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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1966
Page
2
AP reports Kansas City market data with cattle and calf prices by grade and weight. High choice steers reach 25.75 per cwt, cows 16.00-17.50, feeder cattle 25.00-26.50, sows 25 higher, spring lambs 23.00-24.00, shorn ewes 6.00-50, bran and shorts prices listed.
The report lists U S hog, cattle and sheep prices across weights and grades with sows bulls and veals, followed by a Wall Street update noting a late session rally fading in heavy trading. Volume estimated at 7.6 million shares, gains trimmed after an initial rally. United Aircraft and United Air Lines held gains, Douglas declined.
In Kansas City, wholesale eggs hold steady with large at 80 percent A and 45 46 medium grades unchanged at 34-35 cents. Butter remains unchanged in the market report.
Chicago AP reports live poultry unchanged and butter prices slipping slightly with multiple grade quotes. Eggs hold steady as market observers note flat trading and mixed carload mentions in the Chicago area.
Chicago market notes Wheat No 2 hard at 1.95, No 2 red 1.88. Corn No 2 yellow 1.45. Oats No 2 heavy white 75.5-76. Soybeans No 1 yellow 3.51. Soybeans oil 12.78. Wheat down 4-4.5 cents. corn 24-25 cents. oats 0.1-0.5 cent. rye 4-5? cents. soybeans 9-10 cents lower with August at 3.40.
AP dispatch from Kansas City lists wheat prices for No 2 hard and dark and No 3 grades, white and yellow corn figures, oats quotations, mile maize, rye, barley, and soybeans ranges. Includes car counts and bid ranges across multiple grades with notable midweek shifts.
A 23 year old man, Martin L. Asche of Parkville Missouri, was killed when his car hit the head diesel unit of an 88 car freight train at a crossing on the M45 cutoff in Platte County east of the Leavenworth Centennial Bridge. He was pinned in the wreckage and identified from papers in his billfold mailed to Wichita. The Chicago Great Western train was en route from Des Moines to Kansas City.
Neosho Memorial Hospital admissions list on Monday includes Mrs Don Campbell Clifford Clark Barbara Lynch Linda Boyer and Jeffery Hembree with various medical and surgical entries. Birth recorded for Mr and Mrs George Holtzman a boy. Dismissals include Larry Fair and others. City Court actions cover driving while intoxicated fines, illegal tag use and speeding with costs. Recent moves list multiple residents changing addresses and building permits show new projects.
The Kansas City weather summary covers the 24 hour period ending at 6 a.m. It lists temperature ranges and precipitation reports for the area. Data details include observed highs and lows and amounts of rainfall or snowfall recorded during the period.
Obituaries note Paul A. Johnson 63 of Norwalk Conn died of a heart attack with survivors including his wife one son three grandchildren and two half sisters. Funeral in Brockton Mass. Sarah Fritzenmeyer 73 died at sister’s home Elinwood to Chanute since 1946 three sisters and one brother survive with burial in Bedford Cemetery. James A. Harris Tioga Hotel died after a Severy accident with body to Pueblo Colo for service. Merrill Moore funeral held at Dibson Koch Chapel with organist and bearers listed.
AP reports Kansas and Missouri House members divided on a resolution to bypass the Rules Committee and take up the Civil Rights bill. Missouri Democrats Bolling Karsten Sullivan voted for. Missouri Democrats Hungate Ichord Jones Randall voted against. Kansas Republicans Dole Mize Shriver voted against. Hall of Missouri and Ellsworth of Kansas recorded as against the resolution but did not vote.
Ford Motor Co. chairman Henry Ford II dismissed calls to reopen the current three year contract for skilled trades raises. He noted a 2.8 percent raise plus 2 cents per hour due September 1967 and said reopening now would be inadvisable.
Washington reports that South Viet Nam premier Nguyen Cao Ky urged immediate military action against China and an allied invasion of North Viet Nam. The U S State Department and Senate leaders pushed to disassociate from Ky remarks while the Johnson administration sought a soft line amid policy divisions.
Mrs. Schwartz, wife of Kenneth Schwartz of Pittsburg, was seriously hurt in an automobile accident near Texarkana, Arkansas, late yesterday afternoon. She and her son were returning from a Florida vacation when their car struck a bridge abutment. Mrs Schwartz had been chief operator for Southwestern Bell in Chanute before moving to Pittsburg three years ago as chief operator there.
Slim Winans told police yesterday two boys on a motorcycle struck the right side of his car as he turned at Main and Malcolm. He said the riders claimed no injuries and fled the scene without identifying themselves.
Tropical storm Ella with winds up to 50 mph threatened the Leeward Islands and British Virgin Islands with high seas and thunderstorms. Small craft were warned to seek harbor as Ella moved west-northwest about 12 mph, remaining offshore for the next 12 hours. Dorothy weakened into a tropical storm far to the west, posing no land threat for 24 hours.
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