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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1967
Page
2
Kansas City AP reports cattle 5 000 head steady with cows down up to 50, steers 25.75 to 27.00, hogs 4 000 head barrows and gilts down to 25, sows 17 to 20, sheep 1 000 head steady with spring lambs 23 to 24.50. Grains show corn No 2 yellow 1.30, oats 75, soybeans 2.86, soybean oil 9.15.
U S hog prices list multiple weight grades with bids ranging from 12.00 to 22.25 dollars per hundredweight. Cattle prices cover grain fed steers and heifers from 19.50 to 25.00, stocker and feeder calves 19.00 to 32.00, heifers and calves 22.00 to 26.00, and primes 27.00 to 33.00. Sheep show finished lambs up to 22.50 and ewes from 4.50 to 15.00 with feedlot types noted.
AP reports Kansas City wholesale egg prices steady at 80 percent A for large 29 to 33 cents and 80 percent A for mediums 21 to 24 cents. Butter unchanged with grade A small blocks at 78 and grade A pounds at 77.
Chicago markets report live poultry roasters at 27 to 29 cents per pound with White Rock fryers 20 to 22 cents. Butter remains steady with 93 score AA at 66 cents and 92 A at 66 cents. eggs unchanged with whites 34 cents, mixed 34, mediums 24.
The Chanute Area Chamber of Commerce will hold a general membership meeting at 8 o clock tonight in the Memorial Building chamber office. Several committee meetings follow this week with schedules for industrial streets and highways oil and gas aviation and leaders named.
Wheat and corn futures show declines with No 2 Hard and Dark Hard at 1.58 to 1.60 per bushel and No 2 Yellow mixed at 1.30 to 1.36. Soybeans range 2.72 to 2.80 per bushel, milo 2.18 to 2.24, oats largely unchanged, and bran and shorts priced around 46.00 to 51.75 per ton.
Emma Bertha Glamser 81 of Fredonia died at home. Services Tuesday 2 p.m. at Dunham Chapel Fredonia. burial Buffalo City Cemetery. Wesley Whitworth 58 of Erie died after yearslong illness. Service Tuesday 3 p.m. at Erie Federated Church. burial Easthill Cemetery. Funeral services Ehrman held at Gibson Koch Chapel with burial Elmwood Cemetery.
Wall Street trades higher despite a nationwide railroad strike showing little dampening. Through four hours, volume reached 7.69 million shares versus 7.85 million Friday. Copper stocks mixed with the strike, nonferrous metals rose on silver price ceiling removal, steels, rubbers, and autos gained with Chrysler up more than 2 percent.
Memorial services for Glenn E. Shofner 46 will be held Tuesday afternoon at Romero funeral home in Belen New Mexico. He died of an apparent heart attack Sunday while helping to switch railroad cars at the Belen yards during a rail strike. His body will be sent to Wellington Kansas for burial there.
Governor Robert Docking spent the day in Arkansas City on private business and planned to return to Topeka later today, according to his office.
Police investigated three non injury traffic accidents yesterday. At Lincoln and Elm a 1953 Chevrolet driven by Frankie Reyes struck a parked 1962 Ford wagon owned by Gorton Goltry. Reyes was cited for careless driving and posted $25 bond. A 1965 Honda ridden by Ronald Bryant collided with a 1964 Chevrolet driven by Richard Tomlinson at 16th and Ashby. Bryant’s father was charged with permitting a minor to operate a motorcycle and posted $15 bond. At 18th and Highland Lena Whitworth�s 1963 Valient collided with Carroll Stewart�s 1954 Ford. both vehicles sustained front end damage.
A 43 year old man was shot three times and died at a hospital after an early Sunday argument. Police arrested 19 year old Jerry William Smith of Kansas City who said the victim had threatened to kill his mother.
The Commerce Department reports the nation's GNP rose at a 2.5 percent annual rate in the second quarter, led by stronger auto sales. Total GNP reached 775.3 billion, with price increases offsetting part of the gain. First-half growth averaged 1.2 percent, below the three-year 5.8 percent trend, and officials still forecast a sharper upturn in the second half of 1967 to fund inflation control and Vietnam debt.
Gov. Docking named Kenneth Harstein of Wichita David Dehaemers of Olathe and James A Fin nell of Topeka to join the five member State Salvage Board created to aid highway beautification provisions. Existing members are John D Montgomery and L A Billings.
The International Association of Machinists leads a nationwide rail strike disrupting Vietnam materiel shipments commuter services and mail. Congress pledges swift action. Machinists seek a two year contract with 6.5 percent raise this year and 5 percent next plus 12.5 cents hourly for skilled workers. Railroads offer 6 percent over 18 months. Regular workers average 2.94 dollars hourly and skilled 3.05. Other unions back demands including sheet metal workers boilermakers electricians and carmen.
Topeka firefighters protest a proposed pay raise plan that would give police a 27 percent increase while firemen receive five percent. Captain W R McCarter of IAFF Local 83 warns of drastic action if disparities grow, as hearings on salaries continue.
A 1957 Chevrolet pickup sustained over 300 dollars in damage in a single vehicle accident on US 59 near the Neosho River bridge south of Erie. Driver Dale Jeffrey 17 and passenger J D Sexton 18 both of Erie were uninjured. The truck was registered to Richard Jeffrey. Earlier, a minor crash at Main and 2nd in Erie involved John Gray Jr 60 of Chanute R 3 and a parked 1962 Chevrolet pickup damaged in its right rear fender.
Mr and Mrs Claude Walker and Steve plan to move to Montezuma Georgia were dinner guests Sunday evening of Mr and Mrs Robert Briley Monty and Bobbie Jeanne 115 S Rut ter. Lois Jackson returned from a two week visit to Santa Anna with her mother Nora Jackson and Mr and Mrs Ira Jackson visiting Los Angeles with Oliverson's daughter and family.
Daily Transcript lists hospital census with 58 patients including adults and children. Admissions include Mrs Russell Davidson medical, birth of a son to Mr and Mrs Harold Barnhart, and multiple surgeries and medical cases. Discharges noted for several residents and police court actions include intoxication and traffic offenses with fines or bonds.
The Chanute Tribune lists staff roles including publisher Dwight McCreight news editor John Haworke and advertising manager Fay J Clopine. It also details subscription rates by mail for in and out of trade territory and Chanute post office boxholders with monthly carrier price.
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