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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1968
Page
4
Cattle around 4500 head and calves 100 see steady to firm bids. High choice and prime steers 28.50 to 29.00, heifers 26.50 to 27.50, feeder steers and heifers mixed ranges shown. Hogs and sheep also reported with steady to mixed movement and specific weight brackets. Prices for cows, calves, sows and lambs listed across multiple weights.
Chicago wholesale markets show live poultry prices unchanged with roasters 24 to 26 cents, special fed white rock fryers 19 to 21, ten ducks at 30. Butter unsettled with mixed grade quotes, eggs steady to firm with large whites around 49 cents and other grades down to 21 cents.
Price ranges for hogs cattle and sheep listed with weights and grades. Markets show pareto spread across weights from 180 to 300 pounds and terms include sows bulls cows and feeder calves. The note closes with a reopening date of January 6 after New Year’s Day closure.
In Neosho County Kansas Probate Court Mildred Gibson seeks admission of the will of Glenn S Gross dated October 16 1968 and appointment of Mildred Gibson as Executrix without bond Hearings set for January 22 1969 at 10 00 a m in Erie Kansas Attorneys for Petitioner Henshall and Pennington Chanute Kansas The Probate Judge Alberta Gough presiding
Notice of appointment of John Knight as executor of the will of Harve L Johnson deceased in Neosho County Kansas. Creditors must file demands within nine months from first publication. failure bars claims. Executor address and probate details provided.
AP report from Kansas City notes wholesale egg prices large 80 per cent A 45 to 48 cents per dozen mediums 80 per cent A 43 to 47 cents. Butter unchanged grade A ib solid 79 cents, grade A ib quarters 80 cents per pound.
The New York stock market opened with mixed action and quickly moved lower as losses outpaced gains on the NYSE. The Dow Jones average fell 6.21 to 946.30 while the AP 60-stock index dropped 1.4 to 358.1 amid broad declines and several large block trades.
Viet Cong shot down three American helicopters over the weekend raising total losses to 968 in South Vietnam. U.S. and South Vietnamese troops pressed 60 offensive operations despite a Viet Cong cease-fire proclamation.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Rich ard Leatherman and family of Houston visited relatives in town over Christmas, with stops in Magnolia and Wichita. Don L. Jackson and Francis Jackson hosted multiple Kearney area relatives during holidays. Two juveniles were detained for curfew violations at 2:30 a.m. at E-Z Way laundry. Leonard Johnson reported a broken plate glass window at Johnson's Studio. A railroad tie was broken on the Santa Fe line at Fourteenth Street and the city repaired it after the incident.
Paris AP report says U S and North Vietnam expect no talks to break the peace conference deadlock before year end. Others warn the ground rules dispute keeps the parley open and unclear if the conference will open before January 20 in the wake of Nixon’s presidential inauguration.
Daily Transcript reports Neosho Memorial Hospital limiting visitors to one immediate family member. census lists 49 adults and pediatrics plus one baby. Admissions span Saturday Sunday and today with multiple patients named by initials and addresses in medical status. Police court actions note bonds for traffic and liquor violations and fire and accident reports follow.
If he can't be reached dial HE 1 3400 after 6 p.m.
Hazardous driving conditions sparked eight accidents in Chanute over the weekend with one injury. Lynn Lofthouse, 20, treated at Neosho Memorial Hospital, was a passenger in a VW driven by William Waggoner in a collision with a Chevrolet driven by Steve Almond near City Park drainage ditch bridge. Damage ranged from light to minor across multiple incidents on snow and ice at intersections in Chanute.
Ted A Churchill 74 of 801 S Washington died at KU Medical Center Kansas City born November 3 1894 married Helen Goss April 8 1925 at Chanute survived by wife daughter Jane Brigden Cherryvale four grandchildren and sister Maude B Churchill Kansas City. Minnie Edna Reagan 82 mother of Maurice Reagan died in Newton a former wife of Rev Charles A Reagan longtime Friends University figure survivors include five sons two daughters and a sister funeral details noted. Mrs Earl Pulliam funeral held at Gibson Koch Chapel burial Memorial Park Cemetery with extensive surviving family and church ties listed. Mrs Bessie May Hydorn of rural route 2 died at Neosho Memorial Hospital funeral at First United Methodist Church.
Santos P. Ramirez died in Topeka on Friday at age 71. He previously lived in Kansas City 14 months and was born in Mexico on November 1, 1897. He married Patricia Godinez in Chanute on November 11, 1985 and worked as a laborer for the Santa Fe railroad.
Mrs. Gladys Gafney, formerly of Chanute, died early today in Shamoikin Pennsylvania where she had lived for 13 months. Gibson Koch Chapel will announce the time of the graveside service to be held here.
William Erickson was honored with a memorial service at Colfax Baptist Church on Saturday morning. Rev. Charles A. Peay led the service with Hazel Slane at the organ. A vocal quartet including Harry Jackson, Myron Cooper, and Charles Peay contributed, with floral attendants Glenn Hanson and Harry Larson. Bearers listed were George Madill, Howard Smith, Glenn Hanson, Reynold Ruffman, Chester Uden and Glenn Stoll. Burial followed in Colfax Cemetery.
The notice explains regular classified ads accepted until 10 am on publication day with a 9 am Saturday cutoff. It also notes an exception for display classified ads whose deadline is the preceding day.
Trygve H. Lie, first United Nations secretary general, died at 72 in Norway. He collapsed at a Geilo hunting lodge after years of health decline. Lie led the UN from 1946 to 1954, later retiring to Norway and returning to public life with hopes of a prime ministerial path.
Secretary of State designate William P. Rogers met with U S ambassador to Japan U Alexis Johnson who may receive a major foreign policy post in the Nixon administration. Johnson, 60, had just returned from Tokyo and also met with Secretary of State Dean Rusk, as Rogers seeks candidates for undersecretary and deputy undersecretary for political affairs. Johnson has served in the deputy undersecretary post across Kennedy and Johnson administrations and brings more than 30 years in the foreign service.
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