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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1963
Page
2
Chicago butter steady while Kansas City reports cattle and calves mostly steady to weak with vealers, heifers and steers near unchanged. Hogs weak to 25 lower with 4,500 head. sows steady. Sheep steady with good to high choice wooled lambs 18 to 19 dollars and ewes 6 to 7 dollars.
Parsons Livestock shows steady bids across hogs cattle and calves with varied grades and weights. CHICAGO AP reports mixed poultry and grains with hogs and cows steady and grains showing small shifts in corn soybeans and wheat futures.
AP report from Kansas City shows consumer eggs prices paid to producers in mid range 26 to 34 cents, most at 29 cents, with other items like medium eggs mostly unchanged while poultry and butter hold steady.
Wall Street was off irregularly in light profit taking with slow trading as 4.2 million shares changed hands. Separately, Kansas notices in Neosho County court seek determinations of descent for Wilma M. Hutton and James O. Van Valey estates, with February 13 deadlines for defenses.
AP notes Kansas City wheat bids at 24 cars with gains of about 2.27 to 2.28 percent for No 2 hard and dark, No 3 at 2.23 to 2.69 percent. Corn bids for 39 cars show increases to No 2 white 1.26–1.33, No 2 yellow and mixed 1.24–1.25. Milo, kafir, rye, barley, soybeans, bran and shorts listed with varied ranges.
Dick Stryker was elected president of the Wilson County Livestock Association at the courthouse meeting in Fredonia. Calvin Clinesmith became vice president, Dan Pherigo secretary treasurer, and Maurice Harshaw reporter. A southeastern Kansas producer panel discussed creep feeding stocker calves and feedlot management. Participants included Prin gle Yates Center Fink Moran Bacon Taylor Earlton Thiessen Howard and sponsor First National Bank of Fredonia.
News briefs recount Mrs. T Tyson of Chanute visiting son Virgil Tyson in Clovis New Mexico after Las Vegas funeral of daughter Leona Mitchell. Other items note Army business in Hollywood and minor traffic collision reports.
About 600 people attended youth recreation activities sponsored by the City Recreation Commission. The Launching Pad hosted 200 students for cageball, ping pong, pool, and a marionette workshop, with 167 junior high students buying 25 cent registration cards.
Robert Frost, four time Pulitzer Prize winning poet and dean of American poets, died in Boston at 1 50 a m after a hospitalization for urinary obstruction heart attack and blood clots in the lungs. Doctors listed the cause as probably a pulmonary embolism. Frost had undergone operations since Dec 3 and remained a heralded literary figure from rural beginnings to Kennedy inauguration invitation.
Four East German teenagers and a 52 year old woman climbed the Berlin wall Monday night and reached safety in West Berlin police reported Two more refugees crossed the border between East Germany and Zehlendorf West Berlin suburb
The Chanute Tribune lists publication details for Highland Chanute Kansas with staff roles and office policies. It also lists subscription rates by mail for Neosho Allen Wilson Woodson counties and outside four counties with yearly and monthly prices.
Harvey B. Gantt began his first full day at Clemson College as the only Black student in a publicly funded white school in South Carolina. He attended an orientation course and slept in an all white dormitory. Clemson officials set ground rules for reporters, barring campus access without PR accompaniment to protect the academic program.
President Kennedy will not hold a news conference this week according to the White House. He did meet with newsmen last Thursday.
City voters face an April 2 election on a utility supported industrial levy. The plan proposes up to one mill, up from previous years, with two consecutive approvals required. The levy funds industrial promotion under the commission and would yield about $9,818 yearly based on the 1962 valuation.
A brief ad notes The Tribune offered by carrier at a rate of 35 cents per week.
Earl Edgar Williams funeral was conducted Monday at Grace Episcopal Church with Rev. Harry W. Firth officiating. Harold Tarpley accompanied Mrs. Tarpley in singing The Lord's Prayer. Honorary bearers were Jim Cooper George Butler Ray Smith Alf Goodwin William Brennan and Richard Ahring. Active bearers were Ted Ahlers John Lapham Paul Parsons Joe Balch A R Brant and George Cox. Burial followed at Memorial Park with Johnson Mortuary handling arrangements.
Daily Transcript lists admissions at Neosho Memorial Hospital on Monday. Included are Mrs Kenneth Miller of Humboldt with surgery, Mrs Leota Overbay at 723 S Grant with medical, Mrs Marvin Aikens at 1005 N Garfield with medical, Ellis Holtzman of Thayer with medical, John Wilkerson at 421 W 4th with medical, and Mr and Mrs Besto Ferguson of Mound Valley with medical. Dorothy Smith at 805 S Allen with surgery. Dismissals include Mrs Ralph Berg of 417 N Grant, Laleta Houser of 502 S Santa Fe, Mrs Julia Ashley of 704 S Central, and Genevieve Noland of 305 S Evergreen.
Republican state chairman Richard Rogers warned there is ample Democratic opposition without seeking more. He spoke to the Republican State Committee to ease reports of coolness with Governor Pearson and aimed to prevent intra party strife during the upcoming legislative session. Rogers tied the 1964 GOP ticket to the record of Governor John Anderson Jr and the Republican Legislature.
Topeka Kansas marked its 102nd birthday with modest Kansas Day activities. The state observed brief legislative sessions as members joined in the tradition and attended commemorative meetings in Topeka.
The TOPS Determinettes met in Sawyer Hall with Mrs. David Brot ton presiding Monday afternoon. Dietician Grace Tewksberry spoke on A Balanced Diet stressing a good breakfast and warning against focusing on one or two foods. Eight pounds were lost since the last meeting, with Mrs. Fred Gerardy losing the most weight. Next meeting set for Feb 4 for exercises.
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