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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1968
Page
2
AP notes cattle 200 head with calves not priced. Hogs 2,700 with barrows and gilts 25 to 50 cents lower. 195 to 235 pounds 18.35 to 19.00. 220 pounds 19.25. 220 to 255 pounds 18.75. 255 to 300 pounds 18.25. sows steady at 1.00 to 16.25. Sheep 25 head with no price test.
Kansas City AP reports wholesale price levels for 7gs large and medium grades with 80 percent A values and butter prices unchanged. The figures show 7gs large at 80 percent A 31 to 33, mediums at 80 percent A 28 to 30.
Chicago reports butter steady and eggs barely steady with prices mostly unchanged or down one cent. Grade A whites around 33 percent. mix of 31s and medium 31 1-32 cent ranges noted in markets.
Wheat No 2 hard 1.57 No 2 soft red 1.49. Corn No 2 yellow 1.12 to 1.13. Oats No 2 heavy white 0.817 to 0.82. Soybeans No 1 yellow 2.73. Soybean oil 8.95.
A Mothers March on Birth Defects will be held in Chanute next week with door to door solicitors. The campaign, once the March of Dimes, now targets birth defects after polio vaccine success.
Stocks rise on the New York Stock Exchange with the Dow up 2.31 to 86.56 at noon. The Associated Press average climbs 1.6 to 315.9 as industrials gain 3.0 and utilities advance amid fading war scare prospects.
Recreation calendar lists Tonight at Launching Pad Junior High Night from 7 to 10 with NCCJC Panthers facing Fort Scott Greyhounds and a community dancing event. Saturday open house at Launching Pad 9 to 12 and 1 to 4 with Industrial Basketball at St Pat's gym Chanute Lumber versus Personal Thrift at 6:30 and Thayer State Bank versus Sark State Bank at 7:45 followed by Senior High Night at Launching Pad 7:30 to 10:30.
The Chanute Tribune and The Hutchinson News offer a 23 day air tour to Spain Portugal Palma Gibraltar and Casablanca. Departing Wichita March 1 the itinerary includes a Madrid bullfight Estoril pleasures Lisbon and a night in New York. Cost 998 with deadline February 1.
Cha nute Recreation Commission calls for more boys to join square dance lessons that started yesterday at Central Park Community Building. Twenty seven fourth graders attended, only six were boys. fifth and sixth graders join Fridays. Instructor Stanley Lundine notes need for more male participants. Classes run from 4 5 p.m. and registration is available at sessions.
The piece argues that private monopoly and government services both show flaws in pricing and profits. It compares Bell Telephone with the Post Office Department from 1932 to 1968, noting rate changes and deficits. It endorses private ownership of the postal system as potentially better for the public.
The entry notes events on January 26 across centuries including US troops landing in northern Ireland in 102, the Le Griffon keel laying in 1679, Michigan's statehood in 1837, Louisiana secession in 1861, Gen Douglas MacArthur's birth in 1880, the Anzio battle in 1944, and 1952 Cairo mob attacks on Western property and Shepheard's Hotel.
Daily Transcript records visiting hours from 2 to 4 pm and 6 30 to 8 pm at Neosho Memorial Hospital. Census lists 73 adults and pediatrics with four babies. Thursday admissions include Mrs Everett B Lynch and several others for medical and surgical care. Dismissals and admissions today noted along with a fire run on Thursday and licenses issued for several individuals in Monett and nearby towns. Police court actions list traffic and license citations with fines.
Oswego Kansas AP report: W. W. Barnard, a former member of the Kansas Legislature, died Thursday at age 76 in Oswego.
Children will hear Keep Your Houth Closed Dear at the public library from 10 30 to 11 a m on Saturday. The event aims to engage youngsters with a safety themed tale and activities.
In Topeka the Kansas Senate met briefly then recessed for the weekend. It adopted a motion to delay a final vote on a bill creating a nonpartisan State Board of Education after preliminary approval. A new bill would allow districts to buy or rent housing for teachers where shortages exist.
Tonnie Lofthouse, eight, enters contests for her parents Mr. and Mrs. David Patton of Cheyenne Wyoming and Chanute roots. The Pattons won a four day vacation for two in Las Vegas or Miami Beach and qualify for a second prize with travel paid and cash, as the girl’s persistence pays off.
The funeral for Arthur M. Lee took place Thursday afternoon at Gibson-Koch Chapel with Rev. Dale Sneeringer officiating. Mrs. Wilma Hutchison sang In the Garden, flowers arranged by local ladies, bearers named Sherel Booe, Ivan Lock, Howard Bowker, Robert Smith, Kent Grubb and C. E. Galbreath, burial in Elmwood Cemetery.
The 184th Tactical Fighter Group in Wichita has its reporting time advanced to 7 p.m. tonight for activation. Previously the activation was scheduled for 12:01 a.m. Saturday at McConnell Air Force Base. Lt. Vaughn Shank, the group information officer, stated all personnel must report by 7 p.m.
The Heritage Singers of the University of Missouri at Kansas City will appear in concert Sunday at 7 30 p m in First Presbyterian church. Dr Everett Hendricks directs the 45 voice choral group recently featured on NBC network programs.
The Chanute Tribune lists staff positions including Dwight McCreight as publisher and Wayne J. Smith as news editor. It outlines subscription rates for both in and outside trade territories and Chanute post office boxholders, plus carrier pricing and AP membership notice.
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