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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1966
Page
2
Livestock prices showed gains across hogs and sheep with barrows and gilts up 25 to 75 cents and sows higher by up to 50 cents. Lamb and lamb meat values climbed with good to prime lambs at 27.75 to 28.25. Cattle and calf trading mixed with steers 24.50 to 25.50 and feeder calves around 21 to 26.50, while feed costs for grains edged lower in futures.
Parson Hogs and cattle price ranges listed for various grades and weights. Includes sows boars and stag values, cattle grain fed and stocker calves, heifers and yearlings, plus sheep lamb and wool prices. Kansas City AP notes consumer eggs wholesale butter steady.
Chicago AP reports live poultry markets mixed with roasters at 24 2 25 pounds per hundred and heavy hens at 18 19. Butter prices show wholesale declines to 93 score AA 59 92 A 90 B 58 4 and eggs mostly steady to down with whites at 35 2 and mediums 33 with standards 33.
Wheat No 2 hard 1.68 percent lower and No 2 red 1.7174. Corn No 2 yellow 1.29 and No 4 yellow 1,224. Oats No 2 heavy white 7744. Soybeans No 1 yellow 2.74. Soybean oil 11.35. Wheat finished 4 to 1 percent cents a bushel lower as late selling spread across pits. March at $1.68, corn 42 low.
AP Kansas City notes wheat bids for 8 car shipments from No 2 hard to No 3, with ranges around 1.58 to 1.67. Corn bids for 16 cars show No 2 white and No 3 prices from 1.26 to 1.42, with mixed types at 1.34 to 1.35. Soybeans quoted 2.61 to 2.71, oats and barley listed with smaller ranges, and sacked bran/shorts at 47.00.
Chicago AP reports 54 people killed in 78 hours of New Year holiday travel. Combined with 720 deaths from Christmas weekend, total holiday toll reaches 1,284 for the two periods, an all time high. The 1964-65 New Year toll was 474, the lowest for 2 New Year weekends is 269 in 1949-50.
The New York market rose toward fresh highs in heavy session trading as copper steel aerospace defense rail utilities and selected stocks advanced. Bond markets showed mixed corporate bonds and U S Treasury bonds fell in late afternoon action.
Kansas traffic death log shows 0 fatalities in the Topeka area in the 24 hours to 9 am Tuesday. For January the total is 6, compared with 7 in the comparable 1964 period.
The Daily Transcript lists Monday admissions including Dan Hawkins Savenburg Lynn Gorrell 218 W 4th Gary Fewins Savenburg Harold Lundberg Savenburg and Jody Kern R 2 Sylvan Waggoner R 4 Carol Williams 1210 S Garfield birth of a girl to Mr and Mrs Alan Collins 19 S Western and dismissals such as James Locke Mrs Nacho Ornelas Mrs Fred Taylor 1 E 4th and John Laver Lavenburg plus police actions in Desert Springs California vagrancy sentencing and court citations across several towns with fines and moves noted.
Shawnee County District Judge Marion Beatty hears arguments in a Columbia Pictures suit challenging the constitutionality of the State Board of Review. The board reviews all Kansas releases. Columbia sued after not submitting two films. Former Gov. John Anderson and David W. Carson of Kansas City represent the studio.
The city commission passed an ordinance closing Elm Street from Washington to Garfield, separating the current junior high site from seven houses under negotiation. School census work will begin this month with Supt. Fisher announcing enumerators Phyllis Hasty Alta Breiner Mary Lou Cooper and Alice Pankratz will cover different district areas. The district received federal funds approval to build and run a special services center, with Nancy Dudley hired as remedial reading instructor and June Kiddoo approved for employment.
An explosion at Feyzin refinery and storage farm 12 miles south of Lyon left about 30 feared dead or missing. At least 75 burn victims were admitted to Lyon hospitals as officials warned three other tanks could be endangered by heat and flames. Two engineers and five firemen were reported missing while residents were evacuated.
An ambulance was sent at 12 20 a m to Bryant Rest Home for resident Mrs Harold Mount after a fall She was admitted to Neosho Memorial Hospital for treatment.
Mrs Kiddoo will begin her duties as director of school lunch programs once the junior high lunch facilities are completed. A revised district wide insurance plan covering all buildings and contents was approved. The district plans to sell bonds for construction at 11 a.m. January 18 in the Board of Education office. Supt Fisher reported no new developments in the auto mechanics school's status. A Topeka Manpower Development Act representative will visit Chanute Friday to meet with Fisher. Don Mallory of Chanute Office Supply spoke to the board about video transparencies and related equipment and invited members to a demonstration.
The Chanute Tribune announces daily publication except Sundays with staff credits for Publisher Dwight Wallingford News Editor Joan Haworke and Advertising Mar. Fay 0. Circulation Mgr. Ben Nicholas. Subscription rates: by mail to Chanute P O Box one year 13.00 six months 7.00 three months 4.00. by carrier in Chanute 1.70 monthly in advance.
Robert L. Dudley 58 of Columbia died Dec 31 at Boone County Hospital after three months illness. He once managed the Tioga Hotel in the 1930s and the Blue Hills Country Club in Kansas City. Survived by wife, son Robert and daughter Mary, plus a brother and two sisters. Funeral and burial in Columbia. Cletus Lee Henderson funeral held at First Baptist Church with burial Elmwood Cemetery and American Legion honors. Mrs. Hutchison and Mrs. Forslund sang. Flowers arranged by local volunteers. Gibson Koch Chapel arranged.
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