This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 14 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1969
Page
4
Kansas City cattle and hog prices with ranges for grain fed steers and heifers U S choice and good categories. Cows bulls and sheep listed with weights and values including feeder calves and yearlings. Prime slaughter lambs reported in mid 20s per hundred weight.
AP reports wholesale egg prices adjusted for producers: Grade A large or better 44 to 47 cents per dozen, medium A 42 to 46, small A 28 to 31, large B 37441 cents. better unchanged for Grade A solid 79 per pound and Grade A quarters 80 per pound.
The Dow Jones at noon rose 5.41 to 933.74 and the AP 60-stock average climbed 2.6 to 390.6 as brokers cited December record industrial output and a new peak in gross national product. Optimism over Vietnam peace progress supported the rally.
Daily hospital notes show 77 adults and pediatric patients and seven babies. Visiting hours are 2 to 4 p.m. and 6:30 to 8 p.m. Admissions include Russell Shields and Elva Brower among others. dismissals include Mrs. Gilbert Wilson and Roger McAuley. Police notices list tag display and parking charges and a divorce case filed in Chanute District Court.
The Neosho Memorial Hospital board reported December totals of 242 inpatients broken down to 167 medical 51 surgery and 24 obstetrics. Outpatients reached 173 with 43 X ray 40 laboratory and emergency room visits. Inpatient days 1858 nursery 78 with 58.8 percent occupancy for adults and pediatrics and 17.8 percent for nursery. Daily average 60 adults and 2.5 nursery infants. Wilbur Allison joined the board. other members Virgil Mix John McMeekin and Dwight Walingford chaired by Walingford.
Deaths and funeral notices record services for Earl F Guy 76 Arzada Christine Fischer Rose Winans and Kenneth Gingrich with details on locations sponsors bearers and burials. Services occurred at Campbell Funeral Home Zion Lutheran Church Memorial Park Cemetery East Hill Cemetery and Gibson Koch Chapel with military rites noted. Bearers and floral attendants named along with survivors and burial places.
The Christian Women’s Fellowship of Erie will hold a general meeting at 1:30 p.m. Thursday at Erie Christian Church. The executive board meets at 1 p.m. Mrs. Margaret Blair of Scotland visits Dr. and Mrs. Abbuehl at 221 E. 9th. Blair’s daughter Robin Loudon formerly lived in Chanute.
Ground is broken and footings poured for the new Woodson County jail. Workers are installing underground plumbing as construction starts on the facility north of the courthouse in Yates Center.
Independence annual report cites two deaths and 56 injuries from 398 traffic accidents in 1968. Property damage totals about 114,883 dollars. Police Chief Jim Wieland notes many minor fender benders in the year.
Two non injurious crashes were reported near Chanute yesterday. Vernon Lohse of Erie could not stop for following traffic on US 169 causing a jackknifed semi on the Turkey Creek bridge with about 200 dollars damage. Roy D. Myers of Elsmore hit a deer on K39 three miles east of Chanute. the deer died and the car sustained around 100 dollars damage.
Erie plans include the musical Our Miss Brooks tonight and tomorrow in the high school gym. The Erie Red Devils meet Galena Friday. A Booster Club pancake feed Saturday funds a new team with serving times from 6 to 8 am 11 am to 1 pm and 5 to 7 pm. A boys basketball league questionnaire issued and next booster meeting will finalize plans. Supt. Han and clerk Wintle attended the Kansas Association of School Boards convention in Topeka Sunday through Tuesday.
Erie attendance center sponsors adult education classes at the high school office. Principal William Tipton announced tentative welding, woodworking, typing, bookkeeping, and modern math courses with a $10 enrollment fee and a minimum of 12 students per class.
Wayne Burghart of Chanute buys Smith Lumber Co at 306 E Main and renames it Burghart Lumber Co. Smith Lumber is owned by Bill Glasscock of Manhattan and Bill Allen of Kansas City who run six other yards. Burghart will run Burg hart Construction Co and employ three workers. former manager Rogers Roles shifts to the education maintenance department.
The 1969 Kansas Legislature took up a gun control bill on its first day and plans to introduce a broad criminal code overhaul. Sen. Steadman Ball noted sweeping changes, with seven Senate bills and initial House measures to follow. Committees meet as Gov. Docking prepares a budget address to a joint session Thursday.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.