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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1959
Page
2
AP dispatch from Kansas City notes cattle and hog markets with uneven demand. Cattle scarce for calves and certain grades steady or weak. hogs uneven with various weight classes and sows lower. sheep active and steady. Also brief on Kansas City produce and Chicago butter and eggs trends.
Humboldt Wall Street reports mixed session with moderate volume around 3.2 million shares. Motors stock supported gains while many issues dropped slightly. government bonds mixed. wheat corn oats and soybeans showed declines in price as futures closed lower. Kansas City cash grains quoted with varied gains and losses across cereals and soy.
Harold Butterfield moved to Vincennes Indiana with his family and expects to relocate by week’s end. The Humboldt area sends several youths home from Cedar Bluffs Presbyterian Youth conference near Coffeyville and Janice Lassman and others attend clinics in Norman Oklahoma. Postmaster Helen Lacy and Mary Ellen Stadler return from six weeks touring Europe. Families visit relatives in Georgia California New Mexico and Chicago. various local residents travel to Lawrence Topeka Omaha and Wichita for visits and events. New York reports potential future punch dialing of telephone numbers by Bell Labs with advertising noting the guide to the change.
Blanche Moffatt 82 died yesterday at the Methodist Home Topeka after a long illness born 1877 Boone Iowa moved to Chanute in 1911 survived by sister Grace Green Funeral at Koch-Skinner Memorial Chapel Elmwood cemetery Topeka Fred Dressen 77 retired Service Pipeline Co Humboldt died yesterday at Neosho Memorial Hospital Chanute born Topeka 1882 married Elizabeth Temple 1920 lived Humboldt since 1911 survived by wife son William Corpus Christi Tex brother John Napa Calif funeral 2 pm Friday Johnson Funeral Home Humboldt Mount Hope cemetery Masonic graveside service Mrs Carl Trammell last rites held Rov R Gibson Funeral Home burial Elmwood cemetery floral tributes arranged by Mrs Ray Rush and Mrs J Henry Alford organ music played bearers Alex Bruce Ray Rush Robert Johnson Clyde Russell J Henry Alford Herla Rush
In local markets eggs Grade A are listed with a large size category noted as svsscassss Bt. The listing indicates standard quality expectations and price guidance for retailers and consumers.
Five days of search in Libya yield another parachute fragment in the area where markers were found suggesting airmen walked toward death. Army mortuary reports no remains yet. search to cover over 1,000 square miles. The Liberator bomber landed pilotless after a Naples raid on April 4 1943 and was found earlier this year 440 miles southeast of Benghazi.
Otto B Standke of Great Bend planned to use his padlocked black box to chase pigeons from the Kansas executive mansion in Topeka He described a secret method and said it has cleared birds from major buildings in several cities Secretary of State Paul Shanan plans him to inspect nearby state buildings after the mansion job.
Chanute area notices list inheritances, police speed citations and court filings including district actions, marriage licenses, and community updates. Citizens referenced include Halbert Bork Yates Center Edith Mrs. Harry H. Cole and Mr. Merle Mueller Humboldt with births and public notices.
Yesterday Ernest W. Meyer of Oklahoma City was admitted for medical care. Today Mrs. Harold McNeal of 1401 S Edith undergoes surgery at Neosho Memorial Hospital.
The notice states that the annual meeting of the electors of Pioneer Greenwood Cemetery District No 2 in Neosho County Kansas will be held on a Sunday in August 1988 at 2 p.m. at Osage Pioneer Greenwood Cemetery to consider the proposed budget and tax levy for adoption or amendment. It references district treasurer balances and tax figures for 1988, including ad valorem property tax and related receipts and expenditures.
In Memphis a music shop customer chooses an acoustic guitar string after asking for electric or acoustic. The shopkeeper shows strings, and the customer admits she just wants any string that can slice cheese, regardless of guitar compatibility.
A brief price line notes a carrier option for The Tribune at 35 cents per week.
Kansas City Athletics manager Harry Craft was listed in satisfactory condition after a restful night at Downtown Hospital. He was hospitalized Tuesday for chest pains. doctors found no heart ailment and will run additional tests. Craft said he plans to return to work when discharged.
Kansas crude oil pipeline runs averaged 320 143 barrels daily in the week ended July 20 per the State Conservation Division. The figure fell 2 599 barrels daily from the prior week but remained 8 143 barrels above the July allowance set by the Kansas Corporation Commission.
In New York a 16 year old opened fire with a shotgun in the Crotona Park area wounding five children and a man. He was killed minutes later by an off duty policeman as authorities investigate the incident and motives.
Lee Allen 23, a Negro, was shot in the left leg after Rosario used a shotgun during a confrontation in a crowd. Patrolman Downs, 38, a Negro, halted Rosario and fatally shot the assailant as he tried to raise the gun. Allen and the five boys, ages 7 to 11, were not seriously injured.
The House Labor Committee approved a compromise labor control bill by 16 to 14 with Democrats 10-10. Six Republicans supported the bill, which aides say is a watered-down version from the Senate measure. Republicans vow to strengthen the bill on the House floor, while leaders call the process acrimonious and aimed at pleasing nobody.
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