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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1962
Page
2
Kansas City cattle and hogs prices listed with ranges for barrows gills sows and sheep. Also announces birth of Mitchell Burt Trusters son to Mr and Mrs Burt Truster Jr with grandparents and great grandparents named. Receipts and prices for cream and hides noted in scattered figures.
Kansas City AP notes consumer eggs down 14 to 19 cents while wholesale eggs rise to 23 1/2 to 25 cents for medium 80 percent. Poultry and butter hold steady. Missouri and Arkansas live fryers and broilers see broilers at 14 1/2 cents delivered at plant. fryers unchanged at 15 1/2.
Wheat finished down about two cents a bushel with September at 2.12. Corn steady to one quarter lower around 1.07 with September contracts. Oats rose modestly while rye and soybeans slipped slightly or showed small gains for September and August delivery. Barley prices noted for choice and feed grades with minor shifts between futures.
Chicago report notes butter prices unchanged with AA 93 score at 5714 and A 92 at 5712 while eggs show stability with higher grades 70 percent or better A whites at 2742 and mixed 27, mediums 24 and standards 24 2. Quality metrics and percentages included for multiple categories.
AP dispatch from Kansas City notes wheat bids at 128 cars with values around 2.18 to 2.68 per unit across No 2 hard and dark, No 3 grades, and No 2 red. Corn trades at 34 cars with values mostly between 1.04 and 1.41, milo at 1.86 to 2.00, barley 1.04 to 1.08, and soybeans 2.41 to 2.46.
The Kansas Corporation Commission fixed August crude oil allowable at 302 500 barrels daily for the ninth month in a row on John P Roberts recommendation. Nominations for August purchase reached 310 000 barrels daily, up 744 from July, while above ground storage totaled 8 047 000 barrels, down 650 000 from the prior month.
Chanute Lumber defeats Santa Fe 18 to 12 in Rookie League action. Chanute Lumber tallied 18 runs on 8 hits while Santa Fe managed 2 hits. Chanute pitchers struck out 18 batters as Santa Fe pitchers recorded 10 strikeouts.
Will H. Miller of Porterville California died after a weeks illness. He was born to Samuel S. and Amelia Miller and was a farmer and teamster. survivors include two sisters Flossie and Bessie Umbarger. Funeral and burial were in California. Lucy Hawke Smith aged 76 died in Vero Beach Florida. daughter of the late Mrs Sarah Hawke Chanute. funeral in Muscatine Iowa. niece is Mrs Ray Inman.
Daily Transcript reports Thursday admissions and dismissals at Neosho Memorial Hospital with names and addresses. It also records police court actions for driving while intoxicated and reckless driving with fines and bond refunds, plus recent police, fire, and local social notes and upcoming library story hour and university pre enrollment events.
In Kansas a straw poll across 58 counties shows Senator James B Pearson leading former Governor Edward Arn by a narrow margin in the 1st Congressional District race. Others include Carlson and Corpstein in the Republican senator race and Saffels Hart and undecideds in Democratic contests with comments from editors and a state party official.
Two Chamber of Commerce committees hold Monday sessions. The highways committee meets at 3:30 p.m. in chamber offices to discuss projects chaired by Jess Collier. At 8 p.m. the tourist promotion committee meets with Safari Museum trustees to review museum operations chaired by E. E. Rosenthal and Phil Cooper with Joe Bach as secretary and Bach as secretary of the museum board.
A Polaris missile test at Cape Canaveral wandered off course during second stage flight and was destroyed by the range safety officer. The incident occurred Thursday and involved components from the missile program in Florida.
George Hart of Wichita and Dale Saffels of Garden City shared the WIBW TV radio program Controversy in Topeka. It was called the first joint campaign appearance this season. Hart claimed politics overrun by lawyers and that businesspeople face media attacks.
El Dorado Kansas AP Joe Skubitz Republican candidate for congress in the 5th District criticizes rising foreign oil imports. During a Butler County visit he says imports have grown since 1957 offsetting U S demand growth and costing domestic oil firms about 300 000 dollars daily in revenue and about 100 000 barrels daily in added import flow.
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Dale Saffels urged Governor John Anderson to probe charges that highway commissioner George Gagel owns land along a proposed U.S. 69 route. Anderson said Gagel has long owned land in the area and the routing remains undecided. he called the claims political maneuvering and said any wrong would be corrected.
Mrs. Ora Cott about 50 was shot to death and her husband shot in the chest at their farm home ten miles north of Rossville Thursday night. Sheriff Vic Obley quoted Cott 58 saying he shot his wife with a rifle then turned the weapon on himself. Cott was taken to a Topeka hospital.
Edward F. Arn Republican candidate for the U S Senate commends Senator Frank Carlson for supporting a law to stop distribution of Communist propaganda in the United States He criticizes the Cunningham amendment and says the post office bill would raise rates harming small newspapers farm journals and magazines.
O. A. Wilson, a Democrat seeking re election as Jersey County superintendent of schools, reports three dog bites and a gobbler chase during door to door campaigning. He notes the incidents were non partisan with two dogs owned by Democrats and one by a Republican.
In New York savings and loan holding companies sparked mild optimism as the stock market edged higher in dull trading. Volume ran about 2.6 million shares, with several key stocks advancing only modestly while bond prices fell in light to moderate activity. Treasury issues opened weak but firmed later.
Department stores in the 10th Federal Reserve District posted a 9 percent sales gain last week versus the same week in 1961. Nationwide sales rose 9 percent. St. Joseph and Kansas City led with 21 percent increases. Tulsa 13, Oklahoma City 12, Wichita 11, Topeka 8, Lincoln 7, Omaha 3, Joplin 2, Albuquerque 1.
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