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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1958
Page
2
Kansas City AP report shows cattle and hog markets with cattle steady and hogs down on early rounds. Details include price ranges for steers, heifers, cows, bulls, and calves, plus regional notes from Parsons and Chicago Grain and Produce.
Funeral services for Mrs. Lucy Calvert were conducted at Miller Funeral Home McConnelsville July 6 with burial in McConnelsville Cemetery Evangelist J C Ready officiated. Mrs Calvert had lived in Chanute with daughter Mrs Lena Every for six years and was a Church of Christ member.
The Bank of Commerce won 9-3 over First National to stay first in the VFW Teener League. Elks fell to the Eagles 3-2, dropping three games back. Casebolt and Papst pitched for B of C, Jer ome caught, while Walsh and Joyce were behind First National’s battery. Eagles, Ellis, Godinez and Powell pitched for the losers. First National vs Elks and Bank of Commerce vs Eagles were set for Friday night.
The market retreated late amid renewed oil losses tied to Lebanon landings by U S Marines, while domestic oils and some sectors recovered modestly. Volume reached about 2.9 million shares. oils with Middle East holdings lagged, and some rails aircrafts and steels gained fractions to a point.
Lt. Col. Patrick F. McGinnis arrived in Kansas City July 12 for a weekend visit with parents Mr. and Mrs. John H. McGinnis of Chanute before returning to Washington D.C. to assume duties as military attaché to Honduras and liaison to British Honduras. The piece also notes local traffic arrests and family travel updates.
Admittances listed for Monday include Beatrice Giesler and Richard Campbell with medical notes, and Jean Wood at 80212 N. Santa Fe for medical. Dismissals include Roscoe Kimerling and Louise Dickerson from Humboldt, Wayne Singhurst in Independence, and several locals named Mrs Anna Hale, Mrs John Finley and son Eric, and Mrs Charles Bartholomew with daughter. Rural Grange meet at 8 p.m. Birth notice for Charles Card in Humboldt reports a girl.
A 75-millimeter shell believed live was found Monday in the west section of Coffeyville during ground clearing for a neighborhood baseball diamond. An unidentified man turned it to police after his son brought it home as a souvenir. How it ended up in the field remains a mystery. Separately in Independence, Robert Garner, 22, died after a granary slot door collapsed trapping him.
Ben S. Paulen of Fredonia former Kansas governor and past grand master of the Masonic Grand Lodge of Kansas was honored in Parsons on his 89th birthday. Mrs Paulen joined the event with attendance from Masonic bodies around the state numbering about 150.
Richard Campbell 14 of R 1 was hurt with facial back and leg injuries when his motor bike collided with a car driven by Myrtle Edie Noland 27 of 1320 W 4th four miles south and eight miles east of Chanute. Noland escaped injury as her car veered into a ditch.
The Farmers Home Administration approved 3,008 loans totaling 11.867 million dollars to farm families in Kansas in the last fiscal year. This amount is about two million dollars less than the previous year.
Baxter Springs Kansas funeral services were held for Sam A. Douthit 70 a former state legislator and tax appraiser who died Sunday in a hospital He also served as Bax ter Springs mayor twice and as a city councilman for four years.
Daily average crude oil and condensate production rose by 55 855 barrels to 6 435 825 in the week ended July 12 per the Oil and Gas Journal survey. Texas led the gain with about 59 150 barrels more than the prior week.
Oil inventories fell sharply with Kansas down 17,310 barrels to 295,980 and Oklahoma slipping 8,900 to 525,500, reflecting broader declines across the region.
The Kansas Real Estate Commission announced that J. Donald Williams of Salina was elected chairman, succeeding Carl R. Guilkey of Independence.
Comedian Red Skelton departed Tokyo by Army plane bound for Korea to perform for American troops on his first such tour since his son Richard died on May 18 last year.
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