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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1960
Page
2
Kansas City AP market notes hogs higher with 3,000 head traded and barrows and gilts 13.25 to 14.00, sows 10.75 to 12.00. Cattle 1,600 with slaughter steers 23.00 to 28.00, vealers 98.00 to 29.00, cows 13.00 to 16.25. sheep 600 with slaughter lambs 17.50 to 19.50 and ewes 4.50 to 6.50.
The excerpt lists corn, oats, maize, kafir, rye, barley, and dairy prices with multiple grade notes and car counts. It mentions current receipts for sweet cream and various hen and hide categories, followed by a transition to a priest describing a woman’s hopeful but unrealistic comeback.
Hog prices phrased with U S grades and weights, cattle steady with various weight classes, calves and stockers priced. sows and bears listed. Kansas City and Chicago markets show unchanged produce, dairy and eggs, poultry, and grain quotes with specific bid ranges and lot sizes.
Wilson County Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation office nears final contract signings for the Conservation Reserve of the Soil Bank to begin in 1960. February 1 is the deadline to sign all contracts as officials notify remaining applicants and urge prompt decisions. Priority goes to lands offered at the lowest rate versus the basic rate. funds are expected to cover all offered land.
New York AP reports actress Diana Barrymore died under unclear circumstances. An autopsy found no evident cause and investigators will continue probing. Barrymore, 38, was found in her East Side apartment with empty liquor bottles and sedatives nearby, police say. She previously attempted suicide five years earlier with sleeping pills. A St Louis priest recalled her May trip and wish to rejoin the church, noting her humble desire behind public bravado.
The local Veterans of World War I group will gather at 7 30 p m next Monday at Carpenter's Hall their new meeting place. The unit holds meetings on the first Monday of each month.
Airman 1 C Bruce C Barwise of Bovey Minnesota endures a second day inside a small capsule afloat on Lake Erie off Buffalo New York. Fog and light snow limit visibility while Barwise maintains radio contact with a Coast Guard team aboard the Maple as he battles chill and fatigue.
Daily Transcript lists Neosho Memorial Hospital admissions yesterday including Mrs Harry Steeves and Mrs E L Lambert with surgeries and Mrs Ewing Wolfe at 601 W 14th. Admissions today include Sandra Roles Alego Moya Clarence Yockey Eric Glen Halbe and Mrs Dean Geeding with medical needs. Dismissals yesterday and today name Albert Carder Maude Moore Ygnacio Gonzalez Glenda Alexander. Births report a girl to Mr and Mrs Harry Green of Earlton.
Funeral service for Perry Washington Sr. will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at Pilgrim Baptist church in Omaha with Myers Funeral Home in charge, moving from the originally announced Thursday date. Burial details are not listed.
Industrials slid in quiet New York trading with 2.6 million shares. Kimball area social events include church potlucks, birthday salute, and visits among families in Erie Chanute and Wichita. hospital stays noted.
In Chicago more than 6,000 people are expected to attend a dinner featuring Vice President Richard M. Nixon. The event is a $100-a-plate fundraiser sponsored by the United Republican Fund of Illinois.
Mrs. Elder and Mrs. Henry Hazen and Mrs. Harold Sample traveled to Parsons on Friday then visited Mrs. Fred Hagen and Mrs. Blanche Hibbs at Mercy Hospital. In Chanute, Mrs. Freda Kepley and Mrs. Paul Cook conducted business Saturday morning. Flu is widespread around Kimball and the Kimball Grade School closed Monday for two days.
State announces civil service examinations for highway maintenance foreman and highway district supervisor. Positions range statewide with the State Highway Commission. Details and applications available from the State Personnel Division at 801 Harrison Topeka or from highway division headquarters.
The Neosho Allen County NAACP hosted its state board for a two day meeting at the North Malcolm Community Center. Kansas NAACP president Dr Charles Raquemore led the Saturday night session with Carl Glatt as principal speaker on anti discrimination. Glatt compared New Jersey and Kansas laws and urged youths to boost scholastic work for job opportunities. The Chanute branch hosted Sunday dinner after the executive board met at noon with an overflow crowd. The Angel Choir and New Hope Baptist choir performed. Samuel Jackson urged letters to Congress for the civil rights bill. Other speakers included Leonard Carter and Solomon Kardafan with Rev Floyd Thuston giving the benediction.
More than 685 million Chinese will welcome the Year of the Rat with pageantry and ear-splitting firecrackers. The three day lunar holiday ends the Year of the Pig, with dragon led parades and noisy gongs across Peiping and major cities.
Sen. Harry F. Byrd notes federal civilian personnel fell to 2,364,253 in December, down 7,994 from November. The Twentieth Century Fund reports about 740 million acres in the United States receive too little rainfall to insure general agriculture.
Fragment from a report notes that the labor program aims to industrialize the country and that this year's Peiping celebration is scaled up, implying the Communists seek a broader display of easing tensions.
Dr Harold Wirth of New Orleans reports a sound machine combining waterfall roar and music to block pain during dental treatments. Developed at Tufts University, the device is worn as earphones with adjustable volume to numb pain signals in patients at the Dallas Midwinter Dental Clinic.
President Eisenhower flies to Los Angeles for the 1960 GOP campaign kickoff with stops planned in Denver. He will address a party fund raising dinner and help rally Republican support nationwide.
The program will transmit speeches to more than 80 rallies nationwide with live sound and picture. Other top speakers from various points will address the events, linking coast to coast in a unified campaign.
Billy Graham continues his African crusade by traveling from Accra to Nigeria after a Kumasi meeting where he says more than 3,000 Africans chose to follow Christ. In Ghana he met Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah who urged religious freedom for the people.
Judge Herbert P. Sorg of the U.S. District Court dissolved the historic Taft-Hartley court injunction that ended the 116 day nationwide steel strike last November 7. The proceeding Tuesday was quiet compared to the original issuance and did not draw much attention.
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