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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1961
Page
2
Kansas City AP dispatch reports higher cattle and hog prices with steers and heifers showing gains, hogs and sows up, and steady to higher cattle classes. Parson livestock data adds mixed price shifts for calves, cows, bulls, and feeders across multiple weight ranges.
John Roberts 76 died after a long illness at St. Margaret's Hospital Fredonia entering earlier in the week. Survivors include son Burr and three Denver grandchildren with two sisters in Maryland and Benedict. Funeral plans incomplete Dunham Mortuary Fredonia in charge. Ora Olive Mosier funeral held at Koch-Skinner Memorial chapel with Rev Paul Life officiating. Mary Lee Bohlander former Stark resident funeral at Stark Methodist Church with services and bearers. Burial Evergreen Cemetery Fort Scott. John Bishop rural Buffalo died Saturday buried in Buffalo. He leaves a wife five daughters two sons and many grandchildren and great grandchildren. Koch Skinner Memorial Home in charge. In India Ganges water believed to cleanse sin for a dying person.
Mr and Mrs Richard Bailey and Ginny Ann and Stevie returned home from California after holidays with Cha nute friends and relatives. Holiday guests stayed with Mr and Mrs Charles Tripp and others from Denver Shawnee Independence and Houston. An attempted break in at Lowe Implement Co was reported with two windows broken but no entry.
Daily Transcript reports yesterday admissions at Neosho Memorial Hospital including Mrs Earl Mitchell of St Paul and Mrs Richard Doty of Humboldt with medical cases and several surgeries. Dismissals listed include Mrs Bill Althaber and Rev Ruth Campbell with others. Admissions today list Clyde Russell and Tracy Allen as medical and surgical respectively. Births announced for Victor Miller and James Reid families with a boy and a girl.
A series of traffic accidents were investigated by Chanute police and the Highway Patrol. One minor injury occurred when a 1952 Pontiac driven by Joyce Malcolm of Chanute collided with a 1950 Highway Commission truck at 14th and Allen. Cindy Webb sustained lip and cheek lac erations. Damages included 200 to the Pontiac and 100 to the truck. Additional crashes involved a 1953 Olds striking a car on Lincoln near Main, a 1955 Plymouth and a 1958 Ford collision at 11th and Grant with 300 and 100 in damages, and an intoxicated driver, Art Gaughan, whose car hit a tree and was seized for BAC testing. A 1956 Chevrolet was scraped by a 1930 Model A Ford on Lincoln near Grant.
In Wichita, 228 cases are scheduled for the January term before U.S. District Judge Deimas C. Hill. The docket includes 18 criminal cases, 110 civil non jury cases, 95 civil jury cases and 5 land condemnation suits.
Eight break ins in Mulberry Kansas totaled 630 dollars in cash and 30 watches or rings. City offices lost 200, the post office 180, Bushe Brothers grocery 150. Jewelry firm Brand Jewelry had watches and rings stolen. Marshal Knight found all in order at 2:30 a.m.
The White House said the breaking of diplomatic relations with Cuba has no effect on the status of the Guantanamo naval base. James C. Hagerty emphasized that the naval station remains under U S control and treaty rights remain in force unless the United States consents to abrogation.
A Civil Aeronautics Board inquiry heard 125 witnesses describe the December 16 United Air Lines and Trans World Airlines collision over Staten Island that killed 128 aboard the planes and eight on the ground. Witnesses said both planes were in low level flight with the UAL jet touching the TWA Constellation on the right side. The DC8 allegedly continued straight with no evasive action, and the Constellation broke apart with fire near the wing. Most described the sound as a jet breaking the sound barrier or a grinding noise.
Shawnee County District Court approved a referee's report generally backing Southwestern Bell's $5.8 million per year rate increase plan after the Kansas Corporation Commission granted only $1.3 million. The ruling, likely to be appealed to the Kansas Supreme Court, would push rate setting toward a fair value basis rather than original cost. Dist. Judge Paul Heinz rejected ECC and Bell motions to overturn portions of the report.
Fire chief Bill Brennan reports Chanute Fire Department logged eight runs in December bringing annual total to 155 with estimated losses of 14 480 far below 1959 s 36 238. December calls included two business buildings two residences one car one grass and one carbon monoxide check with no losses.
A Jacksonville Art Museum break in yielded a note signed A Breaker and Enterer saying the exhibits were excellent and stimulating. The incident was reported by Director Russell Hicken. The item also references Samuel Richardson, noting his printer role during his writing career.
A local sales pitch touts yeast vitamin mineral supplements as improving digestion assimilation and health, promising better gains and production. The speaker offers to demonstrate the formula and assist buyers.
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