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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1956
Page
2
Rural Grange will meet at 7 p.m. Thursday at the school. Work in the third and fourth degrees will be given. Cupcakes and coffee will be served. Roy Kirkpatrick of the city fire department underwent a tonsillectomy at Neosho Memorial Hospital today.
Daily Transcript lists Monday and today admittances at Memorial Hospital including Mrs J G Breshears Humboldt J Edward Swanson Elsmore Thomas Anderson Humboldt Emma L Blacksmith Humboldt Roy Kirkpatrick 712 N Kansas Mrs Joseph F McGinley 917 S Highland Mrs Arthur Schommer Eric. Dismissals Monday Yates Center Enfield Kamm Buffalo Mrs Fred Steward 118 S Garfield. Dismissals today Mrs Donald R Shields Humboldt Mrs B F Martin Thayer Mrs Edna Nibarger 1821 S Highland.
Ford stock will open tomorrow at 64.50 a share for a massive public offering. Ford Foundation, Inc. will collect 642.6 million dollars from the sale, the largest corporate equity financing in history. The price was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission as the final legal step before 10.2 million common shares go on sale. Underwriters across 722 firms report strong investor interest as the public joins heirs of Henry Ford in co ownership.
Erie Farm Management families gathered at the county extension office to review ledgers with help from William Guy, Chanute, farm management field man. Members listed include William Sailors, Vernie Umbarger, Durward Hines, Ed Neyhard, Ralph Reinhardt, Maurice Davidson, Ralph Fortenberry and others from Stark Earlton Eric Chanute Thayer areas.
Vice President Nixon inducts 12-year-old James Barry Twaits of New York City as the four millionth member of the Boy Scouts of America. He envisions Scouts behind the Iron Curtain and satellite nations aiding world peace in the atomic age.
Police theorize a hitchhiker murdered radar engineer Robert H. Himmler 31 of Cumberland Maryland. The victim, found in a Georgetown cemetery, had confidential papers on East Coast defense plans and radar systems. His car was later used in a Boston gasoline station robbery.
New York stocks showed modest progress today as steels and motors led the gains, while declines were fractional. Trading was localized with about two million shares changing hands, compared with 2,260,000 yesterday.
A week earlier robbers entered Fred Weber Jr.’s farm home northeast of El Dorado and took roller skates and shotgun shells. Over the weekend the same residence was broken into again, this time stealing an electric toaster and another pair of roller skates.
Kansas City livestock report shows cattle steady with strong to active demand for fed steers and vealers, hogs up 25 cents, sows steady. Parson's figures list varied prices for cattle, hogs, and veal, with mixed weights and stocker activity. Eggs, butter, and poultry prices unchanged in Chicago markets. Wheat and corn futures mixed as supplies and demand shift.
Market page lists grades of eggs and milk products with prices. Includes cream, butter, and various meat cuts plus undergrades and wholesale receipts. Also shows hens over four pounds and other animal products with scattered figures.
The State Accident Records Section lists traffic fatalities for the last 24 hours to date in 1956 as 1, with 23 in the same period of 1955 and 30 in the prior year overall.
A Kansas State College report states one in five students is married, reflecting rising domestic balance among attendees in Manhattan. The finding highlights changing demographics at the institution amid ongoing enrollment shifts.
The Ed Cabeen Service station and sporting goods store in Leon Kansas was broken into last night. A collection of old guns valued at $2,000 was stolen along with two electric razors.
The House Ways and Means Committee has moved to possibly reinstate Blake Williams, a former political adversary of Governor Fred Hall, to the payroll of the State Board of Medical Registration and Examination.
President Eisenhower appeared to have quieted demands for a general tax reduction in this election year. The Canadian air force reported 2 of 18 aboard a Quebec DC3 died in a northern Quebec wilderness crash. a third person remained missing.
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