transferred when a renter moved. Other brief items list holiday visitors, a spray painted house, vehicle accidents, and a possible break in at Alcott School.
An 88 year old St Petersburg man teased his wife by kissing her on a downtown bench after overhearing two elderly women discuss lone ladies. He walked away smiling, in view of the women, as the scene drew attention on the busy street.
Mrs. Glenn Altland of Key West has fashioned a new dress from fabric bought in 1913 by an aunt who died in a car crash shortly after. The material lay hidden in a cedar chest for years before being revived.
The island of Hokkai do comprises 20 percent of Japan’s land area but holds only 5 million people, about 5.4 percent of the nation’s total population.
Mrs. Lida Cotton 94 Stark died Sunday at Neosho Memorial Hospital after a brief illness. Born Lida Bell Prior in 1870, she lived in Stark most of her life, was married to Edward Kennedy then James Cotton, survived by three sons and many grandchildren. Funeral at Stark Methodist Church Tuesday 2 pm conducted by Rev. Wayne Newlin, burial Huff Cemetery Stark. Bearers named. separate grave service at Elmwood Chanute. Spurrier-Watt Howard overseeing.
Obituaries note the death of William C Alvis a Wichita telegrapher retired and services set for Tuesday in Wichita with a graveside at St Patrick Cemetery. Surviving are his widow a son a daughter two brothers and a sister. Clarence A Foose a Fort Scott resident engineer with the Kansas State Highway Department died at St Francis Hospital Wichita after illness. He is survived by a son three sisters and three brothers with funeral plans announced by Konatz Funeral Home. Other items list Burghart funeral at Howard, hospital admissions and dismissals at Neosho Memorial including multiple residents from Wichita Buffalo Autry Rest Home Humboldt and Garden City.
Funeral services for Richard Franklin Cockrell were held Sunday afternoon at Buffalo Christian Church with Rev. Gene Carey officiating. Ramona Cox and Imogene Rutherford, with Mrs. Francis Clough, sang two hymns. Floral attendants were Mrs. Frank Shipley and Mrs. Dean Kepley. Bearers were Melvin Cutler, Jake Cutler, Dale Lee, Willis Jones, Dean Kepley and Ernest Kepley. Burial followed in Buffalo Cemetery under Johnson Mortuary direction.
Funeral services for John H. McGinnis were held Sunday afternoon at the post Baptist church with Rev. Dale L Sneeringer officiating. John Rodgers of Miami sang The Old Rugged Cross and I Am Companied by Mrs P L Fors tund. Bearers were Chanute Masons and a Masonic graveside service followed at Fredonia cemetery.
Dismissal today at Alta Spur rier on W Main. Birth today to Mr and Mrs John Webb at 218 W Main. Additional notice from 206 N Malcolm.
Havana Radio reported on Sunday night that 14 factories were opened in Cuba this year representing a total investment of 38 million pesos. The peso is officially pegged to a dollar but has much less value on the market.
Chanute Tribune published in Chanute Kansas with bylines listing Dwight McCreight publisher Dwight Wallingford news editor John Hovorka advertising manager Mrs Leland Lowe circulation mgr Ben Nicholas composing run foreman Dorsey Osborn press stereo foreman and post office mailings. Paper issued evenings except Sunday and entered as second class matter with postpaid status.
Dean Skinner looks back on the past year and urges renewed determination in duty at work, community, and family. He advises breaking bad habits, preserving good ones, renewing old friendships, and severing harmful associations as 1965 begins.
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