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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1963
Page
1
AP reports hog prices rising in Kansas City with 2,000 head traded. Barrows and gilts up to 50 cents higher and sows 25 cents higher. 185 to 240 pound bar rows and gilts 16.75. 275 to 450 pound sows 13.75 to 14.50. Cattle details listed as limited with steers bought to arrive at 26.50, good heifers 23.00, cows 13.09 to 15.50. Market for sheep not established.
In Kansas City the consumer price for eggs remains unchanged as do poultry and butter, with no reported shifts in cost or supply. The market notes stability across these staple dairy and poultry items for the period.
Chicago AP reports butter prices steady as eggs weaken across the market. egg quotes show 1 to 3 lower with grade A white at 35 mixed, 35 for 70 percent or better, mediums 34, standards 33, dirties 27 and checks 26 cents per dozen.
Chicago wheat and corn sales absent. Oats No 1 extra heavy white priced at 78 to 79. Soybeans No 2 yellow quoted at 2.49 to 2.54. Soybean oil at 8 value. Barley rates show choice 1.23 to 1.33 and feed 96 to 1.10.
Wheat slipped to about 2 to 4 cents lower at the close while March prices hovered around $2.10. Corn was little changed to down about 4 cents with March near $1.13. Oats and rye fell modestly, soybeans advanced about 7 cents with January futures near $2.48.
Hospital activity lists Thursday admissions and dismissals for Neosho Memorial with names and addresses for each patient. Also notes admission today and a police court action including pleas and traffic citation. District Court filing in Chanute details a divorce petition with custody and support requests.
Miss Virginia Kessler, 35, secretary, won election to Triadelphia Municipal Council despite a charter limiting to six able bodied men. She finished fifth in a 15 candidate field for six seats, becoming the town's first woman elected after court orders allowed her candidacy.
New York AP reports some strikers in millinery returned to work today under new contracts. A union spokesman said about 291,000 of 10,000 employees involved in a pre-Easter walkout affecting 350 shops had gone back to the job. Nathan Specator of the United Hatters Cap & Millinery Workers AFL-CIO expressed belief the strike would be over by Tuesday. The union seeks a 10 percent wage increase and a three year contract. management group head Louis Levitas said he was not as optimistic.
In New York, the market rose further after profit-taking, with heavy volume around 5.2 million shares. Most major stocks gained modestly, some by a point or more, as brokers viewed the session as a continuation of Thursday's rally driven by reinvestment after tax-loss selling. Corporate bonds climbed while U.S. government bonds fell.
Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Berthot of 423 S. Katy returned home Thursday after holidays with daughter and family Dr. and Mrs. Paul Ronniger in Salt Lake City. They visited son CWO Hugh Berthot and family in Colorado Springs. Berthot was recently assigned to Fort Carson as an army aviator after graduating from flying school at Camp Rucker Alabama. Mrs. Berthot is formerly Willa June Wolf daughter of Charlie Wolf of 721 W. Pine.
The Cha nute Public Library will present a story hour on Saturday at 10 30 a m The program features the book The Island of Fish in the Trees Read by staff for children and families in the community.
Mr and Mrs Robert Hite of Hawthorne California announce the birth of a son Jerald Warren on December 30 Their older son aged 22 awaits the new arrival at home Mrs Hite is the former Marilyn Gates.
Mr and Mrs Carl Bedenbender hosted guests on New Year s Day her sister Mrs Marion Manion and her nephew Larry Manion of Humboldt joined at 617 W Elm for a family visit within the extended household.
Weekend guests at 617 West Elm include their daughter and family, Mr and Mrs Dale Romig, Nancy, and Deann from Wichita. The Romigs will also visit Roy and Mrs Romig at 2017 Plummer. Front of a 1959 Chevrolet is described in the text.
Exercise Long Thrust VI will run January 14 through 17 as a NATO defense test in Western Europe. About 1,500 soldiers from the 1st Battle Group 28th Infantry Regiment 1st Division move from Fort Riley Kansas to Germany by Military Air Transport Service jets. The 2nd Battle Group of the 12th Infantry Regiment 1st Division will return to the United States.
James H Meredith, flanked by a carload of U S marshals, returned to the University of Mississippi after Christmas break for the final two weeks of exams. He faces academic scrutiny needing a D average to avoid probation. Officials pressed to withdraw 300 troops guarding Meredith amid ongoing campus desegregation tensions.
Mrs. Forrest Corser 74, of Golden Keys Home Neodesha, died this morning after a long illness. Born 1888 in Sedan, she married Forrest Corser in 1914 Chanute. he died 1948. Survived by son Harold, granddaughter Sharron, two sisters, one brother, and other relatives. Funeral Sunday at 2 pm at Loren Fawcett Funeral Home with burial at Cherryvale. Also notes infant William Scott Carl, Margaret Nutting, and William J. Hosfelt with service details and family connections.
Philadelphia officials plan an electronic hotfoot to deter birds. Public property commissioner Fred J. Corleto announced a $49,500 electrical network installed on roofs and ledges will be activated soon after prior attempts using starlings distress cries.
Damage estimated at 110 dollars from a 1:25 p.m. crash at Main and Grant yesterday. Mrs. Ralph Drake, 531 N Central, stopped on South Grant behind Ruth Butler, who drove a 1951 Studebaker that rolled backward. Butler’s car was undamaged. Funeral services for Ralph B. Karr, 74, will be at 2 p.m. tomorrow at Moran Methodist Church, with burial in Roseland Cemetery. The Ralston-Hutton Funeral Home of Moran handles arrangements. Karr, father of Bill and Ray Karr of Humboldt and Mrs. Charles Dramates Center, died Sunday in Samoset, Florida. He had farmed in North Dakota and Tonganoxie before moving to Allen County in 1938. Surviving: widow Laura. three other sons Ahmany, Bob, and Roy. two daughters Mrs. Charles Dunlap and Mrs. Virgil.
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Clarence H. Anderson aged 47 died in a two car collision Thursday night in Kansas City marking the citys first traffic fatality of the new year. Two others were injured in the crash.
Police found Grover A. Huff 64 and his wife Alta 67 dead at 2219 Drury Ave. Huff left a note saying he would shoot his wife and then kill himself. The deaths appear to have occurred Wednesday night.
Humboldt reports include plans for an officers training service Jan 9 for the Women's Service Guild of United Presbyterian Women at the church. Mrs Robert Williams Cha nute Neosho Presbyterial Society president will lead the service starting 9 30 a m with a covered dish luncheon. The day centers on stewardship with lessons by Mrs E N Hill and candlelighting for new officers led by Mrs A L Googins. A dialogue on recruiting and youth rally plans are announced as well.
AP reports in the 10th Federal Reserve district department store sales rose 26 percent for the week ending December 29 1962 versus the same week in 1961 an extra shopping day cited as key. Nationally sales jumped 33 percent for the week and 4 percent for the year with Kansas City and other cities showing strong gains.
Joe Sterner of Sternerers firm from Chanute leads the annual county audit, returning Sunday. Erie area residents share news including Bert Shackelton’s ankle injury, visits by Rev James Hoagland and Alpha Shoemaker, and county officials preparing for a Kansas County Engineers Assn. meeting. Guests and local movements feature among family visits, dinners, and travels to Joplin Kansas City Denver and St. Louis.
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