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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1963
Page
2
Livestock markets show cattle 11 000 head calves 400 down. hogs 4 500. sheep 1 200. High choice steers 24.75 25.00, cows 13.75 15.50. feeders 24.00 26.00. Eggs and poultry prices listed. butter quotes steady to mixed.
The listing shows Parson Hogs with price ranges for U S graded hogs and sows, plus cattle and calf categories with steady prices across steers, heifers, cows, bulls, and sheep. It also reports Wall Street activity in New York with mixed, irregular trading, volume around 3 million shares, and varying sector performance, alongside overseas price quotes for wheat corn oats soybeans and metals in major markets.
Chicago markets report live poultry prices unchanged to one cent lower roasters quoted at 24 25 cents per pound while special red white rock fryers fetch 18 2 to 20 cents per pound.
Chicago AP reports butter prices steady and eggs unchanged to 2 higher. Grade A whites 33 cents dozen, mixed 33, mediums 29, standards 29. Dirties 25.2 cents, checks 23.5 cents.
Vacation church school began today at the First Christian church with an enrollment of 141 and runs 9 to 11 a.m. daily through August 9. Theme is “Widening Relationships.” Co directors are Mrs. La Moine Waldron and Mrs. Howard McNeill. An evening program is planned for the closing day.
I have sold my farm and moving to town. A public sale will occur at the farm located 1 mile south and 4 west of Stark Kansas or 6 miles east and 5 miles north of Erie Junction on the specified premises. Personal property to be offered includes farming equipment and household goods. Sale terms are cash with proper identification and settlement of all accounts.
Auction begins at 11 00 A M listing 51 head of cattle including Holsteins Guernseys and Angus with calves by side along with 70 chickens 66 bales prairie hay 59 oat straw 1948 Farmall tractor assorted farm implements a 1950 Ford car and household goods also described are health tests and certificates for cattle plus various miscellaneous farm items and a shotgun offered.
William E. Gotry 81 of Corpus Christi Texas died at home after an extended illness. Graveside services are set for Tuesday at 10 30 a m in Memorial Park Cemetery with Rev Boyd C Latimer officiating. Roscoe Charles Tweddell 75 of Chanute died Sunday at Mercy Hospital Fort Scott. He was an oil producer contractor and bakery operator. He was married to Bernice Butler and survived by a large family including three brothers two sisters and two step children. The services will be Thursday at 2 p m at Roy Gibson Funeral Home with burial in Elmwood Cemetery.
Funeral services were held at Roy S. Gibson Funeral Home with Dr. Fred Shaw officiating. D. A. Finney and Mrs. Dave Petterson sang. Burial followed at Elmwood Cemetery with bearers Lyle Dean H M Squier C A Duerson Dwight Diver Carl Schickhardt and H C Turner.
Two drivers Kenneth McCoy and Mrs Julia Carter suffered extensive damage in a collision at Main and Steuben yesterday noon. McCoy’s 1956 Ford and Carter’s 1958 Chevrolet sustained $700 total damage. both drivers shaken but uninjured. Police cite rain slick pavement and failure to see oncoming car as factors. Additional weekend reports include Marvin Wallis’s rear bump on Main near Lincoln and a highway K39 off-road incident two miles west of town injuring no one. A separate call described a 1956 Chevrolet damaged at $250 after going off highway. Also appears an advertisement for a business opportunity in self service toy displays with a required $298 investment.
Police notes list Haynes at 1020 N Garfield and Fin nis O Reed at Chanute Rooms cited for beer in the street under new city ordinance. hearings set for 4 p.m. Thursday. A Ronald D ter’s breakage noted. needles found in drain hoses caused lint buildup. Three youths arrested after a car chase northeast of town released to parents for 3 p.m. today. suspects are Richard Lyle Briley Kenny Jeffers and Lyle Yowell. Marvin Phillips hospitalized at Santa Fe Hospital in Topeka Sunday.
An Allen County warrant for Donald Rex Frieholtz former resident of Chanute charges theft of a chain saw after a Humboldt truck break in last week. Police say a saw in his possession matched serials of one of the two stolen in Humboldt with another found in Chanute. He claimed purchase from an unknown seller and planned a lie detector test before release to Allen County officers.
Howard Parsons of 407 West Fourth Street is recovering satisfactorily after surgery at Menorah Hospital in Kansas City performed last Thursday.
Mrs Vernon Manion of Junction City underwent major surgery Saturday morning at William Newton Memorial Hospital in Winfield. She is the daughter of Byrle and Maude Haynes of 1202 North Garfield.
Dr. and Mrs. Murray J. Casey arrive from Boston for a ten day visit with his parents at 910 S. Central. Casey is a staff physician in the Public Health Service Hospital in Boston. Other residents from 1715 S. Edith and 28 West Mulberry visited Mrs. Susie Stevenson, sister of Mrs. Sarah Hartsock at 102 N. Malcolm. A vandalism report at E Z Way Laundry, 701 N. Grant, was filed with police yesterday after owner Seth Gray reported a gas me-
AP reports lightning killed a teenage girl and a golfer in Pennsylvania on Sunday. Rita Weirs, 15, of Jeannette was struck crossing a field at Shawnee State Park near Bedford. Oliver Decker, 38, of Macungie was struck at the Lebanon Valley course near Myerstown. A fellow golfer in a cart with Decker was only stunned.
In 1935 the back of the dollar bill was redesigned with engravings of both sides of the Great Seal of the United States, marking a notable change in U.S. currency design.
AP records show Kansas traffic deaths over a 48 hour period, with July totals reaching 51 and yearly tallies near 308 for 1963. The report notes one previously unrecorded fatality and compares to 324 deaths in the comparable 1962 period.
Washington AP reports revised Agriculture Department figures show Kansas cash receipts from farm marketings in 1962 fell to 1.327 billion from 1.338 billion the prior year. Livestock and livestock products rose to 720.164 million while crops declined to 607.555 million. For January May 1963 receipts stood at 542.647 million versus 530.619 million in 1962, and stock products earned 334.095 million against 342.337 million.
In Tulsa Oklahoma an anonymous man who claimed to have caused nearly nine inches of rain said he will turn professional. He will work on a no rain no money basis and will not reveal his identity to avoid crank calls. He boasted a perfect four for four on predictions and even swore he halted the Saturday flood with a phone call to a columnist.
Period in 1962 shows Kansas farmers marketed crops worth 208,552,000 dollars during the months analyzed, versus 188,282,000 dollars in the same period of the previous year, indicating a rise in agricultural marketing value.
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